A net zero policy template with the commitment, a guidance line for your target year and interim targets, the measures that support it and the principles workers follow.
This policy template is supplied in fully editable MS Word format and can be easily customised and edited. The document uses pre-defined style formatting throughout, with all text in Calibri font for improved readability.
The following document labelling is included in the footer:
- Policy number and title
- Information-classification
- Version
- Page number / total pages
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Net Zero Policy Template
A net zero policy template committing to work towards net zero carbon emissions, recognising the need for more sustainability-orientated initiatives, eco-friendly solutions and environmental objectives.
The policy has Approved By and Date Approved fields and carries a Public information classification, so it can be shared with workers, clients and other interested parties.
What the Net Zero Policy Covers
- Commitment - working towards the goal of net zero carbon emissions
- Your targets - a guidance line for stating your target year and any interim reduction targets
- Monitoring and objectives - continuous monitoring of environmental performance, and setting and monitoring environmental objectives
- Reporting - reporting progress towards net zero to interested parties
- Impacts and policies - recording environmental impacts and keeping environmental policies up to date
- New initiatives - evaluating initiatives that would help achieve net zero
- Waste and lean working - minimising and reducing waste, and operating to lean management principles
- Procedures and suppliers - following environmental procedures, and considering and mitigating the impact of key suppliers
- Continuous improvement - in all areas of environmental performance
- Listening - to staff, customers and other interested parties on reducing environmental impacts
- Everyone's part - workers and contractors asked to play an active role
Written to Be Shared
Like every alphaZ policy, this is written as a public policy statement that can be shared openly with workers, customers, suppliers and assessors. The internal detail of how it is carried out belongs in your procedures.
Using the Policy
Add your company name and logo, check each commitment matches what your organisation does and edit any that do not, then approve and date the policy and share it with workers and anyone else who needs to see it.
Who Needs a Net Zero Policy?
Organisations that have committed to net zero or are asked by customers and tenders for their carbon reduction commitments.
Included in the ISO 14001 Toolkit
This policy is part of the ISO 14001 Toolkit and is also included in the ISO 9001, ISO 45001, ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 toolkits and every alphaZ ISO toolkit that combines them.
Works with the Carbon Management Plan
The F-IMS62 Carbon Management Plan sets out carbon reduction, and the ER34 Environmental Performance Register records environmental performance.
Document Control
The footer carries the policy number and title, information classification, version and page numbers, and the approval fields record who approved the policy and when, so it can be controlled with the rest of your management system documents and listed on a document register such as the F-IMS20 Document Register.
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