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title: Climate Recitals
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date: 2024-03-27T14:16:07Z
modified: 2025-10-20T13:10:29Z
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jurisdiction:
  - England &amp; Wales
maintenance-status:
  - Maintained
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  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
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# 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 \[have signed up to the [Race to Zero](https://racetozero.unfccc.int/system/race-to-zero/?_gl=1*y79oti*_ga*MjA2NDczMzIzMC4xNjk5MzY5NDIz*_ga_7ZZWT14N79*MTcwOTU2NzQxMy45LjEuMTcwOTU3MTExOC4wLjAuMA) and\] 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](https://chancerylaneproject.org/glossary/just-transition/) to a low-carbon economy \[through credible and consistent carbon reduction\] OR \[through achieving year on year reductions in [GHG Emissions](https://chancerylaneproject.org/glossary/greenhouse-gas-emissions/) consistent with the objectives in recital (A)\].

## Updates

**February 2025**

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