The UK Co-Benefits Atlas
PhD project
PhD student:
Supervisors:
Uta Hinrichs (Design Informatics), Benjamin Bach (Design Informatics)
Outputs from this project
‘UK Co-Benefits Atlas Launches to Highlight Social Value of Climate Action
https://geosciences.ed.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/uk-co-benefits-atlas-launches-to-highlight-social-value-of-climate-action
Clear communication and accessible data are key to informed discussions about climate change. To this end, we introduce the UK Co-Benefits Atlas, an interactive online visualisation atlas presenting and explaining data on the potential socio-economic impacts of achieving climate action targets in the UK. The data includes 11 co-benefits and co-costs of climate actions for over 46,000 data zones, connected with 17 socio-economic attributes. Analyses and visualisations aim to make these data accessible, understandable, and useful for businesses, investors, researchers, third sector organisations and policymakers across Scotland and the wider UK.
Collaborators: Alexis Pister, Sian Phillips (City St George’s, University of London), Sean Fields (University of St. Andrews), Ruaidhri Higgins-Lavery, Sarah Bissett, Clare Wharmby, Andrew Sudmant (Edinburgh Climate Change Institute)
Website: https://ukcobenefitsatlas.net
Funder: Scotland Beyond Net Zero
Project dates: 2024 –






