DON has undertaken a complete and multifaceted method to deal with the pressing nationwide safety challenges posed by local weather change. By way of sturdy collaboration with companions, stakeholders, and specialists within the subject, the Division applied a variety of revolutionary measures that promote nationwide safety, power modernization, cut back vitality demand, and improve the survivability, adaptability, and lethality of our operations. Certainly one of these revolutionary measures was the issuance of a collection of memorandums as DON Chief Sustainability Officer to set and form the Division’s sustainability insurance policies and practices.
“The Division of the Navy is dedicated to making sure that the Navy and Marine Corps is the world’s biggest maritime combating power and the companion of selection for our worldwide allies and companions,” mentioned Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Vitality, Installations, and Setting) and Chief Sustainability Officer Meredith Berger. “We do this by sustaining each aggressive benefit, and for that cause we forcefully confront the nationwide safety threats posed by local weather change. By way of collaborative and revolutionary efforts, our Sailors, Marines, and devoted civilians have demonstrated that local weather readiness is mission readiness.”
A few of the main DON accomplishments from the final 12 months embody:
- The Naval Postgraduate College and The Stanford Doerr College of Sustainability established an academic partnership to mix analysis experience and assets to discover and deal with the growing challenges of worldwide local weather change, vitality safety, and sustainability for the navy. The DON performed two climate-focused tabletop workout routines which examined the impacts that local weather change has on mission, readiness, and warfighting capability.
- Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany grew to become the Division of Protection’s first vitality “net-zero” navy set up. MCLB Albany’s vitality enhancements save a whole lot of 1000’s of taxpayer {dollars} annually and cut back native air pollution by using clear vitality and diverting landfill methane air pollution into energy. The enhancements make the bottom and surrounding neighborhood extra resilient to vitality disruptions, and higher geared up to satisfy its major mission: guaranteeing that Marines around the globe have what they should combat and win.
- The Navy and the Port of San Diego signed a first-of-its-kind settlement to take part within the California Low Carbon Gas Normal credit score market. The Navy generated Low Carbon Gas Normal credit equal to $4.5 million by limiting emissions of greenhouse gasses from pier aspect ships at Naval Base San Diego, and it’ll reinvest these financial savings into vitality infrastructure.
- The Navy put in the superior International Vitality Info Methods (GENISYS) improve in twenty-three Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers. GENISYS collects, consolidates, processes, and presents vitality knowledge that offers commanders the flexibility to make knowledgeable selections on vitality utilization, availability, and effectivity.
Yr in Numbers:
- 595,000 bushes planted on DON lands
- 240,000 tons of carbon to be sequestered yearly by 2050 from revegetation and restoration tasks
- 926 electrical automobiles ordered throughout DON
- 3 new microgrid tasks awarded
- 10 set up pure infrastructure assessments
- 2 set up resilience plans finalized
- 6% discount in bought electrical energy from FY21 to FY22
DON Chief Sustainability Officer Serial Memos:
The Division of the Navy’s Sailors, Marines, and civilians are repeatedly figuring out revolutionary practices and options to the Division’s complicated issues. With the intention to faucet into this innovation occurring on the set up, group, and particular person degree, in addition to to harness the most effective concepts to satisfy its local weather and sustainability targets, members of the DON neighborhood are inspired to contribute their concepts and data by way of the Division’s local weather web site: www.secnav.navy.mil/local weather. If the Division proceeds with a submitted concept, they are going to be acknowledged by the Assistant Secretary (Vitality, Installations, and Setting) to the person(s) concerned. This new web site additionally options EI&E-focused information from across the DON and a one-stop-shop for all EI&E assets.
The Division’s Local weather Motion 2030 technique doc is accessible for obtain right here.
