The UK Co-Benefits Atlas

PhD project

PhD student:

Supervisors:

Uta Hinrichs (Design Informatics), Benjamin Bach (Design Informatics)

Outputs from this project

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)

Funder: Scotland Beyond Net Zero

Project dates: 2024 –