Climate Emergency UK CIC

📬 Is your local authority engaging with the most vulnerable to climate change? 🪲 Join us on Wednesday 2 April as we explore how councils can engage with their residents and local campaign groups on climate action in a meaningful way. ✨ We'll be joined by: - Emily Tulloh who is the Engagement Lead for climate and nature at Involve. - Harold Garner, Head of Climate, Air Quality and Energy, Camden Council. - Fiona Dyer, previous CE UK volunteer and now with Climate Action Durham. ✏️ Register now at: https://lnkd.in/eiQrMEBm

🏡 Are you based in East Cambridgeshire? 📊 Join Peter from East Cambridgeshire Climate Action Network and Don from Climate Emergency UK as we explore what actions your council is taking to tackle the climate and nature crisis. 🤝 We will then discuss how we can advocate for further and better climate action in East Cambridgeshire. 🙋♂️ This event is open to residents, campaigners, councillors and council officers.

And they just keep on coming ➡️ Janet Fogg, the Climate Change Office at Cambridge City Council told us how the Scorecards support her work🙋 “A lot of my work is about dealing with change and change is difficult. Having the Scorecards helps us lay out clearly which actions we want to be doing and the benefit of doing so.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/e92tJvBG And explore your councils' Scorecard results here: https://lnkd.in/epJAeHvb

🌱 Want to win further support for local climate action but don't know where to start? 🤔 🌍 The Local Climate Academy (LCA) will equip you with the knowledge and skills to support your council to tackle the climate and ecological crisis. 💪 ⏩ In June, to coincide with the 2025 Action Scorecards launch, we will be running LCA two training programmes in parallel! 📊 🏫 Starting Tuesday 10 June, 9am for Council Officers Register at: https://lnkd.in/eTHcdCmy 🏘️ Starting Tuesday 10 June, 5.30pm for Campaigners and Councillors Register at: https://lnkd.in/ecnZfzzj

Has your council declared the nature emergency? 🌻 🦋 Kristina, former Scorecards volunteer and now Research Consultant with CEUK, shares best practice identified in the Nature Emergency Scorecards, our exciting joint project with The Woodland Trust looking at UK councils' nature emergency declarations and pledges, just released this week. 🆕 🌳

🏛️ Are Climate Assemblies the gold standard for democratic participation? 🌿 How can campaign groups become critical friends of their council? To find out, join us on Wed 2nd April as we hear from the experts: 🤝 Emily Tulloh (Involve), Harold Garner (London Borough of Camden) and Fiona Dyer (Climate Action Durham). ✍ Register now at: https://lnkd.in/eXJSSqH9

Continuing our case studies, here's our first story from a #London council: Lewisham Council on how they have used the Action Scorecards to learn from others.🏛️ Martin, Head of Climate Resilience, said "The Scorecards have given us, a council, confidence and pride in some of the things we have achieved. They’ve shown that while the scale of the challenge might sometimes feel overwhelming, it’s possible to break it down into achievable steps." 📚 Read more at: https://lnkd.in/eEaqAq7w 🔍 And explore the Scorecards at: https://lnkd.in/epJAeHvb

Thanks for the shout out on #IWD💜 And I'll shout out Samantha G. - our Training Coordinator at Climate Emergency UK CIC who delivers our Local Climate Academy training, which aims to skill up even more people to lobby for change at a council and national level. Find out more at: https://lnkd.in/e_fxu6_j

This week we're hearing from Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council in #Hertfordshire who told us that “Ultimately, a platform (the Scorecards) that flags areas for improvement and signposts to best practice should only been seen positively. It enables us all to move in the same direction towards the same goal.” Read more at: https://lnkd.in/g82HFimP And explore the Action Scorecards yourself at: https://lnkd.in/epJAeHvb

We are proud to have worked with The Woodland Trust to collect the data on which UK councils have declared a #natureemergency You can check out the data here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eTmcixdu