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In 2020 government established the Government Skills and Curriculum Unit. The Strategy indicates that this Unit is working with the Department to review the skills, training and networks that civil servants need to achieve net zero.76 In addition, the Department told us that government is also building its talent pipeline by, for example, embedding climate considerations in the Policy Profession Standards, the competency framework for civil servants developing policy, and introducing climate training into the Civil Service Fast Stream.77 66 Q 69 67 NAPIT, page 2 68 NAPIT, page 2 69 Net Zero Strategy, chapter 4, page 258–259, paras 54–58 70 Committee of Public Accounts, Achieving Net Zero, Forty-Sixth Report of Session 2019–21, HC 935, 1 March 2021, para 14 71 Q 71 72 Committee of Public Accounts, Specialist Skills in the civil service, Thirty-Second Report of Session 2019–21, HC 686, 11 December 2020, para 7 73 Cabinet Office, Declaration on Government Reform, June 2021, part 2 74 Q 71 75 Q 71 76 Net Zero Strategy, page 258, paras 54–55 77 Q 86; Net Zero Strategy, page 249, para 5; page 258–9, paras 56–58 16 Achieving Net Zero: Follow up Contributing to reducing global emissions