Climate Change Data

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Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• America’s advantage in science, math and technology is eroding.
• Our systems of basic scientific research and education are in crisis, while other countries are redoubling their efforts.
• Continuing security vulnerability
• The growing innovation capacity of our economic competitors makes it increasingly important to make our own economy more flexible and responsive.
• The United States trade deficit with other nations continues to rise.
• Pirating and counterfeiting has grown to an estimated $200 billion a year problem and the theft of artistic and scientific creation is draining our economy.
• Concerns have been raised that the processing time required for export licenses may disadvantage U.S. businesses as they compete in the global market place.
• Disturbing allegations of sex abuse of minors by U.N. peacekeepers and civilian personnel have led to significant reform in the planning and conduct of peacekeeping missions.
• The continuing lack of progress in resolving the dispute over the Western Sahara, despite an enormous investment of funds in the U.N. Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) peacekeeping mission.

Mitigation Strategies

• The American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) supports bold investments in science and innovation, including investments in research and development, science education, and entrepreneurship.
• The Committee intends to ensure that a framework is established and followed [for right-sizing the Nation’s overseas presence].
• Increases or expansions should be justified in terms of mission priorities both within the agency, and within the specific diplomatic mission, and should be, to the maximum extent possible, accompanied by offsetting decreases to maximize the allocation of scarce resources to emerging priorities.
• A proper plan should include a systematic analysis to bring about a reconfiguration of overseas staffing to the minimum level necessary to meet critical U.S. foreign policy goals.
• The Committee urges the USTR to take action to ensure countries, including the PRC, are fulfilling their commitments to the World Trade Organization (WTO), including the safeguards delineated under the Trade Act of 1974 to address the disruptions resulting from unbalanced trade with the PRC.
• The recommendation will assist the BIS to process an increased licensing volume.
• The Committee strongly urges the Administration, including the State Department, to continue to pursue the recommendations contained in the Prince Zeid report, including personal accountability, and improvements in the systems of justice in troop contributing countries as a means to restore confidence in peacekeeping missions.
• Further, the Committee directs the U.S. to work to ensure adequate training is provided to peacekeeping personnel prior to deployment.
• The Committee urges the Department to work to encourage a negotiated settlement to the dispute and bring to an end the costly U.N. peacekeeping presence associated with a referendum settlement program that has failed to materialize over the past decade and that the Secretary General and his Personal Envoy abandoned as unworkable four years ago.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Environmental Metrics

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Continued fiscal constraint and downward pressure on discretionary spending.
• Cost overruns and schedule slippages on major projects (e.g., NOAA satellites).
• Rising costs of incarceration.
• Rising costs of the decennial census.
• Widespread errors in travel disclosures.
• Persistent pattern of cost overruns and schedule slippages on major projects.
• Lack of accountability and oversight of grant funding.
• Inability of departments and agencies to complete and submit congressionally mandated reports on time.

Mitigation Strategies

• Greater scrutiny on overhead costs (reducing non-essential travel, office supplies, rent, and utility costs).
• Lowering travel contractor costs.
• Reducing official reception and representation funds.
• Bill-wide provisions to ensure greater oversight and fiscal responsibility (immediate notification of cost overruns, Inspector General reviews of grant and contract funds, reporting on large conferences, prohibiting grants to tax cheats and felons).
• GAO reviews of large NASA projects and the James Webb Space Telescope.
• Reprogramming procedures to provide flexibility to meet changing circumstances.
• Requiring departments and agencies to submit fiscal year 2016 budget justifications concurrently with the administration’s budget.
• Directing departments and agencies to submit reports by their deadlines or provide advance notification if deadlines cannot be met.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

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Social Achievements

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Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Cost overruns and schedule slippages on major projects and missions.
• Lack of accountability and oversight of grant funding.
• Millions of taxpayer dollars spent on wasteful printing practices.
• Persistent pattern of cost overruns and schedule slippages on major projects and missions.
• Low patent fee collections at USPTO.
• Increasing amounts of funding needed to support the Department’s Office of General Counsel.
• Recent closures of nuclear power plants.
• Insufficient and incomplete crime and arrest data submitted to the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division.
• Rates of prescription drug opioid abuse and related overdoses among veterans.
• Allegations of diversion of prescription opioids from Veterans Health Administration facilities.
• Use of contraband cell phones in BOP facilities.
• Insufficient and incomplete crime and arrest data submitted by States and law enforcement agencies to the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division.

