Banter 23 Friends of the Earth, 12Jun24, Toby Bridgman

Toby demonstrates the data layers - particularly maps of Energy and Climate Change, Pollution, Nature, and Transport - and the data analysis involved.

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103 00:14:20.160 --> 00:14:32.098 Graham Stoddart-Stones: yeah, let me go through my usual blurb about this is a recorded session, and the results get published on Youtube and our own Wiki. So anyone who does not wish to be published. 104 00:14:32.460 --> 00:14:34.879 Graham Stoddart-Stones: act accordingly at the state time. 105 00:14:35.895 --> 00:14:39.219 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Otherwise welcome to the weekly. 106 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:47.889 Graham Stoddart-Stones: and a session for the great collaboration whose purpose is to help people find their way through the plethora of information 107 00:14:47.980 --> 00:14:50.519 Graham Stoddart-Stones: about climate change and the like 108 00:14:50.894 --> 00:14:55.115 Graham Stoddart-Stones: on the Internet, and to in be able to impose their own plans. 109 00:14:55.920 --> 00:15:17.650 Graham Stoddart-Stones: To the greatest efficiency. And to that end we have today, giving us a presentation from the friends of the earth. Toby Richmond, who's going to install this. I trust, with all the layers of data that you can achieve from the friends of the Earth, and use as required. So, Toby, if you're all happy over to you. Please. 110 00:15:18.490 --> 00:15:19.683 Toby Bridgeman: Thanks. Graham. 111 00:15:20.350 --> 00:15:27.269 Toby Bridgeman: had intended to produce very slick presentation today, but the election announcement, I think, happened after I signed up, and so we 112 00:15:27.330 --> 00:15:35.639 Toby Bridgeman: been quite busy. So I'm preparing for that and we also just had a dentist appointment this morning, so half my mouth is sort of numb, and the other half is in quite a lot of pain. So 113 00:15:37.110 --> 00:15:45.520 Toby Bridgeman: I'm trying to, I sort of I can think I'm talking clearly, but my voice. My mouth was a bit unusual. So sorry if it's if I'm if anything is unclear, please do ask me to repeat 114 00:15:47.160 --> 00:15:56.280 Toby Bridgeman: so I've got a couple of slides to show not too many. And then I've also got just some some maps. We tend to make maps 115 00:15:56.300 --> 00:15:58.069 Toby Bridgeman: data where we can 116 00:15:59.038 --> 00:16:01.480 Toby Bridgeman: let me try and find. 117 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:04.800 Toby Bridgeman: And 118 00:16:06.626 --> 00:16:10.739 Toby Bridgeman: full screen is that, can you guys see that as full screen slide? 119 00:16:10.910 --> 00:16:11.610 Toby Bridgeman: Yep. 120 00:16:14.280 --> 00:16:22.889 Toby Bridgeman: yeah. So I'm I'm from friends of the earth. Hopefully, people have heard of friends of the Earth. But if if not, we were a sort of environmental campaigning organization, and we work on 121 00:16:22.940 --> 00:16:34.960 Toby Bridgeman: the sort of themes of of climate. We have a very strong climate campaign, obviously. But we also work around nature, and we also around work around sort of the the right and the right to protest as well. Those are are 3 big, big campaigning 122 00:16:35.060 --> 00:16:36.130 Toby Bridgeman: areas. 123 00:16:36.901 --> 00:16:43.340 Toby Bridgeman: I, I sit in a team. The the policy and insights team, which is essentially essentially the research team 124 00:16:43.390 --> 00:16:45.299 Toby Bridgeman: at friends of the Earth 125 00:16:45.851 --> 00:16:53.318 Toby Bridgeman: and we have a so small environmental data unit there, where. So as as a key part of our work, we, we believe, is 126 00:16:53.660 --> 00:17:06.450 Toby Bridgeman: conducting data analysis and getting and and producing statistics that help support our kind of national campaigns, but also give give data to to our local groups. We have a, we have a big network of local groups all across the country across 127 00:17:06.510 --> 00:17:08.879 Toby Bridgeman: England and Wales and Northern Ireland. 128 00:17:08.890 --> 00:17:12.010 Toby Bridgeman: Friends. Yes, Scotland is, is another entity, I should, I should add. 129 00:17:12.601 --> 00:17:21.049 Toby Bridgeman: So we think it's really important that we get kind of local statistics to help support local people. Make make action, make things happen on their ground. 130 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:33.400 Toby Bridgeman: So as a result of that, we kind of we. You know, we produce kind of quite a lot of analysis, but we also produce maps and tools. And there's an example on the right of the screen there of a tool we've got called near you where you can put in your postcode, and you can see 131 00:17:33.550 --> 00:17:38.700 Toby Bridgeman: a series of local data covering various topics in your local authority. 132 00:17:38.830 --> 00:17:45.170 Toby Bridgeman: And we're actually got. We've got a tool that we're releasing this week, which is similar, but kind of a constituency level in the run up to 133 00:17:45.220 --> 00:17:56.329 Toby Bridgeman: to the the General Election, which will show statistics and each constituency enable you to to email prospective candidates and kind of challenging on the where they where they stand on various things. 