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 Generation

Transportation

Resilience

Natural + Working Lands

Climate Finance

Buildings

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AB A8718, An Act to Amend the Environmental Conservation Law

Provides that it shall be a further goal of the state to transition to one hundred percent zero-emissions from new off-road vehicles and equipment purchased beginning in 2035, where feasible.

It shall be a further goal of the state to transition to 100% zero-emissions from new off-road vehicles and equipment purchased beginning in 2035, where feasible.

100% Zero-Emission Off-Road Equipment Sales Goal

In order to improve air quality for school-age New Yorkers, the State Budget requires that all school buses on the road be zero-emissions by 2035.

100% Zero-Emission School Bus Fleet Target

Establishing a Value of Carbon: Guidelines for Use by State Agencies

DEC has established a Value of Carbon guidance that can be used by State entities to aid decision-making and for the State to demonstrate the global societal value of actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the requirements of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. The Appendix provides social cost values for carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, certain hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and sulfur hexafluoride at the 1 percent, 2 percent, and 3 percent discount rates. A spreadsheet tool is also available by request. Updated August 2023.

Executive Order 22: Embodied Carbon Guidance

Executive Order 22 states that “Starting January 1, 2023, Affected Entities shall seek to reduce the embodied carbon in all new construction or construction projects consisting of adaptive reuse or significant renovations that cost greater than 50% of the cost of new construction”.  

Reductions should occur by taking the following actions: 

- Design teams shall calculate the total embodied carbon that will result from the project, including shipping, transportation, and construction equipment requirements. 
- Bidders shall be required to submit Environmental Product Declarations (“EPDs”).

The first phase of GreenNY Council Embodied Carbon Guidance focuses on #2. The intent of this guidance is to:

-    drive the demand for and creation of EPDs in the market
-    to create a market for low embodied carbon construction materials, and 
-    to benchmark New York State’s performance on the environmental impact of our construction materials – with a view to setting limits in the future.