Executive Order 13693: Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade
Adopted in March 2015, the Executive Order 13693 ‘Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade’, sets a new target for the federal government’s GHG emissions to be reduced by 40%, and the share of renewable electricity consumed by the federal agencies to increase to 30% by 2025 (compared to 2008). This is to be done through a broad range of measures that aim to make the federal government’s operations more sustainable, efficient and energy-secure. These include:
• promote building energy conservation, efficiency, and management (over 2016-2025 reduce building energy intensity by 2.5% annually; from 2020 all new buildings greater than 5,000 gross square feet are to be energy and, where feasible, water or waste net-zero by 2030);
• ensure that at an increasing share of the total amount of building electric and thermal energy are clean energy (starting at minimum 10% in fiscal year 2016-2017, continuously increasing to minimum 25% by 2025);
• ensure that specific percentage of the total amount of building electric energy consumed by the agency is renewable electric energy (starting at minimum 10% in fiscal year 2016-2017, continuously increasing to minimum 30% by 2025);
• improve agency fleet and vehicle efficiency and management with fleet of at least 20 motor vehicles (reduce fleet-wide per-mile GHG emissions: starting at minimum 4% in fiscal year 2014 and continuously increasing to minimum 30% by 2025; increase the share of zero emission or plug-in hybrid vehicles to 20% of all new passenger vehicle acquisitions by 2020 and 50% by 2025).
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Energy Supply Energy Demand Transportation Institutions / Administrative arrangementsNote: The 2015 Climate Legislation Study includes laws and policies which were passed before or on January 1, 2015. Laws and policies which passed after this date may not be included in the individual country chapters.
