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Climate Works for All: A Platform for Reducing Emissions, Protecting Our Communities, and Creating Good Jobs for New Yorkers is an eye-opening report about the potential for creating good jobs making New York City more sustainable and resilient.

The report brings together the best analysis, evidence, data, and policy thinking to show how New York City can tackle income inequality and climate change at the same time. It includes ten pragmatic proposals that, if enacted together, would create nearly 40,000 good jobs a year. Those proposals include:

1. Requiring Large-Building Energy-Efficiency Retrofits
2. Replacing Damaged NYCHA Boilers with Combined Heat and Power Units and
3. Renewable Energy Systems
4. Expanding the Green Jobs – Green New York Program for NYC
5. Installing Solar Energy on the Rooftops of NYC’s 100 Largest Schools
6. Replacing Leaking Natural Gas Lines throughout NYC
7. Upgrading NYC’s Energy Distribution Systems by Investing in Microgrids
8. Improving Flood Protection and Stormwater Management Infrastructure
9. Reducing Transportation Emissions by Investing in Increased Bus Rapid Transit and
10. Restoring Cut Train Lines
11. Improving NYC’s Public Health System by Investing in Resilient Public Hospitals
12. Increasing the Efficiency of Commercial Waste Hauling and Recycling Rates

“We have an unprecedented opportunity to do right by our workers and communities vulnerable to the impacts of climate change by building infrastructure in a sustainable way,” said Kim Glas, BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director. “Efforts to curb emissions are a good start, but there is a vast and untapped potential that exists in initiatives that mandate energy efficiency retrofits in New York’s largest buildings and replace inefficient boilers for example. Strategies like these can truly transform New York into a safer, more equitable city of the future.”

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