134 00:17:57.412 --> 00:18:16.819 Toby Bridgeman: So we don't. We won't work alone. We we one of our concepts. Is very much to direct. Try and do things with open door open open door, open data and make that publicly available as well. But we are aware that a lot of other people are doing similar work and have a lot of expertise. So we try and work in collaboration where we can or 135 00:18:17.123 --> 00:18:29.550 Toby Bridgeman: what people we know have got the expertise to do the things that we don't. So we work. We work with universities and other charities and independent kind of organizations and special a a expertise. And we work with 136 00:18:29.700 --> 00:18:34.149 Toby Bridgeman: a couple of government agencies like natural England and the Environment Agency as well. 137 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:39.289 Toby Bridgeman: an example of a kind of recent work we did on that was. 138 00:18:39.470 --> 00:18:45.370 Toby Bridgeman: we started a project at Weston sort of hackathon, with some postdoctoral students at the University of Exeter. 139 00:18:45.450 --> 00:18:54.370 Toby Bridgeman: trying to understand where we could, if we could, map where the most suitable areas were for onshore renewable energy. So onshore wind and onshore solar farms. 140 00:18:54.876 --> 00:19:02.199 Toby Bridgeman: So we were at the university on that, and then we also then took some of that analysis, and we and then we work with some kind of industry experts and 141 00:19:02.210 --> 00:19:07.229 Toby Bridgeman: and trade bodies, such as Solar Uk renewables, energy, sorry renewables, UK. 142 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:08.800 Toby Bridgeman: And octopus energy 143 00:19:09.110 --> 00:19:14.339 Toby Bridgeman: to kind of get them on board. Make sure we're saying the right sort of things right? Make sure our messaging align with what they're trying to say. 144 00:19:14.420 --> 00:19:20.840 Toby Bridgeman: As a result of that. We kind of put out a policy piece and and and some data and an interactive map which I'll show you show you in a bit 145 00:19:23.380 --> 00:19:30.460 Toby Bridgeman: and just. And one other thing, we also sort of this idea of collaboration and understanding. A lot of other work is going on in in the similar fields. We're also kind of 146 00:19:30.580 --> 00:19:39.230 Toby Bridgeman: part of a wider group of organizations that start out what's called an environmental change data for change network. So really, an environmental data network where we're trying to 147 00:19:39.360 --> 00:19:43.019 Toby Bridgeman: and bring people together, avoid duplication of work 148 00:19:43.420 --> 00:19:48.509 Toby Bridgeman: and also to see if we can and do sort of new collaborative projects together, bringing in expertise 149 00:19:48.660 --> 00:19:53.260 Toby Bridgeman: as well. So I can put a link to that in the chat if anyone's interested in sort of signing up 150 00:19:53.700 --> 00:20:01.399 Toby Bridgeman: but we've got kind of on online platform where discussions are and various data get shared. And and that sort of thing. It's it's in its infancy, really. So it's growing. But 151 00:20:02.430 --> 00:20:06.040 Toby Bridgeman: yeah, that's kind of a big part of our work is kind of bringing people together as well. 152 00:20:07.201 --> 00:20:20.149 Toby Bridgeman: Yeah. So anyway, onto today, I just Co, we wanted to say that a lot of the data we produce, particularly them sort of mapping and local data we produce is what is is done at what's called lsoa level, which is. 153 00:20:20.230 --> 00:20:22.010 Toby Bridgeman: for those don't know. It's a kind of 154 00:20:22.380 --> 00:20:27.999 Toby Bridgeman: really a sort of census unit from the from the census is that they conduct 155 00:20:28.394 --> 00:20:31.839 Toby Bridgeman: it stands for lower super output area and covers about. 156 00:20:31.940 --> 00:20:32.720 Toby Bridgeman: think 157 00:20:33.530 --> 00:20:39.459 Toby Bridgeman: roughly about a thousand households. So population of up to about 2. So 2, 3,000 people. 158 00:20:39.660 --> 00:20:48.149 Toby Bridgeman: they tend to be quite uniform in their population size, but obviously not uniform in their their land area. So they're a lot smaller in cities and a lot bigger 159 00:20:48.410 --> 00:20:49.860 Toby Bridgeman: in rural areas. 160 00:20:50.873 --> 00:20:53.159 Toby Bridgeman: That's kind of long way of saying, we don't 161 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:57.480 Toby Bridgeman: currently produce a lot of data at kind of using the parish boundaries. 162 00:20:57.898 --> 00:21:04.081 Toby Bridgeman: But I just had a kind of I've realized parish boundaries a little bit in the past in a in a previous role. 163 00:21:04.580 --> 00:21:11.399 Toby Bridgeman: and I was just kind of reminding myself of kind of how parishes and and lsoas relate. And I think a lot of the Lsoa boundaries probably take 164 00:21:11.660 --> 00:21:19.619 Toby Bridgeman: a lot of guidance from sort of historical parish boundaries. So there is quite a lot of significant overlap in this slide here. I've just just showing 165 00:21:20.327 --> 00:21:37.352 Toby Bridgeman: the sort of darker green lines are the parish boundaries and the orange lines are the Lsoa boundaries. So where you can't see an an orange line so often hidden by the the parish boundaries on top of that line. So there is. There is pretty good overlap. 166 00:21:38.090 --> 00:21:41.859 Toby Bridgeman: I think. What what tends to happen is general. 10 is probably different, but 167 00:21:42.080 --> 00:21:47.749 Toby Bridgeman: in in some way, as is in in Somerset, so in Wells you can see that Wells is, is one parish. 168 00:21:47.950 --> 00:21:51.220 Toby Bridgeman: but made up of about 3 or well, maybe about 5 or 6. 169 00:21:51.510 --> 00:21:53.959 Toby Bridgeman: And let's see the Lsa A levels. 