Climate Science & Green Tech

Climate Leaders provides direct technical assistance to companies in completing a GHG inventory based on standardized accounting practices1 and an Inventory Management Plan2 to ensure credibility and consistency in emissions data, both of which are essential to tracking progress towards meeting a GHG reduction goal. Climate Leaders has also developed a goal-setting review process based on a performance benchmark methodology to ensure that all goals announced under the program are indicative of corporate leadership on climate change, as well as to provide credible third-party feedback to companies prior to their public announcement of a GHG reduction goal.

Performance Benchmark Data Sources

• To develop a baseline estimate, EPA sought publicly available, data-driven, company-relevant projections of future use of fuels and electricity, normalized to a measure of output or business scale. EPA found that, outside of electric utilities, for which a separate model, the Integrated Planning Model, is required and available, there are three different data sources, which have some overlap, and which jointly provide the best available basis for such projections:

1. 1) The Energy Information Administration (EIA)'s Industrial Demand Module (IDM) for projections for a set of 15 energy intensive industries;
2. 2) The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) historical and projected input/output tables for the U.S. economy divided into 200 sectors; and
3. 3) The EIA's projections for energy intensity of commercial buildings.

Phase 1—Identify Your Needs

• Approach the problem as a Governance Risk and Compliance Issue.
• Goals and Risks should be determined by Steering Committee.
• Bring a clearly defined business objective to the Board.
• Seek Industry Appropriate Guidance
• World Resource Institute (WRI) 2006 SWITCHING TO GREEN, A Renewable Energy Guide for Office and Retail Companies
• Clean Energy Strategies for Local Governments Green Power Procurement
• Identify Your Industry's Market Measures
• Influence Intelligent Measures in your Sector
• Build Green Into Existing Enterprise Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) Programs
• Earn Recognition by Setting a Public Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Goal

EPA Climate Leaders

Corporate-wide (including at least all U.S. operations)

• Based on the most recent base year data
• Achieved over 5 to 10 years
• Expressed as an absolute GHG reduction or as a decrease in GHG intensity
• Aggressive compared to the projected GHG performance for the Partner's sector
• Quantify Risk Appetite And Risk History
• Remember GRC Reduces Cost through Convergence

INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO/IEC 38500 ISO - Performance of the organization

Proper Corporate Governance of IT assists directors to ensure that IT use contributes positively to the performance of the organization, through:

• Appropriate Implementation And Operation of IT Assets
• Clarity of Responsibility And Accountability For Both The Use And Provision of IT In Achieving The Goals of The Organization
• Business Continuity And Sustainability
• Alignment of IT With Business Needs
• Efficient Allocation of Resources
• Innovation In Services, Markets, And Business
• Good Practice In Relationships With Stakeholders
• Reduction In The Costs For An Organization
• Actual Realization of The Approved Benefits From Each IT Investment

INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO/IEC 38500

• Invoke and Involve LEED Certification
• LEED® is a third-party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high-performance green buildings.
• LEED® promotes a whole-building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in five key areas of human and environmental health:
• sustainable site development,
• water savings,
• energy efficiency,
• materials selection and
• indoor environmental quality.
• Federal Funding for Green Construction is at an all-time high.
• The Army Did - Army Strategy for the Environment (ASE):
• Sustain the Mission, Secure the Future
• Army vision for a sustainable Army—coordinated across all Army functional areas—
• Foster an ethic within the Army that takes us beyond environmental compliance to sustainability.
• Strengthen Army operational capability by reducing our environmental footprint through more sustainable practices.
• Meet current and future training, testing, and other mission requirements by sustaining land, air, and water resources.

Minimize impacts and total ownership costs of Army systems, materiel, facilities, and operations by integrating the principles and practices of sustainability.