Ordnance Survey Sustainability Lead Ella Cowen on narrowing down focus to yield tangible results
"Having both a top down and bottom-up approach helps to get everyone really interested and stuck in.”
Perfection is the enemy of progress – and what keeps Ella Cowen, Sustainability Lead at mapping service Ordnance Survey (OS), awake at night is trying to balance the imperative to reduce supply chain emissions with the challenge of data gaps.
Cowen, who has been in the sustainability hotseat at OS – Britain’s national mapping service – for the last four years, says she’s happy with the tangible progress OS has made in tackling Scope 1 and 2 emissions reductions. “But an area where we know we need more information and more momentum is around our supply chain and Scope 3 emissions. We're working to consolidate that information but because it's very broad, it’s challenging.”