170 00:21:54.030 --> 00:21:58.829 Toby Bridgeman: And in more rural areas you might have one ls away that's made up of multiple 171 00:22:00.610 --> 00:22:14.039 Toby Bridgeman: and multiple parishes. So on the top left, I think, Compton, Bishop Badgeworth, we're in Chapel Allison. They're all part of one ls. Away, but they're 4 parishes. So it's the boundaries kind of overlap. But how they're how they're how they kind of distribute slightly differently. 172 00:22:14.756 --> 00:22:25.900 Toby Bridgeman: Aligned. So I just thought, it's important to know that cause. I haven't got any data obviously at parish level. But I think some of the quite a lot of the Lsa data we do have is is usable and can be shown kind of what's going on on the ground in different parishes 173 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:27.820 Toby Bridgeman: across England and Wales. 174 00:22:29.068 --> 00:22:39.100 Toby Bridgeman: So just to summarize some of the the data analysis that we've we've looked at this. This is kind of like highlights, real, I guess, if you like. And some of the more relates to some of the publications we've put out 175 00:22:40.540 --> 00:22:43.170 Toby Bridgeman: and kind of use multiple data sets together to kind of 176 00:22:43.350 --> 00:22:45.910 Toby Bridgeman: trying to create something that's useful and interesting to people. 177 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:50.919 Toby Bridgeman: So it kind of covered. Yeah, the cover. Like I said earlier, when we cover so energy, climate change, pollution 178 00:22:50.950 --> 00:22:59.580 Toby Bridgeman: nature, and we we don't often do a lot of work directly in transport. But we were aware there's a bit of data gap in kind of local transport data. So we did a project on that last year as well. 179 00:23:00.081 --> 00:23:03.670 Toby Bridgeman: And I'll showcase a bit more of these, a bit more detail of these in a bit. 180 00:23:04.460 --> 00:23:07.049 Toby Bridgeman: But just to describe some of them. 181 00:23:07.550 --> 00:23:11.189 Toby Bridgeman: So one of the one of the energy crisis kind of 182 00:23:11.330 --> 00:23:13.570 Toby Bridgeman: took hold. A couple of years ago we were aware that 183 00:23:13.900 --> 00:23:20.040 Toby Bridgeman: it was a really, it became really one of our important flagship campaigns. We've got warm home campaigns calling for sort of free installation. 184 00:23:20.634 --> 00:23:24.409 Toby Bridgeman: Across the country, and we're really pushing for that an external election 185 00:23:24.940 --> 00:23:44.299 Toby Bridgeman: but as part of telling that story. We wanted to understand who which which communities most likely to be impacted by the energy crisis. So we look to bringing in various data on energy consumption, the efficiency of homes income levels to create what we call these energy crisis hotspots. So it's where places where it's kind of a measure of fuel poverty, but using slightly different 186 00:23:44.749 --> 00:23:49.500 Toby Bridgeman: data than the official kind of data uses to just really pinpoint communities where 187 00:23:49.620 --> 00:23:50.550 Toby Bridgeman: we. 188 00:23:50.710 --> 00:23:56.339 Toby Bridgeman: the data that the data showed that there was. Bills were higher and homes are more inefficient. 189 00:23:56.673 --> 00:24:02.209 Toby Bridgeman: And then comes with at the lower end of the spectrum to kind of identify the communities that really needed to 190 00:24:02.230 --> 00:24:05.849 Toby Bridgeman: or would benefit the most from a a national installation program. 191 00:24:05.850 --> 00:24:06.780 Colin Marsh: Who looks. 192 00:24:09.250 --> 00:24:10.989 Toby Bridgeman: Is that sorry? Is that a question coming in on 193 00:24:11.130 --> 00:24:12.090 Toby Bridgeman: background noise? 194 00:24:12.980 --> 00:24:16.290 Toby Bridgeman: Do feel free to ask any questions. By the way, if I'm I'm not clear on anything. 195 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:24.620 Toby Bridgeman: We did some work with the University of Manchester, bringing in quite they before they did. They commissioned them to do it on our behalf. But they produced 196 00:24:24.980 --> 00:24:44.990 Toby Bridgeman: and so really detailed data on extreme weather risks. So that was flooding and overheating but also bringing in social vulnerability. So, looking at the kind of physical risks of which which parts the country, and most most likely to be at risk of flooding and high high summer temperatures, and then also bringing in social data to understand which which communities 197 00:24:45.554 --> 00:24:48.709 Toby Bridgeman: most socially vulnerable to those things as well. 198 00:24:49.940 --> 00:24:54.899 Toby Bridgeman: Right like, I mentioned the renewable energy work we did recently with University of Exeter. 199 00:24:55.399 --> 00:25:00.790 Toby Bridgeman: So this is looking at just in England. Actually, this data was for, but looking at parcels of land 200 00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:06.072 Toby Bridgeman: really kind of layering exclusion criteria across the country. So ruling out any sort of 201 00:25:07.301 --> 00:25:11.820 Toby Bridgeman: nature sites any kind of protected sites for bird migration 202 00:25:11.870 --> 00:25:25.239 Toby Bridgeman: ruling out obviously infrastructure, such as roads and railways, airports buffering around those heritage properties and heritage sites a a series of layers basically identifying. Okay, when what would I? I will also so agricultural land. 203 00:25:25.570 --> 00:25:36.290 Toby Bridgeman: etc, etc, to kind of. So where where does that? What? What does that leave us with whereabouts? Is that land, and and how much energy could be generate from that? So we've got a map where you can. You can see that. 204 00:25:36.580 --> 00:25:37.859 Toby Bridgeman: And I'll show that in a bit 205 00:25:38.465 --> 00:25:47.064 Toby Bridgeman: around pollution, we've done. I'd like, yeah, I think a lot of our data is is kind of really does focus on the kind of energy and climate change stuff. But we do also 206 00:25:47.650 --> 00:25:55.510 Toby Bridgeman: do other things. So Defra produced some data we use to kind of map again to to in that neighborhood level, to Lsa level, looking at 207 00:25:55.740 --> 00:25:58.850 Toby Bridgeman: nitrogen dioxide particulates. 