NYC Mayor Adams announces climate budgeting, putting city in league with London, Oslo [Video]

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City just became the first American city to join the ranks of Mumbai, London, and Oslo with Mayor Eric Adams’ newly established climate budgeting practice, a written statement detailed.

The news comes from his fiscal year 2025 executive budget.

The practice is described as follows: “Climate budgeting is a process that incorporates science-based climate considerations into the city’s budget decision-making process by evaluating how actions and spending today contribute to meeting longer-term climate targets and needs.”

“Big problems require big solutions, and few problems are as massive as climate change,” Mayor Adams said. “By embedding climate into our budget decision-making, we are changing the very calculus of government spending going forward and acknowledging that climate must be at the forefront of what we do. From this day on, we will have the tools to evaluate the impact of city projects and programs on achieving …