 Felly, mae'n fath yn ymgyrchu. Mae'n ffrindio'r fath yw'r fath o'r hyn ar gyfer eu fathion. Roeddwn i ei wneud, fel yn ymgyrch â'r gwahau, ac mae'n amserio eu hyfforddiol. Mae'r fathion yn ymgyrch, mae'r fathion yn ymgyrch. Mae'r fathion yn ymgyrch â'r gwahau. Mae'n lle oeddiol wedi Sarah. Mae'n fathion i gael fathion, y fawr yw'r fawr yn ddod i'r SCI. A dyma, yma, dyma efallai yn ystod i'r rhan o'r rhan o'r fawr. Mae'n rhaid i'w prifledd ac i'n rhan o'r fawr o'r fawr. Rwy'n gweithio ar ystod i'r fawr o'r fawr, ond mae'n fawr o'r rhan o'r fawr i'r fawr i'r fawr i'r fawr i'r fawr i'r fawr i'r fawr, a rhaid i'w rhaid i'w rhaid i'w rhaid, Solid rhai. Because today is not simply about a celebration. Today is about an acknowledgement, about the incredible work and the achievements of the Institute, but it's also about the impact, the outcomes, the power of the stories and the cases that you are going to hear. I am ydyn ni, mae'n gweld â chnuturiad hwnnins, roedden ni'n cyfanyddio cyfanyddio ystod i'r strategiaeth, am ydych yn gofyn ystod i dda i yw ym ystod, ond yn erbyn i'r Brexit. A drwy hynny wrth ei dweud gyworkydd, ond mae'n bobl sefydlu o'r team fкиnd wedi'r rhai dynnol, ond mae ar ôl ei bod eu ddefnyddio ac oedd yn erbyn eich gweithio. Mae'r penlyw edrych yn gallu chai dairwyr hwn. Myndלא ei wnaeth i'n êl wedi defnyddiaeth ar y chlas sydd eich comprehensiveu ac mwlus i'r hoorth â'r CVN, a daethiau'n mynd i ddweud, ei daint yn ôl medd wrapping Shop Y Pope. Your time has no time to make a measureable difference, but it makes a measureable difference Look at the world and w answers in terms of what's happening in the world. To be able to say, what are those big global challenges that we should be working on? And what's special about this institute is that it goes beyond asking those difficult and complex questions. It works with its partners not to do to them but to work with them. So why is that so important today that important for me and why is that important for every one of us in this room? Because partnership working for me is at the heart of any university. A number of you, Charlie says I've got to stop saying this but I'm not going to stop saying this. I have no desire to be a Pro Vice-Chancellor. I do have a desire though to make partnerships and engagement a part of every university's business. Ac ydy'r f�io'r fideo ni i ni, nid i amliant y dwyliadau ar fynd yn gweithio'r flenniddor ac ydy'r gweithio'r pilith mwy i'r llwyddoedd, yw'r pherwydd ar yr uneddiadau i'r ffordd o'r uneddiadau. Felly, mynd i'r uneddiadau amlinellu felly arall i uneddiadau, ac mae bryd yn dwylo'r harch o'r newydd. Mae'r rhai rydyn ni'n cael ei gallu lle cyfnod ag i ystod y uneddiadau i'r masynydd gwybwynt ac ydy'r wathio i'r llwyddoedd, when we deliver values in terms of local commitment on a global scale. What do those empty words actually mean in practice? For me part of the new strategy is that partnerships have to be critical by design just in the way that you will see SEI as an institute doing. They do their work because it's critical by design. Felly, ymgyrchu'n iawn gyda'r bobl adiad, fe yma'r hollion dechrau'r wylaid i'ch ddweud i'ch gael, i'ch gyda'r syniadau a'u gyda'u gael. Felly, wedi cael eu gweld, mae'n myth i bobl yma rydych chi, mae chi'n gweld, mae'n ei dweud hwn yn gweld yn hynny. Ac rhai rhaid yn cael ei gael gysylltu, ac sefydliadio'n gweithio ar y mae Yn Nath, yn cynnangod y cwilwr, sydd yn cwilwr i'r cyfnod. Mae'r un arddangos iawn â'r cymhall, a'r bod yn unigol o'r cyfighau anghof yn fawr. Rwy'n meddwl o'r cyfrifol? Gallwch am gael ar y modelau. Ond mae'r 3, mae'n bwysig o ymgyrch. Mae'r cofnigau a'r cyfrifol yn ddyn nhw o gymryd cyrraedd a'r cynnalodau. Mae'r cyrraedd o'r syniadau yn meddwl mewn cyfrifol, a'r brosesoedd o'r cyfrifol yn ymlaen i fod yn ei wneud, lefnodd yn ffyrdd ar y miliad. A'u amgylchau o'r cynnig, nid yn ymddi'r Plyll yn ddechrau. Fe yna yn ymddi'r wyf, i fyddwn ni'n gweithio'r ymddai Caethi'n cael y mae'n gweithu ar y cyfnodd ac yn wneud yn cael cy lleol yw cael ei fysgfaith. Felly, mae'n gweithio, mae wedi'u bydd y symbol factiv problema. mae'n ddiwedd ychydigol rwyemaeth, rydyn ni'n eu wneud Ie ddweud yw'r ffordd, yn cyfnodd gwybod arweithio a ystafellol amgyrchau, ac mae'n ddweud am ffyrdd i chi'n ddweud. Gweithio. Dwi'n ddweud yn ddweud, ac mae'n rai gydag i'n mwyaf Mons Nilsel, dyrector, i bau i ddim yn ei ddweud o'r iechyd ymlaen i parwysau. A'i amser o'r ffordd o'r newydd o'r parwysau gyda'r holl ddifwodol. Miles. Dyma'n gweithio, Rob. Efallai gallwch yn gweld â'r holl yn gallu eu parwysau'n gael ar y dda, gallu ei ddweud o'r parwysau, ac mae'r ddweud yn yr unig ymylion i'r hyn. Ond mae'r ffordd o'r holl yn gweithio'r holl, os ydych yn gweithio'r holl. a ryi'n rai gwybod, yn Stockholm mae'n meddylch i'n meddylch i'r ysgol yng Nghymru, yn y Cymru, a wedi'i amser ym Llyfrgell Cymru a'r Cymru, am ym Llyfrgell Cymru, ac yn Ysgrifion, yma i'r Unrhyw Ysgrifennu, a dwi'n cael ei ddau'r cyffredinol ar gyfer y cyfnodd maen nhw i'n gweithio am y strategi a'r ysgoliaeth, ac ydych chi'n i'n mynd i'n mewn i'r bydd i'r ffordd our strengths and legacies to build on, but also if we need to adapt to a changing landscape. SCI's goal is to produce excellent science that can be taken up and used for better agenda setting, better decision making and capacity-building. Thanks to this science base sets us apart a bit ar y cyfyrdd a'r cyfnod yn y ddefnyddio a'r cyfnodgymian. Rydyn ni'n gwneud arferyf oedd yn gwneud i'r prysgol yma ac yn y cyfnod cyfnod yma yw'r gwneud yma, ychydig i'ch ei ddwy mor cyfeirio ar yr argyrch a'u cyfnod cyfnod cyfnod. Y cyfnod cyfnod cyfnod cyfnod cyfnod cyfeirio ar y cyfnod cyfnod ac mae'n fawr i'r ymddangos yn ei fawr. yng Nghymru, ac those that want to base their decision making on sound science for sustainability, they tend to know us. Many of the other institutes say they want to do excellent science, but they really cannot start doing that very easily. Why is that? Well one ingredient of course is this university connection that we are nurturing. It is a legacy strength to have a university partnership like the one we have here today. Mae'n amddion i Gwneudio'r Gymdeithasol a Gweithio, yn y pryd yn gynyddio'r gweithio'r cyd-y-rhyw ymigfer mwyneth hwnna wedi'i newid y gweithio'r cyd-y-rhyw ac'r ll drwy'r gymdeithasol ymgyrchu. Ac, wrth gwych edrych, mae'r amddion i'r cyd-y-rhyw gyllidebu gyda'r Gweithio a Gweithio yn mynd i chi yn arfer y cyd-y-rhyw, i'r wybodaeth i'r wybodaeth i gynnyilloedd ymgyrchion gwrs-iedig iawn, ac mae'r cyfnwys yw'r h reneweddion. Mae'r cyfnwys, i dweud â'r dysgu sydd gennym ddechrau a dweud â'r llachau. Mae'r wybodaeth i'r wybodaeth i'r wybodaeth. Cynnyddu fe ddweud â'r ddymian ymgyrchened. Mae'r wybodaeth ar gyfer o hyd o gyrwch a'r bwysig i'r wybodaeth, ac yn amlwg'r wybodaeth ar wahanol. Felly, mae'n oedda i'r gweithio'n gweithio'n ei bosbol, ac mae'n gweithio a'r ddau, ac mae'n gweithio'n ddau. A oedda i'n ddau'n gwneud y lleidwydau yng nghymru a'r gwneud yma, ac mae'n ddau'n gwneud yma'r gwneud yma. Yma'r ysgolwch gyda'r gyfer mae'r cyfrifio ESEI. Felly, rwy'n cael ei wneud i'w York yn 1995, ac yn gyfnodd SCI, a'r byd i'w Llywodraeth Cymru. Felly, mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Mae yw'n tryfry'r gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n mynd i'w meddwl o'n ddaf i ddefnyddio'r unedol iawn. Felly yn Gweithfeydd, yn ddim yn ystod nid Caerdoedd UK, ond nid yn y ddim yn y ddigonig ar yr unedol. Ac yn Y Llywodraeth Cyfrifiad dros y mae'r sgwrth yma, ac yn mynd i'n fudd o fewnio'r unedol... So, yn ysgolwch, rydych chi'n gwybod i ddeud yn ddweud ychydig yng Nghymru. Rydyn ni'n gwybod i'w twyd yn ymddangos i'w cyffredinol, ond nid yw'n ffrindig i'w ddweud i'w twyd yn ddod, i'w meddwl i'r ysgolwch ar gyfer y lleol o'r newid yng nghymru, oherwydd, yr Ysgolwch Sara, ac yn y rhan o'r newid yr Unif Llywodraeth. I think we are seeing a really bright future for SEI York. Thank you very much. And I need say no more to introduce the brilliant Sarah West Centre Director at SEI York. Sarah, please. Well, there's an introduction, isn't there? Right. I am delighted to see you here in three dimensions after two long years and to be joined by many more people online. Welcome everyone. I'm going to very briefly talk about some of the reasons why I'm extremely proud to be SEI York's Centre Director. So SEI York is in a unique position in the University of York. We have unrivaled connections to partners all around the world via our seven other centres. And these partners range from the very local, for example, community arts organisations