Statement of ambition

Aims
We want to:


 * 1) Inspire our sector to have a shared interest in advancing a digital transformation agenda within environment organisations, and learning from other sectors
 * 2) Highlight the threats to nature and find ways through digital approaches to mobilise greater action around the opportunities to reverse biodiversity loss and environmental destruction.
 * 3) Champion the potential opportunities of a digital transformation within the environment sector to encourage shared learning and innovation in order to scale up our efforts to reverse the loss of biodiversity in Scotland
 * 4) Demonstrate strategic actions that environment leaders want to see in order to give collective consideration to the greatest opportunities for digital transformation within our sector.
 * 5) Commit to engaging technology which advances environmental values for the benefit of people and planet.

Shared statement (draft for review)
'''The scale of environmental challenge facing humanity is enormous. Scotland was the first country in the world to declare a climate emergency and has set a world-leading target of being net zero by 2045. At the same time, The Scottish Government has recognised biodiversity loss as an equally important issue. In order to progress towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, there is a real urgency to act.'''

'''As senior leaders from Scotland’s environmental agencies and eNGOs, we want to help make this happen. Our ambition is to explore how, together, we can use innovative digital technologies to address the shared challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change, working together as we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic to achieve a green and blue recovery.'''

Through improved science, streamlined internal operations and more targeted public engagement, we can all be better informed, more effective and better focused on tackling these twin crises, while empowering the public to help us on this journey to a nature-rich future.

Commitments
We are exploring the following options:


 * How we contribute towards a shared digital resource knowledge bank
 * How we might pool resources to support joint digital transformation projects
 * How we might engage expertise with digital transformation experience from others across sectors, including beyond the environment sector
 * To what extent we make our digital resources open source, to foster shared analysis and insights.
 * How we will be actively involved in a forum sharing knowledge on digital transformation.