Mayor de Blasio Announces Major Progress in Greening City Buildings
City leading by example, retrofitting all public buildings by 2025; projects already in place or underway at buildings representing half of all City government building emissions
- Mayor's Press Office for Office of the Mayor December 14th, 2015
- Source: http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/933-15/mayor-de-blasio-major-progress-greening-city-buildings
NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that the City has made significant progress in greening its own building stock as it works to retrofit all public buildings by 2025 and move toward an 80 percent reduction in all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 – a key OneNYC target. As the City leads by example in retrofitting its own buildings, it also continues to make it easier for private building owners to do the same, launching a new tool today to track energy and water usage at large buildings.
Of the nearly 3,000 public buildings with any significant energy use, almost one-third already have retrofits in place or underway. Those buildings represent 50 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from City buildings.
