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Responses to Climate Change Program

Greenhouse Gas Accounting

RCC Program Home		Team Identification
Adaptation Challenges and Opportunities		Pilots and Demonstrations
Adaptation Implementation Framework		Regional Climate Impact Assessments
Climate Change Adaptation Communication		Regulatory Aspects of Climate Change and Adaptation
Coastal Storm Adaptation		Sea-Level Change Adaptation
Ecosystem Adaptation		Snow, Glacial, Ice Impacts and Adaptation
Greenhouse Gas Accounting		Vulnerability Assessments and Reporting
Hydrology to Support Adaptation		Water Management Adaptation

Adaptation to climate change includes a special category: adaptation to climate change mitigation activities. The release of Executive Order 13514 (Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance) in October 2009 requires Federal agencies to account for their greenhouse gas emissions in a comprehensive manner, set long-term targets for emissions reductions, and other related activities. It is clear that emissions reductions will impact project planning and construction as well as operations. USACE projects and programs must adapt to meeting these emissions targets. This team will develop a holistic approach to carbon budgeting, using both top-down and bottom-up accounting methods, automating them where possible, and developing a greenhouse gas wedge analysis. The accounting will build on existing efforts performed for the Army by the USACE ERDC-CERL and the Army Environmental Center and will be automated as much as possible to obtain data from existing USACE databases. The wedge analysis will assist reduction prioritization through improvements to multi-criteria decision-making already used in USACE planning.

revised 17 November 2011

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