Climate: how we can help you take action
Locality provides paid specialist advice, support and resources to help organisations take action on climate change. We've already worked with community organisations, charities, local authorities and others to help save money and reduce carbon emissions, and to set up new income-generating climate projects like re-use, food growing or energy production.
We can help you decide what actions to take, assess the market, seek funding, and engage your community. If you’re looking for support get in touch.
Community organisations and climate action: our report
Community organisations are taking decisive and impactful climate action. Such action is made up of a multitude of activities, which are often motivated by goals to improve people’s lives or the places where they live as well as reducing carbon emissions. This report:
- outlines what climate action looks like among community organisations (which we term community businesses), whether climate-focused or otherwise
- help communities assess the viability of different types of climate action, from veg box, bike repair and paint recycling schemes to retrofitting local houses and setting up community farms.
- considers the climate impact of these actions and models, setting out a framework that can aid in measuring and maximising impact.
The research and tools, delivered by IPPR North and Locality for Power to Change, involved an extensive evidence review, developing a list of diverse case study community businesses, and engaging these organisations and other stakeholders in roundtables.
This research includes two key tools:
– a framework for measuring climate impact (p19 onwards) across nine typologies and 10 examples, which can be used to assess impact (see example graphic below)
– a Climate Opportunity Map (p49 onwards) that helps communities assess the viability of a wide variety of different types of climate action, identifying opportunities and barriers, and how they might be replicated. Below is a list of the types of activities you can use the tool to assess.
