Our Partners

The SCIS is delivered through a partnership of Edinburgh Climate Change Institute (ECCI) and the Improvement Service, with a national data platform provided by ClimateView, and additional support from the Sustainable Scotland Network. SCIS is funded by all 32 Scottish local authorities through COSLA, and by the Scottish Government.

SCIS harnesses the breadth of experience and ambition of its partners to improve delivery of its support.

The Improvement Service is the national improvement organisation for local government in Scotland. It was set up to deliver improvement support that would help councils to provide effective community leadership, strong local governance and deliver high-quality, efficient local services. It now works across a wider range of public bodies to provide improvement support across a wide number of project areas.


ECCI is a leading centre of expertise on climate change, based in the University of Edinburgh. It brings together research, policy, and practice in number of programmes building the skills, knowledge, and capacity to deliver climate action in Scotland and beyond.

Our national data platform and climate modelling capability is provided by ClimateView.  ClimateView is a Swedish technology company that empowers civic administrations transitioning to carbon neutral societies, modelling political, economic, and energy shifts in a data-driven platform. The company started in 2018 when its founders collaborated with the Swedish Government to co-develop Panorama, a dynamic online route map to monitor Sweden’s transition to net zero by 2045. Today, ClimateView works with 180 partners globally including the Swedish Climate Policy Council, the Ruhr Region and over ninety cities across eight countries in Europe and North America.

The Sustainable Scotland Network (SSN) is Scotland’s public sector network on climate change and sustainability. It has been working with and providing support to Scotland’s public sector bodies since 2003. Providing guidance, tools, training and knowledge exchange, SSN supports public bodies to comply with their Public Bodies Climate Change Duties, including support for mandatory reporting. Place-based climate action is core to the SSN programme, and SSN and SCIS are working together to help build on existing services and ensure synergy of support to local authorities and their partners.

COSLA is a councillor-led, cross-party organisation which champions the vital work of Scotland's Councils and its 1226 elected councillors in order to secure the resources and powers they need. COSLA works on councils' behalf to focus on the challenges and opportunities they face, and to engage positively with governments and others on policy, funding and legislation.

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