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After Pandemic, New York’s Buildings Face Daunting Decarbonization Mandate

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Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the passage of perhaps the most ambitious law ever adopted by a U.S. Local Law 97, one of 10 bills in the sweeping Climate Mobilization Act , requires New York City’s 50,000 largest buildings to reduce their carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030 and by 80 percent by 2050.

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Part 2: Revisiting the Key Findings of an influential Carbon Trading and Environmental Equity Study – Additional Details

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The applicability of this observation is particularly influenced by boundary years, including: Remarkably low emissions in the starting year, 2011, a year heavily impacted by the great recession, and a notable decline in emissions starting in 2016 ( part 1, Figure 5 ). and PM10 following its 2013 introduction.”

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Part 2: Revisiting the Key Findings of an influential Carbon Trading and Environmental Equity Study – Additional Details

Low Carbon Prosperity

The applicability of this observation is particularly influenced by boundary years, including: Remarkably low emissions in the starting year, 2011, a year heavily impacted by the great recession, and a notable decline in emissions starting in 2016 ( part 1, Figure 5 ). and PM10 following its 2013 introduction.”

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