This council declared a climate emergency on July 17, 2019.
“All political parties within the city agreed to work together to rise to the challenge of an impending ecological disaster by making Liverpool a Net Zero Carbon city by 2030.”
Action Plan · PDF
PDF · We no longer hold a copy of this document
Summary Document · HTML
This council’s climate plans as of 20th September 2021 were assessed and scored by trained Climate Emergency UK volunteers, as part of the Council Climate Plan Scorecards project.
Section | Liverpool City Council | Average single tier council |
---|---|---|
Total score | 23% | 50% |
Section 1 Governance, development and funding | ||
Section 2 Mitigation and adaptation | ||
Section 3 Commitment and integration | ||
Section 4 Community, engagement and communications | ||
Section 5 Measuring and setting emissions targets | ||
Section 6 Co-benefits | ||
Section 7 Diversity and inclusion | ||
Section 8 Education, skills and training | ||
Section 9 Ecological emergency |
Total 2020 emissions
per person
per km2
Domestic
Transport
Industry
Commercial
Public Sector
Agriculture
Data from the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy “subset dataset”, representing carbon dioxide emissions within the scope of influence of local authorities.
These councils are the most similar to Liverpool City Council in terms of emissions profile, deprivation, rural/urban population density, and geographical nearness. Read more about how we calculate this.
Council name | Similarity | Has plan | Carbon Neutral by | Declared emergency |
---|---|---|---|---|
Birmingham City Council | 89% | No | 2030 | June 11, 2019 |
Wolverhampton City Council | 87% | No | 2028 | July 17, 2019 |
Manchester City Council | 86% | Yes | 2038 | July 10, 2019 |
Salford City Council | 85% | No | 2038 | July 17, 2019 |
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority | 82% | Yes | 2040 | April 28, 2019 |
Blackpool Borough Council | 82% | Yes | 2030 | June 26, 2019 |
Kingston-upon-Hull City Council | 80% | No | 2030 | March 21, 2019 |
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | 80% | No | 2030 | March 10, 2020 |
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council | 79% | No | 2025 | Sept. 11, 2019 |
Derby City Council | 79% | Yes | 2050 | May 23, 2019 |
These councils are the most similar to Liverpool City Council in terms of their emissions profile, based on the latest data from the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. Read more about how we calculate this.
Council name | Similarity | Has plan | Carbon Neutral by | Declared emergency |
---|---|---|---|---|
Salford City Council | 94% | No | 2038 | July 17, 2019 |
Birmingham City Council | 91% | No | 2030 | June 11, 2019 |
Welwyn Hatfield Council | 88% | Yes | 2030 | June 19, 2019 |
Wolverhampton City Council | 88% | No | 2028 | July 17, 2019 |
Bristol City Council | 87% | Yes | 2025 | Nov. 13, 2018 |
Portsmouth City Council | 87% | No | 2030 | March 19, 2019 |
Norwich City Council | 87% | Yes | 2030 | Jan. 29, 2019 |
Derby City Council | 86% | Yes | 2050 | May 23, 2019 |
Coventry City Council | 86% | No | No target | June 18, 2019 |
West Midlands Combined Authority | 86% | No | 2041 | June 28, 2019 |
Council name | Similarity | Has plan | Carbon Neutral by | Declared emergency |
---|---|---|---|---|
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority | 99% | Yes | 2040 | April 28, 2019 |
Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council | 98% | Yes | 2040 | Jan. 29, 2020 |
Wirral Council | 96% | No | 2030 | July 15, 2019 |
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council | 96% | Yes | 2030 | July 18, 2019 |
Halton Borough Council | 96% | Yes | No target | Oct. 16, 2019 |
St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council | 96% | Yes | 2040 | June 10, 2019 |
West Lancashire Borough Council | 95% | Yes | 2030 | July 17, 2019 |
Cheshire West and Chester Council | 94% | Yes | 2030 | May 21, 2019 |
Flintshire County Council | 93% | Yes | No target | No |
Warrington Borough Council | 93% | Yes | 2030 | June 7, 2019 |
These councils are the most similar to Liverpool City Council in terms of the proportion of their population living in high deprivation, medium deprivation, and low deprivation neighbourhoods. Read more about how we calculate this.
Council name | Similarity | Has plan | Carbon Neutral by | Declared emergency |
---|---|---|---|---|
Birmingham City Council | 92% | No | 2030 | June 11, 2019 |
Wolverhampton City Council | 87% | No | 2028 | July 17, 2019 |
Kingston-upon-Hull City Council | 87% | No | 2030 | March 21, 2019 |
Nottingham City Council | 84% | Yes | 2028 | Jan. 21, 2019 |
Manchester City Council | 84% | Yes | 2038 | July 10, 2019 |
Blackpool Borough Council | 84% | Yes | 2030 | June 26, 2019 |
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | 83% | No | 2030 | March 10, 2020 |
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council | 82% | Yes | 2050 | Sept. 16, 2019 |
Belfast City Council | 81% | Yes | No target | Oct. 1, 2019 |
Stoke-on-Trent City Council | 81% | No | No target | July 4, 2019 |
These councils are the most similar to Liverpool City Council in terms of the proportion of their population living in urban, rural, and highly rural neighbourhoods. Read more about how we calculate this.
Council name | Similarity | Has plan | Carbon Neutral by | Declared emergency |
---|---|---|---|---|
Nottingham City Council | 100% | Yes | 2028 | Jan. 21, 2019 |
London Borough of Croydon | 100% | Yes | No target | July 15, 2019 |
Slough Borough Council | 100% | Yes | No target | No |
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council | 99% | No | 2030 | July 18, 2019 |
London Borough of Barnet | 99% | No | No target | May 24, 2022 |
Watford Borough Council | 99% | No | 2030 | July 9, 2019 |
Birmingham City Council | 98% | No | 2030 | June 11, 2019 |
Bristol City Council | 98% | Yes | 2025 | Nov. 13, 2018 |
London Borough of Sutton | 98% | No | 2045 | July 22, 2019 |
Manchester City Council | 98% | Yes | 2038 | July 10, 2019 |
Liverpool City Council is a Metropolitan District, with powers over:
Climate actions might include:
Climate actions might include:
See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.
Climate actions might include:
See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.
Climate actions might include:
See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.
Climate actions might include:
See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.
Climate actions might include:
See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.
Climate actions might include:
Climate actions might include:
See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.
Climate actions might include:
See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.
Read more about English local authority powers in the UK100 Power Shift report.
Help us improve this page by answering our short survey about who uses this service, and what makes action plans useful to you.
mySociety, Climate Emergency UK (2023). CAPE: Liverpool City Council. Available at: http://cape.mysociety.org/councils/liverpool-city-council/ [Accessed 26 Mar 2023].