Climate Leaders is an EPA industry-government partnership that encourages companies to develop long-term comprehensive climate change strategies. This fact sheet offers a primer on the steps undertaken by Climate Leaders partners to establish a greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal.

The goal must be:

-- Corporate-wide (including at least all U.S. operations)

-- Based on the most recent base year data

-- Achieved over 5 to 10 years

-- Expressed as an absolute GHG reduction or as a decrease in GHG intensity

-- Aggressive compared to the projected GHG performance for the Partner's sector