Earth Day Event at the Museum of Natural History Unveils Policy Speech with 127 Initiatives to Make New York More Sustainable Including Reducing Carbon Emissions by 30%
New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today presented PlaNYC: A Greener, Greater New York in a sweeping policy speech containing 127 separate initiatives at the American Museum of Natural History.
PlaNYC is the culmination of thousands of hours of work, informed by public meetings and feedback from New Yorkers, designed to achieve the sustainability goals that the Mayor laid out in a December 12, 2006 speech at the Queens Museum. Those goals include: housing an additional 1 million New Yorkers affordably; increasing access to parks, playgrounds and open spaces; reclaiming brownfields; developing critical backup systems for our aging water network to ensure reliability; providing additional reliable power sources and upgrading our existing power plants; reducing water pollution so we can open our waterways for recreation; and reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 30%.
Earlier this month, the Mayor released New York's first-ever comprehensive inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, which was the first step towards achieving major emissions reductions.
"With historically low unemployment, a low crime rate and better schools, New York is thriving - it's a place that people want to be. The time to build on our success is now, and I will not spend my last 984 days in office ignoring the problems that this City will face in the future. We need to start meeting the challenges we'll face as we grow by nearly 1 million people, and we'll do it by working to enact these 127 policy initiatives,"Â said Mayor Bloomberg. "We need to increase open space, expand housing, deal with our congested roadways, create better mass transit options, increase our energy sources and stabilize our water supply or we simply won't be able to continue the high quality of life we now enjoy. If we act now, we'll have a better future, a better quality of life, and more importantly, our children and their children will too."Â
Source: NYC.gov
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