208 00:25:59.670 --> 00:26:13.970 Toby Bridgeman: And we've used the sewage build I. So we've been using for a couple of years. Obviously, it's become very topical recently. So we continue to use that use that in our on our tools, when we produce local kind of statistics on, on sewage bills in your area. 209 00:26:16.100 --> 00:26:21.799 Toby Bridgeman: around nature, we've done some work around understanding how much accessible green space 210 00:26:21.970 --> 00:26:38.909 Toby Bridgeman: it's available to local communities. So this is the the key word here is accessible. So this is areas of land you can freely access and spend time in rather than just see. But it's sort of private or pay have to pay money to get into. So I kind of understand initially. That was that came up Jim, during the the pandemic. 211 00:26:38.950 --> 00:26:47.469 Toby Bridgeman: when it became quite apparent. There's a kind of big disparity between and green open spaces that people could look at. But it's increasing. We've used it increasingly 212 00:26:47.590 --> 00:26:48.420 Toby Bridgeman: a 213 00:26:48.590 --> 00:26:53.609 Toby Bridgeman: over the years, because it's just a really good metric of understanding who's got access to green space 214 00:26:54.306 --> 00:27:04.730 Toby Bridgeman: and then also in nature, we've got an excellent company called Territory to do some very clever mapping with using radar and lidar data to understand, to identify individual tree 215 00:27:04.770 --> 00:27:08.370 Toby Bridgeman: tree species and map their coverage across the country. 216 00:27:08.927 --> 00:27:12.269 Toby Bridgeman: So we've got a great map on that showing showing tree canopy cover. 217 00:27:13.491 --> 00:27:20.129 Toby Bridgeman: and then finally, we did some work with the excellent Malcolm Morgan at University of Leeds, who's a transport and Gis expert 218 00:27:20.489 --> 00:27:33.530 Toby Bridgeman: and looking back through historical timetables and showing the frequency of of bus services as they were in 2,010, and then showing them. We did it last year. So it's 2,023, and looking at where bus services. 219 00:27:33.650 --> 00:27:38.669 Toby Bridgeman: the frequency of bus services have declined rapidly or dramatically over the last 220 00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:40.470 Toby Bridgeman: decade or so. 221 00:27:40.832 --> 00:27:44.930 Toby Bridgeman: Which shows some pretty pretty harsh cuts to bus services, particularly in rural areas. 222 00:27:47.320 --> 00:27:54.260 Toby Bridgeman: and then, just to say, well, I'm currently working a project which we've called the index of multiple environmental deprivation. That's a project that came out of the data network 223 00:27:54.370 --> 00:27:55.743 Toby Bridgeman: working with 224 00:27:56.520 --> 00:28:06.819 Toby Bridgeman: Birmingham local authority, natural England, the Environment Agency and Strathclyde University to try and bring some of the data I've got. I've described here together to understand where all these things kind of 225 00:28:07.040 --> 00:28:11.850 Toby Bridgeman: combine to create a sort of multiple environmental deprivation if you like. 226 00:28:12.255 --> 00:28:17.630 Toby Bridgeman: So that's still ongoing. I haven't published that yet. Hoping to do something sort of 1st version of that in July. 227 00:28:19.180 --> 00:28:24.294 Toby Bridgeman: and I can yeah, make that available. I should say all these things are 228 00:28:25.630 --> 00:28:39.349 Toby Bridgeman: or at least we would like to. If in, if they're not publicly available. If if you need need or want this data, we can make it available via email. The long term, an ideal plan is to get all this available from our website and some a lot of it is sort of downloadable from our website. 229 00:28:39.390 --> 00:28:41.439 Toby Bridgeman: But obviously, it's a sort of balance between 230 00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:49.825 Toby Bridgeman: getting stuff out. That's important and and kind of keep refreshing. Keep getting new data out with maintaining our data and making all data available. So 231 00:28:50.470 --> 00:28:56.539 Toby Bridgeman: yeah, apologies if it's not always clear to access. But if there is ever a problem more than happy to kind of email data out. 232 00:28:56.840 --> 00:29:02.849 Toby Bridgeman: anyway. Let's, oh, yeah, I just I might. I'll make the slides available. After this. 233 00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:06.919 Toby Bridgeman: After this there was just some links there to some some of those data stories I've talked about. 234 00:29:08.790 --> 00:29:09.869 Toby Bridgeman: if I just 235 00:29:11.140 --> 00:29:19.239 Toby Bridgeman: shut that down and then I'll just give you. I think I've got time at my, maybe 5 min just to talk about some of those data things that I mentioned. 236 00:29:19.370 --> 00:29:21.490 Toby Bridgeman: So can you guys see the 237 00:29:21.960 --> 00:29:23.310 Toby Bridgeman: map screen? 