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

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Pricing Carbon + Valuing Damages

Electricity Generation

Transportation

Resilience

Natural + Working Lands

Climate Finance

Buildings

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$28.75M Investment in Climate Resilient Farming (CRF) Program

Governor Kathy Hochul announced that as part of record funding being invested in the State’s agricultural stewardship programs, $28.75 million is now available for on-farm projects through the Climate Resilient Farming grant program. Round 8 of CRF provides critical funding that helps New York’s farmers reduce greenhouse gas emissions, protect water, ensure soil health, and increase on-farm resiliency to the effects of a changing climate. Under the Governor’s leadership, the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget provides $81.8 million through the Environmental Protection Fund, up $4 million from last year, for agricultural programs and initiatives, such as Climate Resilient Farming grant, that are helping farms to implement environmentally sustainable practices and combat climate change.

Achieving New York State's goals under the Climate Act will require unprecedented support for the environment, including the need to plant and maintain new forests. To make this a reality, Governor Hochul is announcing a goal of planting 25 million trees by 2033. This goal will invigorate our state’s tree planting efforts, send an unmistakable market signal to private nurseries, advance efforts to meet the Climate Act’s net-zero goal, and grow the states vital forest products industry.

Governor Hochul will also prioritize tree planting in urban areas to mitigate potential extreme heat, as cities warm faster than rural areas. These efforts will also engage youth across the state through education and planting programs to foster a conservation ethic, inspire the next generation of environmental stewards, and create deeper connections about the importance of trees for the environment, climate, and public health.

25 Million Trees By 2033

The goal of the Climate Resilient Farming (CRF) Program is to reduce the impact of agriculture on climate change (mitigation) and to increase the resiliency of New York State farms in the face of a changing climate (adaptation). Program grant funds are available for projects that mitigate the impact of agriculture on climate change for greenhouse gas emissions reduction and carbon sequestration, in addition to enhancing the on-farm adaptation and resiliency to projected climate conditions due to heavy storm events, rainfall, and drought.

Climate Resilient Farming (CRF) Program

Governor Hochul’s 2024 State of the State: Our New York, Our Future

Governor Kathy Hochul delivered the 2024 State of the State Address and released her “Our New York, Our Future” agenda. The State of the State includes 204 bold initiatives to make New York more affordable, more livable and safer. These actions include steps to ensure New York's clean energy future is affordable by:
- Introducing legislation to support responsible, equitable and effective gas system transition planning
- Introducing legislation to create a one-stop-shop for the environmental review and permitting of major renewable energy and transmission facilities
- Launching Statewide Solar for All initiative to deliver an electric bill credit of $40 per year to more than 800,000 households 

Governor Hochul also developed a comprehensive resiliency plan to keep New Yorkers safe, including by:

- Making homes more resilient, expanding voluntary buyout programs and directing the Codes Counsel to overhaul building codes design
- Protecting communities through major investments in statewide disaster response and equipping localities with new tools
- Responding to extreme heat through funding for cooling capacity at schools and supplying air conditioners to medically vulnerable New Yorkers
- Repairing aging infrastructure and making State agencies more sustainable and climate resilient

Additionally, and building on the success of the $4.2 billion Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act and water funding programs, Governor Hochul is moving forward with transformative environmental protection plans including:
- Planting 25 million trees by 2033 with a focus on urban areas to mitigate extreme heat
- Protecting clean water and introducing new initiatives to assist municipalities in meeting their drinking water and clean water funding needs.
- Protecting our lakes by directing key investments to address the root causes of harmful algal blooms
- NY SWIMS: the New York Statewide Investment in More Swimming

New York Joins the White House America the Beautiful Freshwater Challenge

New York joined the list of over 160 partners participating in the White House’s America the Beautiful Freshwater Challenge. The initiative sets new national goals for wetland, river, and stream reconnection, restoration, and conservation, and calls on states, territories, Tribes, local governments, businesses, and non-governmental organizations to advance their own actions in support of these shared goals.