in Nairobi to the international, for example the Climate and Clean Air Coalition and the World Economic Forum. Collaborating with these partners allows us to make meaningful change on the ground. And you'll hear that through our case study shortly. We are also a unique position in SEI in that we're the only centre to be fully based in a university allowing us to collaborate closely with researchers from all disciplines, including those in the Department of Environment and Geography. SEI research is all action oriented. Our staff are problem solvers and capacity builders. This means that we and those we collaborate elsewhere in the university are having real world impact from our research. Our work at SEI York is organised into five research areas, air pollution and climate change, critical environmental governance, sustainable consumption and production, environmental health and wellbeing and citizen science. All our groups aim to achieve three kinds of outcome. The first is changing agendas, which is where our research leads to new policy agendas such as the methane pledge launched at COP26, or changes in attitudes. The second is enhancing capacities in our partners to use tools, analyse, and include different voices in activities, including co-designing new technologies to support development. The third is improving decisions, where our research supports decision making processes, for example in sourcing products through supply chains, or working closely with countries to increase their climate change ambitions. We want people to take action as a result of our work and we believe that working in close partnership is most likely to facilitate action being taken. Our work is done exclusively with partners, whether they are the general public taking part in citizen science activities or policy makers helping shape research projects. We currently have around 100 projects on the go and next you'll hear a flavour of who we work with and how, and you can find out more about some of our other projects in our poster session afterwards, which I hope you will stay for. Thank you. Thank you very much Sarah. I'm also extremely proud when I received notice of the four case studies that we're going to be presented and discussed today. Just the partnerships that have been developed but also the amazing impact that these guys have been having. So you're going to hear now from four different case studies and they're going to talk to you about the partnerships, the challenges, the opportunities, how they maintained momentum, how added value been to work in partnership and what the outcomes were. So we're going to start off by hearing from Simon Croft, who is on my right, you're left if you're in the audience here. Simon and Lawrence as well, who are going to talk to us about commodity footprints. Over to you please. Can you hear me? Okay. So going first means that I have the pleasure of giving you the best case study talk you've heard so far. So that's an honour that I'm pleased to have in the fact that I'm wearing a shirt and tie shows how seriously I take the privilege of being here. The collaboration that you're going to hear about and the revolves around work to do with measuring and monitoring impacts of our consumption, especially with an item overseas impacts often far away from the point of consumption. These are linked by often long and complex supply chains and disentangling the systems and linkages that join these things up is far from trivial task, which I have to say because it's what I'm paid to do, but it's also actually true. The work in collaboration between SEI and JCC can actually be traced back about 10 years and indeed I joined SEI about a decade ago now on a project funded by DEFRA looking at the UK's overseas impacts and that I'm here today 10 years later still talking about the same work suggests a certain level of commitment, dedication, and tenacity from myself and members of the team or possibly that we need to get out a bit more, but either way a group of us here have now been working and focusing on this area for some time now and with that apparently we've become something of experts in our fields. We have methods and frameworks like the IOTA model developed in York and the Trace platform led out of Stockholm and with these we're developing key technical capabilities and pushing the envelopes with novel approaches and then across projects like the GCRF UK trade hub and previously of the University of York led I Know Food project. We've been developing contextual understanding and applications as well as multidisciplinary networks. So during this period of time that I've been working here there's been at the very least a kind of simmering level of dialogue and engagement between SEI and JCC and following the initial DEFRA project that I was actually brought in to work on a number of projects that we worked directly on, but over the years it's been quite challenging at times not least with changing government priorities, budgets, and personnel's governance. This has often resulted in a change in landscape and not least importantly when it comes to budgets, but SEI's ability to diversify its funding sources meant that this work didn't sit still in stagnate and indeed we carried on developing this work and building on it for the 10 years that I've been here and then more recently with the UK government's 25 environmental plan, the stage is once again set for us to kind of bring this back to the four of the UK's kind of focus and the collaboration between SEI and JCC has really solidified and taken it off again in the last sort of two or three years. This has seen a marrying of joint long-term visions and ambitions along with complementary skill sets and expertise. This started with discussing some options and looking at kind of available methodologies and what was out there, reviewing certain things, and then recently in the tail end of last year culminating in the development in a project led by JCC and then developmentally led by as an SEI with the launch of a new experimental statistic for the UK government. A mutual respect has I think been a key component of the work in relationship between the two others and a great example of this has been sort of trust and confidence that JCC have placed in us to take forward the methodological developments but also the design and implementation of an interactive dashboard that came along with this work. It was sort of discussed early on in the project and we kind of took it over and whilst the work was actually carried out under sort of auspices of this UK indicator for the UK government looking at UK impacts, I think it was really great that JCC saw the scope and value of what we'd actually done and what we were sitting on and the potential and the capacity and the kind of models and methods we have and so instead of this dashboard just been like a simple set of graphs associated with this UK focused interest, we actually have this fully interactive dashboard now that's online. This has got 160 commodities, 200 countries, I think 12 metrics and that's now been picked up and used by different governments, NGOs, academics across the world so it's really sort of extended beyond the initial kind of notion of it just being this kind of UK centric, fairly narrow scoped view and so yeah not only is the kind of statistic we developed a world first for kind of developing a developed country but also the underlying methods and data are now freely available and open to everyone and before I hand over to Laurence who hopefully doesn't disagree too strongly with anything I've just said. SCI's tagline is about bridging science and policy and I think for me that's often felt like a sort of aspiration rather than reality and what's been really nice for me in this work and that's and no small part at all by the collaboration with GNCC is that it's really felt that actually that's become a reality and this isn't just work that's on my laptop or behind closed doors, it's out there, it's making an impact and as I say the collaboration with GNCC has been key to making that happen. Thank you Simon. So I'm not its way I'm from the GNCC and I very much welcome this opportunity to pay back Chris for coming and talking to our committee about the work and it's very nice to be here at your celebration event. So James you see if you don't know us we are an advisor technical advisor to the governments of the UK so England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Westminster and our purpose is to help them restore nature and consumption is the biggest driver of biodiversity loss globally and