Our climate action scorecards assess climate action across seven sections.
4 - Governance and finance
- Does the council's corporate plan include a net zero target and make tackling the climate emergency one of its main priorities?
- Does the council's medium term financial plan include the council's net zero target and make tackling the climate emergency one of its main priorities?
- Does the council's Corporate Risk Register accurately identify the risks of climate change to the local area?
- Is the council reporting on its own greenhouse gas emissions?
- According to the council's own reporting, have the council's own greenhouse gas emissions reduced since 2019?
- Has the council's area wide carbon emissions decreased, according to UK Government data?
- Has the council adopted a new governance or decision making process to put tackling the climate emergency at the heart of every council decision made?
- Does the council have a sustainable procurement policy that includes an area wide net zero target and makes tackling the climate emergency one of its main priorities?
- Does the councils' procurement policy require tenders to take action to reduce waste, carbon emissions or other environmental actions?
- Does the council have a Cabinet member or Portfolio Holder that has climate change explicitly in their remit?
- What percentage of the council's overall staff work on implementing their Climate Action Plan or other climate change projects?
- Have all senior management and councillors in the cabinet or committee chairs received climate awareness training?
- Has the council raised ring-fenced income for climate action from property development?
- Has the council launched a Climate Bond, Community Municipal Investment or equivalent?
- Has the council raised income for climate action from any other sources?
- Has the council passed a motion in support of divestment from all fossil fuels from the councils' pension funds?
- Has the council's pensions fund committed to divesting from all fossil fuels?
- Does the council have direct investments in airports or high carbon intensive energy industries?