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A data-driven transition to net zero, in which data and digital technologies are used both for monitoring and optimisation of carbon emissions, is an area of increasing attention on the global stage.

Andrew Rice and Adrian Friday are members of the Working Group chaired by Andy Hopper FRS and leading the Royal Society’s Digital technology and the planet project.

We rely upon computers for almost everything we do. But could they do more? Should we be looking to digital technologies to help us tackle perhaps the greatest challenge facing the planet – climate change?

ALLEA interviewed Professor Richard Catlow FRS, Vice-President and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, and Chair of the Organising Committee of the joint ALLEA-Royal Society conference.

BioStudies is a database that aims to link research articles with all the data behind a study. Here, Johanna McEntyre and Ugis Sarkans, based at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge, UK tell us a bit more about it.

91TV held its first ever hackathon, themed around machine learning and Hacking Happiness, in partnership with Digital Catapult, on 16 and 17 January. This was also the first hackathon for me.