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Execuive Summary
Chaper 1: NYC’s reen Economy Today and Tomorrow
Chaper 2: Working in NYC’s reen Economy
Chaper 3: Acion Pan o row he reen Economy
Chaper 4: Working Togeher
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A: Economic Anaysis Mehodoogy
B: Job Forecas Sensiiviy Anaysis
C: Secor-Leve Esimaes and Drivers
D: Focus Occupaions Daa
E: Acknowedgemens
F: Works Cied
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To my feow New Yorkers:
Cimae change is rea. No maer he season, New York Ciy is experiencing he
impacs of a warming pane. I is pain o see ha more exreme weaher evens
are hiing he ciy wih greaer frequency. This is our reaiy, and he Ciy of New
York is confroning he chaenges of cimae change unike any ciy in he word.
Look no furher han Loca Law 97, PaNYC, PowerUpNYC, he Mayor’s Office of
Cimae and Environmena Jusice’s sudy on environmena jusice in New York,
a new approach o cimae budgeing, and he Cener for Cimae Souions on
overnors Isand. The ciy’s response o cimae change is ye one more exampe
in our 400-year hisory of New Yorkers joining ogeher o overcome chaenges
wih ingenuiy and emerge sronger each ime. The reen Economy Acion Pan
buids on New York Ciy’s spiri of resiience and he work underway across ciy
governmen o offer an inegraed economic deveopmen agenda and aen
sraegy. This ca o acion wi hep unock he fu poenia of New York Ciy’s
economy and human capia in he urgen work of sowing cimae change and
creaing a more equiabe and resiien ciy.
The acion pan conains six new conribuions o our undersanding of New
York Ciy’s green economy and a roadmap o reducing carbon emissions and
creaing a more cimae-conscious ciy:
→ The firs-ever comprehensive definiion of he “Green Economy” in
New York Ciy
→ A sizing of he Green Economy oday and forecass of growh by 2030 and
2040, by secor and occupaion
→ A aen sraegy o ensure New Yorkers access he jobs of he fuure
→ A se of new programs and poicies ha wi advance he
Green Economy
→ Cear ways o parner and coaborae wih he privae secor, universiies,
nonprofis and ohers in service of our shared goas
→ A ca o acion for a New Yorkers
Taken ogeher, he reen Economy Acion Pan wi make New York Ciy’s
economy more compeiive and prosperous, wi creae more famiy-susaining
jobs and on-ramps for a New Yorkers ino hose careers, and acceerae he
work of making New York Ciy more resiien in he face of cimae change. We
can, and I beieve we wi, achieve a hree goas a he same ime if we adop a
whoe-of-sociey approach, summoning he same spiri ha New York Ciy has
demonsraed repeaedy o confron big probems hroughou our hisory.
Throughou he acion pan one poin is cear: governmen is mos effecive when
we work in parnership. We wi ead, bu we wi no succeed if we ac aone. In
addiion o major invesmens of pubic funds, poicies and programs, New York
Ciy wi creae he condiions for coaboraion, privae secor innovaion, and
equiabe growh so ha he ciy’s enire ecosysem is invoved in he urgen
work of buiding omorrow’s green economy. Wih ha in mind, o our parners
across he ciy and o a New Yorkers, I invie you o ake par in his effor
because enduring success depends on a of us.
Maria Torres-Springer
Depuy Mayor for Housing, Economic Deveopmen and Workforce
NYC Office of he Mayor
LETTE FOM
DEPUTY MAYO
MAIA TOESSPINE
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New York Ciy is conending wih cimae change, sraining resources,
and higher emperaures and more frequen severe weaher evens ha
disproporionaey impac our mos vunerabe New Yorkers. Tacking
he deepy conneced and muipe impacs of cimae change is one of
our ciy’s greaes chaenges, bu i aso creaes opporuniy. The reen
Economy Acion Pan defines his opporuniy, ouining a roadmap o
grow he ciy economy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase
resiiency o exreme cimae evens, and inves in he ciy’s peope
and economy.
We are a an unprecedened momen for pubic and privae invesmen
in cimae acion and are excied o posiion NYC as he epicener of his
goba green ransiion. Wih his Acion Pan, he number of New Yorkers
empoyed in he green economy coud more han ripe o neary 400,000,
or amos 7 percen of a jobs, and is expeced DP oupu coud neary
ripe o $89 biion annuay by 2040. Criica o his growh wi be our
abiiy o ransiion our exising jobs and indusries o a cimae-conscious
fuure and posiion New Yorkers, paricuary hose from economicay
disadvanaged and environmena jusice communiies, for emerging
career pahways in he green economy.
Our economy changing is ineviabe, as new poicies, echnoogies, and
consumer preferences wi coninue o orien oward cimae acion.
Wha is no ineviabe is ha our exising jobs and indusries wi keep
pace. NYC’s commimens in his Acion Pan are criica for ensuring he
robus privae secor invesmen and acion imperaive o ensure ha New
Yorkers are prepared o make his ransiion ino he green economy and
ha NYC can arac and grow new green economy businesses.
The reen Economy Acion Pan seeks o provide no ony growh, bu
aso environmena and economic jusice. A peope, regardess of
race, disabiiy, age, or socioeconomic background, have a righ o ive,
work, and pay in communiies ha are safe, heahy, and free of harmfu
environmena condiions. New York Ciy is commied o boh reducing
he environmena burden on is environmena jusice communiies and
ensuring ha economicay disadvanaged New Yorkers conribue o and
benefi from he weah and jobs creaed hrough his effor.
Having engaged 100+ acors across indusry associaions, unions,
nonprofis, phianhropic groups, governmens, and corporae and
communiy parners, he reen Economy Acion Pan ouines NYC’s
commimen o more han 63 acions, idenifying a pah forward o:
→ Decarbonize buidings and consrucion,
→ Deveop a renewabe energy sysem,
→ Enabe ow-carbon aernaives in he ransporaion secor,
→ Caayze business growh, job creaion and innovaion in cimae
echnoogies, and
→ Ensure an equiabe green economy ecosysem.
These acions wi focus on increasing opporuniies for minoriy and
women-owned businesses and buiding robus, accessibe pahways
o occupaions ha provide famiy-susaining wages for New Yorkers,
incuding many occupaions ha do no require a coege degree. Acions
incude aunching he Harbor Cimae Coaboraive aong he New York
LETTE FOM NYCEDC
& NYC TALENT
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Harbor wih an invesmen of $725 miion from New York Ciy o caayze
cimae educaion, research, innovaion, commerciaizaion, and workforce
deveopmen aongside parners from he privae and nonprofi secors.
Anoher is he Cimae Innovaion Hub, a $100 miion invesmen by NYC
o deveop a word cass faciiy in Sunse Park, Brookyn, geared oward
acceeraing commerciaizaion pahways for cimae ech sarups and
incumben businesses and providing workforce programming o upski
New Yorkers hrough green raining and opporuniies.
The reen Economy Acion Pan is for every New Yorker and communiy.
Wheher you’re a new cimae sarup, an exising business hinking
abou going green, an educaor ooking o connec your sudens o a
new career, or a New Yorker ooking for a we-paying job—if you ca NYC
home, or wan o, you can pay a roe in shaping a hriving green economy.
Andrew Kimba
Presiden & CEO
NYCEDC
Abby Jo Siga
Execuive Direcor
NYC Mayor’s Office of Taen
and Workforce Deveopmen
Source: C. Tayor Crohers / Gey Images
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Smmary
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In 2023’s PaNYC: eing Susainabiiy Done, he
Ciy commied o creaing a “comprehensive green
economy indusry acion pan” ha defines he green
economy and ays ou NYC’s pah o seizing he
opporuniy i presens. This reen Economy Acion
Pan, joiny deveoped by he New York Ciy Economic
Deveopmen Corporaion (NYCEDC) and he Mayor’s
Office of Taen and Workforce Deveopmen (NYC
Taen), deivers on ha commimen. I is informed
by engagemen wih more han 100 sakehoders
and parners from a pars of he green economy—
incuding businesses, unions, workforce organizaions,
advocaes, New Yorkers aready working in he
green economy, and governmen agencies—and
origina anaysis.
The Green Economy Action Plan is a crucia
sep for New York Ciy o become a goba green
economy eader.
The reen Economy Acion Pan ses forh he firs
ever universa undersanding of he green economy
in New York Ciy and esabishes a baseine o
undersand is growh over ime. The green economy
promises o grow rapidy and become a core par of
he Ciy’s overa economy in he coming decades,
bu i wi ake a coninued and concered pubic-
privae effor o achieve his in a way ha serves and
upifs a New Yorkers. This Acion Pan deais 63
Ciy commimens o caayze businesses, nonprofis,
and everyday New Yorkers o coecivey buid a
susainabe, equiabe green economy ecosysem in
New York Ciy.
This repor provides he Ciy’s firs-ever definiion
of he green economy.
obay, here is no consisen definiion of he “green
economy,” making i difficu o undersand how our
progress or curren sae measures agains oher
goba eaders and wha growh woud mean. This
repor defines he green economy in New York Ciy
as he se of aciviies ha direcy and inenionay
conribue o achieving our cimae goas, specificay
hose ha have gained racion since he urn of he
cenury. These aciviies span eigh secors and 21
sub-secors, some ha are direcy decarbonizing our
ciy, incuding energy, buidings, and ransporaion,
and some ha are supporing hese indusries, such as
finance, and poicy and advocacy. Creaing he Ciy’s
firs-ever definiion wi hep ensure we can rack our
progress agains our goas and adjus inervenions
over ime o reach he economic poenia aid ou in
his repor.
New York Ciy’s green economy can become one
of he arges indusry and workforce ecosysems
over he nex decade.
The green economy encompassed ~3 percen of New
York Ciy’s jobs in 2021 (abou he size of he rea
esae secor oday) and has oupaced he growh
of he broader New York Ciy economy over he as
severa years. I is projeced o coninue growing rap-
idy: by 2040, he Ciy’s green economy is projeced o
empoy neary 400,000 peope—7 percen of a jobs in
New York Ciy—and conribue $89 biion o he Ciy’s
DP. This woud be roughy a riping in size over he
nex wo decades and woud make oa empoymen
in he green economy abou he size of ech secor
empoymen oday.1 Approximaey 70 percen of
his growh is projeced o come from he ransiion
of exising occupaions ike consrucion managers,
financia consuans, and fashion designers ino he
green economy by incorporaing susainabe prac-
ices ino heir everyday work, whie 30 percen woud
be enirey new jobs ha do no exis oday.
Reaizing his opporuniy requires invesmen,
innovaion, and ineniona suppor of diverse
businesses and robus career pahways.
New York Ciy is we posiioned o become a goba
eader in he green economy: i is aready a goba cener
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for economic aciviy and aen, wih eading cimae
egisaion and reguaions incuding he andmark
Cimae Mobiizaion Ac of 2019, which se forh
one of he mos aggressive approaches o buiding
decarbonizaion in he word. In addiion, New York is
an emerging hub for cimae innovaion: as of 2022, he
NYC meropoian area is he hird arges cimae ech
ecosysem in he word afer he Bay Area and London,
wih venure capia invesmens reaching amos $4
biion in 2021. However, his growh wi no happen on
is own; and i is aso no guaraneed o be equiaby
disribued. New York Ciy wi ake acion o mobiize,
acceerae, and channe privae secor acion,
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SECTOS
POTENTIAL FO
3X
OWTH OVE NEXT TWO DECADES, FOM
133,000
JOBS IN 2021
TO NEALY
400,000
IN 2040
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FOCUS OCCUPATIONS CITICAL TO
SUSTAINABLE OWTH
NEW YOK CITY’S EEN ECONOMY
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SUBSECTOS
aracing and incubaing a criica mass of companies
in he green economy; heping de-risk new echnoogies
and souions uneashed by he privae secor; and
deveoping robus, diverse aen pipeines. The privae
and nonprofi secors mus inves, innovae, and evove
o reaize he poenia of he green economy.
We wi need a skied and diverse workforce o
power his growh.
This repor idenifies 21 “focus occupaions” criica
o he susainabe growh of he green economy.
They incude many differen kinds of skied abor up
and down he vaue chain. The 21 focus occupaions
cover boh hose ha ypicay don’ require a coege
degree such as eecricians, pumbers, or HVAC
mechanics and insaers, and hose ha do require
a coege degree such as civi or eecrica engineers.
These occupaions provide famiy-susaining wages
or ead o hem, providing pahways o sabe and
we-paying careers for a New Yorkers. In addiion,
here are occupaions in basic or appied sciences
ha require advanced science, echnoogy,
engineering, and mahemaics (STEM) degrees,
which are imporan drivers of he ciy’s cimae
innovaion ecosysem. The srengh of our green
economy wi rey on robus, diverse aen pipeines
for a hese occupaions.
OU VISION
New York Ciy has aways been a eader in susain-
abiiy. We are by far he mos densey popuaed
major ciy in he US wih he arges mass ransi
sysem in he counry. Bosered by ambiious cimae
poicies, he average New York Ciy househod emis
one-hird ess carbon han he ypica US househod.
Bu in 2024, demonsraing cimae eadership can-
no jus be abou our own carbon fooprin. New York
Ciy is an economic powerhouse ha is posiioned o
have an impac on a goba scae. To remain a he
vanguard of susainabiiy and innovaion, we mus
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suppor a broader green ransformaion, whie ensur-
ing ha his massive economic opporuniy benefis
a New Yorkers—especiay communiies and neigh-
borhoods ha have suffered from hisoric dispariies
and environmena injusice.
