John,
We did not see the COVID crisis coming, but we know that the climate crisis is here.
The next few years are critical ones to ensure we mitigate the harms of climate change and transition our city to a green economy.
Join me on Friday for an important conversation about how candidates and elected officials can partner with climate justice movements to achieve change. Hosted by Sunrise NYC, we’ll be joined by climate leaders Bill McKibben and Anthony Rogers-Wright, and City Council candidate Shahana Hanif.
The climate crisis poses catastophic long-term risks to New York City. It also holds immense economic opportunity to create high-quality green jobs that can steer us out of this recession towards a just recovery.
I'm committed to being a strong partner in that work from the Comptroller's office, together with movements like Sunrise, who are doing incredible work both locally and nationally to build the grassroots power we need for transformative change at the scale of the Green New Deal.
And I am especially excited to be joined by Sunrise NYC’s endorsed candidate for the 39th Council District, Shahana Hanif, for this important conversation. Shahana brings a feminist lens to all of her work, including her fight for climate justice, and I’m looking forward to learning about her plan for a Feminist Green New Deal and how the next generation of NYC’s leaders, in co-governance with Sunrise NYC, can help achieve it.
Brad
P.S. Last October, on the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy I put forward a detailed plan for how the Comptroller's office can be a platform to focus the attention of New Yorkers on the climate crisis and hold our city accountable to our climate goals. Check it out here.
