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
 * 2) Highlight the threats to nature and find ways through digital approaches to bring greater understanding to 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.

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.

In order to progress towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, there is a real urgency to act. As senior leaders from Scotland’s most influential environmental agencies and eNGOs, we want to help make this happen.

Our aim is to explore how, together, we can use innovative digital technologies to address the shared challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, and work together to create a nature-rich future.

Through improved science, slicker internal operations and more targeted public engagement we can all be better informed, more effective and better focused on improving the environment and empower the public to help us on this journey.

Commitments
We are exploring the following options:


 * How we contribute towards a shared digital resource listing
 * How we might pool resources to support joint digital transformation projects
 * How we might share expertise on a working group to deliver aspects of digital transformation
 * To what extent we make our digital resources including data and processes open source
 * How we will be actively involved in a forum sharing knowledge on digital transformation.