Climate Change Data

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