2025 Action Scorecards

Question · Action Scorecards 2025

Does the combined authority corporate plan include a net zero target and make tackling the climate emergency one of its main priorities?

Question code
4.1a
Section
Governance & Finance (CA)
Topic
Net Zero Embedded in Corporate Plan
Source
Volunteer Research
Question weight
Low

Criteria

Criteria met if climate action (alternatively called sustainability or environment) is listed as one of the council's core priorities or equivalent. It must have its own heading or section and a net zero target date must be referenced.

The net zero target date must be an area-wide target, either the UK Government's national target, the devolved nation's target or the council's area-wide net zero target.

Clarifications

A corporate plan is a business planning document that sets out the council's future priorities and objectives to help ensure that the council manages its resources effectively.

For County Councils the document is called a (Strategic) Economic Plan

We will accept other language for target dates, such as carbon neutrality.

Question performance

0 points

3 Combined Authorities

1 point

6 Combined Authorities

Performance comparison between 2023 and 2025

Combined Authorities

22
councils scored higher in 2025
11
councils scored lower in 2025

Legends for difference column

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NA New question (not in previous scorecards)
CouncilScoreDifference2023Evidence
Greater London Authority
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

1/1--
Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

1/1--
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority1/1--
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

1/1--
West Midlands Combined Authority
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
▲ 1

Evidence

1/1▲ 1
West of England Combined Authority
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
▲ 1

Evidence

1/1▲ 1
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
--
0/1--No evidence found
Tees Valley Combined Authority
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
--
0/1--No evidence found
West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
▼ 0
0/1▼ -1Evidence doesn't meet criteria