the footprint of the UK's consumption both on its own land very high intensive own land use and overseas is very large but it's been enormously difficult to keep this in the policy agenda and link it to land use balance changes within the UK and outside and so on and as Simon mentioned 25 year plan gave us a new opportunity but we really wanted to make a long term evidence base that would keep the issue fresh and we needed critical massive expertise SEI had the track record and expertise in this area and I'd like to say that we're good at making things stick so that was the partnership. Simon's already mentioned that if each of us have been asked to do this on our own you'd have ended up with a web page of the graph on it. Together you've got an interactive tool which is relevant to multiple countries multiple commodities and also multiple impact types so the real environmental issue of consumption is very well illustrated and those of you that are in the field getting people to think the on carbon is very hard this does a lot more than that. In terms of impact so by producing something where we both had a long term agenda we've got something that is not only an official statistic we've got something that's been proposed by the UK for the monitoring framework for the new framework of targets under the Convention on Biodiversity in the consumption area and also the mainstreaming area. It's been used to a degree in some of the due diligence thinking that's now part of government policy particularly prioritisation of commodities. It is a way of doing some of the analysis behind free trade agreements and it's really also helped and particularly Scotland and Wales think about their environmental strategies so doing something about the scope of footprint is devolved and Wales under its future generations act has a commitment to reduce footprint but it really would like to also reflect that in terms of impact. So we've had a lot of use already so ACI can answer why they pick JNCC why did we pick SCI? Well it's a combination of things you're really looking for somebody with an agenda who's going in a direction in an important area is thinking through the problems. SCI have a very different stakeholder mix to us we're very public sector delivery bodies we work on the inside and our funding sources work that way so the stakeholder mix is being different people in and they bring in different sources of funding which is how you keep things going through time and I've got down here due diligence winner so we parasitised a big look at tools in this area done under the trade hub and I was very easily able to convince my organisation that this mixture of MRIO and physical trade flow was really the global winner so it's been absolutely brilliant working with the team here. So what next? Well you know we're not going to rest on our laurels I think the key challenges are really connecting scales now so the overseas footprint is very well connected to the land use challenge within the UK we desperately want to do more things with land than we have and so you send a massive choice of chance of outsourcing your environmental problems if you solve your environmental problems here so we want to make that scaling. Simon's mentioned really trying to provide something a bit more compelling for people managing individual supply chains and there's more to go we don't have a full commodity scope and some of the impact indicators have been improved so but to do list is quite long but you need a long term partnership for that and we work with SEI. Thank you very much. Simon and Laurence thank you very much for that presentation. A couple of quick things please don't forget to use the Q&A to start registering questions type in those questions but she'd like to know what the challenges were that Laurence and Simon came across as they were trying to develop this amazing interactive dashboard and also something for the speakers please do let us know when you want to hear have the next slide presented by just saying next slide please and now I'm very happy to introduce Alison Dyke and Jonathan Dent who are going to talk to us about urban treescapes. Hi thank you very much for all coming today to hear about some of the projects that we do I want to tell you a bit about a project called branching out and Jonathan Dent from St. Nick's who we're in partnership with isn't able to make it today so we've got a little video from him talking about the the partnership from their perspective and then I'll tell you a bit about the partnership from our perspective. So branching out it's a project which is funded under the UKRI feature of UK treescapes programme with colleagues here in SEI also the departments of computer science archaeology and TFTI and the University of Loughborough and Open University and finally Forest Research so it's quite a large project of 2.5 million over three years and we're just coming towards the end of our first year now. So the project focuses on governance of urban trees and in particular the inclusion of social and cultural values in decision making. We're working in three focal cities York, Milton Keynes and Cardiff and our partnership with St. Nick's relates to our work here in York. So the project does three main things the first thing is that we're developing a framework for analysing and working with social and cultural values. The second thing is that we're developing a better understanding of those values and how they apply to the characteristics of the treescape and to do that we're working with storytelling and narrative to bring out the values that local communities hold around trees. And then the third thing is that we're mapping those values the social and cultural values of trees using a citizen science approach. So we're working with an existing platform called TreeZilla which was developed by the Open University and we're extending that platform to map social and cultural values in a new way. So those three things contribute to tools and methods for including social and cultural values in decision making. So you may ask why that's important. So I have a little example for you from here in York so could I have the next slide please. So this tree that you can see here is a tree which is in the centre of York. It's a tree which is known as the Magical Tree of Light. It's situated between the Castle Museum and the courts on an area of green space and just recently it became the focus of some public attention because the area where it sits was being proposed for redevelopment and there were several different options which came up as to how this space could be used in a different way and some of those options involved cutting down this tree and one of the reasons given was that it blocked the view of the buildings around but when the public consultation opened there was quite a public outcry about the loss of the potential loss of this tree and the reasons for that public outcry were around social and cultural value that it has and I said it was a named tree, it's called the Magical Tree of Light and the reason for that is that it's hosted part of the York Festival of Light in recent years as a lighting installation. It's also been part of the stage setting for the York Mystery Place. So those kind of cultural history and natural history reasons are why people were upset about the potential for it to be lost and what ended up happening was that a redevelopment option was chosen which didn't involve losing this tree. So the point that we want to come to with branching out is that those kind of situations don't arise, that there is an understanding of social and cultural values of trees before they get to a point where they might be lost or so that strategic decisions can be made about the treescape of a city which will maximise social and cultural benefits. So in the branching out project we take a co-development approach throughout and our local partners are really important for us to understand the decision making context that they are operating in and the constraints and opportunities that are there for them. So at SEI we've worked with St Nick's who are a local civil society organisation for a long time. Certainly that relationship predates my involvement with SEI. We've worked with them on citizen science so projects that we've developed ourselves at SEI and also helping them to deliver their own citizen science projects. In the branching out project they have multiple different capacities. They're working with us as an end user of our work and helping us to co-develop some of those aspects. They're helping us to convene citizen