Wih unprecedened amouns of pubic funding
avaiabe for green iniiaives, here is a hisoric
opporuniy for he Ciy, nonprofi secor, and privae
indusry o benefi.
New York Ciy commis o 63 acions hrough
2030 o suppor he equiabe growh of he
green economy.
These acions wi advance five key goas: De-
carbonize buidings and consrucion; Deveop
a renewabe energy sysem; Enabe ow-carbon
aernaives in he ransporaion secor; Caayze
innovaion in cimae echnoogies; and Buid an
equiabe green economy ecosysem.
Taen deveopmen sraegies benefiing New Yorkers
and empoyers from a pars of he ciy are deepy
inegraed in our goas and acions. The Ciy wi
depoy five key oos oward connecing New Yorkers
o he 21 focus occupaions criica o he success
of NYC’s green economy: raining faciiies, neworks
o promoe communiy hiring, youh pahways
o he green economy, skis-based raining and
appreniceships, and indusry parnerships.
This work buids on new poicies, such as he Ciy’s
Communiy Hiring egisaion, and everages exising
programs, such as our Workforce1 sysems, o mach
New Yorkers wih pahways o green economy jobs.
Through hese effors, he Ciy wi deiver 12,000
green economy appreniceships, ensure our educaion
sysems rain young peope in he skis ha are
needed, and suppor he privae secor in he ransiion
o green aciviies.
Seven marquee Ciy commimens across hese
sraegies—new iniiaives ha we expec o be key
marke movers—are highighed beow.
oa 1: Decarbonize buidings & consrucion.
The buidings secor makes up amos 50 percen of
New York Ciy’s green economy oday. In addiion o
various iniiaives o suppor he impemenaion of
Loca Law 97i, he Ciy is commied o using is own
capia projecs o demonsrae and se new sandards
for decarbonizaion echnoogies in consrucion.
MARQUEE INITIATIVE
Circuar Consrucion uideines
NYCEDC wi aunch and appy he newy deve-
oped Circuar Consrucion uideines o a capia
projecs, saring wih SPARC Kips Bay—a neary
2-miion-square-foo, $1 biion+ firs-of-is-kind
innovaion, jobs, and educaion cener in one of
he naion’s premier ife sciences cusers. By using
innovaive circuar consrucion mehods a pub-
ic sies wihin he campus, SPARC Kips Bay wi
reduce 26,400 ons of carbon emissions—equiva-
en o emissions from 5,800 cars. This projec wi
ac as an imporan demonsraion of and sandard
for new ways of consrucion in New York Ciy.
MARQUEE INITIATIVE
Communiy Hiring and Pace-Based Workforce
Sraegies
NYC Taen wi work wih Ciy agencies and privae
parners o aunch Communiy Hiring and Pace-
Based Workforce Sraegies o ensure ha he
growh in NYC’s green economy ransaes o good
jobs for New Yorkers, paricuary ow-income New
Yorkers.
oa 2: Deveop a renewabe energy sysem.
New York Ciy wi suppor he creaion of approxi-
maey 16,000 ne new jobs in he renewabe energy
secor hrough boh direc invesmens and enabing
of privae invesmens in cean energy infrasrucure
and workforce.
MARQUEE INITIATIVE
Tax incenives for baery sorage
NYCEDC wi uiize NYC Indusria Deveopmen
Agency (IDA) ax incenives o acivae 500
Megawas (MW) of baery sorage capaciy and
suppor oher green economy uses. To dae, he IDA
has induced 200MW of sorage capaciy ha is
i Loca Law 97 is he cenerpiece of New York Ciy’s Cimae Mobiizaion
Ac of 2019 and requires abou 50,000 arge buidings o cu emissions
by 40 percen by 2030 and 100 percen by 2050.
NEW YOK CITY’S EEN ECONOMY
WILL HOST NEALY
400,000 JOBS BY 2040
BECOMIN THE ANCHO OF A POSPEOUS,
EQUITABLE, AND JUST FUTUE FO NEW YOKES.
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expeced o come onine in he coming years and
generaed neary $500 miion of privae secor
invesmen. Unocking addiiona sorage capaciy
wi uimaey underpin a sronger and more effi-
cien renewabe energy secor.
oa 3: Enabe ow-carbon aernaives in he
ransporaion secor.
The ransporaion secor conribues abou a quarer
of New York Ciy’s greenhouse gas (H) emissionsii
oday. Transiioning hese aciviies ino he green
economy, and growing new green subsecors, wi
make ransporaion he hird-arges green economy
secor by 2040.
MARQUEE INITIATIVE
Pubic sies for EV charging
NYCEDC is avaiing wo acres of and near JFK air-
por o creae he arges EV charging faciiy in he
ciy, wih 65 pubic EV chargers, incuding 12 rapid
ones. The faciiy is curreny esimaed o charge
1,000 vehices per year, wih poenia for growh
depending on marke demand. The EV chargers
are expeced o serve a ypes of vehices, wih a
focus on he eecric ruck marke as i maures,
and hep avoid neary 78,000 meric ons of carbon
dioxide emissions by 2040. The Ciy is commi-
ed o coninuing o buid criica infrasrucure
o faciiae he adopion of new souions in he
green economy.
oa 4: Caayze innovaion in cimae echnoogies.
New York Ciy is a burgeoning hub for cimae innova-
ion, a criica componen in addressing he impacs
of cimae change and for he coninued growh of
he green economy. Buiding on exising effors such
as he creaion of he Cener for Cimae Souions a
overnors Isand, he Ciy is making significan inves-
mens o hep businesses deveop, es, pio, and scae
innovaions and o furher grow and arac he nex
generaion of cimae companies and invesors in NYC.
MARQUEE INITIATIVE
Harbor Cimae Coaboraive
Brookyn Navy Yard Deveopmen Corporaion
(BNYDC), NYCEDC, and he Trus for overnors
Isand (TI) are coecivey invesing $725 miion
across he new Harbor Cimae Coaboraive, a join
effor o buid a cimae innovaion ecosysem in he
ii Goba warming gases in Earh’s amosphere of which he mos
prevaen is carbon dioxide (CO2)
New York Harbor conneced by NYC Ferry. Wih six
miion square fee of space for cimae research,
innovaion, and raining—he Harbor Cimae
Coaboraive is coordinaing pioing and enaning
opporuniies o bes serve businesses and enre-
preneurs, supporing he creaion of 5,000 perma-
nen jobs, educaing and raining 2,100 sudens,
and generaing $55 biion of economic impac.
MARQUEE INITIATIVE
Cimae Innovaion Hub
As par of he Coaboraive, NYCEDC wi inves up
o $100 miion o deveop a word-cass Cimae
Innovaion Hub a he Brookyn Army Termina.
This new space wi acceerae commerciaizaion
pahways for cimae ech sarups and incumben
businesses. I wi serve 150 sarups over 10 years,
creaing $2.6 biion of economic impac and 600
jobs, and provide workforce raining, especiay for
he oca Sunse Park communiy.
oa 5: Buid an equiabe green economy ecosysem.
NYC Taen, in parnership wih NYCEDC and oher
Ciy eniies, wi work cosey o deveop and expand
various parnerships across and wihin indusries, as
we as wih educaion and workforce raining provid-
ers o ensure New York Ciy’s suppy chain and aen
grow in andem, supporing he growh of and bene-
fiing from he economic opporuniies creaed by he
green economy. The Ciy wi coninue is suppor of
sma, medium, and M/W/DBE businesses and deveop
a diverse and skied workforce.
MARQUEE INITIATIVE
reen raining faciiies in every borough
NYC Taen wi parner wih Ciy agencies and
privae parners o deveop a workforce raining
faciiy in every borough. The firs pio sie wi be
a reen Buiding and Consrucion Workforce pio
program a overnors Isand o rain 100+ peope/
year for he firs wo years.
Achieving our vision wi ake ineniona acion from a
pars of our economy. This repor highighs he ways in
which he Ciy wi encourage and acceerae growh
of he green economy and ower he barrier of enry for
enrepreneurs, businesses, and everyday New Yorkers.
We invie a New Yorkers and organizaions o join us
in buiding a gobay-eading, incusive green economy
in New York Ciy.
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oa 1. Decarbonize Buidings and Consrucion
POMOTE WIDESPEAD USE
OF LOWEMBODIED CABON
BUILDIN MATEIALS
1. Launch and appy NYCEDC’s Circuar Consrucion uideines
2. Advance he Mass Timber Sudio wih seeced design eams
BOLSTE ENEY EFFICIENCY
INITIATIVES
3. Impemen eing LL97 Done
4. Deveop Sraegic Energy Maser Pan for NYCEDC
5. Procure innovaive echnoogies for buiding rerofis
6. Faciiae green commercia rerofis hrough M-COE
7. Decarbonize NYCHA buidings hrough Cean Hea for A Chaenge
8. Impemen Leading he Charge Iniiaive o eecrify schoos
BUILD CONNECTIONS BETWEEN
INDUSTY AND TALENT IN
CONSTUCTION
9. Launch and expand green buiding appreniceship programs
10. Esabish communiy hiring and pace-based workforce connecion sraegies
PIONEE INDUSTIAL
SUSTAINABILITY AT KEY
MANUFACTUIN AND
FEIHT HUBS
11. edeveop whoesae produce marke ino ecien, modern faciiy
12. Pio indusria buiding decarbonizaion echnoogy a Brookyn Navy Yard
DEMONSTATE BEST PACTICES
IN SUSTAINABLE CONSTUCTION
AND DEVELOPMENT
13. Demonsrae a Ne Zero Campus on overnors Isand
14. Buid a firs-of-is-kind eecric sadium a Wies Poin
15. Mandae cuing-edge cerificaions
oa 2. Deveop a enewabe Energy Sysem
BUILD AND FACILITATE
INVESTMENTS IN CLEAN ENEY
16. Posiion indusria sies for cean energy infrasrucure
17. Se naion-eading arges for oshore wind
18. Make capia invesmens in he growh of oshore wind
EXPAND INSTALLATION OF SOLA
INFASTUCTUE
19. Broaden soar on NYCEDC sies
20. Expand 5,000 LMI househods o insa soar
MAKE NYC AN INDUSTY HUB FO
CLEAN ENEY SECTOS
21. Launch and expand energy suppy chain appreniceships
22. Boser CUNY sudens enering oshore wind and oher green indusries
SUPPOT TAX INCENTIVES FO
BATTEY STOAE AND OTHE
EEN OUTCOMES
23. Mobiize IDA for he advancemen of he green economy
oa 3. Enabe Low-Carbon Aernaives in he Transporaion Secor
EXPAND EV CHAIN
INFASTUCTUE
24. Acivae pubic sies for EV charging
25. Creae hubs for infrasrucure and innovaion a Brookyn Navy Yard
26. Launch EV operaion and echnician appreniceships
27. Eecrify a Ciy schoo buses and sand up mainenance raining programs
DECABONIZE MAITIME AND
AI TAFFIC
28. Insa and mandae use of shore power a a cruise erminas
29. Eecrify he overnors Isand ferry
30. Spearhead he adopion of eecric aircraf a NYC heipors
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ENABLE AND ETAIN SUSTAINABLE
FEIHT JOBS AND SEVICES
31. Impemen a marine highway for freigh ranspor
32. Suppor mariime ogisics businesses
33. Acceerae adopion of cargo bikes
34. Boser New York Ciy’s Cean Trucks Program (NYCCTP)
FACILITATE DEMAND FO
PASSENE MICOMOBILITY
35. Advance SAFEMicromobiiy for pubic housing
INDUSTY EXPOSUE TO SUPPOT
WOKFOCE PIPELINES
36. Deveop he Buiding Pahways MTA Eecrica Pre-Appreniceship program
oa 4. Caayze Innovaion in Cimae Technoogies
DEVELOP NYC’S HABO CLIMATE
COLLABOATIVE
37. Acivae he Harbor Cimae Coaboraive
38. Deveop a word-cass Cimae Innovaion Hub a Brookyn Army Termina
39. Compee he 400k SF New York Cimae Exchange on overnors Isand
ENCOUAE COMMECIALIZATION
OF EEN TECHNOLOY
40. Caayze susainabiiy-focused bioechnoogy and maerias innovaion
41. Deveop an eecive reguaory process o promoe cimae innovaion
42. Launch reenigh Innovaion Fund
43. Updae oudaed and use rues wih Ciy of Yes for carbon neuraiy
oa 5. Ensure an Equiabe reen Economy Ecosysem
INVEST IN EEN TALENT
44. Connec young New Yorkers wih pracica earning and raining opporuniies in he
green economy
45. Ensure 5-10% of Taen Invesmen Fund suppors green economy workforce deveopmen
46. Enhance Workforce1 Career Ceners for he green economy
47. Provide grans o sma businesses for green workforce raining
48. Buid Soar One Environmena Educaion Cener
CULTIVATE A LOCAL OFFSHOE
WIND SUPPLY CHAIN
49. Provide echnica assisance o manufacurers o buid a oca oshore wind suppy
chain
50. Turn Wes Shore of Saen Isand ino a hub for cean energy-reaed jobs
BUILD CONNECTIONS BETWEEN
INDUSTY AND TALENT
51. Esabish green raining faciiies in a five boroughs
52. Expand and connec indusry parnerships o inform green workforce prioriies
ADVANCE CITICAL COASTAL
ESILIENCE POJECTS
53. Advance Lower Manhaan Coasa esiience Projec
54. Advance he aise Shoreines Iniiaive a Travis Avenue and Od Howard Beach
55. Expand Saw Mi Creek Pio Weand Miigaion Bank
56. Deveop Brookyn Bridge Mongomery Coasa esiience
57. Inves in Coudburs esiiency Projecs
SUPPOT NEW AND
TANSITIONIN BUSINESSES
ACOSS ALL EEN ECONOMY
SECTOS
58. Inves $40M o seed he NYC Caays Fund
59. Buid capaciy and prioriize diverse businesses for Ciy consrucion
60. Leverage Waerfron Pahways Program o expand access o green economy
opporuniies
61. Esabish green oans hrough he Emerging Deveoper Loan Fund (EDLF)
62. Impemen he Pan-Powered Carbon Chaenge
63. Esabish M/WBE Procuremen Opporuniies
Source: Brookyn Grange
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NYC’s
reen
Economy
Today
and
Tomorrow
Chaper
1
GREEN ECONOMY ACTION PLAN
16
Defining
NYC’s
reen
Economy
The erm “green economy” is generay used o describe
a se of economic aciviies ha are susainabe in
naure and/or have emerged in response o cimae
change. There is no shared goba or naiona definiion
of he green economy and ciies around he word
define hese economic aciviies differeny. Buiding
from he foundaion se in he 2023 PaNYC, we define
he green economy in New York Ciy as he ecosysem
of aciviies ha have emerged since he urn of he
cenury ha direcy and inenionay conribue
o achieving our cimae goas.i To enabe our ciy’s
progress oward carbon neuraiy by 2050, referring
o a goa of baancing carbon dioxide reeased ino
he amosphere wih acion ha removes or absorbs
i, hese aciviies reduce cimae change-inducing
greenhouse gas emissions and increase resiience
o cimae-reaed hazards such as exreme hea and
fooding. Whie here are many aciviies ha suppor
susainabe oucomes ha exised before ha ime,
such as mainaining our parks and deveoping ransi
sysems, goba cimae acion ruy gain racion a he
urn of he cenury. In his repor, we focus on aciviies
ha have deveoped over he as wo o hree decades
and have he poenia o creae enormous economic
opporuniies for New Yorkers.
