Brighton and Hove Climate Scorecard

Last Updated on September 8, 2024

The information below is taken from Council Climate Action Scorecards for year 2023. Climate Emergency UK assessed all UK councils on the actions they’ve taken towards net zero. The Scorecard assessment consists of 91 questions or less, depending on council type, across 7 different sections, created in consultation with over 90 different organisations and individuals. Each council was marked against these criteria and given a right to reply before the scores underwent a final audit.

The Climate and Biodiversity Charter Climate Action Scorecards: the scores have been grouped under five different Charter headings to illustrate how the Climate Charter can act as both community manifesto and broad policy framework giving a vision and direction to the work of the council. The remaining four charter principles will need to be informed by other more relevant data.

Please note that I have focused only on those questions weighted ‘medium’ or ‘high’ importance. This is where Brighton and Hove Council have got a low or no score. This is not to paint a deliberately negative picture – there are many things that the council is doing well – but to better identify those areas for improvement. The intention is to make this useful to both the council as well as voluntary and community organisations working to address the climate and biodiversity emergency.

The different scores for each of the sections are added up to give a final score. Brighton is a single tier council and scored 51%. The average for a single tier council was 35%.

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The ‘warming stripe’ graphic is a visual representation of the change in temperature as measured in Brighton from 1850 to 2023. Each stripe or bar represents the temperature in Brighton averaged over a year. Climate change will have multiple impacts on Brighton and surrounding area from sea level rise and surface water flooding to declining agricultural productivity and species extinction (See BH Climate Adaption Plan). Data source (warming stripes): UK Met Office, creator Ed Hawkins, University of Reading.