238 00:29:23.460 --> 00:29:24.670 Toby Bridgeman: Yeah, cool. 239 00:29:25.235 --> 00:29:29.279 Toby Bridgeman: So this is the energy crisis hotspots 240 00:29:29.490 --> 00:29:32.240 Toby Bridgeman: data. So actually, if I put it by neighborhood. 241 00:29:32.250 --> 00:29:35.150 Toby Bridgeman: So anywhere, purple, we've identified as a place where 242 00:29:35.647 --> 00:29:39.770 Toby Bridgeman: incomes are towards the lower end of the spectrum. Energy bills are high 243 00:29:40.120 --> 00:29:51.920 Toby Bridgeman: and homes are are really efficient. Some of the most inefficient homes. So you get pockets of kind of urban areas around London and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Bradford, etc, and then you also get some rural pockets 244 00:29:52.020 --> 00:29:55.799 Toby Bridgeman: in East Anglia, Lincolnshire and Cornwall and and South Wales. 245 00:29:56.350 --> 00:29:59.870 Toby Bridgeman: and a lot of these tools we have, we have Pop ups available. So you can. 246 00:29:59.920 --> 00:30:05.420 Toby Bridgeman: You can click on an area I tend to. If there's only a very I tend to zoom in. I'm in Bristol. So I tend to. 247 00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:10.789 Toby Bridgeman: as we always do, sort of tend to look in our local area. But you can click on any of these areas. And it should tell you. 248 00:30:11.130 --> 00:30:20.120 Toby Bridgeman: my computer is very slow today, it's making a bit of time to late. So I click on error. You can see that. Yes, and chicks be local authority. This is the local Mpl. Was 249 00:30:20.150 --> 00:30:21.560 Toby Bridgeman: lost election. 250 00:30:22.257 --> 00:30:25.729 Toby Bridgeman: Our estimated average fuel bill, and then some statistics about 251 00:30:26.410 --> 00:30:31.359 Toby Bridgeman: how many homes are insulated and how many homes could benefit from various installation measures? 252 00:30:33.670 --> 00:30:38.740 Toby Bridgeman: and we and you can also share that by constituency. So if we change it to constituency mode. 253 00:30:39.600 --> 00:30:45.919 Toby Bridgeman: you can then click on Gloucester, and it'll tell you the sort of summary for for Gloucester. So again, sort of summaries, that's a Gloucestershire level. 254 00:30:48.360 --> 00:30:52.380 Toby Bridgeman: trying to think if there's anything else to say in that map more of time and showing it 255 00:30:53.090 --> 00:30:54.360 Toby Bridgeman: spectrum of things. 256 00:30:57.130 --> 00:31:02.639 Toby Bridgeman: yeah, okay, we can always go back to these. If there's questions about these in particular, this is our 257 00:31:03.540 --> 00:31:07.160 Toby Bridgeman: extreme weather kind of map. So this is, firstly, this is showing 258 00:31:07.750 --> 00:31:11.540 Toby Bridgeman: we hide that areas that are most at risk of overheating in the summer. 259 00:31:11.850 --> 00:31:13.230 Toby Bridgeman: This is periods of 260 00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:15.570 Toby Bridgeman: 27 and a half degrees 261 00:31:15.610 --> 00:31:20.989 Toby Bridgeman: or more for 5 day, at least 5 days, and this is areas that are most likely to be affected by that scenario. 262 00:31:21.410 --> 00:31:28.070 Toby Bridgeman: And the light color is the areas that affect and the darker color is areas that are also socially vulnerable to those impacts. 263 00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:30.389 Toby Bridgeman: And there's a similar map 264 00:31:30.730 --> 00:31:32.860 Toby Bridgeman: that shows the effects of flooding 265 00:31:33.820 --> 00:31:34.910 Toby Bridgeman: mostly 266 00:31:36.790 --> 00:31:40.770 Toby Bridgeman: overheating tends to affect the sort of south and east more. But flooding is kind of distributed 267 00:31:41.070 --> 00:31:43.009 Toby Bridgeman: more across England and Wales. 268 00:31:43.340 --> 00:31:44.780 Toby Bridgeman: And again, I think. 269 00:31:45.460 --> 00:31:49.660 Toby Bridgeman: yeah, you can sort of click on an area and just get some statistics like, how many people are exposed to flooding? 270 00:31:50.191 --> 00:31:52.230 Toby Bridgeman: And is it socially vulnerable or not? 271 00:31:55.490 --> 00:31:58.660 Toby Bridgeman: moving on to slightly different maps? This is our 272 00:31:59.170 --> 00:32:00.440 Toby Bridgeman: renewables map. 273 00:32:01.460 --> 00:32:07.330 Toby Bridgeman: So we've got, I'll take off that. The green is the National Park, so just take them off for clarity. So 274 00:32:08.270 --> 00:32:10.040 Toby Bridgeman: If we zoom into an area 275 00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:12.970 Toby Bridgeman: the shapes tend to. Kind of, yeah. 276 00:32:13.070 --> 00:32:40.999 Toby Bridgeman: get more complex as you zoom in. So we've got this is the pockets of areas that are most suitable for solar. Pv, we're aware of the slight contentiousness of this. This map. When we went, when we put it out, we put it around and saying that this is the areas that could be most suitable. We aren't saying that every single part of this that's orange should be covered in in solar Pv. And it's kind of kind of sending some estates to local authorities to help them work with and understand where they might sort of prioritize certain parts of it so. 277 00:32:41.040 --> 00:32:50.180 Toby Bridgeman: and don't necessarily look at this map and say, Oh, my God, friends, the other thing, this should be all be solar. Pb, it's just trying to understand which parts the kind which parts of the which land could be considered nicely. 