This month, we launched the second edition of the Council Climate Action Scorecards, assessing all UK council's climate action – and while there has been progress, it's stalling. The average score for all UK councils is 38%, only six percentage points higher than when we published the first Action Scorecards in October 2023.

The action scorecards questions, developed in consultation with more than 90 climate and local government experts, assess councils primarily via publicly available information up until November 2024, across 93 indicators across seven sections such as buildings and heating, planning and land use and governance and finance, covering everything from home retrofitting programmes, sustainable transport, nature conservation and the number of staff working on net zero within councils.