From Dashboards to Decisions: Making Climate Evidence Count Inside Organisations
Teesside University International Business School | Middlesbrough | United Kingdom
Workshop | 1pm – 2.30pm, BST (Find Local Time)
Duration: 90 Minutes
Platform: MS Teams
Description: Policymakers increasingly require organisations to measure, report and act on climate performance. But requiring evidence is not the same as changing decisions. Drawing on doctoral research with UK manufacturing firms pursuing net zero, this workshop examines what happens to climate evidence once it enters an organisation — where it travels, where it stalls, and why sound data often fails to shift decisions.
The session introduces the Environment–Technology–Organisation (ETO) framework, which repositions environmental and regulatory pressure as the primary driver of organisations’ data and governance capability. Through an interactive case exercise, participants trace how sustainability evidence moves from dashboards to decisions in industrial firms, and identify the points at which it loses force.
The workshop then turns to policy design, using published written evidence to the UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee as a worked example. Participants leave with a practical diagnostic for assessing whether reporting requirements produce decision-relevant evidence — or compliance paperwork.