TrACE - Tracking action on carbon emissions

The Energy Saving Trust has launched TrACE, a new tool that will record CO₂ saving evidence for National Indicator 186. While aimed primarily at English local authorities, it is a useful tool for any local authority in the UK that wants to monitor and report on carbon saving actions related to domestic, transport and commercial/industrial emissions in their area.

For English local authorities TrACE will:

• Record progress against the Local Area Agreement NI 186 target
• Provide a coherent evidence base to the Audit Commission for Comprehensive Area Assessments

TrACE is currently available as a downloadable spreadsheet which includes full guidance on how to enter data.

The Energy Saving Trust is also developing systems to combine and aggregate the data so that multi-LA, regional and national comparisons can be made and to help in the identification of good practice and national progress. In the longer term we hope to be able to use this data to allow local authorities to benchmark their performance against other similar councils.

You can register here for updates and enhancements to the tool and submitting data for county level aggregation and national comparisons.

Download the TrACE tool here

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