Mayor de Blasio along with other members of his administration announced a goal to divest City funds from fossil fuel reserve owners within five years.
In this transcript, Mayor De Blasio introduced his plan for the city as a whole to divest from fossil fuels, making a connection with this plan to the major destruction of Superstorm Sandy.
, Mayor de Blasio met with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Commander Lieutenant General Todd T. Semonite where they mainly focused on coastal protections on the Rockaway peninsula and in Jamaica Bay.
The de Blasio administration announced that in efforts to boost adoption of solar energy a new community group purchasing campaign today that will serve the community of Brownsville, Brooklyn.
Mayor de Blasio along with other admin announced the next significant step toward achieving a first-in-the-nation goal of divestment from fossil fuel reserve owners.
The Guidelines provide step-by-step instructions on how to supplement historic climate data with specific, regional, forward looking climate change data in the design of City facilities.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs Abeywardena announced that NYC will publish its progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals on the status of efforts to achieve the global benchmarks to address poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030.
NYC Local Law 6 of 2016 required the City to develop and make publicly available, a pre-feasibility screening tool to determine the viability of installing a geothermal system for a particular building.
Mayor de Blasio announced six finalists for the NYCx Climate Action Challenge, which called on the tech industry to develop solutions for scaling electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and accelerating the use of EVs citywide.
Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs Penny Abeywardena announced that New York City had submitted an innovative review of its local progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to the United Nations
Mayor de Blasio announced the launch of PUREsoil NYC, an innovative initiative that recycles clean soil from construction projects in NYC to community uses, where it improves soil quality and increase resilience to the effects climate change.
Mayor Bill de Blasio signed legislation that will reduce the amount of waste that can be taken at transfer stations in four neighborhoods that bear the brunt of the city’s waste management infrastructure.
Mayor de Blasio along with other admin announced they would a new goal to double the investments of the NYC Funds in climate change solutions to $4 billion or 2% of the City’s $195 billion pension portfolio.
Mayor de Blasio addressed the public discussing the City's new plan to invest $4 billion into climate change solutions, stating the importance of working towards goals to limit the harm of climate change.
Mayor’s Office of Sustainability with support from the Department of Education announced that to begin Climate Week in the City they'd be launching BRING IT, a multi-channel campaign focused on helping students, and by extension their family and friends, reduce waste through advocacy and action.
The de Blasio administration announced their plans for their Long Island City Investment Strategy, which outlines the City's plans to invest $180 million in new City funding for infrastructure improvements, including schools, transportation, and open space.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is pursuing an energy policy of a "circular economy of organics," aiming to minimize organic waste sent to landfills and maximize the recovery and beneficial use of all resource streams.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Scott M. Stringer announced the next step in the City Pension Fund's efforts to fight climate change by divesting from fossil fuel reserve owners.