State Department Not Measuring Its Greenhouse Gases Despite Biden Executive Order: GAO Report
Four hundred and fifty U.S. diplomatic officials and employees attended two U.N. climate conferences but nobody in the State Department knows how much greenhouse gases were emitted as a result despite President Joe Biden’s 2021 Executive Order directing the federal government to measure its emissions, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The U.S. delegation to the 26th U.N. Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, from Oct. 31 to Nov. 12, 2021, included 191 federal executive branch officials and employees, while the 27th edition of the same gathering (COP27) met in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from Nov. 6 to Nov. 20, 2022, with 259 U.S. officials in attendance….