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You are here: Home > News > Evaluation of the Local Carbon Framework Pilots Evaluation of the Local Carbon Framework PilotsCAG launched its evaluation of the Local Carbon Framework pilots programme at the LGA Green Deal conference on 29 November 2011. (Download the full Evaluation of the Local Carbon Framework Pilots report by clicking here.) The Local Carbon Framework (LCF) pilots programme has sought to develop demonstrable lessons about how councils can integrate measures to combat climate change into their core business. These lessons also provide a practical basis for the development of a new Council Framework for Climate Change. This Framework will seek to act as a local action plan on delivering carbon emissions, encapsulating the varying portfolios of carbon reduction measures relevant to individual or grouped councils. Against this background, the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) commissioned CAG Consultants, in association with Impetus Consulting and Dr. Joanne Wade, to undertake an evaluation of the LCF pilots. The evaluation’s purpose was to identify the learning from the LCF pilots in order to share learning and good practice with all councils, and to inform the development of the new Council Framework on Climate Change. About the LCF pilot programmeThe UK Government originally launched the LCF pilots programme in recognition of the substantial contribution councils can make to carbon reduction within their sphere of influence. The initial concept was to explore both the feasibility and validity of applying a national carbon budgeting process at a local level. It was soon agreed that more work was needed on the relationship between local action and monitoring, and achieving national targets. The importance of councils being able to shape and lead on locally appropriate and relevant carbon reduction programmes was regarded as essential in order to gain buy-in for any national-to-local programme. As such, the shape of the programme evolved from establishing local carbon budgets to a broader, more inclusive and exploratory concept of local carbon frameworks. The aim of the LCF pilots programme was to:
The programme was fundamentally an “action learning process”. The pilots asked to explore what barriers and obstacles may be limiting local authority ambition – whether national, sub regional or local – and to help understand more about the support councils needed to assemble these strategies, and to secure buy-in from all the parties involved. The LCF pilots evaluation reportThe evaluation report sets out the pilots’ own learning from across the programme and makes recommendations about how this learning can be built upon in the future. Download the full Evaluation of the Local Carbon Framework Pilots report by clicking here. You can also download each chapter of the report separately:
More information about the Low Carbon Buildings Programme can be found on the DECC website.
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