NYC’s green economy spans eigh secors and 21
subsecors (see Tabe 1). These secors and subsec-
ors consis of many differen ypes of pubic and
i The Unied Naions Framework Convenion on Cimae Change
(UNFCCC) was signed in 1992 and commied signaory naions o
ake acion o address goba cimae change. This aid he foundaion
for Unied Saes cimae change poicy, and evenuay sae and
oca poicy as we. In 2007, New York Ciy reeased he firs PaNYC,
which aricuaed he ciy’s cimae acion sraegy for he firs
ime. Considering ha aciviies o address cimae change gained
momenum in New York Ciy beween he ae 1990s and mid-2000s,
his Acion Pan uses he urn of he cenury as a rough marker for he
incusion of aciviies in our green economy definiion.
privae organizaions and workers. Renewabe energy,
for exampe, incudes he vaue chain of aciviies
invoved in depoying renewabe energy sysems, from
saes o insaaion and mainenance o ransmission
and disribuion. Tha means he aciviies of off-
shore wind deveopers and conracors, for exampe,
as we as hose of reguaed uiiies are incuded in
his subsecor.
NYC’s green economy incudes boh:
→ “Ne new” aciviies, which have ony emerged
in NYC in he conex of he green economy (e.g.,
depoymen of new renewabe energy echnoogies
ike oshore wind)
→ “Transiioning” aciviies, which exis ouside he
green economy bu have evoved o incorporae
new and susainabe pracices ha direcy
advance decarbonizaion and resiience (e.g.,
buiding consrucion ha incorporaes energy
eciency sysems)
This firs-ever definiion of he green economy was
informed by NYC’s oca economic characerisics,
prioriies, compeiive advanages, exensive sake-
hoder inpu, and a review of how oher jurisdicions
have defined heir own green economies. The green
economy’s secor composiion in NYC may change as
he ecosysem coninues o expand and evove. New
green secors and subsecors may emerge as nove
echnoogies such as green hydrogen energy, carbon
capure, susainabe chemicas, susainabe aviaion
fues, and oher cimae innovaions gain sronger
commercia fooing. The Ciy wi coninue o monior
hese rends, suppor hese innovaions, and updae
he definiion as needed.
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NYC’s average househod emissions are one hird
ess han ha of he greaer Unied Saes.2 This
is argey because of our ciy’s dense urban form
and consumpion paerns. These associaed
urban sysems, economic aciviies, and
workforces ha have ong been key o our ciy’s
way of ife are no couned in his Acion Pan’s
green economy definiion because hey pre-
dae cimae acion, and whie hey conribue
o reducing emissions, hey primariy serve oher
poicy goas. They incude:
→ Susainabe ransporaion: Pubic ransi
(e.g., subways, buses, and ferries) is among
he mos cimae-friendy and equiabe
ransporaion modes, and New York Ciy’s
pubic ransi sysem is one of he arges in
he word. These sysems are key o reducing
car rips and enabing dense housing, and
heping avoid emissions associaed wih boh.
I is argey because of his densiy ha NYC is
aso among he mos wakabe and eas car-
dependen ciies in he counry.3 Noaby, NYC’s
average househod ransporaion emissions
are 70 percen ower han he US average.4
Tens of housands of peope are empoyed
by he Meropoian Transporaion Auhoriy
(MTA) and oher agencies and organizaions
ha operae our pubic ransi sysems and
hep make our srees more wakabe.
→ Parks and naura spaces: NYC’s parks and
naura areas confer severa cimae-reaed
benefis, such as soring and sequesering
carbon dioxide and oher air pouans and
bosering our ciy’s resiience o ooding and
exreme hea evens. Thousands of peope are
empoyed by he Ciy and he privae secor
o mainain, proec, and expand hese crucia
naura areas.
→ Reuse: NYC is home o one of he arges,
mos varied, and mos acive reuse secors
in he counry.5 Many NYC househods and
businesses engage in reuse, defined as he
use of a produc more han once in is origina
form or for dieren purposes. This approach
no ony exends he ifespan of producs and
maerias, bu decreases emissions by reducing
he need for producion, disribuion, and
andfiing. Thousands of New Yorkers work
in reuse-cenered esabishmens ha se,
repair, or ren used appiances and consumer
goods (e.g., hrif sores, wach repair sores,
or second-hand furniure sores). Noaby, NYC
has he mos hrif sores and ea markes of a
arge ciies across he US.6
BUILDIN ON
A SUSTAINABLE FOUNDATION
NYC subway. Source: Maciej Toporowicz / Gey Images
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SECTO SUBSECTO DESCIPTION
enewabe
energy
Soar Aciviies (such as he saes, deveopmen,
insaaion, mainenance, and ransmission and
disribuion) invoved in depoying hese renewabe
energy echnoogies. “Oher” incudes bioenergy and
geoherma echnoogies.
Oshore wind
Onshore wind
Hydropower
Oher
Cean fues
Aciviies invoved in cean energy producion using
woody biomass, biodiese, oher ehano and non-
woody biomass fues.
Smar grid
Aciviies invoved in depoying smar grid (such
as digia communicaions echnoogy o deec
and reac o oca changes in usage) and grid
modernizaion echnoogies.
Sorage
Aciviies invoved in depoying energy sorage
echnoogies (incuding baery, hydropower, and
herma sorage).
Buiding decarbonizaion
Aciviies invoved in depoying and mainaining
energy-ecien producs in buidings (such as
ecien HVAC, heaing and cooing, insuaion,
and ighing), rerofiing and eecrifying exising
buidings and consrucing new green buidings, he
managemen and operaions of green buidings, and
impemening uiiy energy eciency programs.i
In addiion o heping o reduce emissions, many
of hese aciviies aso increase resiience o
cimae hazards.
Susainabe buiding
maerias
Aciviies invoved in coecing, processing,
and depoying recyced buiding maerias, and
deveoping and producing new susainabe
buiding maerias.
Eecric vehices
Aciviies invoved in he manufacuring, saes,
mainenance, and repair of eecric and hybrid
vehices, he commercia operaions of eecric and
hybrid vehices (incuding in pubic ransi), and he
depoymen of eecric vehice charging saions.
Micromobiiy
Aciviies invoved in he operaions of shared
micromobiiy sysems, and he saes, renas, and
mainenance of e-bikes and e-scooers.
reen freigh
and ogisics
Aciviies invoved in he operaions of high-eciency
and emissions-reduced waer, rai, air, and rucking
freigh and as-mie deiveries.
i Green buidings are susainabe or high-performance buidings ha ecieny use energy, waer, and oher resources, and reduce wase, pouion, and
environmena degradaion.
TABLE 2 NEW YOK CITY EEN ECONOMY SECTOS AND SUBSECTOS
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SECTO SUBSECTO DESCIPTION
ecycing Aciviies invoved in gass, paper, mea, pasic, and
organics recycing.
Susainabe
food
Aciviies invoved in he deveopmen and operaion
of crop-producing urban agricuure, circuar
food sysems (such as he upcycing of organics
wase), and food science (such as he research,
deveopmen, and producion of aernaive proeins,
which are mea, egg, or dairy producs ha are pan-
based, cuivaed, or fermenaion-derived).
Susainabe fashion
Aciviies invoved in he design, manufacuring,
and saes of susainabe appare, and reaed
maerias science (such as he research and
deveopmen of susainabe exies and oher inpu
maerias) and reuse.
reen finance
Aciviies invoved in he financing of projecs and
venures ha advance decarbonizaion and cimae
resiience (incuding radiiona deb insrumens,
green bonds, cimae-focused venure capia, and
oher susainabiiy funds).
Cimae consuing and
accouning
Aciviies invoved in he provision of cimae
consuing and advisory services (such as pubic and
privae sraegy and panning advisory and carbon
fooprin anaysis and reducion advisory services)
and carbon accouning sofware.
Coasa adapaion
Aciviies invoved in he design, consrucion, and
mainenance of coasa resiience projecs (incuding
boh hard and naure-based infrasrucure) funded
by governmens.
Inand adapaion
Aciviies invoved in he design, consrucion, and
mainenance of inand ooding and exreme hea
adapaion projecs (incuding green infrasrucure
and sewer improvemens) and pubic ransi
resiience projecs.
Susainabiiy poicy,
panning,
and advocacy
Aciviies invoved in he deveopmen and
impemenaion of cimae poicy and panning
iniiaives underaken by governmen, and reaed
advocacy aciviies by nonprofi organizaions.
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POLICY & ADVOCACY
CONSUMER PRODUCTS
TANSPOTATION WASTE
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RESILIENCE INFASTUCTUE
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NYC’s
reen
Economy
133K
JOBS IN NYC EEN ECONOMY
$16B
IN ANNUAL EEN ECONOMY
EANINS
$24B
IN ANNUAL EEN ECONOMY
CONTIBUTIONS TO NYC DP
NYC EEN ECONOMY IN 2021
Esimaes represen he jobs, earnings, and conribuions from
he aciviies ised in Tabe 2.
3%
OF NYC JOBS
2%
OF NYC
EANINS
2%
OF NYC DP
This sudy everages a speciay deveoped mehod-
oogy ha combines radiiona and non-radiiona
mehods and daa sources. Two secors, energy and
buidings, were quanified using couny-eve and
subsecor-specific jobs daa from he US Deparmen
of Energy and he New York Sae Energy Research and
Deveopmen Auhoriy (NYSERDA). Oher secors, for
which such specific daa is no avaiabe, were quan-
ified using a combinaion of radiiona indusry and
abor marke daa, caibraed o idenify he subse
of green economy jobs based on proxies. Bespoke
indusry daases creaed for he purposes of his
sudy reied on sources such as projec-eve daa from
NYC governmen, and esabishmen-eve daa from
LinkedIn. Individua company websies were aso used
where exising specific daases where unavaiabe.
This aiored approach o comprehensivey assess
green economy jobs in NYC can be refreshed in fuure
years o rack growh. See Appendix A for furher deai
on he mehodoogy used.
For he purposes of his Acion Pan, jobs in he green
economy incude:
1. ALL jobs in green companies and organizaions
whose primary mission direcy advances
cimae goas (e.g., a jobs wihin a soar
company, ranging from a Soar PV insaer o
H managers)
2. A SUBSET of jobs in oher companies and
organizaions ha direcy hep advance cimae
goas (e.g., financia anayss working on renew-
abe energy deas a a radiiona bank)
In 2021, he green economy direcy conribued abou
$24 biion o NYC’s gross domesic produc (DP),i
or 2 percen of he ciy’s oa DP, incuding abou
$16 biion in gross earnings, or 2 percen of ciywide
earnings, for peope who work in he green economy.ii iii
i GDP is he oa moneary vaue of a fina goods and services produced
wihin NYC each year.
ii This repor references 2021 daa because his is he mos recen year
ha daa was avaiabe across a secors a he ime of he anaysis,
which was conduced beween November 2022 and Ocober 2023.
iii Gross earnings incude wages, saaries, and oher ypes of income.
