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With recent heatwaves, wildfires, and droughts highlighting the growing impacts of climate change, it’s more important than ever for councils to understand and prepare for climate risks. Explore our two newly updated climate adaptation resources, both revised and refreshed to reflect the CCC’s Fourth Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk (CCRA4-IA).
The UK Government has committed to reducing carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, and 70% of local authorities in the UK have declared a climate emergency. Net zero cannot be achieved without adaptation.
Adaptation (in climate change context) is otherwise known as resilience or preparedness. Resilience is the ambition, adaptation is the method.
We need to adapt to the challenges that arise from the significant climate impacts we are facing in the UK, and take advantage of the opportunities.
Risk and Opportunities Matrix
Following user feedback we have updated the previously named risk register generator.
We’re proud to share our Impact Report 2025-26 – showcasing another year of delivering meaningful outcomes for the public sector and the communities it serves. As organisations navigate increasing financial pressures, Local Government Reorganisation, and growing demands on services, the report highlights how we’ve worked alongside our partners across England and Wales to deliver practical solutions and lasting impact.
As a publicly owned, in-house delivery partner, our role has never been more important. From supporting climate resilience and improving energy efficiency to enabling local government transformation, unlocking infrastructure opportunities and improving outcomes for communities, our teams have helped organisations tackle complex challenges with confidence.
Replay – NISTA and Local Partnerships host a practical free webinar ‘Decarbonising PFI projects: Tools and templates for councils’ introducing new tools to help public bodies decarbonise operational PFI projects.
The EXPLORE Framework is a set of practical resources designed to help local and combined authorities take a more integrated, place-based approach to strategic planning.
It supports organisations facing complex local challenges by bringing together data, insights and collaborative tools to enable clearer decision-making across departments and partners. The framework focuses on health, wellbeing, nature and sustainability, helping bridge the gap between technical data and real-world policy solutions.
The toolkit includes an Outcome Measures Dashboard to track progress, Factor Maps to highlight the key influences on local outcomes, and Horizon Scanning tools to help organisations plan for future change.
Together with a facilitation package, Explore provides a structured yet flexible way for teams to develop strategies that deliver better outcomes for people, places and the environment.
Discover the LGR Toolkit designed to support councils through reorganisation.
This collaborative session with the LGA provided a walkthrough of key tools and how to apply them in your context.
New research – LOOKING TO 2050: The future of local government – finds devolution alone does not guarantee success for local areas.
Councils need clarity, coherence and a long-term plan from Government to deliver devolution at scale.
The report, from the LGIU (Local Government Information Unit) and Local Partnerships, concludes that a model of governance which improves regional economic outcomes, supports housing growth, tackles inequality, embeds fiscal sustainability and strengthens climate resilience can be built – but will require a purposeful design of roles, responsibilities and long-term direction.
Local authorities had been asked whether they had included climate as a corporate risk and whether their services and assets were prepared for extreme weather becoming the new normal. The reality of climate change was no longer distant; it had already arrived.
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