2025 Action Scorecards

Question · Action Scorecards 2025

Is the council reporting on its own greenhouse gas emissions?

Question code
4.3a
Section
Governance & Finance
Topic
Emission data reduction
Source
Volunteer Research
Question weight
Low

Criteria

Criteria met if the council is reporting its own emissions and fulfill all of the following:
- The council states whether they are using the Environmental Reporting Guidelines from Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the GCoM Common Reporting Framework (CRF), the Greenhouse Gas Accounting Tool (from the LGA), the Greenhouse Gas Protocol for Cities (Community Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories) to develop their inventory.
- The inventory must cover a continuous period of 12 months, either a calendar year or a financial year
- There must be data from at least two different years between or including 2019 and 2023
- The council must be measuring their own scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions

Clarifications

Scope 1 emissions are greenhouse gas emissions that an organisation owns or controls directly, such as fuel burnt from council vehicles.
Scope 2 emissions are greenhouse gas emissions that an organisation produces indirectly when they purchase and use energy, such as the emissions created from the electricity the council buys to heat its offices.
Scope 3 emissions are greenhouse gas emissions that are created indirectly in an organisations' supply chain, such as the emissions produced in making the computers or paper that the council buys. Scope 3 also includes any other emissions not within scope 1 and 2.

Question performance

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10 Northern Irish councils

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1 Northern Irish council

Performance comparison between 2023 and 2025

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Mid and East Antrim Borough Council
Score 2025
1/1
2023 Difference
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Evidence

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Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
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0/1--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
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
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0/1--No evidence found
Derry City and Strabane District Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
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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--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Mid Ulster District Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
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0/1--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council
Score 2025
0/1
2023 Difference
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0/1--No evidence found