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Local Governments have an incredibly diverse range of responsibilities. Within climate alone, all levels of local government are responsible for complying with national strategies including nature recovery, carbon emissions, air quality and transport.
Typically, every local government department develops a specific strategy and delivery plan for each key issue; counties are developing Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS), both Counties and Districts are developing climate strategies, while all Districts have separate local economic development strategies. This leads to gaps and duplication of effort. It also leads to missed opportunities.
Devolution is raising further questions on how to align with neighbouring local governments through a period of rapid change.
OnePlanet is about approaching an issue by looking at it in context, what factors are connected, and how they influence each other to find effective and efficient solutions. By connecting the dots on climate, health, transport, and more, new coherent strategies can be developed.
With our straightforward platform, OnePlanet offers specific functionality for local governments to help connect different departments and strategies around common goals (or ‘Shared Outcomes’). Although widely applicable, it is especially being used to meet carbon targets, align nature recovery work and maximise health benefits by embedding these issues into all decisions and facilitating climate action amongst suppliers, community, and stakeholders.
With OnePlanet, you can say goodbye to traditional reports and constant rewrites for each stakeholder. Once all the data is on the platform, you can customise what you need and the platform will instantly generate a tailored document or a chosen presentation.
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To view all the UK Local Council Plans mapped so far, you can view them here! Don’t see your own plan? Get in touch with us to start mapping right away!
Wherever you are in your journey, OnePlanet helps save time, money and resources, and to move further, faster and with less effort by:
Councils deliver multiple strategies and action plans, by multiple departments. To create links, to highlight shared objectives and performance, for subjects such as public health and carbon reduction we need to be using software like OnePlanet. The clear visualisation and measurement of the co-benefits enables collaboration and saves time in management and reporting.
We had a really compressed timescale to develop our strategy and OnePlanet’s ability to map out the policy overlap internally and externally gave us a real headstart. We've been able to link our District strategy with key County strategies to give us further insights and enable collaboration, which is critical for a small council. The platform is alive and fun and allows me to see the plan in new ways. I’m really enthusiastic about the potential to connect to the local community and key stakeholders, so that we can work together to deliver this ambitious plan - that is what gets me excited about my job!
Once you’ve created your strategy OnePlanet provides the tools to drive implementation. Your climate Outcomes and Indicators can be embedded into all your council strategies thereby enhancing collaboration, aligning your strategies and maximising resources.
Working with Haringey council we have developed Best Practice Templates that ensure all new projects and procurements are aligned, for example, with net zero targets. The templates are designed to support all council officers to assess the carbon impact of their project or procurement, building capacity, optimising resource use and maximising impact. .
The platform that has been developed enables me to clearly see the inter-relationships in a unique way. The understanding of the interconnections is helping to drive the Council’s new climate action plan and we wouldn’t have thought of developing the strategy or its management in the way we are progressing without OnePlanet. Additionally being able to track actions across the council is invaluable.
One of the biggest challenges for local governments that are committed to net zero is engaging with residents and key local stakeholders, including local businesses, suppliers and other significant energy users. OnePlanet enables community groups to create resources for the community linked to the local government vision. The publicly accessible maps allow residents to contribute to the overall vision as well as take action towards healthy lifestyles that are also good for the planet. For example, explore the work of Transition Town Worthing.
Responding to the growing climate crisis can only be met through a whole government response. OnePlanet supported Enfield in addressing this complexity by focusing on the overarching Outcomes that Enfield is aiming to achieve and aligning objectives across departments.
With many local government strategies mapped on OnePlanet we have taken advantage of our unique database technology to connect the strategies together so they can be compared effortlessly. You can now easily:
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