Scottish City Region and Growth Deals: carbon management guidance for projects and programmes

1. Introduction

This document provides guidance for Project Owners on managing carbon emissions associated with Scottish City Region and Growth Deal projects.

This approach may be considered to be an emerging form of 'Net Zero Test', whereby the effect of a project, policy or programme on climate change mitigation can be assessed using a proportionate, consistent and tiered approach.

The first iteration of this guidance was issued in August 2021 and it has since been applied widely across Scottish Deal projects. This second edition includes the following additional material:

1. Notable emerging decarbonisation approaches (Section 5.4);

2. Guidance on carbon benefits realisation (Section 7 & Appendix D);

3. A carbon checklist for business cases (Appendix A); and,

4. Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Carbon Values (Appendix B).