Chapter 1 NYC’s Green Economy Today and Tomorrow 23
Source: Buro Happod anaysis
Toa
133,400 jobs
(2021)
Biding decarbonizaion 64,900 jobs (48.6%)
Ssainabe biding maerias 1,300 jobs (1.0%)
Ssainabiiy poicy,
panning, and advocacy
3,000 jobs (2.2%)
Recycing 3,200 jobs (2.4%)
Ssainabe fashion 4,400 jobs (3.3%)
Ssainabe food 1,300 jobs (1.0%)
reen finance, 13,500 jobs (10.1%)
Cimae consing and acconing
1,000 jobs (0.8%)
Coasa adapaion, 12,100 jobs (9%)
Inand adapaion, 10,200 jobs (7.6%)
Renewabe energy 10,900 jobs (8.3%)
Cean fes 400 jobs (0.3%)
Sorage 400 jobs (0.3%)
Smar grid 100 jobs (0.1%)
Renewabe energy jobs (sbsecor deai)
Soar 4,000 jobs (37.1%)
Oher 2,800 jobs (25.1%)
Hydropower 2,200 jobs (20.1%)
Onshore wind 1,700 jobs (15.9%)
Oshore wind 200 jobs (1.7%)
Eecric vehices 4,800 jobs (3.6%)
Micromobiiy 900 jobs (0.7%)
reen freigh and ogisics 1,000 jobs (0.8%)
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Biding decarbonizaion jobs by sbcaegoryi
HVAC and renewabe heaing and cooing
33,200 jobs (51%)
ENERY STAR, ecien ighing and
redced waer consmpion prodcs
20,700 jobs (32%)
reen biding managemen and operaions
7,000 jobs (11%)
Advancing maerias and insaion
3,900 jobs (6%)
FIUE 1 NYC EEN ECONOMY JOBS BY SECTO AND SUBSECTO 2021
i These subcaegories represen a
furher breakdown of subsecor jobs
by aciviy. Figures do no add up o
64,900 due o rounding.”
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Over hree-quarers of NYC green economy jobs oday
are in hree secors:
1. Bidings: This secor empoys over 65,000 peo-
pe, making p neary haf of a green economy
jobs in NYC. Is size reecs he vas scae of he
ciy’s biding sock, which is aso he arges
sorce of carbon emissions in NYC, and NYC’s
naion-eading energy code and biding decar-
bonizaion poicies. Over 80 percen of biding
decarbonizaion jobs in 2021 are invoved in
depoying and mainaining HVAC sysems, renew-
abe heaing and cooing sysems, and energy
ecien prodcs and appiances. Many workers
in his secor are represened by nions and hod
occpaions sch as eecricians, pmbers, HVAC
mechanics, carpeners, biding managers, sa-
ionary, and operaing engineers.
2. esiience infrasrcre: This secor empoys
over 22,000 peope, making p amos 17 percen of
NYC’s green economy jobs. Is size reecs NYC’s
eadership in advancing ambiios cimae adap-
aion pans and infrasrcre projecs, mch
of which has occrred since Hrricane Sandy in
2012. oghy haf of he jobs in his secor focs
on coasa adapaion projecs (e.g., Eas Side
Coasa esiiency) and he oher haf focs on
inand adapaion projecs (e.g., green infrasrc-
re insaaions). Common occpaions in his
secor incde archiecs, andscape archiecs,
civi engineers, consrcion aborers, consrcion
spervisors, and srveyors.
3. Finance and consing: This secor empoys over
14,000 peope and accons for abo 11 percen
of NYC’s green economy jobs. Is size reecs he
ciy’s roe as he word’s financia capia and a hb
for professiona services. Over 90 percen of jobs in
his secor are in green finance and he remainder
are in cimae consing and acconing. Common
occpaions in his secor incde financia man-
agers, financia or invesmen anayss, carbon
acconans, and ssainabiiy speciaiss.
I is imporan o noe ha he green economy is
no a separae secor, bu raher encompasses
many secors, businesses and jobs in New York Ciy
ha exis oday. Transiioning aciviies do no
ransiion “ou” of oher secors; hey simpy join
he growing green economy, represening how jobs
and business pracices wi increasingy evove o
inenionay address or miigae he impacs of
cimae change.
New Buiding Consrucion. Source: Gey Images
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NYC’S EEN ECONOMY
VS. OTHE PEE CITIES
Defining he reen Economy in Peer Ciies
There is no universay acceped definiion of he
green economy, and i ofen diers from ciy o ciy,
making comparisons and benchmarking dicu.
Across peer ciies, definiions capure a wide spread
of aciviies wih a mix of environmena, socia,
and economic benefis. For insance, Los Angees
defines a green job as being “… eiher in businesses
ha direcy produce green goods or services or
jobs in radiiona business direcy responsibe
for making heir esabishmens more environmen-
ay friendy.”7 The UK governmen’s reen Jobs
Taskforce defines green jobs as “empoymen in an
aciviy ha direcy conribues o—or indirecy
suppors—he achievemen of he UK’s ne zero
emissions arge and oher environmena goas,
such as naure resoraion and miigaion agains
cimae risks.”8 Boh definiions are accompanied
by secor-eve anayses, however hese are based
on dieren approaches. These dierences resu in
variaions beween jurisdicions as o which green
economy aciviies are measured and how. In fac,
he 2021 Los Angees Ceanech Incubaor (LACI)
reen Jobs repor noes here has been a “… ack of
sandardized daa o measure he green economy
…” and cas for a sandard federa definiion of he
green economy.
Sizing and rowh of he reen Economy
among Peer Ciies
Comparing he overa size of he green economy
across ciies is unreiabe because definiions
dier. Noneheess, a peer ciies’ green economies
have grown rapidy over ime. For exampe, whie
New York Ciy’s green economy grew by 5 percen
annuay beween 2016–2021, Torono’s green
secor grew a 4 percen annuay beween
2015–2019.9 I is noabe ha boh ciies grew a
doube he rae of he res of he economy.i Peer
ciies’ green economies are projeced o coninue
i New York Ciy’s empoymen acuay shrank in 2021 vs. 2016, bu
was growing a a rae of 2.2% p.a. beween 2016 and 2019 vs.
Torono which was growing a 1.6% p.a. beween 2015 and 2019.
growing rapidy. For exampe, in LA, green jobs
are expeced o grow a doube he rae of a jobs
hrough 2050.ii
Muipe facors inform wha he arges and fases
growing secors wihin he green economy are in
each ciy, incuding ciy composiion, egisaion,
poicy commimens, ec. In London, pressures
around energy securiy and aging infrasrucure
have ed o he power secor hoding he arges
share of green economy jobs (35 percen or 83,000
jobs).10 In LA, pubic spending and poicy have
spurred growh in cean energy, which comprises
abou 17 percen of, or 56,100 oa, green economy
jobs—more han any oher subsecor.11 New York
Ciy has a very arge and aging buiding sock
and oca egisaion has focused on mandaes
o improve buiding eciency, requiring many
buidings o be upgraded in he near fuure. As a
resu, he greaes share of NYC’s green economy
jobs are in he buidings secor (abou 50 percen
of a green economy jobs, or, 66,200 jobs).
Peer Ciy Commimens
Ciies around he word are increasingy seing
cimae goas and making reaed commimens
o grow heir green economies. The London
Mayor commied o doubing heir green
economy and has commied BP 10 miion
o he reen New Dea o kicksar his eor.12
Torono has commied o carbon neuraiy by
2040, wih muipe inermediary goas (e.g., a
new ciy owned faciiies wi be near carbon
neura by 2026).13 Los Angees seeks o achieve
a 100 percen renewabe energy suppy by 2045,
100 percen carbon neura buidings by 2050,
and pans o eecrify 100 percen of Mero
and Los Angees Deparmen of Transporaion
(LADOT) buses by 2030.14 As par of PaNYC,
New York Ciy has commied o carbon neuraiy
by 2050.15
ii Esimae based on he growh of overa LA Couny Green Economy
and accouns for anicipaed growh in green indusries, he
ransiion of some exising jobs o green jobs, and addiiona jobs
creaed by panned major green invesmens by he pubic secor.
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Drivers of
he reen
Economy’s
rowh
Beween 2016 and 2021, empoymen in he green
economy increased by roughy 27,000 jobs, which
equaes o 5 percen annua growh (see Figure 2).i
This was despie he significan economic disrupion
caused by he COVID-19 pandemic. By 2021, he
ciy’s green economy empoyed abou 133,400
peope, amouning o approximaey 3 percen of a
jobs ciywide.
rowh in New York Ciy’s green economy has and wi
coninue o be driven by four facors: pubic poicy
and arges, governmen spending and incenives,
consumer preferences, and privae invesmen.
1. PUBLIC POLICY AND TAETS
New York Ciy and Sae have insaed some of he
word’s mos ambiious arges and poicies, incuding
Ciy and Sae commimens o 100 percen zero-
emission eecriciy by 2040, and a Ciy commimen
o carbon neuraiy by 2050. These poicies have
been essenia o esabishing he ciy’s arge and
fas-growing buiding decarbonizaion secor for
exampe. NYC’s firs buiding emissions poicy was
announced in 2007 in he origina PaNYC, foowed
i This hisorica anaysis is imied o he as five years since his is
he period for which high-quaiy jobs daa is avaiabe across green
economy secors.
by severa andmark buiding emissions poicies in
2009, incuding four ground-breaking oca aws
ha comprised he reener, reaer, Buiding
Pan (see Figure 3). These four oca aws incuded
he esabishmen of an energy code, requiremens for
buiding energy audiing and reporing, and mandaes
for buiding ighing sysem upgrades. Subsequen
poicies have expanded he scope of hese oca
aws and inroduced new mandaes ha cover
more buidings and ighen requiremens. These and
oher buiding emissions poicies have acceeraed
he deveopmen of a robus buiding decarbon-
izaion marke in NYC. Likewise, NYC’s arge of 1 W
of soar power by 2030 has heped guide poicy and
increased invesmen for soar depoymen in he
five boroughs.
2. OVENMENT SPENDIN AND INCENTIVES
overnmen has aso caayzed growh of he ciy’s
green economy by invesing biions of doars in
cimae acion over he as decade. Spending
on resiience infrasrucure has been one criica
focus area for governmens in and around he ciy,
wih mos funding aocaed o coasa adapaion
projecs such as he Eas Side Coasa Resiiency
(ESCR) projec and Rockaways-Aanic Shorefron
Resiiency projec.
Chapter 1 NYC’s Green Economy Today and Tomorrow 27
106.3k
FIUE 2 NYC EEN ECONOMY JOB OWTH 20162021
Share of a jobs (%)
Jobs (k)
140
110
115
120
125
130
135
100
105
4.0%
3.0%
2.0%
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
133.4k
114.1k
122.7k
128.5k 127.0k
2.3%
3.0%
2.9%
2.6%
2.6%
2.4%
reen economy jobs Share of a jobs Source: Buro Happod anaysis
The federa governmen’s unprecedened commi-
mens o spending on cimae echnoogy and cean
energy have furher bosered he effors by sae and
oca governmens. Over he nex 10 years, he federa
governmen wi depoy more han $500 biion on
cimae echnoogy and cean energy, naionay,
as par of hree aws: he Infrasrucure Invesmen
and Jobs Ac (IIJA), he CHIPS and Science Ac, and
he Infaion Reducion Ac (IRA).16 This is more han
ripe he average annua US governmen spending
in hese areas beween 2009 and 2017, and over 15
imes more han average annua spending in he
1990s and eary 2000s.17
The IIJA and IRA require 40 percen of he overa
benefis induced hrough invesmens o fow ino
disadvanaged communiies. Abou haf of New York
Ciy’s census racs are considered disadvanaged
and are herefore expeced o see significan inves-
men ha enabes green growh and heps miigaes
hisoric injusices.18 19
3. CONSUME PEFEENCES
rowing sociea awareness of he cimae crisis has
begun o shif consumer preferences oward cimae-
friendy goods and services gobay. In he US, saes
of consumer producs marked as susainabe grew
wice as fas as convenionay packaged consumer
goods from 2015 o 2021.20 Demand for green goods
and services is expeced o coninue growing as
consumers become increasingy aware of cimae
impacs and seek o change heir purchasing habis.
In 2020, a survey conduced by he Capgemini
Research Insiue of 7,500 consumers gobay found
ha amos 80 percen are changing heir purchase
preferences based on socia and environmena
impac.21 A 2023 survey conduced by Deoie of more
han 350,000 US cusomers aged 18 o 98 found ha
consumers’ susainabiiy demands are rising and ha
hese preferences vary by generaion: when en Z and
Miennia cusomers beieve a brand cares abou is
impac on peope and he pane, hey are 27 percen
more ikey o purchase i han oder generaions
are.22 Changing consumer preferences hep creae
new producs, businesses and jobs in he green
economy. A cear exampe is he food secor, where
goba consumer demand for aernaive proeins
is expeced o surge, poeniay becoming a $290
biion marke by 2035 and represening 11 percen
of goba proein consumpion.23 Shifing consumer
preferences oward susainabiiy may aso indirecy
drive demand for growh in secors and subsecors
ha are criica o decarbonizing business operaions,
such as renewabe energy, buiding decarbonizaion,
and green freigh and ogisics.
