Professor Marian Scott FRSE, University of Glasgow, presenting on Environmental Statistics • Marian’s presentation covered: priorities for environmental statistics following COP26, including reaching net-zero emissions; reversing biodiversity; protecting ecosystems; increasing resilience; the data deluge as enabling earth observation, new distributed sensors, and citizen science; links to the Sustainable Development Goals; statisticians’ contributions post-COP26 and contributing to modelling to monitor scenarios and develop future projections (underpinned by uncertainty); quantifying our carbon budget and any progress towards net-zero; Biodiversity, CBD 2022, and monitoring programmes...