Getting started with local community climate action

These guides and toolkits can help you take your first steps in making a positive impact for climate, right through to developed and embedded local climate work. 

Growing Climate Confidence website – An online hub for information and practical actions your group can take to reduce emissions and engage their community on climate change.  

Community Climate Action Toolkit – The Schumacher Institute have created this toolkit to help groups get started in taking action to address climate change with easy-to-use activities and resources. 

Architecture and Design Scotland Climate Action Towns Toolkit – A toolkit to support people in towns and communities across Scotland to take place-based climate actions, the process followed by the Climate Action Towns team, broken down into manageable steps.

The Place Standard with a Climate Lens – From Our Place Scotland, this toolkit provides step-by-step support on how to develop productive conversations in communities focussed on the important relationship between climate and place. 

Shifting Normal Guide – A design handbook from the Scottish Government filled with tools and real-life case studies for communities working to make their communities greener and healthier.  

Calculate Your Footprint – An online tool from Impact for measuring a community’s carbon footprint.

The Scottish Community Development Centre has created their SCDC suite of resources on community development and the climate crisis.