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2008
2007 2012 2016 2020
Law or Execive OrderPan
2009 2013 20172014 20182010 20222015 2019
PaNYC
Pan o redce
ciywide H
emissions by
30% from 2005
eves by 2030
reener, reaer
Biding Pan
Consiss of for 2009 oca
aws LL84 (benchmarking),
LL85 (NYC energy code),
LL87 (biding adi
& rero-commissioning),
LL88 (ighing pgrades
& sb-meering)
LL43 (Cean Hea
Vendor Heaing Oi
reqiremens)
Phased o No.6
heaing oi by
swiching o ceanes
heaing fes by
Jy 2015
One Ciy Bi
o Las
Pan o redce
ciywide H
emissions by 80%
from 2005 eves
by 2050
LL91 (Updae
o Energy
Conservaion Code)
Conforms o he
New York Sae
energy code wih
amendmens niqe
o consrcion in
he ciy
LL154 (Ban on as
Hookps in New
Consrcion)
Bans he se of
nara gas and
oher combsion
fes in mos new
bidings in
New York Ciy
saring 2024
Cimae
Mobiizaion Ac
Consiss of oca aws
LL92 & 94 (green roofs
& soar panes for new
roofs), LL65 (biding
eciency grades),
LL96 (PACE), LL97
(imis emissions of
bidings over 25k SF)
eing 97 Done
For-par pan
o hep bidings
compy wih LL97
emissions imis
Cean
Consrcion
Execive Order
Reqires Ciy
agencies o
esabish ow-
carbon specs
for concree and
perform whoe
biding ife cyce
assessmens
ETTIN 97 DONE
Loca Law 97 of 2019, one of he naion’s bodes
buiding decarbonizaion aws, requires abou
50,000 arge buidings o cu emissions by 40
percen by 2030 and 100 percen by 2050. A
majoriy (63 percen) of hese buidings curreny
exceed he carbon emissions imis se for 2030.
NYC governmen operaions are aso subjec o
LL97, wih even sricer emission reducion arges
han hose for privae-secor buidings.
The Ciy is working o spur privae invesmen o
mee LL97 arges hrough enabing speciay
ending vehices ike CPACE. reen enders ike
he New York reen Bank (NYB) and he New
York Ciy Energy Eciency Corporaion (NYCEEC)
are aso invesing direcy o grow he buiding
decarbonizaion subsecor and enabe he growh
of he subsecor.
In fa 2023, New York Ciy aunched “eing 97
Done,” a pan for deivering on he goas of LL97.
FIUE 3 HISTOY OF BUILDIN DECABONIZATIONELATED POLICIES IN NEW YOK CITY
The pan incudes four eemens:
1. Idenifying financia resorces ha wi sppor
rerofi projecs oward LL97 compiance
2. Enhancing NYC Acceeraor, he ciy’s LL97
echnica assisance program, by anching a
new formaized program o deiver more infor-
maion o biding owners ha ms compy
wih LL97
3. Impemening key enforcemen mechanisms via
a New York Ciy Deparmen of Bidings (DOB)
re package, wih a focs on driving compi-
ance wih he aw and maximizing emissions
redcions
4. Working wih New York Sae o decarbonize he
eecric sysem and Con Edison’s seam sysem
Read more abou eing 97 Done.
202320212011
Source: Buro Happod anaysis
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4. PIVATE INVESTMENT
Privae secor companies have aso aken proacive
acion by invesing enormous amouns of capia ino
he green economy ransiion and shifing heir business
pracices. The goba voume of cimae-oriened equiy
ransacions in privae markes increased more han 2.5
imes beween 2019 and 2022, from $75 biion o $196
biion.24 The privae secor provided abou 63 percen
of cean energy financing beween 2016 and 2020,
gobay.25 In he NYC Meropoian Area, venure capia
invesmen in cimae ech companies surged by over
800 percen beween 2016 and 2023, reaching a peak
of amos $4 biion in 2021. The number of cimae ech
deas aking pace in NYC aso increased, growing by 25
percen beween 2016 and 2023. Invesor enhusiasm
and a favorabe macroeconomic environmen made
2021 a record-breaking year for cimae ech venure
invesmen in NYC. In 2023, foowing a paricuary
FIUE 4 NYC METO CLIMATE TECH DEAL COUNT AND VENTUE CAPITAL FUNDIN 20162023
Dea Con
Con
100
60
70
80
90
50
40
30
20
10
$ Biions
$2.5
$3.0
$3.5
$4.0
$2.0
$1.5
$1.0
$0.5
$.3B $.4B
VC Fnding
chaenging year for goba venure invesmen because
of macroeconomic headwinds, cimae ech venure
invesmen in NYC rebounded o a near-record high.
Coninuing o mobiize significan privae secor
invesmen is criica o growing he green economy
a he pace necessary o achieve our cimae goas.
According o he Inernaiona Energy Agency,
around 70 percen of cean energy invesmen over
he nex decade wi need o be carried ou by privae
deveopers, consumers, and financiers o reach ne
zero by 2050 gobay.26 Privae invesmen in he
green economy is aready ramping up naionay.
Since 2021, companies have announced $255 biion
in green economy invesmens in he US, consising of
$133 biion in EVs and baeries, $103 biion in cean
energy, and $19 biion in biomanufacuring.27 NYC is
we posiioned o capure a significan share of hese
fuure invesmens and grow he oca green economy.
Source: Pichbook, Buro Happod anaysis
110
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
72
89 88
105
98
71
87
57
$.3B $.4B
$.7B $.6B
$1.5B
$3.8B
$1.7B
$3.2B
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Working in
Parnership
Across
Secors
Coaboraion beween indusry and he pubic secor
is essenia o bring new innovaions o marke, evove
marke sandards, ensure he green workforce refecs
he diversiy of New York, and bring green souions
o scae. Effecive pubic-privae parnerships can
break down adopion barriers, paricuary in capia-
inensive and echnoogy driven subsecors ike
renewabe energy and buiding decarbonizaion. A key
exampe of effecive parnership is he Ciy and Sae
providing financia incenives o spur he adopion
of soar energy sysems. The Ciy has aunched is
Soar Eecric eneraing Sysems Tax Abaemen
Program and he Sae is NY-Sun program. NYSERDA
has provided funding o over 45,000, mosy sma
and disribued soar projecs in NYC since 2000,
creaing over 445 megawas (MW) of addiiona soar
capaciy and conribuing o acceeraed invesmen
and housands of jobs. To coninue producing and
acceeraing hese resus, i’s essenia he privae
secor ake proacive eadership hrough innovaion,
eadership, and invesmen.
ENVIONMENTAL &
ECONOMIC EQUITY
Persisen environmena inequiies—from he
disproporionae burden of pouing infra-
srucure o he ack of access o heahy
foods—creae profound economic, socia,
and heah dispariies across New York
Ciy. Due o egacies of discriminaion, eco-
nomicay disadvanaged communiies and
communiies of coor are disproporionaey
impaced by hese environmena inequiies.
As cimae hazards ike exreme hea and
ooding coninue o increase in frequency and
severiy, hese same communiies are ofen he
mos vunerabe o heir impacs.
For hese reasons, he Adams adminisraion
is cenering environmena jusice wihin is
cimae agenda—one of he mos ambiious
in he counry. NYCEDC and NYC Taen have
worked cosey wih he Mayor’s Oce of
Cimae & Environmena Jusice o ensure
he invesmens and inervenions in his
pan—which address muipe cimae and
environmena chaenges—are made wih he
goa of ensuring ha New Yorkers who have
been paricuary impaced by environmena
burdens are bes posiioned o access he
famiy-susaining opporuniies from he green
economy. Moving forward, we are commied
o working cosey wih environmena jusice
communiies o ensure he deveopmen and
impemenaion of our workforce prioriies are
eecive in meeing his criica goa.
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PUBLIC PIVATE PATNESHIP CASE STUDY
THE CLEAN HEAT FO ALL CHALLENE
The Cean Hea for A Chaenge is an iniiaive
spearheaded by NYCHA, NYPA, and NYSERDA,
which incudes a $70 miion iniia invesmen in he
deveopmen and producion of 30,000 new hea
pump unis for use in New York Ciy Pubic Housing
faciiies.28 In 2022, he funding was awarded
hrough a compeiive chaenge o radien and
Midea America o deveop and deiver hea pumps
for exising muifamiy buidings.
radien’s mission is o provide innovaive, US-made
window hea pumps ha provide year-round
comfor whie significany reducing energy con-
sumpion and emissions. This parnership marks a
significan eap oward a more susainabe fuure,
where innovaion and coaboraion beween
pubic and privae parners drives accessibe and
ecien eecrificaion. The parnership addiion-
ay aides he Ciy in achieving is decarbonizaion
goas, eevaing residens’ comfor, and bosering
infrasrucure resiience.
The chaenge aowed Midea America o pay an
inegra par in produc deveopmen, manufacur-
ing, performance, and insaaion of window hea
pumps for NYCHA residens.
The parnership aso creaes green economy
jobs, as hea pumps and window upgrades wi
require eecricians, engineers, and mainenance
workers o service he equipmen over ime.
NYCHA wi procure hese vendors direcy, and
workers wi incude Secion 3 residen hires
and recen Cean Energy Academy graduaes.
NYCHA’s shif oward eecrificaion, aong
wih broader iniiaives in he ciy, is generaing
demand for cos-eecive and ecien souions
such as he packaged window hea pumps.
Easy insaaion and mainenance of hese
producs opens up a broader range of job
opporuniies, making echnica skis more
accessibe and expanding empoymen poenia
in his fied.
Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kahy Hochu announce he Cean Hea for A Chaenge in fron of NYCHA’s Woodside House. Source: Ed Reed/
Mayora Phoography Oce
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PUBLIC PIVATE PATNESHIP CASE STUDY
NINEDOT ENEY X NY EEN BANK
NineDo Energy is a cean energy company based
ou of NYU’s Urban Fuure Lab in Brookyn. The
company creaes echnoogy souions o suppor
a cean, resiien, and equiabe New York Ciy grid,
wih a focus on baery sorage. NineDo’s goa
is o have 400MW of baery sorage sysems in
deveopmen by he end of 2026 o srenghen he
oca power grid and provide sabe, reiabe, and
resiien power o ens of housands of househods
and businesses.
In Juy 2023, NineDo announced he cosing of a
$25 miion revoving credi deb faciiy provided
by NY reen Bank (NYB), a division of NYSERDA
and a eader in financing cean energy projecs
hroughou New York Sae. This funding wi sup-
por NineDo Energy’s growing pipeine of baery
sorage projecs in he New York Ciy Mero Area.
NineDo is aso commied o buiding a diverse
green workforce and is paricipaing in NYSERDA’s
workforce deveopmen program, which provides
wage reimbursemen for new empoyees receiving
on-he-job green skis raining and encourages
hiring from disadvanaged communiies.
For NY reen Bank, his ransacion represens
anoher sep oward he New York Sae’s
Cimae Leadership and Communiy Proecion
Ac (CLCPA) arge of deveoping 3000MW of
sorage by 2030 and ensuring ha a eas 35
percen of he benefis of cean energy invesmen
are direced o disadvanaged communiies.
NineDo Energy insas a baery sorage sysem in NYC. Source: NineDo Energy
Chapter 1 NYC’s Green Economy Today and Tomorrow 33
As par of he NYC Urban Fores Agenda, a
coaiion of 50+ organizaions commied o
ensuring ha rees and heir benefis are equay
accessibe for a New Yorkers, NYC Parks is
eading he Urban Wood Reuse Pio. The Pio
demonsraes a new way of handing wood wase
from NYC Parks’ ree removas. NYC Parks has
parnered wih Tri-Lox, a Brookyn-based miing
and manufacuring company ha works wih
oca, susainabe wood, o savage rees from
park reconsrucion projecs for reuse raher han
sending hem o andfi.
From he Eas Side Coasa Resiiency (ESCR)
coasa projecion projec, NYC Parks has aready
savaged 192 rees wih poenia for a eas 100
more. Savaged ogs wi be mied ino umber
by rainees from he Brookyn Woods program
of Brookyn Workforce Innovaions, which oers
ow-income New Yorkers raining in woodworking
and fabricaion, before being urned ino new
wood producs by Tri-Lox in reenpoin, Brookyn.
These producs can hen be reused in he same
parks from which hey were savaged as benches,
sakes for fuure rees, and picnic abes, and can
aso be processed ino ooring, paneing, and
oher furniure.
Lessons earned hrough his pio wi hep guide
he esabishmen of a permanen wood savage
and reuse program a NYC Parks and wi enabe
he capure of carbon, creaion of new green jobs,
and suppor a circuar sysem for oca wood sa-
vaged from NYC parks a scae.
Brookyn Woods rainees process mied umber from savaged ogs in Greenpoin, Brookyn. Source: NYC Parks
PUBLIC PIVATE PATNESHIP CASE STUDY
UBAN WOOD EUSE PILOT
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reen
Economy
Forecas
To undersand he magniude of poenia economic
opporuniy, we forecased he jobs, earnings, and
vaue ha wi be generaed by NYC’s green economy
over he nex wo decades. This forecas is based on
subsecor-specific job projecions ha accoun for
he required invesmen o achieve curren Ciy and
Sae cimae goas and an assessmen of anicipaed
marke rends. I assumes ha exising commimens
wi be fufied and ha oher invesmens wi seadiy
coninue, bu no drasicay acceerae. This anaysis
was suppemened by exising research conduced
by he New York Sae Cimae Acion Counci’s Jus
Transiion Working roup, naiona and goba indusry
growh rends for specific subsecors, forecass for
simiar indusries in peer ciies, and insighs from
indusry sakehoders.
We projec ha he green economy coud become
one of he ciy’s arges indusries and workforce
ecosysems in he nex decade, reaching neary
300,000 jobs, or 5 percen of oa jobs, by 2030. This
is more han doube he green economy jobs in 2021
and represens a growh rae of neary 10 percen per
year, abou four imes ha of he overa ciy economy.
