climate-recitals.md

title: Climate Recitals excerpt: date: 2024-03-27T14:16:07Z modified: 2025-10-20T13:10:29Z file_type: md permalink: clauses/climate-recitals.html wpid: 2043 status: publish type: clause jurisdiction:

• England & Wales maintenance-status:
• Maintained eleventyComputed: clause_child_name: "Eddie's Recitals" clause_summary: Recitals that confirm the intentions of the parties to perform the contract in a way that reduces their organisational greenhouse gas emissions and the emissions associated with the contract.  clause_last_updated_date: 2025-02-06 layout: layouts/clause.njk

Climate Recitals

Child’s name

Eddie's Recitals

Summary

Recitals that confirm the intentions of the parties to perform the contract in a way that reduces their organisational greenhouse gas emissions and the emissions associated with the contract.

What this clause does

These recitals make climate a key consideration for the contract parties. While non-binding, recitals that expressly refer to climate raise the prominence of climate in the contractual relationship and signal the importance of climate to the parties when performing the contract.

Clause Content

(A) The parties [have signed up to the Race to Zero and] acknowledge their common intention to:

(1) achieve their respective [decarbonisation OR net-zero] targets; and

(2) align with the objectives of the UNFCCC’s Paris Agreement, in particular pursuing efforts to limit global temperature increase to 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial levels and achieve net-zero or net-negative emissions by 2050 or sooner.

(B) The parties agree to pursue [recital (A)] in a manner that promotes a Just Transition to a low-carbon economy [through credible and consistent carbon reduction] OR [through achieving year on year reductions in GHG Emissions consistent with the objectives in recital (A)].

Updates

February 2025

This clause has been updated following a routine Quality Assurance review.