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Dear John:

One grim thing we have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is just how deadly it can be when we fail to prepare for a crisis.

The anniversary of Superstorm Sandy is a powerful reminder that climate change presents the most catastrophic long-term risk to New York City. As your next Comptroller, preparing for climate disaster will be at the top of my agenda.

Today I’m releasing my comprehensive plan to turn the Comptroller’s office into a hub for confronting the climate crisis. Read my plan, and sign on if you agree that preparing our city for climate disaster must be a top priority for NYC leaders → [[link removed]]

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Eight years ago this week, Superstorm Sandy devastated our community -- damaging tens of thousands of homes, downing power lines, stranding families, and killing 44 New Yorkers.

From Red Hook to the Rockaways, we saw the ways that climate disaster exacerbates existing racial disparities in health, housing, and emergency assistance.

We weren’t prepared then, and to be honest, we aren’t prepared now. We’re still repairing subway tunnels damaged by the storm, and have fallen behind on the resiliency upgrades to our infrastructure that we know we need.

As Comptroller, I will hold us accountable to our commitments to each other and to future generations:

• As the fiduciary of NYC pension funds, I will complete responsible divestment from fossil fuels by 2023 and work with other institutional investors to pressure the financial sector to halt the flow of capital to investments that pose a risk to the future of our finances and our planet.

• As the city’s chief financial officer, I will invest in economic recovery strategies that put New York City on a path toward a just transition for workers and frontline communities to create a more sustainable and resilient city.

• As the city’s chief accountability officer, I will establish a new, dedicated audit team to evaluate agencies on sustainability and environmental justice goals and hold public and private-sector actors to NYC’s ambitious clean energy targets.

• I will build on my work to reform the city’s capital projects management to hold us accountable to fulfill the city’s oft-neglected investments in coastal resilience, infrastructure repair, and climate readiness.

There is no time to waste. This decade will be critical in our fight to end our reliance on fossil fuels and build a more resilient city.

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Eight years ago, we weren’t ready. When the next climate disaster comes, we must be.

Thank you so much,

-- Brad

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