2025 Action Scorecards

Question · Action Scorecards 2025

Is the council working with external partners or other councils to seek to influence national governments on climate action, or to learn about and share best practice on council climate action?

Question code
6.4
Section
Collaboration & Engagement
Topic
Sharing Best practice between Councils
Source
Volunteer Research
Question weight
Low

Criteria

Two-tier criteria
First tier criteria met if the council is a member of any one of the following organisations or has contributed to one case study of the following organisations.

Second tier criteria met if the council:
- is a member of 3 or more of the following organisations
- has contributed to case studies with 3 or more of the following organisations.
- any combination of the above.

Membership organisations:
- UK100 (Including the Countryside Climate Network)
- ADEPT
- Blueprint Coalition
- ICLEI
- Carbon Neutral Cities
- UK Green Building Council
- Sustainable Scotland Network
- Carbon Disclosure Project (including submitting to the CDP since 2019)

Case studies:
- Friends of the Earth & Ashden case studies
- LGA (Local Government Association) climate change case studies
- UK100 case studies
- WRAP case studies

Clarifications

Further networks or case studies may be added on a case basis if a comparable standard of quality is met.

Working with climate consultants, while important, will not be scored as part of this question.

Question performance

Or show scores by type of council

0 points

0 county councils

1 point

1 county council

2 points

20 county councils

Performance comparison between 2023 and 2025

county councils

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councils scored higher in 2025
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councils scored lower in 2025

Legends for difference column

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CouncilScoreDifference2023Evidence
Cambridgeshire County Council2/2--
Derbyshire County Council
Score 2025
2/2
2023 Difference
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Evidence

2/2--
Devon County Council
Score 2025
2/2
2023 Difference
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Evidence

2/2--
East Sussex County Council
Score 2025
2/2
2023 Difference
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Evidence

2/2--
Essex County Council
Score 2025
2/2
2023 Difference
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Evidence

2/2--
Gloucestershire County Council
Score 2025
2/2
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

2/2--
Hampshire County Council2/2--
Hertfordshire County Council
Score 2025
2/2
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

2/2--
Kent County Council2/2--
Lancashire County Council
Score 2025
2/2
2023 Difference
▲ 2

Evidence

2/2▲ 1
Leicestershire County Council2/2--
Norfolk County Council
Score 2025
2/2
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

2/2--
Nottinghamshire County Council
Score 2025
2/2
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

2/2--
Oxfordshire County Council2/2--
Staffordshire County Council
Score 2025
2/2
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

2/2--
Suffolk County Council
Score 2025
2/2
2023 Difference
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Evidence

2/2--
Surrey County Council2/2--
Warwickshire County Council
Score 2025
2/2
2023 Difference
--

Evidence

2/2--
West Sussex County Council2/2--
Worcestershire County Council2/2--
Lincolnshire County Council
Score 2025
1/2
2023 Difference
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Evidence

1/2--