NYC’s green economy workers coud gross a oa of
$39 biion in earnings annuay by 2030, whie NYC’s
green secors coud conribue $61 biion annuay o
he Ciy’s DP, abou 2.5 imes more han in 2021 by
boh measures.i
By 2040, NYC’s green economy coud reach neary
400,000 jobs. Because many of our curren commi-
mens and invesmens are expeced o be impe-
mened in he curren decade, he rae of green
economy growh is projeced o sow o 3 percen per
year afer 2030. This growh rae refecs he evenua
mauraion of emerging secors and subsecors, bu is
i Projecions do no incude induced jobs, earnings, and GDP conribuions.
NEALY
250K
TOTAL JOBS ADDED TO NYC’S EEN ECONOMY
175K
ESTIMATED TANSITIONIN JOBS
75K
ESTIMATED NET NEW JOBS
NEALY
400K
EEN ECONOMY JOBS
$56B
IN ANNUAL EEN ECONOMY EANINS
$89B
IN ANNUAL EEN ECONOMY
CONTIBUTIONS TO NYC DP
Esimaes represen he forecased jobs, earnings, and
conribuions from he aciviies ised in Tabe 2.
FOECAST BY 2040
Chapter 1 NYC’s Green Economy Today and Tomorrow 35
75,000 jobs coud be newy creaed jobs and neary
175,000 coud be ransiioning jobs.
The various secors ha comprise NYC’s green
economy are forecased o grow a differen raes
and incude varying shares of new and ransiioning
jobs. For exampe, he buidings secor is projeced o
increase by roughy 85,000 jobs by 2040, of which wo
hirds coud be jobs ransiioning from he radiiona
archiecure, engineering and consrucion (AEC)
secor. A arge par of his growh coud be driven by
governmen egisaion, ike NYC’s LL97 and LL154,
which imi buiding emissions and ban naura gas
and fossi fues in mos new buidings saring in 2026
(see Appendix C for more deais). Separaey, he
growh in he finance and consuing secor by 80,000
jobs coud be argey driven by shifs in invesor pref-
erences oward more susainabe opporuniies as we
as greaer demand for financing in cimae-focused
organizaions and projecs, bosered by federa ax
incenives expanded by he Infaion Reducion Ac, as
we as he Infrasrucure Invesmen and Jobs Ac and
he CHIPS and Science Ac of 2022.
FIUE 5 NYC EEN ECONOMY JOBS FOECAST
Share of Jobs (Forecas)Jobs (Forecas) Source: Buro Happod anaysis
12.0%
10.0%
8.0%
6.0%
4.0%
2.0%
0.0%
450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
279.4k
381.7k
133.4k
3.0%
5.0%
6.6%
204020302021
Jobs (k)
Share of Jobs
si eevaed compared o he overa ciy economy’s
projeced growh rae of 0.4 percen per year afer
2030.29 By 2040, green economy workers coud earn a
oa of $56 biion annuay and green secors coud
conribue $89 biion o he Ciy’s DP, abou 3.5
imes more han in 2021 by boh measures.
We esimae here coud be neary 250,000 more jobs
in he green economy by 2040 han in 2021. More han
haf of his job growh is expeced o be driven by jobs
ransiioning ino green economy jobs as hey evove
o have a greaer focus on decarbonizaion. However,
he growh of new green secors and increased
demand for green producs and services coud aso
creae ens of housands of new jobs. Beween 2016
and 2021, severa new subsecors emerged around
new green businesses and echnoogies. This incudes
offshore wind, micromobiiy, and susainabe food. For
exampe, abou 50 new susainabe food companies
aunched in NYC during his period, creaing new
jobs in areas such as bioechnoogy and aernaive
proeins. Of he projeced 250,000 jobs added o he
green economy hrough 2040, we esimae ha neary
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Whie a secors are projeced o increase in size by
2040, he buidings and finance/consuing secors
represen roughy 65 percen of NYC’s green econ-
omy job growh. Many secors are expeced o a
eas doube in size wihin ha imeframe, incuding
he buiding and finance and consuing secors, he
energy, ransporaion, consumer producs, and poicy
and advocacy secors.
This forecas does no accoun for he poenia job
osses ha coud resu from he green ransiion
because he magniude of hese osses in NYC is
expeced o be negigibe, especiay compared o he
magniude of new job addiions. Whie NYC’s economy
is no heaviy reian on carbon-inensive secors for
empoymen, NYSERDA has forecased ha abou
3,000 jobs in he fossi fues and auomoive secors
coud be dispaced in NYC by 2030 due o he ran-
siion o a ow-carbon economy.30 I is imporan for
he Ciy o ake seps o ensure a jus ransiion. New
Yorkers wih jobs ha coud be dispaced ofen have
ransferabe skis for empoymen in green secors.
Ensuring access o hese green job aernaives and
providing he upskiing where necessary wi be crii-
ca o NYC’s mission o suppor boh a green economy
and a jus ransiion.
Achieving he Ciy’s ambiious vision o become car-
bon neura by 2050 wi require concered, coabo-
raive pubic-privae acion incuding securing a sig-
nifican share of federa and Sae doars earmarked
for cimae acion. The forecased growh of he green
economy is neiher a given nor a ceiing, bu poins o
he exraordinary poenia of NYC’s green economy if
we execue on our commimens. If we can ensure ha
and more, we can acceerae progress and surpass
hese projecions (See Appendices A and B for deais
around our forecas and our sensiiviy anaysis).
Jobs (k)
2021 jobs 2040 jobs
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
133k 17k
85k
32k 8k 8k
80k 9k 9k 382k
Transiioning jobs
Ne new jobs
FIUE 6 NYC EEN ECONOMY FOECASTED JOBS BY SECTO 20212040
ENEY
BUILDINS
TANSPOTATION
WASTE
CONSUMER PRODUCTS
FINANCE & CONSULTIN
RESILIENCE INFASTUCTUE
POLICY & ADVOCACY
Source: Buro Happod anaysis
Chapter 1 NYC’s Green Economy Today and Tomorrow 37
Jobs (k)
FIUE 7 NYC EEN ECONOMY 2021 JOBS AND 2040 FOECASTED JOBS BY SECTOi ii
450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
2021
3k
3k
6k
66k
151k
94k
39k
31k
28k
14k
12k
15k
7k
22k
12k
2040
11k
ENEY
BUILDINS
TANSPOTATION
WASTE
CONSUMER PRODUCTS
FINANCE & CONSULTIN
RESILIENCE INFASTUCTUE
POLICY & ADVOCACY
2k Sorage
8k Oshore wind
9k Soar
9k Oher energy
secors
4k Ssainabe food
10k Ssainabe
fashion
3k reen freigh and
ogisics
4k Micromobiiy
32k Eecric vehices
Source: Buro Happod anaysis
i In announcemens reaed o “Geing LL97 Done” eors,
he Ciy has cied MIT’s esimaes ha Loca Law 97
has he poenia o creae 141,000 jobs by 2030. Tha
esimae is a forecas of direc, indirec, and induced job
forecass for he enire New York Ciy mero area. This
repor’s esimae of fuure jobs in he buidings secor
diers in ha i is a forecas of ony he direc and indirec
jobs wihin New York Ciy’s five boroughs.
ii This repor’s anaysis esimaed ha he oshore wind
indusry woud conain 5,100 jobs in 2030 and 8,200
jobs in 2040. These esimaes accoun ony for direc
and indirec jobs, and do no accoun for induced jobs
creaed as a resu of he oshore wind indusry. This
projecion is based on he Jus Transiion Working Group’s
sae-eve oshore wind forecas and adjused o reec
NYC’s hisorica share of saewide oshore wind jobs.
NYCEDC’s mehodoogy for oshore wind job esimaes
announced wih he NYC OSW Vision Pan in 2021
diers in a few ways. These previous esimaes reec
forecas indusry empoymen in 2035 based on projecs
anicipaed as of Fisca Year 2022. These esimaes
aso accoun for induced empoymen. The resuing
esimaed range for direc indusry jobs associaed wih
he seeced projecs is 500 o 1,100, whie he esimaed
range for oa (direc + indirec + induced) jobs is 8,000
o 13,000.
Source: simonkr / Gey Images
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Working in
he reen
Economy
Chaper
2
GREEN ECONOMY ACTION PLAN
40
Empoyers
in he reen
Economy
There are a diverse array of businesses and organ-
izaions in New York Ciy’s green economy. They
range from energy souion companies ike Microgrid
Neworks impemening energy sorage o fashion
companies ike FABSCRAP founded on he principes
of reducing commercia exie wase. They aso incude
famiy-owned mechanica engineering consuing
firms supporing high efficiency buiding rerofis and
eecrificaion, as we as financia insiuions wih
new green finance eams, and mobiiy sarups whose
services are accessed hrough a mobie app.
The profies on he subsequen pages highigh
companies and organizaions driving aciviies in
NYC’s green economy.
CLIMATE TECH IN NYC
Cimae ech companies are a brigh spo wihin
New York Ciy’s green business andscape.
As of 2022, he NYC Meropoian Area is he
hird arges cimae ech ecosysem in he
he word afer he Bay Area and London, wih
179 acive cimae ech companies and VC
invesmens reaching amos $4 biion in 2021.
Coninued growh is promising as NYC cimae
ech VC aciviy has generay been growing a a
faser rae han he broader VC ecosysem
in NYC and has been more resiien o recen
economic downurns boh in capia invesed
and dea voume.
The makeup of New York Ciy’s cimae ech eco-
sysem is simiar o peer ciies in ha energy com-
panies comprise he arges share a 42 percen.
The Ciy is sighy more concenraed han peers
in he buidings and consumer producs indus-
ries, a 14 percen and 18 percen respecivey.
CLIMATE TECH COMPANIES BY EEN ECONOMY
SECTO IN THE NYC METO 2022
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
ENEY
BUILDINS
TANSPOTATION
WASTE
CONSUMER PRODUCTS
FINANCE & CONSULTIN
Chapter 2 Working in the Green Economy 41
ITSELECTIC
Founded in 2021, iseecric is a Brookyn-born pre-
seed company impemening scaabe and ecien
EV charging souions in NYC. iseecric’s co-founder
is a member of NYCEDC’s Founder Feowship
Program, which suppors a diverse communiy of
ech sarup founder eams by providing access
o resources and neworks o buid and scae
heir enerprises. By bringing EV charging o ciy
curbs and parnering wih oca propery owners
o access unapped eecriciy, iseecric is work-
ing o scae equiabe, convenien, and aordabe
EV charging.
In dense ciies ike NYC, iseecric is using energy from
buidings o power a pubicy accessibe curbside
charger. Insead of requiring cosy and ime-con-
suming new uiiy connecions, heir Leve-2 charging
poss use a behind-he-meer approach o draw spare
eecrica suppy from adjacen buidings a zero cos
o propery owners. iseecric oers no ony aord-
abe charging across communiies bu a revenue
share wih parnering propery owners—everyone
invoved direcy benefis from EV infrasrucure being
depoyed wihin heir neighborhoods.
In Apri 2023, iseecric aunched Pio One: NYC
in coaboraion wih Hyundai Moors America and
NYCEDC a he Brookyn Army Termina. The pio
yieded overwhemingy posiive feedback, esab-
ishing iseecric’s echnoogy as a reiabe and
pracica souion for urban EV charging needs. Mos
imporany, his pio has brough EV charging infra-
srucure ino areas ha were previousy “charging
desers” and provides a repicabe mode for oher
ciies o foow.
BIHTCOE ENEY
Brighcore Energy provides end-o-end energy
eciency and renewabe energy souions o arge
commercia, insiuiona, governmen, and uiiy
eniies wih a primary focus on he New York Ciy
marke. Brighcore services are fuy inegraed and
incude projec feasibiiy assessmen, engineering
and design, consrucion and deveopmen, impe-
menaion, financing and incenive managemen, and
sysem performance monioring. Energy conservaion
measures incude geoherma heaing and cooing,
soar PV, LED ighing, energy sorage, EV charging,
and buiding conros.
Brighcore’s noabe NYC projecs incude he arges
mixed-use deveopmen in he sae o use a geoher-
ma heaing and cooing sysem; as we as a cenu-
ry-od andmark buiding in he hear of Manhaan
where Brighcore dried and insaed a geoherma
sysem in he basemen in wha was originay he
buiding’s coa room.
Brighcore was founded in 2015 and has is corporae
headquarers in Armonk, NY. Addiiona ocaions
incude Brookyn and Rock Tavern, NY. The company
is a NYPA-approved vendor, was awarded NYSERDA
funding for demonsraion projecs, and has exper-
ise in federa and Sae incenives. Brighcore is a
Minoriy and Women-Owned Business Enerprise (M/
WBE) and prioriizes M/WBEs in sourcing subcon-
racors and vendors aike.
FESH MEADOW MECHANICAL COP
Fresh Meadow Mechanica Corp. is a famiy-owned
design-buid HVAC conracor and mechanica
engineering consuing firm working on residenia
and commercia high-rises as we as insiuiona
and power generaion faciiies. Fresh Meadow has
250 empoyees who work across is mechanica and
chier service divisions, pumbing, eecrica, and
boier-making eams, and an in-house ogisics oufi
ha suppors hese operaions.
Brighcore Energy deveops, impemens, funds, and mainains end-o-end
energy eciency and renewabe energy souions. Source: Brighcore Energy
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Prior o 2018, Fresh Meadow had no worked on
any buiding eecrificaion or high eciency rerofi
projecs. Tha a changed when hey bid for and won
conracs o work on Disney’s new headquarers a
4 Hudson Square and he new Termina One a JFK,
which focused on he eecrificaion of ho waer sys-
ems and he uiizaion of wase hea. Susainabii-
y-focused work now makes up neary haf of Fresh
Meadows’ business.
