2025 Action Scorecards

Question · Action Scorecards 2025

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?

Question code
4.1b
Section
Governance & Finance
Topic
Net-Zero Embedded in mid-term Financial 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 clearly 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 mid-term Financial Plan is a plan (often covering four years) which sets out the council's commitment to provide services that meet the needs of people locally and that represent value for money within the overall resources available to the council.

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

Wording such as net zero, without a specific target date, is not valid for a mark.

Question performance

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11 Northern Irish councils

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Performance comparison between 2023 and 2025

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CouncilScoreDifference2023Evidence
Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
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0/1--No evidence found
Ards and North Down Borough Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
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0/1--No evidence found
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
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0/1--No evidence found
Belfast City Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
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0/1--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
--
0/1--No evidence found
Derry City and Strabane District Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
--
0/1--No evidence found
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
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0/1--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
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0/1--No evidence found
Mid and East Antrim Borough Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
--
0/1--No evidence found
Mid Ulster District Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
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0/1--No evidence found
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
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0/1--No evidence found