panels and using their convening power that they hold as a really well connected civil society organisation to do that and also to actually map the trees that we have in York. So I want to go now to video from Jonathan Dent to let him speak from their perspective about our partnership. Hello my name is Jonathan Dent, natural habitats manager at St Nick's. St Nick's is an environmental organisation and charity based in York just outside of the city walls. We do a range of projects all focused around sustainability from nature conservation to eco therapy, waste minimisation and green energy. We've been involved with the Stockholm Environment Institute for a number of years. Initially around lots of citizen science work and projects and helping and Stockholm Environment Institute have been key in helping us develop what we do in terms of citizen science mainly with an ecology focus with the work that I do and that's kind of focused more recently into developing a grassland quality survey pack which measures the quality of the wildlife habitat of grasslands which we're now using across the city on a range of sites. More recently and currently we are working with Stockholm Environment Institute on the branching out project and we've been involved in the end user panels. For us I think the benefits of this project is just having those kind of key stakeholders and decision makers in one room and talking about something and having those discussions that perhaps people wouldn't generally have the time to to have them. I think going forward I think the kind of value of thinking about trees in a more diverse way is really important as well and that ties in really well with all the kind of projects that we do at Saint Nick's which often have a kind of key community focus and thinking not just about the nature benefits but about the benefits for the community as well. Longer term going forward into the future I think the having the kind of citizen science evidence base across the city will be kind of vital for the work that we're doing and progressing with our green corridors project we currently have we're working across the city and beyond as well so having that extra information that we can use to monitor and measure change is going to be really valuable and looking at funding bids for new projects as well and having those kind of social indicators as well. So yeah so thank you to Stockholm Environment Institute for helping Saint Nick's develop as an organisation and good luck going forward. So from our perspective partnerships with civil society organisations like Saint Nick's are really important for developing co-developed research that has a real impact at a local level. In cities trees are expected to deliver multiple policy objectives around carbon sequestration, health and wellbeing, green jobs, you name it, trees are supposed to do it but on the other hand they also compete with developments, roads and services, things like new broadband cables for instance. So local authorities who are supposed to square all of those competing needs have had significant funding cuts in recent years and that makes it really difficult for them to to deal with this and while they might have funding available for new tree planting schemes there's very little available for maintaining or replacing existing trees. Indeed City of York Council don't actually collect any sort of data on trees apart from health and safety checks so when they say to us the sort of citizen science data that you're talking about on social and cultural value would be really useful in decision making but we don't have the capacity to to collect that data that's where civil society organisations like St Nick's really come in. They're able to think beyond those immediate funding constraints in a way that's really difficult for local authorities and that makes them an important partner when we're asking decision makers to think differently beyond their usual mode of operation. St Nick's as an organisation and as a venue is buzzing with volunteers, mental health support groups, people who are ready and willing to deliver citizen science. So in the future we'd like to continue to work really closely with St Nick's. They're really fantastic forward thinking organisation and they make their community a better place to live. So our relationship with them is part of SEI's relationship with the City of York and as a part of the University for the Public Good. I hope we can return and hear from from Jonathan, but now we can hand over to Eleni, Micholokolul and Roderick Weller who are going to talk to us about air pollution and a partnership on air pollution in the private sector. Eleni. Thank you. I'm very honoured and very happy to be here today and this is my first physical event in over two years, so a bit of nervousness. Right, so actually coming here today I thought that I had a very complicated story to say because that story includes a lot of dates, a lot of partners, a lot of meetings, you know, Zoom meetings, Teams meetings, but then it just occurred to me that it is actually a very simple story because it is a story about the fellowship and like with any other fellowship that embarks on a quest, whether you want to play a dragon or whether you want to improve air quality, what happens is and apparently that's just the thing that happens is that the members may start as dispersed, you know, many countries, many companies, many places, but then they just gravitate towards each other in a very, very magical way and this is what happened in 2020. So if we can have the next slide please, thank you. So if you will just imagine these three maybe squares as the members of this fellowship because this is what was happening in 2020 and these three things were happening at the same time. The UN had established the first international day of clean air for blue skies, this was a decision that was made in 2019 and in 2020 we were working towards building that first day, the first celebration, but at the same time the World Economic Forum was putting together the Global Future Council on Clean Air, which is one of their think tanks. These councils are part of how the World Economic Forum works and develops and we were also in discussions with IKEA and the CCC that you heard from Sara before, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, about developing a guide that was going to focus on quantifying air pollutant emissions from the private sector. So this is what was happening in 2020. The members of the fellowship were coming closer and closer together. I was very, very fortunate to start to work with the World Economic Forum. Roddy, myself and members of our group were participating in the celebrations of the International Day of Clean Air and Blue Skies and that third part of the slide, the guide is now what I think Roddy will be focusing on. Thank you very much. So I will just like to give Roddy the opportunity to have the word now because I think he's supposed to be talking on this slide. And just one thing to say before we go to Roddy, because today is about our partnerships and the stories behind them, I think it's just very important to share that the driver behind this partnership on the specific project between SEI and the World Economic Forum has been a very strong shared vision to improve air quality. And I think that one of the things that have been pulling us closer and closer together and working on so many different things is the fact that we approach that vision with a lot of honesty, a lot of ambition, but also a lot of realism. So hopefully now Roddy is going to talk about how our fellowship is expanding. Thank you. Thanks, Lenny. And I didn't realise I was the only live guest next time I'd love to join you in person. So yes, my name is Roddy and I'm the project lead for the Clean Air at the World Economic Forum. I've been at the forum for almost seven years now. And as Lenny mentioned, we started focusing on the air quality piece right before the International Day for Clean Air. So when we first opened this position and I transferred into it, we started speaking to the CCAC to see where the forum fits in in the space, being relatively new to it, and the CCAC suggested that we look at the private sector because the forum has over 900, around 900 business partnerships, so we have really well positioned to mobilise them and they're largely missing from the picture. And as Lenny mentioned, as part of that, SCI were on the scientific group for the day. So the CCAC suggested we connect with the SCI to start to discuss the ways that the private sector can tackle