What are we doing?

Key projects

Carbon Literacy Training – A bespoke Shetland climate emergency training course to raise levels of climate change awareness and understanding across Shetland.  This course is now available to all Shetland Islands Council employees.  If you would like to hear more about this course, please get in touch.

Climate Conversations – An ongoing work stream with the purpose to instigate, encourage, promote and engage in conversation and discussion around climate change in Shetland.  To ensure community priorities are reflected in Shetland Islands Council climate action works.

ORION Clean Energy Project – A strategic framework connecting organisations with a common ambition: to transform the Shetland region into a centre for secure and affordable clean energy.

Rural Energy Hubs Project – The project aims to use the pilot hub to develop a model for establishing a wider network of rural energy hubs across Orkney and Shetland, and to demonstrate how decarbonisation can be developed, embedded and accelerated locally.

Shetland Adapts – A Shetland Partnership framework for place based adaptation to climate change across Shetland.

Shetland Clean Energy Project – One component of the Islands Centre for Net Zero (ICNZ) which includes Orkney, Shetland, and the Western Isles with a local supply & demand focus.

Shetland Islands Council Net Zero Route Map – A framework and plan for how and when Shetland Islands Council will reach Net Zero.  The SIC Net Zero Route Map is available on our reports and findings page.

Shetland Net Zero Route Map – A framework and plan for how and when Shetland will reach Net Zero.  The Shetland Net Zero Route Map is available on our reports and findings page.