Climate Change Film and App on Climate Crisis Ahead of COP26

A MOVING SHORT film, Tomorrow Today, shows the role of infrastructure resilience in the climate emergency.

Produced by the National Digital Twin programme (NDTp) and partners on the Climate Resilience Demonstrator (CReDo), there is also an interactive app allowing users to explore how connected digital twins can help plan for better resilience. The film and app will be launched at the CReDo COP26 on 2 November, 10:30-12:00.

Tomorrow Today

Directed by BAFTA winning director Colin O’Toole (Cowboy Dave, 2018), Tomorrow Today tells the story of Arthur and his grandson Jack facing the unprecedented Storm Ruby, which has the potential to knock out multiple utility services and threaten lives. A trailer for the film is available to watch.

The film stars Paul Copley (Last Tango in Halifax, Downton Abbey), Sam Bottomley (Ladhood, Wolf Hall), the voice of Sam Spruell (Snow White and the Huntsman), and Hopi Grace (Time, Emmerdale) as Clara, the digital twin engineer. It has been produced by Crocodile Media in partnership with Little Monk Pictures.

The film will premiere during COP26 and will be available to stream online from 2 November on the Digital Twin Hub.

Interactive App

The interactive app introduces the fictional Sunford City. The city experiences a series of severe storms, driven by climate change, that cause a cascade of emergencies across the city and hamper the ability of utility networks to recover.

Users can test different scenarios by using isolated digital twins versus connected digital twins to see how this enables them to make decisions to better protect the city. It demonstrates how connecting datasets and digital twins across organisations and sectors through the National Digital Twin is vital to future infrastructure resilience and getting on the critical path to Net Zero.

Sarah Hayes, the project’s lead and author of the report Data for the Public Good, says, “Following the recent statement by the Environment Agency that ‘it is adapt or die’ when it comes to climate-driven flooding, CReDo’s outputs could not be more timely.

“We want the film and app to connect with everyone, from asset owners to the public, and remind them that lives are at stake. We need to build more resilience into our systems, and that takes collaboration. As Clara, the engineer in the film, says, ’We have the technology, we just need to share the data.’”

CReDo Webinar

Registration is now open for a webinar for COP26 to share these two outputs with the public. Join a panel of technical experts, asset owners and climate specialists to learn about the project and participate in the launch of Tomorrow Today and the CReDo interactive app. Participants will learn how connected digital twins improve infrastructure resilience and are on the road to Net Zero. You can follow the conversation online with the hashtags #CReDo #NDTprogramme #AdaptorDie #WeNeedResilientInfrastructure #TogetherForOurPlanet, and by joining the Digital Twin Hub.

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