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New York State’s climate change mitigation efforts just got a big boost from Congress. The Inflation Reduction Act, which includes $369 billion in climate- and energy-related incentives, provides an ingredient that New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, enacted in 2019, needs more of: funding.The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act aims to get New York to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This goal is in line with the agreement, reached in Paris in 2015, to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees and preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius by mid-century, thus avoiding predicted environmental catastrophes such as record-breaking droughts and floods, widespread species loss, stronger hurricanes and more.And now, the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest federal clean energy…
The Editorial Board: New clean energy law will bolster New York’s efforts | Editorial
