Our climate action scorecards assess climate action across seven sections.
2 - Buildings and heating
- Has the council completed extensive retrofit work on any of its significant buildings to make them low carbon?
- Does the council have a target to retrofit all significant council buildings (excluding homes) and has this been costed?
- Are the council's operations powered by renewable energy?
- Are the homes owned and managed by the council energy efficient?
- Does the council have a target to retrofit all council-owned and managed homes and has this been costed?
- Is the council part of a programme or partnership to support home retrofitting, through providing the skills and training needed or in other ways?
- Does the council have a staff member employed to work on retrofitting across the council area?
- Are the homes and buildings in the council area energy efficient?
- Is the council actively enforcing Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards of homes in the private rented sector?
- Does the council provide a service to support private homeowners to make their homes more energy efficient?
- Does the council offer funding to private renters or homeowners to retrofit their homes?
- Does the council have a scheme to allow residents to purchase renewable energy cheaply, through collective buying?
- Has the council supported local community renewable energy creation?