The Adams Administration is unveiling a climate change team and goals for New York City. One of the goals is to install 100 megawatts of solar energy on schools, libraries and other public buildings. The team is also expected to build a clean energy complex and do an environmental justice study. Rhit Aggarwala has been named the Chief Climate Officer.
“So our challenge is to operationalize these three things. Resilience, decarbonization and environmental justice and to drive them into the daily operating decisions made across a wide variety of city agencies.”
The climate team plans on keeping other greenhouse gas reduction goals set under the Bloomberg and de Blasio administrations.