Alliance members are working to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius by reducing emissions, accelerating action, centering equity, and tracking progress. 

Explore New York's policies and actions across the Alliance's 10 key policy areas. Numbers presented below only reflect the number of policies in this database and thus may not reflect all climate policies pursued.

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GHG Targets + Governance

Just Transition + Equity

Industry

Pricing Carbon + Valuing Damages

Electricity

Transportation

Resilience

Natural + Working Lands

Climate Finance

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Empire Building Challenge

The Empire Building Challenge (EBC) is a public-private partnership between NYSERDA and leading commercial and multifamily real estate owners that is elevating new design approaches for low-carbon retrofits in New York’s tallest buildings. Through demonstration projects across New York State, EBC showcases best-in-class resource efficient decarbonization strategies (RED). The EBC also provides comprehensive resources and a knowledge-sharing platform, the Retrofit Playbook for Large Buildings Link opens in new window - close new window to return to this page., to support building owners, operators, and their engineering and design teams in creating realistic decarbonization roadmaps, and in making the business case for technically and financially viable solutions.

Senate Bill S6408C

Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state transportation, economic development and environmental conservation budget for the 2016-2017 state fiscal year.

Establishes the Municipal ZEV Program to provide rebates to cities, towns, villages, and counties of the State of New York to encourage and enable ZEV adoption by municipalities for fleet use as well as install electric vehicle charging and hydrogen fuel filling station components primarily for public use.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced a new $4.5 million grant program aimed at creating large forested areas on private lands to combat climate change and enhance biodiversity. Through the Establishing Large Forests (ELF) Grant Program, private landowners with five or more acres of land can apply for funding to support reforestation projects. This initiative is part of the state’s broader goals to plant 25 million trees by 2033 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

Made possible by funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Partnership for Climate-SMART Commodities grant to New York, the ELF program expands on DEC’s Regenerate NY Forestry Cost Share Grant Program. The program is intended to support projects that provide critical wildlife habitats, improve air and water quality, and support renewable timber resources.

Establishing Large Forests Grant Program

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The Municipal ZEV Program was established in 2016 to provide rebates to cities, towns, villages, and counties of the State of New York to encourage and enable ZEV adoption by municipalities for fleet use as well as install electric vehicle charging and hydrogen fuel filling station components primarily for public use.

The Municipal ZEV Rebate provides rebates to cities, towns, villages, and counties to purchase or lease (for at least 36 months) eligible new zero-emission vehicles for fleet use.

The Municipal ZEV Infrastructure Grant program provides grants to cities, towns, villages, and counties to install hydrogen fuel filling station components and Level 2 (L2) and direct current fast charge (DCFC) electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) primarily for public use.

Municipal Zero-emission Vehicle (ZEV) Program

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Senate Bill S801

Directs the state energy conservation construction code to set standards for electric vehicle charging stations and electric vehicle ready parking spaces in certain new buildings.