The Adams administration faces many pressing issues related to climate change—among them retrofitting large buildings for energy efficiency and opening streetscapes to pedestrians and bicycles. Here’s what some climate experts and advocates are hoping city officials prioritize.
While national measures to combat climate change have lagged, New York has in the last several years forged ahead, voting on bills aimed at decarbonization. Most recently, the city council in December passed a bill banning gas hookups in new buildings. (And at the very end of the year, the outgoing de Blasio administration released a climate resiliency plan for lower Manhattan.)
Asked about the new Adams administration and the
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