Welsh Government
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2013)
Reporting Period: 2013
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Governance
- Social
- Environmental
Social Achievements
- Improved integration of health and social services (aspirational, not quantified)
Governance Achievements
- Establishment of Natural Resources Wales through merger of several organizations
- Initiatives to streamline grant funding and focus on outcomes
Climate Goals & Targets
Short-term Goals:
- Implement recommendations within three to five years
Environmental Challenges
- Complexity of public service governance and delivery
- Small scale and limited capacity of some public sector organizations
- Ineffective collaboration and partnership working
- Inadequate scrutiny and accountability mechanisms
- Insufficient public engagement
- Inefficient information management and digital services
- Austerity and demographic change
Mitigation Strategies
- Recommendations for simplifying governance structures and relationships
- Recommendations for merging local authorities to increase scale and capacity
- Recommendations for streamlining partnership working and focusing on outcomes
- Recommendations for strengthening scrutiny mechanisms and public engagement
- Recommendations for improving information management and digital services
- Recommendations for integrating health and social services
- Recommendations for a three-to-five-year programme of change