The Foundation for Science and Technology (FST), with The Young Foundation’s Institute for Community Studies, brought together a cross departmental and cross-sector group of thought leaders and policymakers to focus on the human and community side of the UK’s transition to net zero. The roundtable was prompted by the FST’s event in November 2023 charting progress to date on net zero transition in the UK policy, science and innovation context, which identified that a gap exists in terms of policy interventions; public strategies; and holistic, person-centred research into the design of household and community policies to build a just transition to net zero.