U.S. General Services Administration
By addressing climate risks, GSA is creating innovative economic opportunities that advance clean energy goals, create jobs, develop healthy and prosperous communities, and save taxpayer money. GSA has committed to 100 percent renewable electricity sources for its federally-owned real estate portfolio by 2025. This is an important first step towards the federal government’s commitment to 100 percent 24/7 carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035.
Climate literacy
The U.S. Global Change Research Program provides a gateway to authoritative science, tools, resources and webinars to help manage risks and respond to changing environmental conditions. GSA developed a resource on SFTool that decodes climate science’s unique vocabulary and serves as a primer for building personnel new to the topic of climate change or looking for additional resources.
Environmental justice
Environmental Justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental policies. Extreme weather events, reduced air quality, and sea-level rise may exacerbate environmental and public health challenges facing minority communities and low-income communities.
Agency leadership
The GSA Administrator is a member of the National Climate Task Force, formed by Executive Order 14008 to chart progress on administration initiatives and goals focusing on tackling climate change, creating good-paying union jobs, and achieving environmental justice. Our Chief Sustainability Officer coordinates agency-wide sustainability goals, the annual climate and sustainability plans, and monitoring of agency progress in meeting those goals.
Supply chain risk management framework
The Framework for Managing Climate Risks to Federal Agency Supply Chains provides guidance to federal agencies ready to assess observed and expected climate or weather-related risks to supply chains and develop plans to minimize those risks.
Enhancing resilience by adapting to observed and expected changes in climate
GSA screens all capital projects for sensitivity to the observed and expected changes in climate to inform adaptation actions. GSA created a workshop process in 2014, Enhancing Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability to Observed and Expected Changes in Climate, based on NASA’s seven-step process, to combine best practices from the federal community to address changes in climate and help users to identify risks and develop strategies to secure vulnerable real property investments and supply chains.
Climate change risk management plan
Our updated Climate Change Risk Management Plan [PDF - 712 KB] describes steps to make operations and assets climate ready. GSA will work to address the impacts of climate change, such as extreme heat and sea level rise, using a risk management framework. This will allow us to integrate the plan’s actions and goals into our enterprise risk management processes, ensuring the impacts of climate change are assessed and managed throughout GSA.
