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Our Vision People at the heart of transformations A focus on values and co-benefits

Our Vision

The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) will be a global hub for understanding the systemic and society-wide transformations that are required to address climate change. At its core, is a fundamental question of enormous social significance: how can we as a society live differently - and better - in ways that meet the urgent need for rapid and far-reaching emission reductions?

People at the heart of transformations

We want to understand how people can participate in transformation in their multiple roles as citizens, consumers, parents, employees, business leaders, policy-makers. This means recognising that people can act both directly to reduce emissions – like driving less – but equally have the ability to shape wider structural change – like changing organisational practices and shaping policies.

A focus on values and co-benefits

We set out to align the positive outcomes of action on climate change with those in other domains like health and wellbeing. CAST will seek to identify low-carbon futures and actions that also provide other co-benefits - like cleaner air, lower bills, more resilient or fairer communities.

"We want to work closely with people and organisations to achieve positive low-carbon futures — transforming the way we live our lives, and reconfiguring organisations and cities."

Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh, CAST director

Explore our four areas of focus

Explore our four areas of focus
Find out why we are focusing on four key areas: Diet, Mobility, Material Consumption and Thermal Comfort.
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Browse our resources

Browse our resources
Our including policy briefings, working papers, academic articles and other resources explore the science of climate action.
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People at the heart of change

People at the heart of change
We believe effective change requires working with people to understand their values and needs.
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News from CAST

The psychology of disruptive events: finding a ‘new normal’

This is a guest post from Dr Emily Cox, Research Associate in Cardiff University’s Understanding Risk Group. The research supporting this blog was funded by the UK Energy Research Centre, as part of a UKERC Phase 4 project on societal resilience to energy disruptions. Emily is a member of the…

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April 8, 2020 May 22, 2020Blog, News, Opinion

Seedcorn Fund supporting decarbonisation interventions to launch in summer 2020

In summer 2020 CAST will be launching a competitive open Seedcorn Fund, which will make small pots of money available for practitioners, communities, or organisations who want to work closely with CAST researchers to co-develop and deliver low-carbon transformative initiatives. The fund will be open to non-academic organisations wishing to…

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March 18, 2020 April 27, 2020Blog, News

Pupils debate the role of individual and collective action

A few days before finishing school for their Christmas break, 120 key stage four pupils took part in Cardiff Museum’s annual debate day, organised in partnership with First Campus. This year the theme was ‘Making Personal Choices about Climate Change’ and CAST researchers were invited to get involved.  Very often,…

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March 9, 2020 March 26, 2020Blog, Event, News, Uncategorized

Work with CAST: Job vacancy for a Senior Research Associate at UEA

CAST graphic: work with CAST

UEA has some of the most innovative and highly regarded centres for research in the UK. Applications are invited for the post of Senior Research Associate to undertake research in collaboration with Professor Olga Tregaskis and other team members as part of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change and Social…

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January 29, 2020 March 26, 2020Blog, News
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  • ABOUT

    The core partners of the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST)  include Cardiff University, University of East Anglia, University of Manchester, University of York, University of Bath, and Climate Outreach.

     

         

       

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    CAST is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

     

     

     

     

     

    Contact: CAST, Cardiff University, 70 Park Place, Cardiff, CF103AT, UK

    Email: info@cast.ac.uk

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    Join @NorwichBSchool, @norfolknetwork & @CAST_Centre on Weds 8 Feb for ‘Tales from the Eco- frontier’

    An event sharing insights from cutting edge #research and experiences from businesses who are creating #sustainable #business models for the #future

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    Climate Outreach
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    @CAST_Centre Get a sense of what these innovation partnerships look like from case studies of our previous partnerships - all with UK organisations wanting to break new ground in who they engage and how: climateoutreach.org/…

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    GW4 Climate Alliance
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    We've signed up! Less than 2 weeks left to register for this 90min masterclass from Prof Lorraine Whitmarsh on 'Putting behaviour change evidence into practice'.
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    2:13 pm · January 26, 2023 ·
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    Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE
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    Fantastic new report - including effective case studies - on changing behaviour to reach net zero by @B_I_Tweets @CAST_Centre twitter.com/B_I_Twee…

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    Carbon Brief
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    Guest post: How the UK’s push to reach net-zero could deliver key health benefits | Dr James Milner @LSHTM @LSHTM_Planet

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