Mitigation Strategies

• Six bill-wide provisions to ensure greater oversight and fiscal responsibility of taxpayer dollars (requiring notification of cost overruns, IG reviews of grant and contract funds, reporting on large conferences, prohibiting grants to tax cheats and felons, linking contracts to acquisition outcomes, and GAO reviews of large-scale projects).
• Directing each agency to work with OMB to reduce printing and reproduction by 34%.
• Requiring USPTO to include a long-term plan for significantly reducing its costs and expenditures if patent fee collections remain low.
• Directing EDA to help identify and develop best practices to assist communities affected by nuclear power plants closures.
• Directing the Department to provide a report detailing how previously appropriated funds for BAS were spent.
• Directing the DEA to maintain open communication with the VHA and treat investigations of drug diversion in VHA facilities as a priority.
• Directing the BOP to submit a report detailing methods and procedures on how BOP can achieve a total communications blackout between incarcerated and free members of criminal networks.
• Directing the Department to derive a plan of action for helping law enforcement agencies submit NIBRS data to CJIS.

Supply Chain Management

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Responsible Procurement

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Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

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Transition Risks

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Reporting Standards

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UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Sustainable Products & Innovation

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Awards & Recognition

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Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

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Environmental Achievements

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Social Achievements

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Governance Achievements

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Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• 2020 Census is a Government Accountability Office (GAO) high-risk area with significant cost overruns.
• Concerns about the burdensome nature of the American Community Survey (ACS).
• Concerns about the number of high-risk information technology vulnerabilities at NOAA.
• Concerns about the ongoing backlog in processing firearms licensing applications within the 60-day timeframe.
• Concerns about ATF’s failure to prioritize improvement of eForms.
• Concerns about the challenges with NOAA’s satellite programs, identified by the GAO, OIG, and the NESDIS Independent Review Team (IRT).
• Concerns about the rising use of contraband cellular phones and devices in BOP or BOP-contracted facilities.
• Concerns about the difficulty and complexity of tracking inmates who re-offend across Federal, State and local jurisdictions.

Mitigation Strategies

• Withholds funds for information technology related to the 2020 census until a comprehensive investment plan is provided.
• Caps total life-cycle costs for programs that have a record of poor performance, including weather satellites and the James Webb Space Telescope.
• Requires monthly reporting on Immigration Judge performance.
• Maintains limitations on the Department of Justice’s use of non-appropriated funds.
• Requires quarterly reporting of unobligated balances.
• Requires agencies procuring sensitive information technology systems to conduct supply chain risk assessments.
• Requires contractors and grantees receiving more than $5,000,000 to certify that they are not delinquent on their Federal taxes.
• NOAA shall, within 180 days of enactment of this Act, report to the Committee on progress made in retiring high-risk vulnerabilities and plans to continue to improve information technology security.
• The Committee expects the Department of Commerce to ensure that these critical programs are proceeding within the cost estimates and meeting program milestones.
• The Department of Commerce and NOAA shall remain engaged in the overall management of JPSS, Polar Follow-On, and GOES.
• NOAA shall continue to provide quarterly briefings to the Committee on all NOAA satellite programs.
• BOP must ensure that incarcerated individuals, who use these illicit devices, will no longer have access to the networks and spectrum to direct activities in or beyond the prison.
• The Committee directs the BOP to act upon the recommendations of its 2016 report on this subject and to take steps to thwart illegal inmate telecommunications and help protect officers and the public, while not interfering with the rights of law-abiding citizens to use the public airwaves.

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: Not disclosed

Responsible Procurement

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Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

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Transition Risks

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Opportunities

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Reporting Standards

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Certifications: Null

Third-party Assurance: Not disclosed

UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Sustainable Products & Innovation

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Awards & Recognition

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