Support from the Nottingham Declaration partners

The Nottingham Declaration partners offer a wide range of support and tools to help local areas improve their climate change performance and achieve their NI targets. For a full explanation of what the partners offer click here.

Advice relevant to each national indicator and CAA are shown below.

NI 185

1. The Carbon Trust's Local Authority Carbon Management support

NI 186

There are several useful tools from the Energy Saving Trust:-

1. TrACE tool for monitoring and reporting CO2 saving evidence for National Indicator 186. Download the spreadsheet from the EST's TrACE web page.
2. Reducing CO2 emissions in your local authority area - the guide. An online guide to support work to reduce per capita carbon emissions for NI 186. It identifies how a local authority can ensure it is strategically ready to tackle carbon emissions and highlights key action areas across domestic, non-domestic and transport emissions. It also suggests how to maintain an evidence base of activity taken under NI 186, and how to demonstrate how NI 186 aligns with other national indicators and corporate objectives.
3. Area Based Approaches - Best Practice Guide. For local authorities and their partners - the guide aims to help them select the right type of Area Based Approaches for their locality. It also suggests actions that need to be taken to enable area based approaches, and provides guidance on how to co-ordinate a number of Area Based Initiatives. Download a copy of Area Based Approaches - Best Practice Guide.

And from the Audit Commission

1. Lofty Ambitions. This examines the progress made by councils to cut domestic CO2 emissions in their areas. It gives practical examples to show councils how they can tackle emissions, and at the same time help to reduce fuel poverty. It also considers how councils can achieve improvements in value for money from their actions to reduce CO2. View document.

NI 188

1. The Local and Regional Adaptation Partnership Board has published Guidance Notes for NI 188 - planning to adapt to climate change.The Notes suggest how local areas might tackle national indicator NI 188. They are designed to help local areas work their way through each NI 188 level, but are not intended to be prescriptive.The guidance is primarily aimed at local authorities and their partners. It is applicable to all Local Areas, whether or not the area has signed up to NI 188 as a local area target.
2. Adapting to Climate Change: Local areas' action (prepared by CAG Consultants for the Local and Regional Adaptation Partnership Board) provides examples of how local authorities and their partners are adapting to climate change. The case studies focus on how local areas are tackling NI 188, and at the start of the document there is a clickable table that allows readers to select case studies for different stages of NI 188. Download the document here.
3. Presentations from a UKCIP workshop on meeting the requirements of NI 188 level 2.
4. Guidance on sector specific actions such as flooding, biodiversity, planning are not included in detail in the Notes, but can be found under the adaptation pages of Advice for Council Services on this website.

Use of Natural Resources Assessment (CAA)

1. How to improve your score against KLOE 3.1:A practical guide to sustainability reporting and improving use of natural resources. Chartered Institute of Public Finance.

Self evaluation

The guide to Climate Change Self Evaluation is designed for partnerships and local authorities that want to improve their approach to climate change. Find out more here.