Friday, October 6, 2017
New York City Issues Ambitious Climate Action Plan
Mayor Bill de Blasio has released a comprehensive plan outlining how New York City will attempt to comply with the goal of curbing global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The plan focuses on two deadlines: 2020 and 2050. City leaders had already committed to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 80 percent below 2005 levels by 2050. To keep to the 1.5 degrees target, New York has to reach carbon neutrality, or zero net emissions. And timing matters. To comply with the Paris Agreement, cities need to actually “frontload” emissions reductions, meaning doing more, sooner — in New York City’s case, by 2020. …