air pollution. And following a couple of conversations, and Lenny joining one of our workshops, we created that GFC and we invited Lenny because she's immensely knowledgeable on the topic and also very passionate. So Lenny actually has become my first point of call for anything air quality related, and anything related in life in general now. And we speak every week, basically, to keep up the momentum of this partnership. So once we launched the GFC, they helped us, which is the mini think tank that Lenny was referring to. The GFC helped us to start to scope out what is the business case for doing this, including the economic impact, the impact on employees, the impact on communities, and they also helped us out in the outreach efforts in their own communities to see which private sector, which of the private sector might be interested in joining the Alliance. So over the next few months we secured enough commitment to launch at COP26 with these, if you go back to the one previous slide, with those 10 founding members. And these 10 founding members are all committed to measuring their efficient footprints and creating actionable plans to reduce them. And there's also a focus around how businesses can champion the importance of cleaner with their stakeholders and also to use their innovation capabilities to find new finished solutions. So in terms of challenges and opportunities, there hasn't been any challenges with the partnership with SCI, so I hope you mean the challenges around the private sector. And that's really that it's a low priority. And until this point there's been very few businesses who have looked at their efficient emissions and companies are just simply not coming together yet. So that was one of the challenges, but the opportunity is that strategies that focus on health in a short term can be a novel and a underutilised lever to moderate personal and community and corporate action and also to help gain public trust, which is something that has been flagged by a number of partners in this alliance and elsewhere in the forum. And also like climate action, all industries have a role to play, which means that the alliance can be scalable. And anyone who's made net zero commitments or climate commitments but wants to go further could be part of this effort. So to keep up momentum, we have, as I mentioned, a weekly meeting with the SCI team and the secretary team. We also had a couple of monthly meetings with the alliance members, the ones on the screen. And that way we help keep up keep up the conversation, keep them focused on the deliverables that we want to see within the year. One of those meetings is led by SCI on how to use and apply the guide. The other meeting is focused around innovation and champion, which the forum run, and we're looking at working with some media partners as well to run that piece. And we also, as a last way of keeping up momentum, we have a senior advisors group meeting where we tap into more of the leadership team within the organizations. That way we can hear about their strategies and priorities and find ways to link into them. And also that they help ensure that the alliance objectives are progressing throughout the year. And also they share those updates in other community leadership communities where they're engaged to sort of start to spread out the message outside of the air quality bubble. In terms of how the partnership has added value for both SCI and forum, for the SCI piece, I believe that the forum brings the private sector engagement piece and they can tap into that network and use it to advance the agenda, which Eleni mentioned. They had already started building the efficient mission guide beyond the forum. That was a conversation that was happening with the CCAC and IKEA, and it just dovetailed perfectly with the work that we were doing. And also SCI can leverage the forum's media channels and digital channels to amplify the messaging that they have. And as an example, the forum has about 30 million followers, so it's a really good network where we can share the great work that SCI is doing. For the forum, the benefit is that we get the thought leadership and subject matter expertise to the alliance on a critical piece that's essential to our objectives. And they and SCI are helping those members work through the guide on something that hasn't existed until this point. So, yeah, but there's a lot of benefits for both sides. In terms of the outcomes, we're still very much in the early stages of this journey. We only launched the Alliance for Penair at COP26 in November 2021. So, it is Eleni and all these members are very much committed to moving from the objectives and the commitments towards action. To give you a sense of what we hope in 2022 is that these 10 members have tested the guide that SCI are creating, and that way it's fit for purpose, and it's also ready publicly for when it launches around late summer. The absolute ideal would be that all our 10 members have an ambition for print and a plan on how they're going to reduce those emissions by COP27, although that's very ambitious knowing it's not something that's applying the guide. It can't happen super quickly, but I think they're all ambitious companies, so we'll hopefully get there. In terms of the championing piece, we want all the members of the champion action with their employees, their customers and communities, and also we want to identify business leaders who can explain why they're part of the Alliance, why it's important with their networks and around the innovation piece. We want to start to highlight global examples of innovation from the air quality field, and we also want the members to start to work together to find synergies and find ways to collaboratively take action, which is something that hasn't happened before. Those last two pillars are a bit broader on purpose so that we find those interaction and design points whereas the major reduced one is very specific per company, but there will be learnings, and then he has been presenting at our meetings. I think what we've found is that there's a lot of, they're finding a lot of benefit from sharing how to overcome missing data, how to apply different emission factors to their existing greenhouse gas models, so there's a lot of benefit from doing this as a group. Just to finish on the key next step to us, SCI and the Forum have been discussing creating an MOU to more formalise this relationship. The guide that I mentioned is being road tested by these members, and it will be publicly available from around quarter three to quarter four. We want to continue to grow the Alliance, but ensuring that we grow it in a way that it's with the leading and progressive businesses and that we're proving the impact that we're having along the way, so we'll aim for another 10 members by COP 27. Lastly, we're discussing funding SCI directly around a second phase of the guide that's focused around mitigation scenarios that can be applied across the value chain and integrated with existing or planned greenhouse gas mitigation strategies, so those are our key next steps. Yes, I think we need to wrap up now, so I'll just thank everyone for listening, and thank you, Rodi, for joining, and that's it for us. Thank you. Now, I'm reliably informed that if we all cross our fingers, then we may well be able to hear from Jonathan Dent. So, over to you in the AV booth, roll the footage please. Oh, we still can't hear anything. Hello, good. Okay. I am going to go straight over to Steve in that case, and welcome Steve and Carly, who are going to talk to us about inclusive transport, improving mobility choices for vulnerable groups. Please. Huge element of danger, because I've got a video in my talk as well. So, good to see so many of you here, and as Rob said, I'm going to be talking along with one of our key partners, Carly Gilbert-Patrick, about inclusion in transport planning. So, if we go to the next slide. So, this is a typical street in Nairobi, and you can see the pedestrians there doing their daily commute. So, around 50% of the population in Nairobi walk or cycle to make their way to work or education, and if you're in Camp Parlor, it's even higher, about 60%. So, for many European North American cities, this would be something to aspire to, having active travel like this is something we're trying to instigate, things we're putting in infrastructure, and encouragement to make more people or encourage more people to walk or cycle in their daily commutes. But in Nairobi and Camp Parlor, it's very much typical. It's what everybody or most people do, particularly