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Mid Ulster District Council

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Climate emergency declaration

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Climate Plan Scorecard

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.

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Mid Ulster District Council scored zero points in this assessment. This is because the council either didn’t have any published plans at the time of the assessment, or the plans didn’t qualify.

SectionMid Ulster District CouncilAverage Northern Ireland council
Total score0%26%
Section 1 Governance, development and funding
0/21
6.0/21
Section 2 Mitigation and adaptation
0/18
3.8/18
Section 3 Commitment and integration
0/7
3.5/7
Section 4 Community, engagement and communications
0/9
3.0/9
Section 5 Measuring and setting emissions targets
0/5
0.5/5
Section 6 Co-benefits
0/4
1.5/4
Section 7 Diversity and inclusion
0/5
0/5
Section 8 Education, skills and training
0/5
1.0/5
Section 9 Ecological emergency
0/4
0.8/4

Emissions data

985.0 ktCO2

Total 2020 emissions

6.6 tCO2

per person

0.5 ktCO2

per km2

35%

Transport

28%

Industry

27%

Domestic

8%

Agriculture

1%

Commercial

1%

Public Sector

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 Mid Ulster District Council in terms of emissions profile, deprivation, rural/urban population density, and geographical nearness. Read more about how we calculate this.

Council nameSimilarityHas planCarbon Neutral byDeclared emergency
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council85%NoNo targetOct. 7, 2019
Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council79%No2030May 2, 2020
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council73%Yes2040July 2, 2019
Derry City and Strabane District Council64%Yes2045June 27, 2019
Mid and East Antrim Borough Council58%NoNo targetSept. 9, 2019
East Ayrshire Council57%No2030No
The Highland Council56%No2025May 9, 2019
Argyll and Bute Council53%Yes2045No
Ards and North Down Borough Council53%NoNo targetFeb. 27, 2019
Allerdale Borough Council53%Yes2030Sept. 25, 2019

These councils are the most similar to Mid Ulster District 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 nameSimilarityHas planCarbon Neutral byDeclared emergency
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council81%NoNo targetOct. 7, 2019
Derbyshire Dales District Council73%Yes2030May 30, 2019
Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council70%No2030May 2, 2020
Ribble Valley Borough Council70%No2030No
Craven District Council70%No2030Aug. 6, 2019
The Highland Council69%No2025May 9, 2019
Allerdale Borough Council69%Yes2030Sept. 25, 2019
Northumberland Council69%Yes2030June 11, 2019
Aberdeenshire Council68%No2045No
Newark and Sherwood District Council68%Yes2035July 16, 2019

Read more about how we calculate this.

Council nameSimilarityHas planCarbon Neutral byDeclared emergency
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council95%NoNo targetNo
Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council94%No2030May 2, 2020
Derry City and Strabane District Council93%Yes2045June 27, 2019
Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council93%NoNo targetNo
Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council92%NoNo targetNo
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council91%Yes2040July 2, 2019
Mid and East Antrim Borough Council91%NoNo targetSept. 9, 2019
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council91%NoNo targetOct. 7, 2019
Belfast City Council90%YesNo targetOct. 1, 2019
Ards and North Down Borough Council87%NoNo targetFeb. 27, 2019

These councils are the most similar to Mid Ulster District 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 nameSimilarityHas planCarbon Neutral byDeclared emergency
Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council93%No2030May 2, 2020
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council92%NoNo targetOct. 7, 2019
Derry City and Strabane District Council86%Yes2045June 27, 2019
Belfast City Council81%YesNo targetOct. 1, 2019
Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council81%Yes2040Jan. 29, 2020
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council79%NoNo targetNo
Burnley Borough Council77%Yes2030July 10, 2019
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council75%Yes2030July 18, 2019
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council74%Yes2040July 2, 2019
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council71%No2025Sept. 11, 2019

These councils are the most similar to Mid Ulster District 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 nameSimilarityHas planCarbon Neutral byDeclared emergency
Ceredigion County Council91%Yes2030March 5, 2020
Eden District Council88%No2030July 11, 2019
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council85%Yes2040July 2, 2019
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council83%NoNo targetOct. 7, 2019
Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council80%No2030May 2, 2020
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar80%YesNo targetNo
Shetland Islands Council79%YesNo targetJan. 22, 2020
Aberdeenshire Council79%No2045No
The Highland Council79%No2025May 9, 2019
Orkney Islands Council78%YesNo targetMay 14, 2019

Powers & Responsibilities

Mid Ulster District Council is a Northern Irish Council, with powers over:

Council buildings and staff

Climate actions might include:

  • making council offices more energy efficient
  • incentivising ‘Active Travel’ or public transport use among employees
  • providing carbon literacy training for employees
    Environmental health

    Climate actions might include:

    • reducing industrial emissions through air quality enforcement
    • bringing up insulation and energy efficiency standards through enforcement of the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) and Decent Homes Standard 2000, for cold and damp conditions in private rental and social housing

    See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.

    Planning and building control

    Climate actions might include:

    • imposing reasonable requirements that new developments comply with energy efficiency standards and get a proportion of their energy from local, renewable sources (Planning and Energy Act, 2008)
    • incorporating additional energy performance standards into their Local Plan, for new works that require planning permission
    • using Area Action Plans to guide development proposals towards lower carbon emissions or more cycling and walking routes, for example
    • enforcing legislation that requires private rental properties to be of Energy Efficiency Rating E or above (Energy Efficiency Regulations, 2015)
    • funding energy efficiency improvements on existing homes, through initiatives such as Green Homes Grants

    See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.

    Spending, procuring, and investing

    Climate actions might include:

    • embedding carbon impact assessment as part of the council’s budgeting and financial accountability process
    • utilising Public Works Loan Board loans or the Business Rates Retention Scheme to invest in emissions-reducing capital projects that otherwise wouldn’t get funded
    • specifying low carbon equipment and practices when procuring for relevant services from suppliers
    • prioritising positive environmental impacts during procurement, through the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012
    Waste collection and disposal

    Climate actions might include:

    • establishing ‘Joint Waste Solutions’ with neighbouring councils, to get more value out of waste, recycling, and street cleaning contracts
    • running marketing campaigns to encourage residential recycling, reuse, and waste minimisation

    See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.

    Read more about local authority powers across the UK, at The Institute for Government.

    More about this council

    midulstercouncil.org
    Mid Ulster District Council’s official homepage.
    Tyndall Centre Carbon Budget report
    Check Mid Ulster District Council’s ‘carbon budget’ – their share towards meeting the UK’s Paris agreement targets.

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    mySociety, Climate Emergency UK (2023). CAPE: Mid Ulster District Council. Available at: http://cape.mysociety.org/councils/mid-ulster-district-council/ [Accessed 2 Apr 2023].

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