Data Bites | Digital sustainability

Ishmael Burdeau, Lead Sustainability Business Architect at the Department for Work and Pensions, gave an introduction to digital sustainability, outlining the importance of the issue and touching on some government initiatives to do something about it.

Gavin Freeguard introduces a speaker — Gavin Freeguard, host of digital bites

Kate Marks delivers her presentation while showing a screen with key outcomes of the project she is discussing

Tracking environmental harm in real time

Kate Marks talked about a new digital service they’ve just launched for reporting environmental incidents at the Environment Agency

Tom Parry delivering his presentation at data bites

Digital sustainability in UK government

Tom Parry gave us an overview of efforts within the department and UK government more widely around digital sustainability.

Liz Lutgendorff showing a screen with various waste management scenarios

Data and waste management

Liz Lutgendorff, Senior Digital Transformation Manager at the North London Waste Authority, speaks about why tracking waste is hard.

Council Climate Action Scorecards

Isaac Beevor, and Alex Parsons talked about their work on measuring UK local authority climate action through their bi-annual Council Climate Action Scorecards.