278 00:32:50.210 --> 00:32:53.000 Toby Bridgeman: we'd encourage, like full local assessments to be done, and 279 00:32:53.010 --> 00:32:56.729 Toby Bridgeman: public consultation as well to make sure that that was done correctly. 280 00:32:57.076 --> 00:32:59.350 Toby Bridgeman: But it's just really to kind of help thinking and planning. 281 00:32:59.830 --> 00:33:05.659 Toby Bridgeman: So there's solar Pv, and there's also wind as well, and there's some places where both wind 282 00:33:05.790 --> 00:33:09.310 Toby Bridgeman: Ellis and purple wind down Salem, obviously sort of together. 283 00:33:09.320 --> 00:33:10.430 Toby Bridgeman: So that's the green. 284 00:33:10.940 --> 00:33:13.680 Toby Bridgeman: And again you can click on these areas, and it'll give you a little 285 00:33:14.157 --> 00:33:20.620 Toby Bridgeman: statistics about the total area of land and what might be possible in terms of install capacity and what might be 286 00:33:20.730 --> 00:33:23.840 Toby Bridgeman: realistically annual generation. 287 00:33:24.772 --> 00:33:32.080 Toby Bridgeman: From those from those pockets of land. We've also got some stats on how close they are to the substations so the electricity grid 288 00:33:32.310 --> 00:33:42.070 Toby Bridgeman: and bearing in mind that connections are expensive and take time. So you can filter that map to say, well, actually, we're interested in areas that are close to the grid, and that kind of knocks off a few pockets of land as well. 289 00:33:43.598 --> 00:33:45.440 Toby Bridgeman: So that's our renewables map. 290 00:33:46.150 --> 00:33:48.849 Toby Bridgeman: I'm sorry if this is a bit of a whistle. Stop tour. 291 00:33:49.751 --> 00:33:57.140 Toby Bridgeman: Air pollution is fairly straightforward. This is looking at background levels of particulates and No. 2 292 00:33:57.300 --> 00:34:00.840 Toby Bridgeman: and maps again to those those Lsas, those community boundaries. 293 00:34:01.190 --> 00:34:03.399 Toby Bridgeman: the the more the the red of the color. 294 00:34:03.730 --> 00:34:11.429 Toby Bridgeman: I'll see the higher the levels of appulation. And you, obviously, you can see the kind of rural areas in the road network kind of show up with this. You can see that. So M. 5 winding down there. 295 00:34:11.520 --> 00:34:26.000 Toby Bridgeman: and for NO. 2 so yellow is on the sort of borderline of what the World Health Organization recommended is a safe, safe limit above yellow into red is kind of above well above world health organizations. Sorry, my nummouth 296 00:34:26.690 --> 00:34:30.450 Toby Bridgeman: that's difficult. And then blue is obviously towards the other end of spectrum and lower 297 00:34:31.262 --> 00:34:32.319 Toby Bridgeman: and you can 298 00:34:32.330 --> 00:34:34.920 Toby Bridgeman: look at pm. Two's for that which is a slightly different. 299 00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:39.800 Toby Bridgeman: The the World Health Organization set very stringent targets for for 300 00:34:40.190 --> 00:34:46.299 Toby Bridgeman: small particular, so a large, large, most of most of the country sort of above those. But you can see a concentrate. 301 00:34:46.870 --> 00:34:49.430 Toby Bridgeman: particularly in in London and you 302 00:34:49.520 --> 00:34:56.059 Toby Bridgeman: it's a responsible agriculture is responsible for quite a lot of particular missions as well. So that's why you get get so many staying there as well. 303 00:34:57.460 --> 00:35:00.680 Toby Bridgeman: So that's air pollution. Couple more, I think. 304 00:35:02.230 --> 00:35:05.270 Toby Bridgeman: there is the oh, yeah, this is the tree map. So 305 00:35:05.300 --> 00:35:19.349 Toby Bridgeman: this is the the clever bit analysis I was taking is explaining, using kind of lidar data and mapping data. So you can sort of zoom in. This is this isn't Lsa level. This is actual kind of where the weather mapping for identified actual pockets of trees. 306 00:35:19.450 --> 00:35:22.290 Toby Bridgeman: But kind of again, if once you get closer, it kind of 307 00:35:23.790 --> 00:35:25.359 Toby Bridgeman: computer catches up with things. 308 00:35:26.570 --> 00:35:33.339 Toby Bridgeman: There we go. And this has got yeah, neighborhood boundaries on it. So these purple lines here are neighborhood boundaries. So you can. 309 00:35:34.308 --> 00:35:37.040 Toby Bridgeman: I think, click on an area, and it will give you 310 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:41.444 Toby Bridgeman: should do. Give me a name. But yeah, there you go. So in this community, in this. 311 00:35:44.005 --> 00:35:46.849 Toby Bridgeman: neighborhood. There's 2324% cover 312 00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:49.980 Toby Bridgeman: of trees, and it's in the top. 3rd 313 00:35:51.002 --> 00:35:57.290 Toby Bridgeman: and it's in the least deprived areas. So we at this part of this work we were looking at. Is there a correlation between 314 00:35:57.300 --> 00:36:05.120 Toby Bridgeman: income deprivation and tree canopy cover? And to a certain extent there was particularly, and as you expect really in in urban areas. 315 00:36:06.350 --> 00:36:07.570 Toby Bridgeman: and as 316 00:36:07.680 --> 00:36:11.479 Toby Bridgeman: part this map as well, we also did some modeling to understand 317 00:36:11.926 --> 00:36:16.300 Toby Bridgeman: which parts of land don't currently have trees, but could could be reforested. 318 00:36:16.310 --> 00:36:20.759 Toby Bridgeman: And that's the yellow pockets here. So there's kind of opportunity to refource there. 319 00:36:20.930 --> 00:36:25.869 Toby Bridgeman: and a subset of that as the as the orange, which also could be kind of fully rewilded. 