General Resources

All of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have targets that are directly or indirectly related to the daily work of local and regional governments.

The sustainability in council services project brought together people from councils across England to create routemaps to embed sustainability into services.

The LGA showcases the leading work of councils to deliver the UK's net zero and adaptation ambitions.

This guidance document supports the Greenhouse Gas Accounting Toolkit, which has reporting tabs for capturing Scope 3 emissions.

The LGA webinar, Scope 3 greenhouse gas accounting guidance for social care, was organised as part of the LGA’s green webinar series.

The Net Zero Innovation Programme develops partnerships of researchers and climate change officers from councils across all English regions and supports them in tackling the climate emergency.

This report provides a basis for having local conversations about adaptation and mitigation, as well as providing comments and case studies from a range of organisations and programmes working on the issue.

This session heard about the latest updates to the Greenhouse Gas Accounting Tool and the Waste Emissions Calculator. Councillors, council officers and climate experts from Local Partnerships spoke about the tools and ongoing updates to them.