CEQ ISSUES GUIDANCE ON GREENHOUSE GAS ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING

摘要

The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released Guidance on Federal Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Reporting, which establishes government-wide requirements for measuring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions associated with federal agency operations. The guidance was announced at the first GreenGov Symposium, a three-day event held by CEQ from October 5-7, 2010, in Washington, D.C., that brought together a broad group of sustainability leaders to identify opportunities around greening the federal government. The guidance serves as the federal government's official greenhouse gas protocol and will be used by federal agencies to develop their first greenhouse gas inventories, which will be submitted annually beginning in January of 2011 as called for by Executive Order 13514, signed by President Barack Obama in October 2009.