(task) PlaNYC Newsletter - October 2014

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On Oct 7, 2014, at 5:47 PM, PlaNYC <planyc@cityhall.nyc.gov> wrote:

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> Climate Week in New York City
> The last week of September marked the sixth annual New York City Climate Week. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a sweeping buildings retrofit plan to put New York City on a pathway to 80% carbon emissions reductions by 2050. An estimated 400,000 participated in history's largest Climate March and New York City received a prestigious C40 Siemens Award for its efforts to create an energy efficient built environment. In opening the UN Climate Summit, Mayor de Blasio reiterated the need for "urgent, daring action.” Now that Climate Week is done, the hard work of building a sustainable and resilient New York City continues.
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> Mayor Commits to 80% Greenhouse Gas Reduction by 2050
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> On September 21, Mayor de Blasio adopted an 80 percent by 2050 carbon reduction goal, making New York City the largest city in the world to do so. He simultaneously released One City, Built to Last: Transforming New York City’s Buildings for a Low-Carbon Future -- a sweeping plan to make all buildings in the city more efficient. Every public building with significant energy use will be retrofitted by 2025, and private buildings will be given target reductions to reach a 30% buildings emissions reduction goal by 2025.The plan will lead to $1.4 billion in annual energy cost-savings by 2025 and approximately 3,500 new jobs in construction and energy services overall.
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> Read about the plan: nyc.gov/builttolast
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> NYC Releases its 2014 Greenhouse Gas Inventory
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> In September, PlaNYC released the executive summary of its annual Inventory of New York City Greenhouse Gas Emissions. According to the inventory, New York City’s emissions decreased 19 percent between 2005 and 2012, but rose slightly (by 0.02 percent) between 2012 and 2013. Similarly, emissions from city government sources are down 15.9 percent since 2006, but grew 3.4 percent since 2012. While it is hard to control for variability in external factors each year (for example, the winter of 2013 was much colder than the winter of 2012, which led to an increase in energy used for heating), the summary notes that the recent plateau indicates that the city will have to find new ways to make deep cuts in order to meet its emissions reductions target of 80 percent by 2050. The City’s plan to retrofit buildings is the first of those proposed cuts.
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> Read the executive summary here.
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> NYC Releases Benchmarking Report on Buildings’ Energy and Water Use
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> Since 2011, the city has required data collection and reporting on energy and water use in more than 13,000 large, private buildings citywide. Last week, PlaNYC released its third benchmarking analysis of this data, based on data reported in 2013 on energy and water consumption in 2012. By analyzing data on how buildings use energy and water, the report looks for ways buildings can operate more efficiently. For example, usage patterns show that energy consumption per square foot varies widely from building to building, even among buildings of the same type. This disparity indicates that there is room for significant emissions cuts just by bringing the high consumers in line with their more efficient neighbors.
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> Read the full report here.
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> New Goals for NYC Clean Heat
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> The NYC Clean Heat program has already reduced over 50 percent of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) emissions from burning heavy No. 6 heating fuel oil, contributing to the overall reduction in air pollution across New York City. The cleaner air enjoyed by New Yorkers today is estimated to annually prevent 800 deaths and 2,000 emergency room visits and hospitalizations from lung and cardiovascular diseases annually (as compared to 2008). In May, the City extended the NYC Clean Heat program to eliminate all permitted primary use of heavy No. 6 oil by June 30, 2015. The City also committed to 1,000 more conversions from heavy oil directly to the cleanest available fuels (biodiesel, ultra-low sulfur No. 2 oil, and natural gas), 50% of which will be in affordable housing in the highest emitting neighborhoods, specifically Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Northern Manhattan and South Bronx.
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