Climate Change Toolkit
Page updated on: 20/08/2026
Welcome to Carmarthenshire County Council’s Climate Change Toolkit.
Flintshire County Council have kindly allowed us the use of their school climate toolkit and supporting materials to help Carmarthenshire’s schools to decarbonise.
The toolkit has been created to support Schools to measure and understand their carbon emissions, determine a means to reduce those emissions and engage with others to support and influence action.
The main Toolkit document is presented below for Schools, with supporting tools in the drop-down sections, all of which can be downloaded and saved.
Toolkit
The following Toolkit provides all the information users need to understand climate change, its impacts and how the tools can be used.
In the following drop-down sections are the various tools users can use to calculate carbon emissions, plan emission reductions, and engage with others.
Tools and Guidance
The environmental assessment is a simple to use learner-led audit of a school’s environmental behaviours and practices. It covers the topics of energy usage, waste, biodiversity, transport, and water usage.
This activity can be conducted before a school begins its carbon footprint calculation and serves as a simple introduction to the toolkit for both staff and learners as well as information gathering.
By measuring and monitoring carbon emissions, an organisation can understand the quantity and source of those emissions helping to plan and prioritise appropriate actions to reduce them. The tools in this section supports users to calculate emissions, track how those emissions change over time, and report on how those emissions are being managed and reduced towards a net zero carbon target of 2030.
Other Tools
Engagement is a big part of helping to enact behaviour change which leads to the reduction in carbon emissions. This section aims to engage from Progression Step 2 through to 5. The council’s energy team have created lesson plans which look at some of the big contributors of climate change, and the Carbon Footprint Classroom Slides can be used in the classroom to lead on a school’s carbon footprint calculation.
Primary Lesson
