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United Kingdom
Freeports Programme
Alongside our partners PA Consulting, WSP has acted as a key advisor to the UK Government’s Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on the development and set-up of the UK freeports programme. Announced in early 2021, freeports seek to address embedded issues of sub-regional economic underperformance, while boosting the UK’s international trade and providing a platform for industrial innovation, especially in renewable and future energy systems. Our team has provided advice and analysis across a wide range of topics, including industry sector prioritisation, business case, economic impact assessment, implementing tax incentives and measuring tax benefits, as well as planning policy and complex site development. The work has required ongoing interaction with both the national government and individual freeports.
National Highways net zero and PAS2080
WSP was the lead advisor to National Highways in developing and implementing an ambitious roadmap to net zero by 2050. The plan delivers strong action from the outset and draws on WSP’s experience in environmental science, management consultancy and engineering expertise. We brought together a collaborative project team and worked with our client’s Board and Executive Committee, through to the practitioners who would lead the implementation of the plan. This collaborative approach helped to create a plan which is both ambitious and deliverable and which positions the Strategic Road Network at the heart of delivering net zero. As part of a follow-up to the plan, our transformation experts helped National Highways become the world’s first roads organisation to achieve the PAS2080 global carbon management standard.
Drax
WSP is supporting Drax Group in their carbon management journey. This includes working with Drax UK Generating Assets to review their existing net zero work, via a gap analysis and reviewing their carbon baseline. Similarly, we are supporting Drax North America Pellet to review their carbon baseline and provide guidance on measuring the impact of their operations and interventions on the net zero plan. We have also worked with the Drax Commercial department, undertaking a review and gap analysis. This helped develop a net zero pathway, modelling different interventions and preparing an operational plan to identify commercial interventions to support their net zero journey. Our work with Drax has also involved wider sustainability. We worked with their recently acquired Scottish hydropower assets to identify and bridge the gaps between their activities and Drax Group’s Sustainability Strategy. This involved identifying opportunities and actions for them to take to assist them in implementing and aligning sustainability activities across the pillars of Climate, Nature, and People.Reducing carbon is not just the right thing to do, it's become an existential driver for anyone in the design, construction or operation of buildings or infrastructure. Organisations require a coordinated effort to close the strategic gap.
