Executive Order 13514

Credit To: US Department of Energy

Strategic Sustainability Performance Planning

Federal agencies are required to develop, implement, and annually update a Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan that prioritizes agency actions based on life-cycle return on investment. Between fiscal years 2011 and 2021, each plan shall:

• Include a policy statement committing the agency to comply with environmental and energy statutes, regulations, and executive orders.
• Achieve established sustainability goals and targets, including greenhouse gas reduction targets.
• Be integrated within each agency's strategic planning and budgeting process.
• Identify agency activities, policies, plans, procedures, and practices relevant to the implementation of E.O. 13514 and, where necessary, provide for development and implementation of new or revised policies, plans, procedures, and practices.
• Identify specific agency goals, schedules, milestones, and approaches for achieving results and quantifiable metrics required by E.O. 13514.
• Outline planned actions to provide information about agency progress, performance, and results on a publicly available Federal Web site.
• Incorporate actions for achieving progress metrics identified by the CEQ Chair and OMB Director.
• Evaluate agency climate change risks and vulnerabilities to manage the effects of climate change on the agency's operations and mission in both the short and long term.
• Consider environmental measures as well as economic benefits, social benefits, and costs in evaluating projects and activities based on life-cycle return on investment.
• Annually identify opportunities for improvement and evaluate past performance to extend or expand projects that have net benefits as well as reassess or discontinue under-performing projects.

The CEQ Chair and OMB Director are responsible for reviewing and approving each agency's multi-year strategic sustainability performance plan.
A list of all Strategic Sustainability Plans for each agency is available on the OMB Web site.

Greenhouse Gas Management

Greenhouse gas management is imperative within E.O. 13514. Each Federal agency must:

• Within 90 days, establish and report to the CEQ Chair and OMB Director a fiscal year 2020 percentage reduction target of agency-wide scope 1 and scope 2 GHG emissions in absolute terms relative to a fiscal year 2008 baseline.
  • In establishing the target, agencies shall consider reductions associated with:
    • Reducing agency building energy intensity.
    • Increasing agency renewable energy use and on-site projects.
    • Reducing agency use of fossil fuels by:
      • Using low GHG emitting and alternative fuel vehicles.
      • Optimizing vehicle numbers across agency fleets.
      • Reducing petroleum consumption in agency fleets of 20 or more 2% annually through fiscal year 2020 relative to a fiscal year 2005 baseline.
  • Where appropriate, this target shall exclude direct emissions from excluded vehicles and equipment as well as electric power produced and sold commercially to other parties in the course of regular business.
• Within 240 days, establish and report to the CEQ Chair and OMB Director a fiscal year 2020 percentage reduction target for agency-wide scope 3 GHG emissions in absolute terms relative to a fiscal year 2008 baseline.
  • In establishing the target, agencies shall consider reductions associated with:
    • Pursuing opportunities with vendors and contractors to address and incentivize GHG emission reductions.
    • Implementing strategies and accommodations for transit, travel, training, and conferences that actively reduce carbon emissions associated with commuting and travel by agency staff.
    • Meeting greenhouse gas emissions reductions associated with other Federal Government sustainability goals.
    • Implementing innovative policies and practices that address agency-specific scope 3 GHG emissions.
• Within 15 months, establish and report to the CEQ Chair and OMB Director a comprehensive inventory of absolute GHG emissions across all three scopes for fiscal year 2010. Comprehensive inventories shall be submitted annually thereafter at the end of each January.

*Read more at http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/regulations/eo13514.html