Introduction
This is where you begin to take action and implement your new strategy. This won’t always run smoothly but is a gradual process which develops over time. Seek collaboration and dialogue within and beyond your organisation.
Following implementation, regular monitoring and meticulous review are essential to gauge efficacy and ensure the plan’s vitality and impact. Define the metrics of success and assess progress towards those benchmarks.
Identify supplementary information, actions, or resources that could bolster progress, and pinpoint obstacles hindering advancement. With each iteration of your net zero plan, integrate enhancements to streamline the process and amplify impact.
Aims
Publish and implement your Mitigation Plan. Evaluate and report on progress.
Objectives
Publish and publicise your plan and raise awareness with stakeholders
Deliver emissions reduction actions
Review progress with owners of actions
Evaluate progress of actions against baseline year emissions
Begin to scope any additional detailed projects or data requirements to enable next round of Mitigation planning
Review reporting process and identify improvements for next reporting period
Submit reports where required under Climate Change Act (NI) 2022 and other relevant reporting systems
The following documents will provide you with the key information on the relevance of climate change reporting in Northern Ireland, as well as an overview of the relevant international and national climate change policy in Northern Ireland.
Governance and Stakeholder Engagement
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Public Body Reporting
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Deliver
- Publish and publicise your plan and raise awareness with stakeholders
- Publicise mitigation plan and educate internal and external stakeholders
- Check in on progress of with owners of actions regularly
- Continually monitor the progress of KPIs and actions, and complete an annual review
- Deliver emission reduction actions
- Work with peer support group
Evaluate
- Review progress with owners of actions
- Evaluate progress of actions against KPIs set in the action plan
- Begin to scope any additional detailed projects or data requirements to enable next round of mitigation planning.
- Review needs and training
- Set a programme of reviews subject to changes in other major policies or procedures e.g. update where relevant when there are new net zero projects
- Begin to scope any additional detailed projects or data requirements to enable the next round of mitigation planning.
- Monitor and Review how Mitigation Plan actions are contributing to both local and regional targets, as well as how wider implementation and mitigation support has been developed across the organisation.
Report
- Review reporting process and identify improvements for next reporting period
- Submit reports where required under Climate Change Act (NI) 2022 and other relevant reporting systems.
- Report against regulations
The following documents will provide you with additional information regarding this step which can assist the completion of this step and improve your understanding.
C40 Knowledge Hub: How to set up monitoring, evaluation and reporting for your city’s climate action plan
C40 Knowledge Hub: Monitoring, evaluation and reporting guidance for climate action planning teams
Step Five Complete
This plan is the first step in a process of continual improvement, development and learning. To continue reducing your emissions as wider society begins to decarbonise and transfer to an economy powered by renewables instead of fossil fuels. You can now return to Step 1 to develop the second iteration of your mitigation plan.