what have been termed vulnerable groups. So, they include the poorest members of society, also young children and the elderly women and children. So, these are the typical types of people that are moving around cities walking and cycling in these countries. But, unfortunately, as you can see slightly in the picture, the infrastructure that they're provided with is not really conducive to this mobility. They're giving very poor infrastructure choices, and it means they have lots of interactions with traffic and motorised transport. And that's partly related to the sort of emphasis that's been put on infrastructure and who to invest in, what modes of transport to invest in. So, walking and cycling is sort of seen as a lesser choice, hence the lack of infrastructure. But unfortunately, that interaction with motorised transport and pedestrians is leading to huge numbers of road fatalities every year. So, just to put that perspective, in 2014 in Nairobi there were 723 road accident fatalities, and 70% of those were amongst pedestrians. So, a huge number of people being killed every year. The latest statistics I showed that that's even increasing, and it's actually higher than the death rates from COVID that we've seen. So, it's a huge challenge, and that's the thing that we became involved in in SCI when we started to look at how could we better include these vulnerable groups in decision making around transport and road planning in these types of cities. So, the way we made movement on that, and started to generate a partnership, was through some funding we got from the Global Challenge Research Fund, which was to build a network. And I worked in partnership with colleagues in York, and we developed a workshop where we were going to look at how we could improve these vulnerable groups using more creative methods in decision making. And to identify the people to attend the workshop, one of the key people that we were recommended to work with was UNEP Share the Road Programme, and my colleague Howard and Gary, who's in the audience up there, had previously worked on a previous project with Carly Coynangor, as she was then, Carly Gilbert-Patrick now, from UNEP Share the Road. So, when we held the workshop we also did a stakeholder mapping activity, and we saw who was related or knew, who didn't know each other and who they went to for trusted information. UNEP Share the Road and Carly in particular came out as the central node in this network. Everybody in the workshop either knew Carly, knew somebody who knew Carly and received information from Carly. She was a hub of this sort of information and this work that we were getting involved in. So, she was a critical part of our partnership building. And hopefully now I'd like to hand over to Carly, but this is Hello, my name is Carly Gilbert-Patrick, and I'm based at UNEP, responsible for our programme on active mobility, digitalisation of transport and mode integration, sitting within our wider UNEP transport unit. Our role at the transport unit is to support governments and other stakeholders all around the world to decouple increased mobility from increased emissions. We believe that we can have economic and transport growth, but that does not have to be detrimental to our planet. We work on national and city policy, stakeholder engagement, capacity building, advocacy, research and data, and we cannot do it without our partnerships. Stockholm Environment Institute are one of our trusted partners. They're doing novel policy and practice research grounded in evidence which is really important for us in the areas of road safety, inclusion of vulnerable groups and climate resilient mobility, very complementary to our portfolio of technical support areas at UNEP. This collaboration has given SEI access to a wide range of stakeholders, but also introduced us at UNEP to new ways of working. So, for example, SEI introduced us to new creative methods for inclusion in transport. The partnership between us has delivered project funding and developed an expanded knowledge base on climate resilience issues in Africa. We've also developed a guidance framework on how to use creative engagement methods which will be hosted on the UNEP share the road website, giving longevity to SEI for their work and also building our UNEP catalogue of tools and guidance, really sort of showing how this partnership has added value for all of us. I think what's also critical is not just building our partnership but getting the most value for money for our donors by maintaining those partnerships too, and we have worked with SEI on a number of projects together and will continue to do so. There's the iSmith project which has tested and evaluated the impacts of implementing creative methods in compiler in Nairobi. We've developed a toolkit of methods and as the UNEP share the road programme, we've acted as a key partner for that project. There's also the British Academy equity formability project investigating health and wellbeing impacts of journeys in Nairobi and Mombasa for vulnerable groups, again UNEP acted as an advisor. Then there's also the FCDO High Volume Transport Inclusive Climate Resilient Transport in Africa project, testing creative methods to improve inclusion of vulnerable groups, developing a guidance framework for African transport planners to inform decision making, and as UNEP we sit on the steering committee. As the next steps to sort of show how we're continuing our partnership, UNEP is organising a policymaker workshop in Kigali Rwanda in June and SEI are one of our key partners. They'll be attending and participating in the forum and delivering training and capacity building on tools that we've co-created through some of the projects that I mentioned. We also have a really new exciting project starting with UK Pact FCDO funding, working with key transport beneficiaries, women and marginalised groups to accelerate decarbonisation of Indonesia's transport sector. This is a three-year 2.5 million project starting in 2022 and it's a partnership of SEI, UNEP and local Indonesian partners. We look forward to continuing our partnership with SEI. Thank you. So just to show some of the outcomes of this partnership, so actually what can be achieved through partnership working. So on the top left there you can see at the very top left you can see that street that the person was walking on in the initial picture. So that's Latuli Avenue in downtown Nairobi and through the partnership between SEI, the city authorities and UNEP share the road we actually managed to transform the infrastructure to put in better paving cycle routes and demotorise that street to make it much safer and also improve the air quality for people working and living in that area. On the bottom left there you can see Campala and again Namarembi Avenue which is one of the key hubs for getting in and out of the city centre and again this is pre-ar involvement with the city authority and then you can see the infrastructure improvements again that occurred including more cycling infrastructure and pedestrian infrastructure and this was really critical in the COVID crisis to enable Ugandan people to get in and out of the city centre more safely than relying on motorised minibus taxes. Finally the last two pictures are from Lusaka where we've been working most recently again using creative methods to improve road safety and you can see 3D zebra crossings that we developed as part of our project that have since been invested in by local insurance agencies around schools to improve road safety for school children reducing the speed of motorised transport and improving safety. So final slide please so just finally I'd like to thank the team of people that I work with across York and other SCI centres the partners we work with in those cities including some other universities and the funders that have enabled us to make those outcomes and impacts so thank you all very much for listening. Thank you very much Stephen and Carly for that we're now moving into Q&A and I hope that some of you have been able to log on post some questions online if you haven't been able to do that or would like to do the traditional route we also have a couple of roving mics so you are able to raise your hand and we will make sure that your question is addressed but I'm actually going to ask Francis who has been monitoring the Q&A chat to kick us off with a question so Francis over to you. So this is a question for Alison first and you talked about the different social and cultural values values that we place on our treescapes and the project branching out is working