Environmental reporting for The City of Edinburgh Council events

This guidance is for events that are required to report on environmental impacts and action in their multi-year funding agreements with The City of Edinburgh Council.

All events are sent a survey to fill out on the completion of their event. It is expected that the report is submitted within one month of event completion.

The information and data reported through this survey should be for activities relating to the funded event. This should include everything from the direct event delivery as well as any preparation work such as site visits and research trips.

Support to complete survey

Full guidance is available below. It covers each section of the environmental reporting survey, explaining how to answer each question and giving the reasoning behind why you are being asked to provide each data point. It also directs you to online resources that can help with your response and offers the technical guidance you may require to complete the response.

We have also created a one-page checklist to help you gather the main datapoints for your reporting.

Download the checklist (Word doc 111KB)

• Using the survey platform
• Section 1 – Event details 
• Section 2 – Governance 
• Section 3 – Mitigation
• Section 4 – Biodiversity
• Section 5 – Adaptation
• Section 6 – Influence
  

If required, you can download a Word document of environmental reporting 2025/26 questions. This is useful if you would like to look at all the questions offline before starting on the survey. Please be aware that there is logic built into the survey, which is explained in the sections above, so not every question shown in this Word document will be shown to you in the survey.