CLIMATE CHANGE AND URBANIZATION IN NEW YORK CITY DURING BLOOMBERG’S TERM OF MAYOR: EFFECTS AND IMPLICATIONS

Nowadays New York City faces sea level rise and rising temperatures which are climate change-related challenges as a result of more frequent heavy precipitation. To strengthen its resilience, NYC is developing plans, formulating policy goals, commissioning expert scientific advice, setting standards, and developing new institutions for environmental governance and sustainability. Locally, through PlaNYC, the City’s sustainability plan, the NYC administration has pursued several initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with mostly 30 percent below current levels by 2030. Since 2002, the NYC Administration stands out challenging climate change and its initiatives which are the examples of best practices at the municipal level. In this framework, this study describes the comprehensive effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as well as provides NYC’s climate change projections and some of the potential risks to the NYC’s critical infrastructure posed by climate change. We also discuss the future of these policies that have been implemented during Bloomberg’s administration term