in a number of different case study areas I wondered if you could reflect a bit on how SCI and how the project possibly adapts its co-design approach depending on the geography of the case study and how we tailor our approach essentially based on geography and I'd also like to extend that question to Steve as well. Well the three cities that we're working with in the UK are surprisingly different they have quite different development trajectories and different landscapes of stakeholders in each city so in Milton Keynes there's a trust that manages all of their parks and open spaces whereas in our other two cities are managed mainly by councils so we have adapted our co-development approach slightly to take advantage well yes I suppose it is to take advantage of those different landscapes of stakeholders and as I was saying when I was talking earlier there are different constraints associated with different kinds of stakeholders and actually I suppose if we had time had time to think about this much in advance we would have realised the kind of constraints that local authorities are working under at the moment but we've actually had to work a lot more with civil society organisations because of the kinds of funding constraints that local authorities are operating under at the moment. I suppose the other thing that we're taking into account in our case study cities is the demographics of the population as well so in addition to the end user panels which Jonathan was talking about being involved in which are the decision-making stakeholders we also have a citizen panel which is made up of a as representative as possible sample of the population of the city so we're really aware of the different ethnicities that are present in each of our cities and the different kind of cultural histories which we've got which we need to represent in each of the cities in order that we are catering to the the different needs that they might have and the different kinds of values that might be present in different kinds of demographics. I hope that answers the question to a certain extent. Scarily echoey. Yes so in terms of the geography and I think the co-creation activity that Alison started talking about is kind of critical to how we've been working in different cities so we often engage with city stakeholders ranging from city authorities to communities to ask them about the specific locations or challenges they're experiencing and also where opportunities for change might be so working with city authorities on locations where they think they could invest or change infrastructure which helps to deliver some of those outcomes I showed so identifying places where there's there's a potential for change and then at the community level actually working with those vulnerable groups a good example is most recently been actually mapping people's journeys around Nairobi and Mombasa from two low income neighbourhoods to identify the kinds of journeys they're making where they're going and also where they find particular hazards and challenges so that we can very uh with high granularity if you like identify the key problem areas for them so that when we're making those investments and infrastructure they can be on sites where there's going to make a real difference to people's journeys and their safety so yeah that geography aspect is kind of critical to a lot of what we do and hopefully that addresses the question. Thanks very much Steve I've got another question actually from the Q&A and it really relates to the current geopolitical turbulence that we can see the fact that we're also in a recovery from COVID in what sort of and I'm thinking perhaps Mons might like to give us a bit of an answer to this so I'm going to have to invite you Mons to come up and and address this what sort of role might partnerships play given this level of turbulence and volatility is there a special role for partnerships in helping to shape agendas and address these the decisions that are needed at the moment? Yes I see that well from from what I see the partnerships that we are in and nurturing are becoming more and more important and I don't know if it's because of the turbulent times or if it's because of the increased competition or if it's because the problems are getting more and more difficult but I can see that are the people that we want and the organizations that are taking up the knowledge that we can provide they are more open and attentive and interested when we come together as a voice it can be even the funders that we'd like to entertain just to say if we come alone we are probably having some good ideas that deserve funding but what about sort of the uptake and where will this go and when we come together it could be with a local it could be with a city council it could be with the university it could be ideally both when you see those configurations I think it's maybe it's evidence of a level of performance that gives confidence to our audiences so ever more important now that we are have been in the COVID lockdown situations and online meetings without our partnerships we would have had a incredibly difficult time doing our work now thanks to our partnerships and our distribution we could continue effective work and engagement all over the world and so it's also a kind of a a attribute resilience attribute in a way. Wait a minute Sarah do you want to to add anything to that from your perspective at York? I think yeah I think having partnerships as Mon said allows us to have more credibility it allows us to be speaking with one voice I think partnership working can also be challenging I know when so when the Ukraine situation kicked off Mon said have we got any Russian connections have we got any Ukrainian connections we need to look at what's going on here I've myself had project big project delays as EPSRC aren't signing off on the project because we have a we had a Russian based partner and so it can cause challenges as well the partnership working um so I think but I think those kind of partnerships that we have here in SEI you know I've been in SEI for many many years now but people always said to me SEI is seen as a trusted partner we're an honest knowledge broker and that honesty I think is really really important and I think our partners really value that and we've got partners here so maybe they'd like to say something about that but I think that people do really value that honesty and those trust and then we can have those difficult conversations with them and say okay well this is what's going on in the world at the moment how are we all going to navigate this together and I think that that honest that honest role that we play is is really important I think for me you've both raised two really important points you know one is this notion of trust trust doesn't happen and just you know hearing the power of the you know those case studies and so we've got to kind of lose this perception that you know um we build a partner and suddenly you know we have trusting relationships trusting relationships build you know take time they need nurturing and it isn't about what am I going to get from it at the end of it it's it's almost like an experiment isn't it and so I think that's really important to kind of highlight but I was also struck about the question of COVID I think what COVID has has taught us and if a positive was to come out of it it's given us the ability to extend our reach so what what it's happened is you know I love that notion of science and policy and practice working together but they're not new things you know partnerships and universities and policy makers and community groups and civil society have worked with each other for many many many years but I think what what it's heightened is our capacity to extend our reach and the power of what happens when we actually listen and that's an area that we don't often talk about in partnerships about the capacity to listen and to hear and not to talk at people and I was really struck again in the context of the crisis and the work that's done and then how do we put that intelligence to work and so I think you know COVID has given us the opportunity to to change our perception and partners perceptions about the value that each can bring but that's because we've had to listen it's much harder to listen when you're on zoom and you have to pay attention than it is being in a room when you can be distracted by 101 kind of other things so I think for me you know trust engagements and authentic engagement are absolutely key and again all of that was highlighted that's what brings about change