Common use of Net Zero Clause in Contracts

Net Zero. 5.3.1. The Governing Body commits to owning, updating, and devoting appropriate resources to the delivery of the Net Zero strategy at 1g in the Strategic Case of the FBC, including: a) Ensuring that transformational growth supported by Solent Freeport is achieved in a way that reduces carbon and adapts to the significant challenges posed by climate change. b) Harnessing the Solent’s unrivalled natural capital to pioneer clean growth technology and adaptation to drive productivity within the Freeport and across the wider region’s business and employment base, and at the same time enhance the quality of local environmental assets for the benefit of our communities. c) Supporting the UK’s Net Zero ambitions through site-specific developments as well as a range of Freeport-wide interventions and initiatives to achieve latest emissions targets including Net Zero by 2050. d) Working with sites and other partners within the outer boundary and across the wider Solent region so that there is a consistent and complementary area-wide approach that ensures alignment with relevant local Net Zero plans and sector specific initiatives, including those agreed with government. e) Be cognisant of sectoral carbon emissions targets and decarbonisation strategies being developed at national level by government in collaboration with industry as part of the wider UK strategy for reducing emissions. 5.3.2. The Governing Body will be supported by BEIS’s Local Net Zero team which will provide a first point of contact and manage support for the delivery of the Freeport’s Net Zero plans. This support may be through ongoing engagement, providing guidance and advice on Net Zero topics and will be either with officials across HMG or through the appropriate Local Net Zero Hub.