We have committed to including climate change as a mandatory consideration whenever we make decisions.
To facilitate the process, when we develop or change a policy, project, service, function, or strategy, we produce a structured report to identify the impact of the activity on the climate, and the impact a changing climate may have on the activity.
This Climate Change Impact Assessment is an excel-based decision support tool which generates an infographic showing a simple visual key to the main climate costs and benefits of any given decision. We are happy to make this tool freely available for other organisations to use and adapt for their own uses.
Our Climate Change Impact Assessment Tool has been shared with our partners through the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Local Authorities' Energy Partnership and several councils within this partnership are adapting this tool for their own use. Other local authorities, government departments, agencies or public bodies are welcome to use this tool subject to the creative commons licence.
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- Climate Change Impact Assessment calculator
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- Video tutorials
- Guidance for members
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Climate Change Impact Assessment calculator
The tool aims to demonstrate how changes to policies and proposals made by the council will impact carbon emissions and the wider environment.
| Climate Change Impact Assessment Tool 136 |  (Excel 314 KB) |
| Climate Change Impact Assessment Guidance Notes |  (PDF 1.25 MB) |
You can also watch the videos from the Climate Change Impact Assessment tool YouTube playlist for more information on how to use it.
Video one: Introduction to the tool
Video two: Reading the graphic
Video four: Adding and exporting data
Video five: Modifying the tool
| Climate Change Impact Assessment Members Guidance | (PDF 408 KB) |
Our Climate Change Impact Assessment Tool has been shared with our partners through the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Local Authorities' Energy Partnership and several councils within this partnership are adapting this tool for their own use.
Other local authorities, government departments, agencies or public bodies are welcome to use this tool subject to the creative commons licence.
If you have further questions about the tool or require support in adapting the tool please email climate@chesterfield.gov.uk.