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Press Release: Climate Emergency UK releases 4,000 FOI responses covering UK councils climate action
For Immediate Release: 25th September 2023 Climate Emergency UK has today released over 4,000...
Read MoreScorecards Methodology Blog: Combined Authorities
How and Why we created the amended methodology for Combined Authorities Combined Authorities in England This week, we released the combined authority methodology for combined authorities. Combined authorities are a new tier of...
Read MoreScorecards methodology blog series: Collaboration & Engagement
Consulting residents Collaboration & Engagement: How and why we created this section The Collaboration & Engagement section is in some ways totally different from the other sections in the scorecards. Instead of...
Read MoreScorecards Methodology Blog Series: Biodiversity
The Biodiversity section differs from the other sections in the Scorecards as it covers the actions councils can take to, you guessed it, improve biodiversity rather than reduce emissions. Many of these actions have the...
Read MoreScorecards Methodology Blog Series: Waste Reduction & Food
Food & Waste: How and why we created this section Recycling bins This section is one of the shorter sections, and this is because the role that councils can play in area-wide waste reduction and sustainable food consumption...
Read MoreScorecards Methodology Blog Series: Devolved Nations
But isn’t it different in Scotland (Wales, England or Northern Ireland)? How our draft methodology accounts for differences in data collection and legislation across the four nations of the UK The UK’s local government structure...
Read MoreScorecards Methodology Blog Series: Planning
How and why we created this section Planning is one of the most fascinating and headache inducing sectors within the Council Climate Actions Scorecards. It is the area where local authorities legally have the most power to set...
Read MoreScorecards Methodology Blog Series: Transport
Transport is one of the sectors that produces the majority of UK greenhouse gas emissions. Encouragingly, there are many actions councils can take in order to reduce emissions within the transport sector. The difficulty...
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Scorecards Methodology Blog Series: Why are we creating them?
WHY ARE WE CREATING THE COUNCIL CLIMATE ACTION SCORECARDS? We know that UK councils are crucial to...
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Scorecards Methodology Blog Series: Why are we using FOI requests?
This January, Climate Emergency UK published the Council Climate Plan Scorecards. As the name...
Read MoreScorecards Methodology Blog Series: Governance & Finance
Governance & Finance: How and why we created this section Working on Governance and Finance We don’t have a favourite section, but for those council climate policy wonks, we think this section will be really interesting!...
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Press Release: Climate Emergency UK reveal how they will score UK councils on their climate action
Climate Emergency UK have published their methodology for scoring all UK councils on the action...
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