What are the interactions between housing quality, safety, and zero carbon? Where might synergies, tensions, or unintended consequences arise when tackling these priorities?
Background
Focusing on decarbonising buildings, to consolidate evidence around the potential effects of net zero on the housing stock, housing supply and the housing market.
Next steps
The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: Lesley.Smith@levellingup.gov.uk and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: psChiefScientificAdviser@levellingup.gov.uk.
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Related UKRI funded projects
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Cardiff Metropolitan University and Cynon Taf Community Housing (2007) Limited
To increase the capability to transition to net-zero-carbon by piloting innovative decarbonisation pathways for 69 dwellings. The outcomes of the pilot will be used to scale for retrofit of tenant homes....
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on piloting innovative decarbonisation pathways for dwellings, which directly addresses the question of interactions between housing quality, safety, and zero carbon.
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Real Estate Portfolio Carbon Risk Score (CaRiS)
Decarbonising the built environment continues post-COP26 to receive heightened focus as organisations sign net zero declarations, a range of third party voluntary commitments enabling transparency are on offer and an arr...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project provides insights into decarbonising the built environment and the carbon risk associated with residential buildings, partially addressing the question by discussing carbon-related aspects.
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Real Estate Portfolio Carbon Risk Score (CaRiS)
Decarbonising the built environment is being highlighted at COP27 as fundamental to make progress towards mitigating the impacts of the climate crisis and enabling zero carbon pathways for society. A range of third-party...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project also focuses on decarbonising the built environment and carbon risk associated with residential buildings, partially addressing the question by discussing carbon-related aspects.