Council Climate Plan Scorecard
Last year, Climate Emergency UK marked all publicly available council Climate Action Plans. The results are available here.
Each council has been given an overall percentage score and a ‘scorecard’ showing the results from nine themes including:
- Governance & Development
- Mitigation and Adaptation
- Community Engagement
- Co-Benefits
- Diversity and Social Inclusion
- Ecological Emergency
To allow fairer comparison, council have been listed with others of its types (e.g. district councils or single tier).
In Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire, scores range from 76% to 20% with Nottingham City Council (76%, single tier) & South Derbyshire District Council (70%, district) leading the pack. Four councils have yet to published plans and so have scored zero.
N.B:- only plans that were publicly available on the council’s website on or before 20 September 2021 were marked. Many have made significant progress since then or have been working on developing unpublished plans. This will not be reflected in scores. It also does not take account any action that has been underway.
It is hoped the project will provide a benchmark for what makes a good or bad Plan and encourage collaboration between local authorities.
The scoring system was based on their Climate Action Plan Checklist which was created in partnership with Friends of the Earth, Centre for Alternative Technology, Ashden, and APSE Energy. More on the methodology here.