UK Co-Benefits Atlas wins Impact prize

The Scottish Climate Intelligence Service x Co-Benefits team - Andrew Sudmant, Clare Wharmby, Ruaidhri Higgins-Lavery (pictured) and Sarah Bissett - won the prize for 'Best Impact from a Data-Led Project' last week from The University of Edinburgh's Centre for Data, Culture and Society for their work on the UK Co-Benefits Atlas.

UK Co-Benefits Atlas

The data Atlas was created to help people explore and learn about the co-benefits and co-costs of reaching net zero in the UK - visualising wide-ranging social and economic impacts and helping to deliver the outcomes communities in different parts of the UK want to see, as well as delivering on greenhouse emissions targets.

The open access tool utilises data modelling by the CO-BENS team at ECCI and was developed in collaboration with the School of Informatics. It shows that acting on climate is not just the right thing to do for the planet, but an incredibly effective way to invest in collective wellbeing and building a fairer and healthier society.

Scottish Climate Intelligence Service

Joint led by ECCI, SCIS is building capacity within local authorities to take effective, just and equitable climate action. By working within and across local authorities, SCIS supports collaboration and helps to share skills, knowledge and insights to support and accelerate effective local climate action.

Co-benefits modelling has been central to a series of briefings SCIS has produced highlighting the additional benefits of climate interventions including heat pumps, electric vehicles and active travel.

Fnd out more about the co-benefits of climate action and read the briefings in this blog written by Sarah Bissett, SCIS Policy and Research Officer.

The Centre for Data Culture and Society was established in 2019 to support data-driven research within the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.