What is the Better Climate Challenge?
The Better Climate Challenge is a voluntary, market-based platform for organizations to set ambitious, portfolio-wide, operational GHG emissions reduction goals and showcase how they are taking steps to address climate change.
More specifically, partnering organizations commit to reducing their scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by at least 50% within 10 years. Partners also set an energy efficiency target as well, typically 20%.
By accelerating energy efficiency and other clean energy investments, reporting on progress, and sharing their plans and solutions for meeting their ambitious goals, partners help pave the way for others.
DOE will support this transformative market leadership program through technical assistance, facilitating peer-to- peer learning opportunities, sharing the work of leaders, and highlighting real-world replicable solutions.
What Kind of Organizations Can Join?
Any organization with a portfolio of buildings/plants/housing in the U.S. is welcome to join. Through this Challenge, DOE is striving to work with organizations across the U.S. economy to ensure broad participation and highlight leadership from a diverse array of public and private organizations across geographies.
Why Should Organizations Join?
Through the Better Climate Challenge, DOE provides a national platform for organizations to make public commitments, share replicable solutions, leverage technical expertise, and gain recognition. The program builds upon the success of the Better Buildings, Better Plants Challenge and provides value to partnering organizations in the following ways:
Engage in Market Transformation with Elite Leaders
More than 950 organizations partner with DOE in
the Better Buildings Initiative and represent market leaders in nearly every sector, including industrial, commercial, public, education, multifamily, and residential.
Partnering organizations can access this network of technical and industry experts to develop innovative cost-effective GHG reduction solutions.
Peer-to-Peer Exchange and Technical Assistance Network
Access technical assistance through DOE’s
national labs.
Peer-exchange opportunities to learn and share real-world challenges and solutions through webinars, conferences, regional meetups, and other events.
Recognition
National recognition for achieving program milestones and GHG emissions reduction results.
What About My Organization’s Other Goals and Commitments?
Any organization willing to set a portfolio wide goal of at least 50% emissions reduction over 10 years is welcome to join the Better Climate Challenge.
This Challenge is intended to complement existing goals and commitments while adding value through a national platform for peer-to-peer learning, development of real- world pathways, and technical assistance from DOE.
Organizations that have established other similarly aligned commitments are encouraged to reach out to DOE to discuss how they can participate. For example, DOE will accept pre-established goals from organizations with an approved 1.5° Celsius aligned science-based target, on a case-by-case basis.
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