Footprint

To enable the change at the UK scale required, we need to evaluate and converge accounting approaches, build understanding about the optimal use of these tools, and minimise negative social impacts. This requires a transdisciplinary approach that empowers real-life, multi-stakeholder user engagement, and engenders co-design. Hence, building on recent positive experiences at a regional level, we will establish a pan-UK Living Lab called the “To Zero Fifty (2050)” with a project aim to develop and evaluate a scalable auditable farm- and food-level GHG accounting framework for UK land use to sustainably reduce GHG emissions.

We will use the “To Zero Fifty” Living Lab to engage policy, practitioner, value chain, and public stakeholders on a net zero journey, including comparing GHG calculators, not just in terms of functionality as other research has done, but in terms of: building capacity and net zero literacy, testing sequestration predictions, assessing validation methods and exploring the governance and equitability implications of scaling. In summary, we aim to provide evidence about the means for driving effective and informed usage of GHG accounting tools to inform policy and help achieve a net zero transition.

For more information, please read the University of Gloucestershire press release.