Six years ago, the mayor of New York City, Bill de Palacio, hosted a chaotic press conference in the Trump tower lobby to announce the city’s commitment to Pal Its copy of the new green deal.
The mayor, whose term ended in 2022, is planning to achieve this through the Climate Filling Law, which later passed the city council and aims to reduce municipal emissions by 85 percent by 2050. A short time ago, De Placio is scheduled, however, Trump tower employees began to blow up music to dump it. Correspondence They forced To scream questions about Tony Bennett’s voice style.
Six months in Trump’s second management It appears that the plays surrounding the DE Blasio Declaration of 2019 are almost strange. Although the climate goals in New York are still among the most ambitious in the country, the city has struggled to fulfill it.
While transport emissions under About 10 per cent since the DE Blasio Climate Filling Law, those of buildings – which represent approximately 70 percent of the total city, is largely due to the 8 million heating and cooling needs – about 2 percent, fell, nowhere Close to what is required to meet the goal of 2050. Local law is determined 97, which is a major component in the climate plan in De Blasio, emissions limits for buildings that exceed 25,000 square feet and fines established for owners who refuse to comply. (Because the city has limited control of the metro and public facilities, so efforts are made to update buildings, Encourage public transportation It is among its most important ways to control emissions locally.)
With Adams’s popularity in the free fall after a scandal period, this year’s newcomer’s mayor’s race is likely to sweep the newcomer in the office-and with a chance to achieve the disappointed de Palacio’s ambitions. (The general elections in November, but the partisan deviation in the city means that the democratic primaries may determine the winner.) In recent discussions, climate change has been overcome due to the ability to bear the costs and the quality of life in New York. This, as activists say, raises the size of the problems facing the city.
“We need someone who has a vision and not only given [voters] “Green-Lite”. Yempierre wants to see the following mayor “looking deeply in the capabilities of New York City when it comes to preparing a large number of people from people for disasters.”
Nine candidates are competing in the democratic introductory elections, but this field is narrowed to two first place: Andrew Como, former governor of the state and former ruler Mario Komo, and Zahran Mamdani, a state legislator and a member of the Social Democrats in America.
Como Governor ended in the controversy When the allegations of sexual harassment, which he denied, resigned in 2021. During his term, he shot the approval of gas pipelines, public transport transport, and to support Independent Democratic Assembly, or IDC. The nine Democrats of that group are involved with Republicans, giving them control of the Senate despite the presence of fewer seats. IDC Prohibited Climate Leadership and Community Protection Law, a mandate commitment Carbon removalWhich later passed after the activist’s coalition was overthrown.
“We haven’t seen any major legislation approved until 2019,” said Keanu Arpet-Josiah, organizer of the Justice Future Future Nyc group in the future. “Because of the ruler Komo.”
The former ruler’s opponents are concerned that Como will do more than the same mayor. Although the city is making good progress in reducing construction emissions – nearly half of the largest buildings in the city already meet the goals of 2030 – he showed Komo in preparation for the suppression of the law. he Try To undermine it as a ruler, his nomination Backed By the pressure groups who represent the owners who oppose it, it is meet With cooperative leaders and apartment to inform them that it is open to weakening the requirements of the law.
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The Como campaign opposed this description, and not all environmental protection advocates oppose the former ruler. The Association of voters in New York in New York is arguing that the Como’s critics is a secondary result of its unavoidable time in office. This group supported Cuomo and New York City Brad Lander, and they say the state -level cracking in Como banIt was established in 2014, and marine winds Victories Under the first Trump administration, it will be able to boost green energy in the current political environment.
Others are not convinced. Director of Policy at the American Institute of Architectural Engineers to caution The changes that Cuomo proposed to local law 97 because the ruler will make him effectively without teeth, and Komo has not launched a climate plan, which puts many advocates of environmental protection on the edge of the abyss. “Andrew Como is governing his dissatisfaction,” said Beit Sikura, director of climate campaigns and inequality in New York societies for change. “He does everything you want strong clicks.”
He supported New York Communities for Change, a non -profit organization that focuses on the ability to withstand costs, Mamdani. His climatic plan includes free buses, expanding renewable energy on municipal lands, aspiration “ambitious”Green Schools Plan “. The proposal calls for the renewal of 500 public schools to make it Flexibility centers It would serve as evacuation centers during floods and cooling centers in severe heat. Mamdani also pledged to give priority to the most flexible waterfront infrastructure, contradict high interest rates, and to direct more money towards accelerating NYC, which helps to build their owners in knowing how to remove their carbon systems.
“The climate crisis is increasingly growing,” said Sekora. “The opportunity is present to create a lot of good jobs and save money by reducing pollution and moving to clean energy.”
Mandani supports enthusiasm for local law 97, which has provided a long grace period for builders for compliance. This year has ended, and the city will start imposing fines against violators in August. “It is a very good bet if [Cuomo] Laura Shindle, director of New York State at the Hour of Food and Non -Profit Water, which urged voters to choose anyone other than Komo, said that the Como campaign insisted that he did not try to try the law as a ruler, but he did not speak to his plans, but the Como campaign insisted on undermining the law as a ruler, but he did not speak to his plans if he was elected, he did not speak to his plans if he was elected.
Como’s failure to release the climate plan wins activists, especially when the climate threats facing New York City are far from theory. For example, a a report From the Ministry of Health and Mental Hygiene in New York City, flash floods were identified as the most urgent problem in the city.
“Eager attention is not paid to what can reduce the effects that people are now in the short term, before we discover what is logical in the long term,” said Maljosia Majiich. She is an economic expert and research scientist at the Colombia Climate School, which studied the effects of floods on the neighborhoods surrounding the Gulf of Jamaica. Some will have to move, like those who I faced the worst floods of Sandy Hurricane In 2012, others may be able to adapt, but it is difficult for the population to make this decision without the help of experts – financing from the city.
“There is a big gap in information that will not be very difficult to process.” “A little general aid will have a long way.”
