Climate emergency: practical resources

360 Carbon: calculate the carbon footprint of your church, charity or small business.

Carbon Footprint Calculator: designed to help UK-based SMEs measure their corporate emission footprint following GHG Protocol Guidance.

Website Carbon Calculator: estimate your web page’s carbon footprint.

Cloud Carbon Footprint: understand how your cloud usage impacts our environment and what you can do about it.

Getting started with greener travel: this sheet, produced by Community Rail Network, provides talking points, considerations and ideas to help you get started. Download ‘Getting started with greener travel’ ideas sheet.

Air Pollution Calculator: calculate how your activity contributes to pollution levels and learn how you can make a difference for Clean Air Day and beyond.

Green Web Foundation: check if your website is hosted green. 

Creative Green Tools: free set of unique carbon calculators developed by Julie’s Bicycle specifically for the creative industries, to understand the environmental impacts of cultural buildings, offices, outdoor events, tours and productions.

Charities and the path to net zero: a CFG guide for all charities, regardless of size and sector, that are looking to begin and progress their net zero journey.

Glossary of key terms: we have created a glossary of some key terms for anyone who is not familiar with climate/environmental jargon. 

Culture Unstained: ethical funding for cultural organisations.

Going Green Together: supporting the North East’s VCSE sector towards Net Zero.

How to save water: population growth, rising water use and climate change will increasingly affect future water resources in the UK. If water efficiency action is not increased, the UK could be hit by water shortages by 2050.

How to start your organisation’s journey to net zero: doing just some of these things is likely to be important to your beneficiaries, donors and funders.

Zero Carbon Britain Hub: the Zero Carbon Britain Hub and Innovation Lab helps turn climate and biodiversity emergency declarations into action.

Climate Just: free webtool for public service providers designed to identify who is vulnerable to climate change and fuel poverty and why, highlight neighbourhoods where climate disadvantage is highest, and explain the factors involved and help you decide what actions to take.

Embracing sustainability: community groups, clubs, charities and volunteers: what does sustainability have to do with you?

How to improve air quality: tips from Heart of the City on what you can do to improve your impact on air pollution through your supply chain, travel and green space initiatives.

Transition Pathway Initiative: a tool for investors to assess companies’ readiness to transition to carbon net-zero.

Clean Air Hub: information on what air pollution is, how it affects your health and what actions you can take to protect yourself and others.

UK Climate Risk briefings: factsheets and briefings adapted to different sectors and industries on what types of action to adapt to climate change risks and opportunities would be beneficial in the next five years.

National Trust Climate Hazards: under its Climate Change Programme, the National Trust has put together a map highlighting the 2020 x 2060 exposure of UK sites to climate hazards. 

C40 Knowledge Hub: cutting-edge insights and practical resources from leading climate cities.

Growing Climate Confidence: learn about the climate crisis, share your experiences with others in the sector, and discover actions and funding you can take to address it. 

Britain Talks Climate: a toolkit for engaging the British public on climate change.

Media and communications toolkit: advice on putting together a communications plan, creating content and gaining media coverage, as well as customisable templates for emails, posters, press releases and social media copy and a list of useful resources and guidelines.

Climate Justice – A Messaging Guide: guide for campaigners, activists, spokespeople, and anyone trying to talk about climate justice. The aim is to bring global justice into our understanding and advocacy on climate breakdown.

Jargon buster: designed to help you cut through complexity and get straight to the definition, explanation and content that you need.

Climate Visuals: the world’s only evidence-based and impact focused climate photography resource.

A minds and hearts approach to engaging young people with climate change: how supporting young people to recognise, understand and take control of climate narratives and their climate stories is an important part of helping them to cope with their emotions and lead climate action.

Climate change and the charity sector

Stepping up to the climate crisis: funder commitment on climate change 2023

Fair, Green and Well: report by Groundwork looks at five key areas where environmental sustainability intersects with health

Halting the extinction crisis

I understand there may be a biodiversity crisis, but how does that affect me?

Community rail: encouraging and enabling modal shift