Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy

Unit 4

sustainability

CIPFA Publications on Sustainability

PUBAC113HWhole Life Costing

This publication is an invaluable resource for staff in public service organisations who are involved in asset investment and procurement appraisal decisions, as well as those tasked with asset and facilities management, or with providing financial information on asset operational costs, impacts and benefits.

The guide scrutinizes the application of whole life costing to a variety of asset appraisal and decision processes, as well as studying the links between whole life costing and the broader sustainability agenda. It also considers how whole life costing can, where appropriate, support appraisal of wider economic, social and/or environmental impacts of an asset.

For further details and to order your copies please visit the CIPFA shop

PUBFM032HSustainability reporting: A public services perspective (2010)

Public service organisations frequently deal with activities that are strongly linked to sustainability, but do not always fully recognise sustainability as a key line of business. However, increasingly organisations are expected to show that they recognise the challenges that face them, and set out their strategies for dealing with these issues. This publication describes a public sector sustainability reporting approach, and provides the reader with practical information.

New CIPFA resources on Carbon reduction and reporting

How to reduce carbon emissions in the local area: A practical guide to improving your score for NI 185 and 186 is available at www.cipfanetworks.net/pin/documents/default_view.asp?content_ref=8609

How to improve your score against KLOE 3.1: A practical guide to sustainability reporting and improving use of natural resources is available at www.cipfanetworks.net/pin/news/view.asp?content_ref=9718

CJC Guide to Environmental SustainabilityCJC guide to environmental sustainability (2009)
A practical guide for commissioners and other decision makers, addressing how to progress sustainable actions; where to go to find out more; what the law requires them to do, and what it allows them to do. Available from the CIPFA shop.

PMPA report: A sustainable future for the UK (2009)
Contributions from academics, practitioners and consultants, looking at: climate change, building sustainable housing and communities, and environmental sustainability in local government. Available from the CIPFA shop.

Public Money & Management journal, Vol. 28, Issue 6 (2008)
This issue of the journal is devoted to sustainable development and the public sector. For more information about the journal go to: www.cipfa.org.uk/pt/pmm/subscriptions.cfm 

Articles

Sustainability reporting: a missing piece of the charity-reporting jigsaw, by John Maddocks, (08-04-2011), Public Money & Management, Volume 31, Number 3

Light at the end of the tunnel, by John Maddocks, (09-09-2010), Public Finance magazine

Survival by numbers, by Roger Latham, (12-11-2009), Public Finance magazine.

Fighting climate change, by John Maddocks, (10-09-2009), Public Finance Magazine

A sustainable future, by Rhiannon Soper (26-05-2006), Public Finance magazine
 
Secure in the knowledge, by Rhiannon Soper and David Bent (12-01-2006) [PDF file, 96K] The MJ, Page 21