Fresh Meadow has exensivey worked wih M/WBEs,
as many of heir projecs require 30-40 percen M/
WBE paricipaion. Mos of he company’s empoy-
ees are aso union members. The raining hey’ve
received in new and emerging echnoogies hrough
heir unions has enabed he company’s workforce o
adap o new, growing green opporuniies.
FABSCAP
Locaed in Brookyn, FABSCRAP aims o end com-
mercia exie wase by recycing and reusing fabrics.
The eam of 15 curreny works wih 800+ fashion,
inerior design, and enerainmen companies o co-
ec unwaned or excess maerias. I aso operaes
fabric hrif sores making usabe, saved-from-and-
fi fabrics, eahers, yarns, and rims accessibe o
New York Ciy’s creaive communiy of sudens, ar-
iss, crafers, creaors, and makers.
FABSCRAP curreny works wih brands and mis o
recommend improvemens in fashion samping and
design, which wi hep he indusry move beyond
reuse and recycing o reduce fashion wase a he
onse. FABSCRAP aso eads a robus vouneer-
ing program and spends ~200 hours per year in
cassrooms and a evens o share heir work. Over
8,000 individuas have vouneered a heir
warehouse o sor incoming maeria, and as of 2023,
hey have saved over 1.5 miion pounds of fabric
from andfis.
UBAN FUTUE LAB
Since is founding in 2009, he ACRE (Acceeraor
for a Cean and Resiien Economy) Incubaor, which
grew ino he Urban Fuure Lab (UFL) in 2014, has
payed a key roe in acceeraing he growh of ci-
mae ech innovaion in New York. Par of he NYU
Tandon Schoo of Engineering, UFL has heped over
170 companies deveop nove souions o decar-
bonize he economy and urban infrasrucure. For
each pubic doar spen, UFL’s sarups have raised
$288 from he privae secor wih suppor from
NYSERDA’s program.
In coaboraion wih key indusry parners, UFL’s pro-
grams incude New York Sae’s onges running incu-
baor, ech-focused acceeraors, and he Cean Sar
educaiona cerificae program, run wih NYU’s Schoo
of Professiona Sudies. Across a five programs, UFL’s
sarups have raised $2.3 biion and creaed over
4,100 jobs.
ACRE, UFL’s agship program, is a wo-o-hree year
business incubaor program heping cimae ech
companies by providing access o sraegic advice,
inroducions o indusry sakehoders, markeing
and branding suppor, invesor neworks, and a com-
muniy of ike-minded founders.
In addiion o ACRE and CeanSar, UFL’s acive
acceeraors incude he Carbon o Vaue Iniiaive
(C2V), Oshore Wind Innovaion Hub (OWIH), and
he Innovae UK oba Incubaor Programme. The
C2V Iniiaive is for companies convering carbon ino
high vaue end producs in parnership wih reen-
own Labs, Fraunhofer, and NYSERDA. A parnership
acceeraor program, C2V brings excusive access o
indusry eaders and nonprofi expers who are shap-
ing he carbonech markepace of omorrow.31
Suppored by NYCEDC, he OWIH is ed by Equinor in
parnership wih bp. Coaboraors aso incude he
Urban Fuure Lab a he NYU Tandon Schoo of Engi-
neering and he Naiona Oshore Wind Research &
FABSCRAP vouneers sor incoming exie wase and prepare he maerias
for reuse. Source: FABSCRAP
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Deveopmen Consorium. This year, he OWIH was
aunched o work wih innovaors o scae and bring
nove echnoogica souions o he rapidy growing
US oshore wind indusry.
The Innovaive UK oba Incubaor Programme is
a ransnaiona program specificay designed o
acceerae he pah of marke enry in he Unied
Saes for eary-sage cimae-focused echnoogies
from he UK.
UFL has reied on Sae, Ciy, federa, and cor-
porae funding in he pas, and various sar-
up companies have won federa Sma Business
Innovaion Research (SBIR) or Sunsho grans from
he governmen.
AMOY
Brookyn-based echnoogy sarup Amogy aims o
acceerae he goba journey o ne zero by buid-
ing echnoogy ha convers ammonia ino a cean
energy source. Since is founding in 2020, Amogy
has grown o more han 190 empoyees across he
Unied Saes, Norway, and Singapore, incuding 100
empoyees based a is headquarers in he Brookyn
Navy Yard, where he majoriy of he company’s R&D
and produc deveopmen aciviies are aking pace.
Amogy’s ammonia-o-power sysem has been demon-
sraed in a 5kW drone, 100kW racor, and 300kW
semi-ruck, and is curreny being scaed o 1MW
o be demonsraed in a ugboa which wi be he
word’s firs ammonia-powered vesse. Amogy aims
o enabe he decarbonizaion of he hard-o-abae
secors, such as shipping, power generaion, and
heavy-duy ransporaion, wih is ammonia-based,
carbon-free, high energy-densiy power souion.
Whie Amogy has no received federa invesmen o
dae, he company has been advocaing for ammo-
nia as an energy carrier o be eigibe for curren and
fuure iniiaives and funding opporuniies. Amogy’s
porfoio consiss of a oa of 67 paens and appi-
caions, of which 20 have been issued or aowed
hus far, and he company has received $220 miion
Amogy engineers synhesizing, preparing, and esing caays maerias in he ab. Source: Amogy
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in funding o dae afer successfuy compeing is
Series B fundraise. As of Sepember 2023, Amogy has
expanded is operaions o Houson, Texas o open a
new $40 miion manufacuring faciiy in 2024.
ELECTICFISH
EecricFish is a cimae-ech sar-up esabished by
an a-minoriy founding eam, driven by he urgency
of he cimae crisis and he need o acceerae decar-
bonizaion. The company’s nove baery-inegraed
EV fas charger doubes as a resiien backup power
sysem. These ypes of sysems can increase grid
capaciy by discharging he baery when demand
for EV charging exceeds avaiabe capaciy and hen
recharging during periods of ow demand on he ne-
work. EecricFish’s baery-inegraed fas charger
provides convenien, decenraized, and accessibe
energy infrasrucure o a sie whie heping spur
mass EV adopion, supporing oca grid reiabiiy,
and advancing a resiien energy ransiion.
Founded in 2019, he company’s 2023 NYC pio proj-
ec a he Naiona Park Service’s aeway Naiona
Recreaion Area in Brookyn a Foyd Benne Fied is
par of a arger eor o cuivae oca energy sor-
age capaciy and innovaion in NYC. EecricFish,
aongside communiy parner Jamaica Bay-Rockaway
Parks Conservancy, aims o suppor he surrounding
communiies’ economic and environmena resi-
ience. EecricFish is a member of he Resiien Energy
Sudio cohor, which is a parnership beween
NYCEDC and Newab in coaboraion wih Con Edi-
son ha suppors sarups advancing urban energy
sorage echnoogies.
New York Ciy presens an exciing and we-aigned
marke for he company because of is ambiious
goas o cu ransporaion emissions and acceerae
Live depoymen of EecricFish a Gaeway Naiona Recreaion Area in parnership wih Jamaica Bay Rockaway Parks Conservancy and he Naiona Park
Service. Source: EecricFish
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resiien echnoogies ha hep overcome risks asso-
ciaed wih cimae change. EecricFish envisions
coninuing o bring heir echnoogies o grid-con-
srained areas across he ciy, especiay in hisor-
icay underserved communiies. In May 2023, he
company was awarded a $1.7 miion manufacuring
gran o ramp up producion, and pans o aunch is
commerciay avaiabe sysem in ae 2024.
HAYDAN CONSULTANTS
Founded by a Caribbean immigran, Haydan Consu-
ans is a cerified minoriy-owned business ocaed
in Rosedae, Queens. The company provides a
suie of professiona services o he consrucion
indusry, incuding projec managemen, consruc-
ion managemen, and projec conros for infra-
srucure projecs in he energy, ransporaion,
faciiies, and waer secors. Since is founding in
2019, Haydan Consuans has grown o empoy 70
eam members.
Haydan Consuans has suppored a variey of key
Ciy projecs, incuding providing consrucion man-
agemen and inspecion services a NYC Deparmen
of Environmena Proecion’s (DEP) cimae-resi-
iency sies and mechanica/eecrica/pumbing
(MEP) inspecions for NYCHA’s geoherma pans a
Jackson Houses. The company has supervised he
insaaion of high eciency boier upgrades a NYC
Heah + Hospias/Harem and provided upgrades o
ransmission infrasrucure ha are crucia o bring-
ing oshore wind power o Long Isand.
In 2023, Haydan Consuans paricipaed in
NYCEDC’s Oshore Wind Waerfron Pahways
Program, which heps increase opporuniies for
M/WBEs in he oshore wind and waerfron indus-
ries. The raining heped posiion Haydan Consu-
ans for fuure opporuniies in he cean energy
secor, which wi hep he Sae and Ciy mee heir
cean energy arges.
MICOID NETWOKS
Microgrid Neworks (MN) was founded in New York
Ciy and has grown o 15 fu-ime empoyees since is
esabishmen in 2020. The company curreny oper-
aes ou of is headquarers in Norh Brookyn. MN’s
primary objecive is o impemen energy sorage in
New York Ciy o eiminae reiance on fossi fue gen-
eraion, whie improving he eecrica infrasrucure
o reach carbon neuraiy.
MN is acivey deveoping eigh projecs in New
York Ciy. The firs wo projecs are now energized
o serve he Ridgewood and Maspeh neworks and
bring 10MW/40MWh of energy sorage o he grid—
represening approximaey 30 percen of NYC’s
uiiy-scae energy sorage capaciy.
The company has aken advanage of he IRA ax
incenives for energy sorage and works cosey wih
NYSERDA o empoy summer inerns who may quaify
for fu-ime empoymen.
UA PLUMBES LOCAL 1
UA Pumbers Loca 1 has payed a pivoa roe in New
York Ciy’s consrucion and pumbing indusries for
over 130 years, since i was charered in 1889. The
union curreny incudes up o 6,000 members and
operaes a rigorous Join Appreniceship Training
Program wih heir parners a he Associaion of
Conracing Pumbers, which incudes 10,000 hours
of fied raining and 1,070 hours of cassroom edu-
caion from cerified expers.32 Curreny, he union
incudes over 500 apprenices in raining, and hey
graduae approximaey 100 apprenices o journey-
person eve annuay. They aso provide cerificaion
and recerificaion casses o hundreds of exising
journeyworkers each year.
Microgrid Neworks eam esing new baery modues a Maspeh faciiy.
Source: MGN
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Union Square Venures (USV) hoss an even on cimae ech poicy and he Inaion Reducion Ac in Sepember 2023. Source: USV
UA Pumbers Loca 1 has embraced he emergence
and popuarizaion of cimae echnoogies such as
hea pumps and wase hea recovery, which promped
hem o diversify heir radiiona skis raining pro-
gram o prepare a workforce ha is we-posiioned
o mee he demands of decarbonizing NYC’s buid-
ings and infrasrucure. reen jobs raining and asso-
ciaed skis are no new conceps o UA Pumbers
Loca 1, as heir program heped deveop, and has
incuded, Urban reen Counci’s PRO raining for
amos 15 years, bu in recen years heir curricuum
has expanded. They now rain members in soar and
eecric hea pump waer heaing sysem insaaions
and mainenance as he pumbing indusry ransiions
away from he use of fossi fues.
UA Pumbers Loca 1 members are curreny insaing
geoherma sysems and hea pumps ha provide
energy source for domesic ho waer producion a
wo NYCHA Jackson Houses in he Bronx. The projec
is par of a arger eor o reduce emissions by 40
percen in buidings ha exceed 25,000 gross square
fee by 2030 under NYC Loca Law 97.
UNION SQUAE VENTUES
Union Square Venures (USV) is a New York Ciy-
based venure capia firm. Since is founding in 2003,
USV has invesed in eary-sage echnoogy compa-
nies and projecs. USV invess a he edge of arge
markes being ransformed by echnoogica and
sociea pressures and is porfoio companies have
incuded Twier, Esy, Coinbase, Duoingo, Sack
Overow, MongoDB, and Cara. USV has aunched
eigh eary-sage funds, four opporuniy funds, and
wo cimae funds.
USV’s wo receny aunched cimae funds inves
in companies and projecs ha provide miigaion
for or adapaion o he cimae crisis. Miigaion is
working on he causes of he cimae crisis hrough
eiher emissions reducion or drawdown of exising
greenhouse gases from he amosphere. Adapaion
is working on he consequences of he cimae crisis,
such as increased ooding. USV has invesed in a
wide range of souions, incuding nucear, reai eec-
riciy, eecric vehices, wase fue and e-fue, soi
and fores measuremen, organic carbon remova,
inorganic carbon capure, and ooding predicion
and anaysis.
USV is aso a founding member of he Venure
Cimae Aiance (VCA) which aunched in 2023 wih
a mission o ead a movemen o achieve ne zero
emissions among venure capia firms and heir por-
foio companies. USV is aso a co-chair of NYCEDC’s
Venure Access Aiance, a coaiion of NYC sarup
Chapter 2 Working in the Green Economy 47
invesors aiming o increase diversiy in he ciy’s ech
and venure ecosysem.
