The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (“Climate Act”) puts New York on a path to reaching net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Climate Act sets ambitious new goals that will require innovation in the ways that New Yorkers get around, heat their homes, and use electricity.
The Climate Act strengthens New York’s existing clean energy programs with its ambitious economy-wide and sector-specific targets for GHG reductions. The Climate Act also accelerates previous targets for the development of renewable energy and energy storage: