Scottish Climate Intelligence Service

The Scottish Climate Intelligence Service (SCIS) works with all of Scotland’s local authorities to help deliver climate action at the scale and pace needed to deliver Scotland's Climate Change Plan.

SCIS is being delivered in partnership by ECCI and the Improvement Service, jointly funded by Scottish Government and all 32 local authorities.

The service is building capacity within local authorities to take effective, just and equitable climate action. By working within and across local authorities, SCIS supports collaboration and help to share skills, knowledge, insights to support and accelerate effective local climate action.

SCIS knows that climate change is not just about emissions. Understanding and delivering the wider benefits of climate action, notably for adaptation, nature, health and inequality, are vital to society and critical to climate delivery.

What does the SCIS do?

The Scottish Climate Intelligence Service is supporting the planning and delivery of area-wide emissions reduction programmes across Scotland.

SCIS is a capacity-building programme service with both a national digital platform and a support service co-designed with local authorities. The platform collates area-wide emissions data to build a baseline of emissions, while allowing local authorities to calculate and visualise the impact of the interventions they are implementing to deliver area-wide emissions reduction plans.

The service is helping local authorities to build the skills, knowledge and influence to use this data to enable planning, monitoring and delivery of climate action at the scale and pace required to achieve local and national net zero targets. Read more and watch the video of the SCIS launch event

How does the SCIS help local authorities?

The SCIS is supporting delivery of Scotland’s Climate Change Plan, to help deliver a healthier, fairer and more prosperous Scotland which is playing its part in leading the global response to climate change.

SCIS brings smarter tools, greater consistency and more support to drive climate change action at the local level.

The SCIS platform provides the data and knowledge to help local authorities decide on the actions needed to achieve net zero emissions, based on area-wide emissions.

The SCIS also supports service users engageme with community groups and constituents by demonstrating area-wide progress and priorities. Find out more

SCIS resources

Find publications, tools, resources, case studies, reports and more produced or recommended by the SCIS team and others aross the ECCI community, such as SCIS Insights - The Social Benefits of Climate Action: Active Travel and Dual Lens of Transition Planning white paper (ClimateView).