NYC Government Publication
1.5 degrees celsius: Aligning New York City with the Paris Climate Agreement
In fulfillment of Mayor de Blasio's June executive order to adopt and commit the City to the principles of the Paris Agreement, this plan lists actions the City will take in the next three years to accelerate greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions and put the city on a path to deep de-carbonization. This is the first Paris Agreement-compliant plan from any city in the world. The 1.5 degrees celcius plan aligns local climate actions with a goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees celcius. A 1.5 degrees celcius outcome was agreed to in the Paris Agreement in order to limit the worst impacts of climate change. By implementing the identified prioritized set of actions across energy, transportation, building, and waste sectors by 2020, NYC will enable faster reductions of GHG over the following 30 years than even the already aggressive goals in the City's 80 x 50 plan - a plan to reduce GHG emissions 80% by 2050. The potential for GHG reduction of all the quantified actions in the report is 10 million metric tons of C02e - or the equivalent of taking more than 2 million cars off the road by 2030.
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- Date published
- 2017-10-03
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