QUESTION
When will NYC provide a roadmap for meeting the greenhouse gas emissions reduction requirement?
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New York City is committed to providing a roadmap by March 12th for meeting the greenhouse gas emissions reduction requirement despite not meeting the initial 2025 deadline.
- The administration acknowledges falling short of the 40% reduction target by 2025 as mandated by local law 97.
- A roadmap, requested by Chair General at the December EPRW hearing, is promised by March 12th, laying out how the city plans to meet the emissions reduction requirement.
- Deputy Commissioner Sanna Barakat mentions the need for more time to ensure accurate projections due to recent fiscal developments.
- Discussions are ongoing with MB to explore funding restoration possibilities, aiming to provide an accurate and feasible plan.
Sandy Nurse
0:53:27
Under local law 97, New York City is where required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the go from government operations by 40% by 2025.
0:53:35
The administration has admitted they are not going to meet that requirement.
0:53:39
At our December EPRW hearing, Chair General Astecast, to provide a road map by March 12th this year for how they plan to meet that requirement and when they will meet it since they won't make the 2025 deadline.
0:53:52
Committee staff have spoken with CLA several times about this.
0:53:55
We've been told that DCAS has a letter addressing this, although they haven't disclosed to committee staff what the letter says.
0:54:04
When yeah.
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If you if you all wanna respond in terms of when that road map would be available to the committee
Sanna Barakat
0:54:11
Yeah.
Sandy Nurse
0:54:11
In the chair.
Sanna Barakat
0:54:12
Sure.
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So a chair general had given us date of March 12th December hearing.
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And we are on target to give the answer by then, and the reason why we need to spend more time not because we don't have projections.
0:54:28
We do have the projections.
0:54:29
We have a model, of course, and we have the projections.
0:54:32
However, as you know, with the there has been some developments since the last hearing, including the fiscal situation that we're in, we wanna make sure we're giving you an accurate projection, and we are in discussions with with MB now on the next plan.
0:54:51
To see what could be the possibilities of what what might be the the the possibilities maybe restoring funds or things like that.
0:55:01
So we wanna give you an accurate number, and we are on target to to do it by 12th.
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So Okay.
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Middle and q.
Sandy Nurse
0:55:14
Okay.