NYC circles the drain while celebrating climate budgeting
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
NYC is circling the drain, and the über-woke mayor celebrates “Climate Budgeting” ?
Really?
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“New York City is First Big City in U.S. to Adopt Climate Budgeting, Joins Elite Group of Global Cities, Including London, Oslo, and Mumbai
Climate Budgeting Will Permanently Embed Climate Considerations Into Budgeting Decisions, Helping to Reach Climate Goals”
“New York City Mayor Eric Adams introduced the city’s first-ever climate budgeting publication through the city’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Executive Budget.
Climate budgeting is a process that incorporates science-based climate considerations into the city’s budget decision-making process by evaluating how actions and spending today contribute to meeting longer-term climate targets and needs.
The process will allow New York City to understand the climate impact of the dollars New York City spends, identify where more effort is needed to tackle climate change, and champion forward-looking investments.
… “Big problems require big solutions, and few problems are as massive as climate change,” said Mayor Adams. “By embedding climate into our budget decision-making, we are changing the very calculus of government spending going forward and acknowledging that climate must be at the forefront of what we do. From this day on, we will have the tools to evaluate the impact of city projects and programs on achieving the city’s climate-related goals. By weighing these impacts — both positive and negative — in the critical early stages of the budgeting process, we will know how each dollar the city spends affects citywide sustainability and resiliency. I look forward to continuing this process and ensuring New York City is a leader in the fight to tackle climate change.”
… “Climate budgeting improves lives. By assessing every financial decision through a climate lens, the climate budgeting process helps the city align plans with climate goals and turn ambition into actions,” said Mark Watts, executive director, C40 Cities. “C40 is proud of our network of mayors helping each other implement bold, innovative policies such as climate budgeting to accelerate action and show the world what is possible. Mayor Adams is truly a leader, and the new climate budget will help New York City ‘get stuff done’ on climate.” …