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This policy requires new employment development to minimise its carbon footprint through climate adaptation and mitigation measures. Renewable energy generation must be built into all new employment schemes unless there is specific justification that it would be inappropriate for the location or type of development. Retrofitting existing workplaces to improve energy efficiency and add low carbon technologies will be supported, as will employment proposals that contribute to innovation in the low-carbon and renewable energy sector.
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Policy EC.1
Low Carbon Economy
New employment development should minimise its carbon footprint through the
incorporation of climate adaptation and mitigation techniques.
The retrofitting of existing employment development to improve energy efficiency and
incorporate low carbon technologies will be supported.
Renewable energy generation must be incorporated into all new employment
development proposals, unless specific justification can be provided that it would be
inappropriate to the location and/or type of development.
Employment development proposals that contribute towards innovation in the low -
carbon and renewable energy sector will be supported in principle.