Executive Order 13514: Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance
The Order aims to make GHG emission management a priority for federal agencies, thus establishing reporting requirements with detailed targets and deadlines. The focus is on transportation, overall energy use and procurement policies. All federal agencies are required to develop, implement and annually update a Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan that prioritises agency actions based on life-cycle return on investment. It also directs agencies to work on climate change adaptation. Supersedes E.O.13423: Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management.
The Order requires all Federal agencies to:
– Improve electronic product/service efficiency and stewardship as well as to follow pollution prevention and waste reduction requirements
– Improve fleet and transportation management
– Enhance efforts towards sustainable buildings and communities.
The Order directs government agencies to work on climate change adaptation, including:
– The appointment of an Adaptation Specialist
– Establishment of an Agency-wide Climate Change Adaptation Policy and Mandate
by June 2011
– Participation in Climate Change Adaptation workshops and education of all employees throughout 2011
– Identification and analysis of climate vulnerabilities that would interfere with the Agency’s mission (by March 2012)
– Implementation of the Adaptation Plan by September 2012.
Each federal agency must report a percentage GHG emissions reduction target for 2020 relative to a 2008 baseline to the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chair and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director. Additionally, each agency must produce an inventory of absolute GHG emissions on transportation, energy use and procurement for the fiscal year 2010 and then annually thereafter.