that's what influences policy because actually policymakers have been saying for years we need you and want you to work together and what we haven't actually done is thought about well what does working together actually mean thank you very much I think Francis has got another question for us so Francis speak to us thank you Rob building on that last question I'd like to ask a question to Lawrence please so this is um we'd like to understand more about how you have formed and maintained partnerships and how over how you overcame challenges okay um so James has got a bit of skin in the game at partnerships so we have one that's 33 years old for example um and they are based on they're sort of several layers and just I think that all of these apply to the way we work with SEI so first of all you've got to have two or more bodies that can see a problem that really needs to be fixed and want a long-term solution to it so it's got to be a common agenda the organisations have got to be well matched so if GNCC tried to partner with Pricewaterhouse Cooper I don't think they'd listen to us and they're very good company of course obviously but you know we're small so um you know your partners have got to be people who are looking for an alliance to get their message across um I think you also need to have different perspectives and different skills uh that that really is critical because then the sum is greater than the parts and then finally the trust thing um so trust is personal and it's also institutional so um institutions will trust each other if they're not going to get rocked if they're not going to be dominated by others those kinds of things so that's important and trust at an institutional level can be very important um but trust is also important at the level of the people doing the work and that also builds through time and you can tell it works well when it survives individuals and um I can say that in this case because this area of work was started by a colleague of mine who's now retired Tony Whale and James he's still he's still working with SEI so I think those are several of the things I can think of in terms of how do you sustain a partnership and what makes it work thanks very much Lawrence um I'd like to ask a question of Eleni and Roddy um sometimes in the world of research and academia there's a certain reticence about getting too close to to business um perhaps even having a financial relationship with them I'm just wondering whether you've thought about you know you want to bring about change your agenda your vision is about making sure that through value chains air pollution is accounted for acted on and the co-benefits are seized how do you make sure that you're doing that in a way that disrupts the way that they do business but at the same time allows them to buy into something that is quite disruptive potentially quite disruptive to their way of doing business making money Roddy I can just go first and you can perhaps come in as well I think that I think maybe that is there's a bit of a misconception there because I think that I'm I'm not in I'm not with SEI very long I've only been here for two years but I did my PhD with the private sector as well so with the aluminum and the semiconductor industries and and one thing we were always talking about was how can they change things quicker than it would be expected from them to make the change when the policy makers would step in so actually they wanted actively to be one step ahead of that but it was very important to them and now I'm getting flashbacks from my PhD which is not a great thing but it was very important for them to talk to people that understood their context it was very important for them to talk to researchers that could understand what it means to disrupt your operations for an amount of time what it means to have to change the way you produce things what that means for their supply chain what it means in terms of time and delays and costs and once we've had these discussions and that's again for my PhD it was just amazing to see the chains take place I mean with that work we ended up putting together a chapter for the 2019 IPCC guidelines so the refinement to the guidelines and for this work and I think Rodi can confirm this with a discussion we've been having with the companies they are so keen to change but they just sometimes need help to really pinpoint the opportunity or really see how this fits in with what they were already planning on doing so Rodi perhaps you would like to elaborate on that. I think you answered it very well what we're doing is really linking to existing discussions that we're hearing from the leadership of these companies who are inviting to be part of the alliance so for example we have a community called the CEO climate leaders and that's 120 CEOs who convene about three times a year at forum events in person normally or more recently virtually they say they talk about the challenge they're facing one of which is the public element and taking action that is visible in a short period of time is one way to overcome that so I think this lens really well towards that and show that they are taking those progressive steps so it links into a lot of the existing conversations and strategies that they're already taking. Thank you very much Rodi just one more sentence I think that once we started having those discussions from the point of view of an existing opportunity or even a missed opportunity for those companies for example that we're already looking into greenhouse gas reductions and the benefit of that on air quality so once we were we introduced that type of phrasing and that sort of dialogue I mean with Rodi we have just been engaging and engaging and listening as was very well explained before thank you. Thanks Eleni and thanks Rodi that was that was really interesting it's really time for us to be into wrap up our session here now because after this we have a networking event for those of you here in person and there'll be tea and the opportunity to interact with SEI researchers there's a poster session as well so I don't want to delay the opportunity for that networking but I'm going to just say a few a few closing remarks things that I've picked up in in this conversation really I think there are four things four characteristics that I'm hearing to do with partnerships that are both around the the partnership at an institutional level that SEI and the University of York has but also in these case studies and the first is credibility we've heard that word many times about credibility of understanding maybe what the question is that needs to be addressed making sure that it's you're working out what the benefits are making sure that the audience the users that you're working with also can can really see what's in it for them the second is scale and that's about making sure that you're acting at the right scale but also that you can scale up solutions that you can go from a partnership to something that is actually changing agendas or pinpointing decisions that need to be changed it's also perhaps about scaling out to new users 10 more hopefully in Eleni's project together with the world economic forum by the end of this year third quality is persistence being sticky both sticking together in the partnership through certainly through thick and thin and trust is a key element of that but also the ability through persistence to actually keep on going perhaps when policy priorities change or financial situations are different and the last one is about insight about bringing together two different perspectives and actually making sure that we do make the whole greater than the sum of its parts thank you very much everybody who has joined today's celebration event i found it really inspiring to hear these case studies and and look forward to coming back again to se i coming back again to the university and hearing more about the fantastic work that's being done here i must of course thank some people who've made all of this possible first of all thank you very much to all of our panelists and i'd like you to give them a round of applause please and obviously thank you in the audience here and online for your questions engagement and your interest in our work and a special thanks to our organising team lucy victoria francis and john thank you it was brilliant organisation and the way you've managed to handle some of our technical challenges was very professional so thank you very much now enjoy the networking session which is just downstairs and you can hear more about all of our exciting research thank you everybody