nef believes that a Great Transition to a climate-friendly and more equal society can improve life for all. Our work explores how.
Climate change, energy security and resource scarcity are too often seen in purely scientific or economic terms. But these problems prove almost impossible to solve without grasping their social dimensions. Without that context, technocentric approaches can conceal what may have caused the problem, for example a society’s underlying values, behaviour and power structures.
Climate change is the result of lifestyles built on over-consumption, fuelled by powerful, vested economic interests. Meanwhile, the world's poorest people, particularly those living subsistence or near-subsistence lifestyles, find themselves on the ecological frontline: vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Heat waves, rises in sea level, flooding, drought and the spread of unfamiliar diseases are already hitting the poorest first and worst, in rich and poor countries alike.
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