320 00:36:27.240 --> 00:36:28.139 Toby Bridgeman: as well. 321 00:36:29.020 --> 00:36:36.480 Toby Bridgeman: And then, finally, transport map to mention the transport map I've got unlab. Yeah. So these are, this is showing 322 00:36:38.730 --> 00:36:48.900 Toby Bridgeman: just remind yourself what it's showing now, it's caused quite a bit difficult bit of work. So it's yes, this time, timer. Later, it's looking at the kind of number of stopping services all all services that pass through an area and stop in an area. 323 00:36:49.080 --> 00:36:50.829 Toby Bridgeman: So counting those per hour 324 00:36:52.107 --> 00:36:54.780 Toby Bridgeman: and then coming up with a kind of daytime average. 325 00:36:54.850 --> 00:37:03.310 Toby Bridgeman: So that was done in 2,010, and then also 2,023, and there was a sort of comparison with mate with how frequently services used to be, and how they are now. 326 00:37:03.330 --> 00:37:09.610 Toby Bridgeman: So anywhere, that's kind of yellow, orange or red has seen a decline in frequency bus services stopping. 327 00:37:09.850 --> 00:37:12.050 Toby Bridgeman: And we're green has seen an increase. 328 00:37:12.588 --> 00:37:15.170 Toby Bridgeman: Of course, change doesn't necessarily tell you 329 00:37:15.553 --> 00:37:23.669 Toby Bridgeman: frequency out of this. It was, this is something we're looking to evolve. Actually. So in initially, in corn, we think, oh, wow! Corners have got better. But actually, if you click on it, you see what is. 330 00:37:23.680 --> 00:37:26.810 Toby Bridgeman: It's gone from 2 an hour to 3 and a half an hour. 331 00:37:27.242 --> 00:37:31.359 Toby Bridgeman: Whereas if you click into someone like London, you can see that it's gone. It's gonna be. 332 00:37:31.900 --> 00:37:35.690 Toby Bridgeman: It's gone from, you know, 36 an hour to 57 h. So it's 333 00:37:36.490 --> 00:37:43.859 Toby Bridgeman: we're aware it's a kind of site, slim simplification, simplification of showing the data. So something to evolve, but it at least gives an initial snapshot of. 334 00:37:44.110 --> 00:37:50.710 Toby Bridgeman: and particularly if you go to higher levels. So if you look at sort of transport authorities, you can kind of see the picture across the country as 335 00:37:50.780 --> 00:37:53.570 Toby Bridgeman: overall decline, with the exception of London, really. 336 00:37:54.010 --> 00:37:55.390 Toby Bridgeman: over that time. 337 00:37:58.510 --> 00:38:01.049 Toby Bridgeman: yeah. So I think that was all, I kind of 338 00:38:01.080 --> 00:38:02.789 Toby Bridgeman: lined up to show 339 00:38:02.870 --> 00:38:09.800 Toby Bridgeman: there's obviously more to do. And I think I've I've what I've tried to do there, show the kind of things. The analysis where we've kind of brought various different data sets together 340 00:38:09.910 --> 00:38:12.430 Toby Bridgeman: and and then produce the kind of output. 341 00:38:12.913 --> 00:38:19.076 Toby Bridgeman: We obviously kind of use a lot underlying data. There, that's that's kind of broadly available for others as well. So 342 00:38:20.483 --> 00:38:25.470 Toby Bridgeman: you know, Apc data, for example, is underlining those this energy crisis. Hotspots 343 00:38:25.750 --> 00:38:27.920 Toby Bridgeman: think I'm up there. 344 00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:35.870 Toby Bridgeman: So this is just switching around a little bit. But this is just showing a kind of underlying data set, which is the the proportion of homes that 345 00:38:36.433 --> 00:38:41.599 Toby Bridgeman: epc band deal below. So we kind of don't necessarily put this out as a kind of 346 00:38:41.850 --> 00:38:54.540 Toby Bridgeman: as a as an output that is sort of underlying to a lot of our analysis of understanding, where, where, where homes are most inefficient, and calling for those parts of the country to be kind of prioritized, prioritized if in an installation. 347 00:38:54.550 --> 00:38:56.170 Toby Bridgeman: National installation rollout 348 00:38:56.800 --> 00:38:58.019 Toby Bridgeman: that sort of thing. 349 00:39:00.310 --> 00:39:10.139 Toby Bridgeman: yes, I think I'm probably done. I'll share the slides later. So there'll be links to some of those some of those data stories which have the maps embedded. But they've also kind of got a wider context and sort of what we're asking for in terms of policy. 350 00:39:10.758 --> 00:39:13.709 Toby Bridgeman: But I will. I'll stop there, I think. 351 00:39:14.270 --> 00:39:15.330 Toby Bridgeman: Okay, bye. 352 00:39:15.330 --> 00:39:33.249 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Yes, absolutely brilliant, Toby. Thank you so much. It's really fascinating. It's rather noisy in my background. So I'm gonna ask Jules if he take over as the Co. Host, please, and if people have questions to ask you, if they could please use the hand raising facility in zoom that would make life much easier for everybody. 353 00:39:33.300 --> 00:39:38.839 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So I'll ask Jules to take over, and perhaps Wendy is the 1st for the question. Thank you. 354 00:39:40.380 --> 00:39:42.389 wendy thomson Glolucestershire: I'm just trying to click on the Reds 355 00:39:42.590 --> 00:39:51.830 wendy thomson Glolucestershire: microphone, anyway. Thank you, Toby, that was really really interesting. I wasn't expecting to make this today, and at 5 to 12 I was able to. So I've sort of 356 00:39:52.040 --> 00:39:54.876 wendy thomson Glolucestershire: feel like a gate crashed it. But I'm so pleased. 