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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2024 New York Clean Energy Industry Report

The 2024 New York Clean Energy Industry Report, released by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), provides data on the State's clean energy industry through the end of 2023. The report shows New York’s clean energy economy grew 5 percent from 2022 to 2023, which is more than double the statewide economic growth rate, and added more than 32,000 jobs since 2016, when NYSERDA first began tracking clean energy jobs.

DEC Announces Environmental Justice Community Impact Grant

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced that approximately $2 million in Environmental Justice Community Impact Grants is being awarded to support 21 community-based organizations with projects that address environmental and public health concerns. This funding assists communities in developing and implementing programs that address environmental harms and health hazards, build community consensus, set priorities, and improve public outreach and education.

FY26 Enacted Budget

Governor Kathy Hochul signed new legislation as part of the FY26 Enacted Budget to make major investments in New York’s environmental sustainability, agricultural industry, and state park system, including a historic $1 billion toward a cleaner and more sustainable New York. The Budget includes support for the Unplug & Play initiative which encourages New Yorkers to lead healthy and active lives through NYSWIMS, NYBRICKS, and NYPLAYS, crucial upgrades to public spaces from local playgrounds to the New York State Fairgrounds, hazardous waste removal and environmental clean-up efforts in disadvantaged communities, and the preservation of our waterways and farmlands. Governor Hochul’s proposed budget will provide the funding New York needs to protect and enhance our natural resources, expand our outdoor recreation opportunities, and drive economic growth through sustainable agriculture and eco-tourism.

Through the FY26 Budget, Governor Hochul reauthorized the state’s Hazardous Waste Superfund program, providing $1.25 billion over the course of ten years. The program will continue to remediate and restore industrial sites containing significant levels of hazardous waste. New amendments to the program strengthen DEC’s enforcement authority and requires DEC to prioritize the most hazardous sites in disadvantaged communities.

Hazardous Waste Superfund program

Governor Hochul’s Sustainable Future Program represents the largest climate investment in New York’s history, delivering over $1 billion in targeted funding to lower emissions, reduce household energy costs, and spur green job growth across every corner of the state. As enacted in the FY2026 Budget, the program dedicates more than $450 million to reducing building emissions – investing in energy-efficient retrofits, clean heating technologies like heat pumps, and expanded programs like EmPower Plus and Clean Green Schools. It also advances next-generation infrastructure, with over $200 million for thermal energy networks, including projects at SUNY and CUNY campuses and state and municipal facilities. To accelerate the shift to clean transportation, more than $250 million will support electric school buses, fast-charging stations, and NYSERDA’s Charge Ready NY initiative. Another $200 million will drive the expansion of renewable energy through projects led by NYPA and local governments, and by modernizing grid infrastructure.

Sustainable Future Program

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Order Authorizing the Clean Energy Fund Framework

Public Service Commission order creating the clean energy fund.

NYSERDA’s Heat Recovery Program is focused on energizing the New York marketplace for heat recovery solutions as an economical approach to decarbonization for a broad swath of existing buildings. The Program provides cost-share support for project assessment and design development to integrate heat recovery energy conservation measures within existing building retrofit and decarbonization plans. In August 2024, the Program introduced competitive implementation funding for heat recovery demonstration projects. Proposals could receive up to $2,000,000 of implementation funding for the proposed heat recovery project.

Heat Recovery Program

NYSERDA will award up to $10 million as part of the C&I Carbon Challenge, ranging from $500,000 to $3.75 million per successful proposal. Awards can be used to fund a single large project or a portfolio of projects. All proposals must include beneficial electrification, carbon capture, manufacturing process emission reductions or low-carbon fuel projects. Dispersed over three years, large energy consumers will use these funds to execute energy-saving/carbon-reduction projects. Awardees will continue to work closely with NYSERDA to update, refine, and implement their carbon reduction strategies over three years. Each awardee will also receive the benefit of a dedicated NYSERDA project manager and technical specialist to track progress, provide feedback and guidance on measures to be implemented, and collaborate with other NYSERDA partners.

Commercial & Industrial (C&I) Carbon Challenge

Developers of new technologies for the use of clean fuels find technical assistance and commercialization support in NYSERDA’s Hydrogen and Clean Fuel Program.
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- Clean hydrogen production utilizing renewables such as solar, wind, hydropower, and 
- Clean hydrogen infrastructure including transmission, distribution and 
- Clean hydrogen applications in transportation, building heating, industrial processes, power generation, grid firming and energy storage
- Innovation in other low carbon clean fuels, such as green ammonia and sustainable aviation fuel.

Hydrogen and Clean Fuels Program

The Clean Energy Fund (CEF), approved by the Public Service Commission (PSC) Order on January 21, 2016 and later modified on September 9, 2021 was established as a commitment to clean energy and efficiency measures, recognizing that deploying programs at scale has potential to address the pressing environmental and energy challenges, while providing enormous economic opportunity for New York.