The White House
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2021)
Reporting Period: 2021
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Supply Chain Resilience
- Manufacturing
- Economic Growth
- National Security
- Environmental Sustainability
- Labor Standards
- Equity
Environmental Achievements
- Increased capacity for vaccine production (implied, related to COVID-19 response)
Social Achievements
- Dramatically expanded the manufacture of vaccines and other essential supplies, enabling more than 137 million Americans to be fully vaccinated
- Worked with companies that manufacture and use computer chips to identify improvements in supply chain management practices
Governance Achievements
- Established an internal task force spanning more than a dozen Federal Departments and Agencies to review critical U.S. supply chains
- Consulted with hundreds of stakeholders from labor, business, academic institutions, Congress, and U.S. allies and partners
- Issued E.O. 14028 on “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity”
Climate Goals & Targets
Long-term Goals:
- Ensure that America's critical supply chains are resilient and secure for years to come
Medium-term Goals:
- Strengthen supply chains over time
Short-term Goals:
- Address existing shortages
Environmental Challenges
- Insufficient U.S. manufacturing capacity
- Misaligned incentives and short-termism in private markets
- Industrial policies adopted by allied, partner, and competitor nations
- Geographic concentration in global sourcing
- Limited international coordination
- Supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19 pandemic, extreme weather events, and geopolitical competition
Mitigation Strategies
- Strengthening U.S. manufacturing capacity for critical goods
- Recruiting and training workers
- Investing in research and development
- Working with America's allies and partners to strengthen collective supply chain resilience
- Launching the second phase of the supply chain initiative
- Implementing recommendations from the 100-day reports
- Establishing a Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force
- Creating a data hub to monitor near-term supply chain vulnerabilities
Supply Chain Management
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Physical Risks
- Extreme weather events