357 00:39:55.510 --> 00:40:11.030 wendy thomson Glolucestershire: Can you just confirm. I can't remember if I call what your role is within friends of the Earth, and also the maps you was showing. I'd love to have a look at them. In my own time. And is that where I can access them is through the website. 358 00:40:11.840 --> 00:40:15.330 Toby Bridgeman: Yeah, well, I will. What I'll do is I'll I'll 359 00:40:15.530 --> 00:40:35.259 Toby Bridgeman: all those maps I showed I'll put direct links to them as well as we tend to have them embedded in wider stories, because we're obviously a map on its own is not what we we're trying to like push action. So it'd be like, here's the analysis. This is what we think it means. And this is what we're asking for. So it's like always policy implications and what? What the kind of campaign ask we like. But also, I'll I'll put in those 360 00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:39.620 Toby Bridgeman: sort of web page stories if you like the policy pieces. But I'll also put links directly to the kind of. 361 00:40:39.620 --> 00:40:58.070 wendy thomson Glolucestershire: Yeah, cause I'm just looking to get more focused on. I'm in Stone House, in Gloucestershire. So only just up the road from you and Bristol but obviously looking if it is just information more for a bigger area. I'm just looking just to just to keep nibbling away at council to say, are we doing enough? Because 362 00:40:58.280 --> 00:41:10.710 wendy thomson Glolucestershire: I don't feel like we are? And I'm it'd be really interesting to see, you know, what else can we do for helping people get installation and whatever. And I, there's being programs and some money. But it was like 363 00:41:10.970 --> 00:41:19.599 wendy thomson Glolucestershire: a handful of houses in our town. But anyway, so I'm just looking to sort of see if I can pick up on any really useful 364 00:41:19.750 --> 00:41:23.760 wendy thomson Glolucestershire: data just just to work on to say, look, we need to do something. 365 00:41:24.490 --> 00:41:29.630 Toby Bridgeman: Yeah, and the other. Well, the other thing about that I don't know. If you heard that mention the tool called the near you at all. We you basically. 366 00:41:29.630 --> 00:41:30.010 wendy thomson Glolucestershire: Yeah. 367 00:41:30.362 --> 00:41:41.987 Toby Bridgeman: Local authority level that produces it does show this, what? Where things are at the moment, and there's a sort of series of targets of where things should be so basic. For example, 368 00:41:42.650 --> 00:41:57.969 Toby Bridgeman: yeah, homes that homes that run insulated it'll be they'll give you a number. And it should that one, you know, one of our policies and also Committee on Climate change is that all homes should be Pcc. By 2035. So it kind of shows how far you each local authority, has to go to get there. 369 00:41:57.970 --> 00:42:01.799 wendy thomson Glolucestershire: I I could just chat you, but I'm I'm conscious that it's not just me, so I'll I'll. 370 00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:02.280 Toby Bridgeman: Excellent. 371 00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:05.320 wendy thomson Glolucestershire: Christian in in the chat. But thanks a lot. 372 00:42:06.650 --> 00:42:12.719 Toby Bridgeman: Oh, and your other question was, what? What's my role? So I'm in my job site is environmental data lead. So I'm the kind of 373 00:42:12.850 --> 00:42:15.999 Toby Bridgeman: environment data guy at friends of the Earth. If that helps 374 00:42:17.550 --> 00:42:18.870 Toby Bridgeman: Amanda V. Next. 375 00:42:19.200 --> 00:42:21.170 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, I think it's Manda over to Amanda. 376 00:42:21.620 --> 00:42:42.449 Amanda Davis, Cotswolds: My apologies. I zoom said no for the 1st 5 5 plus minutes, so I did miss your introduction, I'm afraid. Thank you very much. I'm a scientist in the sense that evidence is always important, and if you can inform with facts that can't be disputed, then you've got a much more powerful tool 377 00:42:42.560 --> 00:42:46.069 Amanda Davis, Cotswolds: to make your case or to support your case. 378 00:42:46.120 --> 00:42:55.489 Amanda Davis, Cotswolds: And I guess one of the questions the main question I've got is of the things that you're sharing with us, and that we can access publicly. 379 00:42:55.500 --> 00:43:13.100 Amanda Davis, Cotswolds: How much are usable, I mean, is it open source, and can or is there an etiquette about, I mean, I will always try and state my source, etc. But can you tell us about how we can use it to make a case locally? Thank you. 380 00:43:13.600 --> 00:43:16.980 Toby Bridgeman: Yeah, that's a really good question. It's always it's always difficult. Knowing. 381 00:43:17.770 --> 00:43:22.450 Toby Bridgeman: We with local groups and local activists is what you've always got to kind of understand 382 00:43:22.470 --> 00:43:29.649 Toby Bridgeman: or be considerate of the the kind of expertise and local group. So you know, you can imagine, particularly with our local group, someone might be kind of 383 00:43:29.910 --> 00:43:36.900 Toby Bridgeman: a data Guru or Geos expert, and we happily take like raw data and just like make their own maps with it. With other people made much more hand holding so 384 00:43:37.919 --> 00:43:48.809 Toby Bridgeman: and again, for our point of view, it's kind of element of like. We've also got time constraints, and so how much hand holding can we do so? It's it's 1 way, kind of always constantly grappling like. And we we do 385 00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:52.369 Toby Bridgeman: like like we have that network. I mentioned that we do kind of always ask.

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