How to slash buildings’ growing greenhouse gas emissions
Carbon dioxide coming from the buildings where we live and work set a new record in 2019. What’s more, those planet-heating emissions will probably keep...
Con Edison Contracts Its Biggest Battery to Date in New York City
New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid...
NYC’s climate change concern theater
New York City finally released recently its own long-delayed report card on environmental progress recently — more than a year late. The results were concerning...
SWATHS OF BROOKLYN COASTLINE TO BE FLOODED ANNUALLY BY 2050: STUDY
Miles of low-lying neighborhoods along Brooklyn’s coast will suffer annual floods by 2050 because of rising sea levels, scientists predict in a new interactive map.
8 Years After Sandy, New York City Lags On Climate. Will The 2021 Election Change That?
New Yorkers keep voting for climate hard-liners. Next year, they’ll choose a new mayor, comptroller and a majority of the City Council.
This is New York in the not-so-distant future
For the past 15 years or so, Jacob has been primarily preoccupied with a more existential danger: the rising sea. The latest scientific findings suggest...
A Climate Center on Governors Island? Could Be a Game Changer
A rezoning proposal that has been floating around is finally up for city review. This kind of development is just what New York needs now.
New Tools Track Action on Climate Laws in New York State and NYC
Two tools, recently launched by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, will help to monitor progress in implementing new climate laws...