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Achieving good performance

Councils´ performance on climate change will be assessed within Comprehensive Area Assessments (CAA) and against the climate change performance indicators.

If your council prepares a climate change action plan or plans following the advice on this website, it should have no difficulty demonstrating that it has robust systems in place to address climate change adaptation and mitigation and the three climate change performance indicators.

For specific advice on how to address different aspects of performance follow the links below.

Links to advice on this website that will support your performance against the PIs and CAA
PI number / CAA component Performance Indicator Link to advice
NI 185 CO2 reduction from Local Authority operations Mitigation - Estate manager
NI 186 Per capita reduction in CO2 emissions in the LA area

Mitigation - Service Provider

Mitigation - Community leader

NI 188 Planning to adapt to climate change

Adaptation - Estate manager

Adaptation - Service provider

Direction of Travel Assessment Robustness of plans to deliver on climate change targets Developing a climate change action plan
Use of Resources Assessment Managing corporate risks arising from climate change adaptation and mitigation

Adaptation - Estate manager

Mitigation - Estate manager