CONSEVATION LABS
Conservaion Labs is a mission-driven sarup ha
uses AI echnoogy o coninuousy monior waer
usage and idenify waer ow esimaes, eak aers,
and insighs o hep residenia and commercia prop-
eries manage waer consumpion and preven cosy
damages. The company was founded in Pisburgh
in 2016 and has grown o 22 fu-ime empoyees wih
more han 100 ongoing projecs since receiving seed
funding in 2019.
As Conservaion Labs has advanced heir work
around reducing waer consumpion and increasing
energy eciency, i was moivaed o impemen
projecs in NYC because of Loca Law 97 and oppor-
uniies presened by he ciy’s arge buiding sock.
The company was seeced by JLL Technoogies and
UrbanSense hrough he PropTech Pioing Program
as one of hree pios in NYCEDC’s inaugura cohor
of companies and i is pioing he H2know produc a
he Brookyn Army Termina.
The company aims o sove chaenges associaed
wih waer consumpion and machine performance
wih AI o posiivey impac our bui environmen
and pane. Conservaion Labs creaes producs ike
H2know, a smar waer monior ha decodes sounds
o monior waer usage and idenify eaks and com-
municae appropriae inervenions via an app. The
produc has been depoyed for various use cases
such as oces, hoes, and residenia properies.
H2know consiseny heps reduce waer consumpion
by 20 percen or more, reducing oa uiiy coss and
carbon emissions, and generaes a reurn on inves-
men (ROI) over 300 percen. In addiion o H2know,
he company is acivey working on a produc ha
enabes susainabe machine managemen hrough
AI monioring o idenify ineciencies and reduce
energy consumpion in machines ha have pumps
and moors such as commercia aundry equipmen
and HVAC sysems.
ENETIV
Eneriv is a New York Ciy-based rea esae echno-
ogy company ha provides a suie of sofware oos
o commercia rea esae owners and operaors.
The paform reinvens radiiona rea esae work-
ows for mainenance, ES reporing, enan uiiy
biing, and capia panning by cenering hem around
decarbonizaion and inegraing rea-ime monioring
o drive insighs. Eneriv has been operaing since
2011 and has had an annua profi growh rae of 84
percen in he as four years and is projeced o grow
more han 300 percen by 2025.
Eneriv, seeced by JLL Technoogies and Urban-
Sense hrough he PropTech Pioing Program, is
one of hree pios in NYCEDC’s inaugura cohor of
companies pioing a he Brookyn Army Termina,
where hey wi esabish an auomaed submeering
infrasrucure across 15 submeers, which wi provide
ransparency on energy usage and associaed coss
o buiding enans.
Sofware souions ike Eneriv’s paform are essen-
ia o achieving he Ciy’s decarbonizaion goas
given he paform’s daa-driven insighs ha hep
buiding operaors reduce energy consumpion and
associaed emissions. Eneriv wi provide precise
cacuaions o accuraey diereniae he enans’
energy consumpion agains he common area oads.
This, combined wih Eneriv’s insighs, coud inceniv-
ize enans o reduce consumpion and give NYCEDC,
as we as oher andords and buiding managers,
cariy ino how o deveop enan parnerships
around decarbonizaion.
VYCAB
Founded in 2022, Vycarb is a Brookyn-based sarup
on a mission o empower communiies around
he word wih he oos o measure and remove
carbon emissions. Vycarb deveoped a nove ow-
cos echnoogy ha senses carbon dioxide in waer
and enabes he rea-ime measuremen of safe,
ecoogicay beneficia carbon remova and sorage
in naure.
The ack of measuremen, verificaion, and over-
sigh in he carbon remova marke is one of is
mos significan barriers o scaing. Vycarb empow-
ers communiies o direcy monior he impacs
of carbon on oca waer resources hrough an
auomaed, ow-cos process. This echnoogy was
firs demonsraed ong-erm on overnors Isand
hrough he Cener for Cimae Souions and ed
o Vycarb’s firs carbon remova purchase from
Sripe Cimae in 2023. Vycarb is commied o
fosering a diverse and incusive workforce,
wih one-hird of empoyees curreny from radi-
ionay underrepresened backgrounds in science
and engineering.
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The Emerging
reen
Economy
Workforce
Our abiiy o reach he projeced growh in he green
economy by 2040 depends on having a arge work-
force ha is represenaive of New York Ciy’s diverse
communiies and we-prepared o mee he growing
demand for green aen.
Whie he growh of he green economy wi require
workers in hundreds of differen ypes of jobs wih
varying skis, here are a se of occupaions ha are
paricuary imporan o grow and rain ha require
green-specific skis and knowedge. Sakehoder
inerviews conduced hrough his process have
demonsraed ha soar deveopers are curreny
srugging o hire eecricians in he ciy. This has
required some of hese empoyers o provide
consrucion workers wih ad hoc raining in eecrica
sysems, which can deay insaaions and imi he
number of soar projecs hey can ake on. Some
energy souions companies underaking buiding
decarbonizaion projecs for propery owners srugge
o hire projec managers wih engineering degrees
and experience working wih newer energy efficiency
echnoogies. Simiar workforce chaenges aso exis
in he nascen baery sorage secor, which aso
requires projec managers wih knowedge of newer
echnoogies who can ead he depoymen of hese
sysems. Such shorages can preven green economy
companies from scaing up and empoying peope in
oher supporing occupaions ike human resources,
saes, or adminisraion.
Addressing hese workforce-driven boenecks aso
provides a unique opporuniy o creae pahways o
good jobs and economic opporuniy for New Yorkers.
In addiion o supporing he overa growh of he
green economy, hese opporuniies can and shoud
provide economicay secure careers for a diverse
range of New Yorkers. Emerging opporuniies in he
green economy can presen a pivoa opporuniy for
economic mobiiy and growing a more equiabe and
incusive workforce.
This Acion Pan highighs a se of 21 “focus
occupaions” for he Ciy and he workforce provider
ecosysem o hep grow and rain in order o suppor
green economy growh and provide economicay
secure careers for New Yorkers. To idenify hese
focus occupaions, we conduced a workforce
assessmen ofvarious green economy secors and
consued indusry sakehoders o idenify which green
Soar power is insaed a NYCHA buidings. Source: NYCHA
Chapter 2 Working in the Green Economy 49
FOCUS OCCUPATIONS
“Focus occupaions” are defined by he
foowing aribues:
→ Are unique or criica o he green economy,
requiring green economy-specific skis and
knowedge. Wihou hese occupaions,
he workforce wi no be we posiioned
o underake he work required o achieve
our cimae goas;
→ Aow for economic mobiiy, as hey
pay famiy-susaining wages, or are
pahways ino occupaions ha pay
famiy susaining wages;
→ Are expeced o increase in demand over
he nex decade.
The 21 focus occupaions fa wihin
four occupaiona caegories:
economy occupaions require green-specific skis
and knowedge. Tha is was hen narrowed based
on he expeced demand for each occupaion over
he nex decade and is abiiy o provide dynamic
pahways for upward mobiiy for workers in hose
roes. The seeced focus occupaions eiher ypicay
pay more han a famiy-susaining wage of $63,000
per year, or provide robus pahways ino jobs ha
pay a famiy-susaining wage and herefore provide an
opporuniy o arge jobs and raining o economicay
disadvanaged communiies.
Cruciay, many of hese occupaions ha pay
famiy-susaining wages are accessibe even o New
Yorkers wihou coege degrees. This chaenges he
common percepion ha a coege degree is he ony
way o aain a sabe career wih famiy-susaining
wages. The green economy presens we-paying job
opporuniies for New Yorkers who canno, or do no
choose o pursue a coege degree before enering
→ Consrucion, Insaaion, and Operaions
Roofers
Soar PV Insaers
Mainenance & Repair Workers
Consrucion Laborers
Gaziers
Carpeners
HVAC Mechanics & Insaers
Pumbers
Eecricians
Saionary Engineers & Boier Operaors
Firs Line Supervisors of Consrucion Trades
Faciiies Managers
Energy Audiors
→ Design and Engineering
Archiecs
Civi Engineers
Eecrica Engineers
Mechanica Engineers
→ Business
Susainabiiy Speciaiss
Projec Managemen Speciaiss
→ Managemen
Consrucion Managers
Genera & Operaions Managers
he workforce. For exampe, in he soar subsecor,
individuas wih ie o no experience in consrucion
can sar as junior soar sysem insaers, earn on he
job, and advance o more senior insaer posiions
wih more skis and eecrica knowedge, and
evenuay become forepersons—managemen roes
ha ead crews of insaers. Forepersons working on
consrucion projecs can progress furher by aking on
arger projecs or ransiion ou of fied work and become
office-based projec managers for projec deveopers.
In he buiding decarbonizaion secor, consrucion
rades workers, such as eecricians or pumbers, are
posiioned o become firs-ine supervisors afer severa
years of experience working on energy efficiency
projecs and can evenuay progress o consrucion
managemen roes.
Expanding awareness of such career opporuniies can
enabe more New Yorkers o paricipae in he green
economy and ge on a pahway o economic mobiiy.
GREEN ECONOMY ACTION PLAN
50
Less han High Schoo High Schoo Dipoma or Eqivaen Some Coege, No Degree Bacheor’s Degree
Source: NYS Deparmen of Labor, Lighcas, Buro Happod anaysis
Consrcion, Insaaion, and Operaions
Design and Engineering
Bsiness
Managemen
Mainenance and Repair Workers
Consrcion Laborers
aziers
Carpeners
HVAC Mechanics & Insaers
Pmbers
Eecricians
Saionary Engineers & Boier Operaors
Faciiies Managers
Energy Adiors
Archiecs
Civi Engineers
Mechanica Engineers
Projec Managemen Speciaiss
Consrcion Managers
enera and Operaions Managers
Roofers
Soar PV Insaers
Firs Line Spervisors of Consrcion Trades
Ssainabiiy Speciaiss
Eecrica Engineers
FIUE 8 MEDIAN ANNUAL WAE AND MOST COMMON EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
FO NYC EEN ECONOMY FOCUS OCCUPATIONS CITYWIDE 2023
2023 NYC Famiy Ssaining Wage ($63,000)
$58,700
$62,500
$53,300
$60,000
$73,600
$74,400
$77,800
$81,200
$88,400
$103,100
$105,300
$130,600
$83,300
$102,300
$105,400
$106,100
$105,200
$88,000
$114,700
$157,600
$143,800
$100,000 $150,000$50,000
Chapter 2 Working in the Green Economy 51
ADDITIONAL IMPOTANT OCCUPATIONS FO THE EEN ECONOMY
Research & Deveopmen Occupaions
in he reen Economy
Whie he aforemenioned “focus occupaions”
are key o achieving our cimae goas and driving
significan growh in he green economy, here are
some occupaions ha wi be criica o unock
New York Ciy’s cimae innovaion poenia and
push he scae of New York Ciy’s green economy
ambiion o new heighs. These occupaions are
primariy rooed in basic and appied science and
research and deveopmen, and require advanced
STEM degrees o deveop and scae new cimae
innovaions, primariy across hree green economy
secors: energy, buidings, and consumer producs.
Whie NYC eads he naion in he number of grad-
uaes wih STEM-reaed degrees and is home o
over 100 higher educaion insiuions, here are
paricuar advanced STEM roes criica o mee
he needs of he green economy ha are curreny
in shor suppy in NYC.
ENERY AND BUILDINS
Some occupaions ha are needed o creae new
renewabe energy generaion, energy sorage, hea
recovery sysems, and new ypes of susainabe
consrucion maerias, incude:
→ Maerias scieniss
→ Chemica engineers
→ Nucear engineers
→ Thermouidics engineers
→ Eecrochemiss
CONSUMER PRODUCTS
Occupaions ha are needed o creae new ypes
of susainabe food producs (e.g., aernaives o
anima mea) as we as susainabe maerias for
he fashion indusry, incude:
→ Food scieniss
→ Microbioogiss
→ Biochemiss
→ Precision fermenaion engineers
→ Ce membrane engineers
These occupaions are high in demand and shor
in suppy. Whie he oa number of R&D esab-
ishmens focused on physica, engineering, and
ife sciences has neary doubed since 2017, here
were fewer han 1,500 workers in he occupaions
ised above in New York Ciy in 2022. Whie he
majoriy of hese occupaions pay high saa-
ries, ofen greaer han $100,000 annuay, i is
imporan o noe ha his workforce is acking in
diversiy, per American Communiy Survey daa.
To ensure ha New York Ciy seizes he economic
opporuniy o be a eader in cimae innovaion,
i is criica ha he Ciy make concenraed
eors—boh o suppor higher educaion insiu-
ions o increase STEM degree aainmen across
a more diverse subse of New Yorkers, paricuary
for he roes highighed above—and o creae
workforce pipeines beween exising New York
Ciy graduaes and hese speciaized advanced
STEM occupaions.
Sppor Occpaions in he reen Economy
There are aso opporuniies for New Yorkers
in many ypes of jobs ha do no require green
economy-specific skis. These incude saes rep-
resenaives, pubic reaions speciaiss, marke-
ing speciaiss, accounans, and audiors. These
supporing jobs are necessary for he funcioning
of any business and hey wi see an increase in
demand as new and exising businesses grow in
he green economy.
The supporing occupaions ha pay famiy sus-
aining wages and have high growh rae forecass
across our economy over he nex decade are:
→ Sofware deveopers
→ Marke research anayss and markeing
speciaiss
→ Accounans and audiors
→ Lawyers
→ Saes represenaives of services
→ Financia managers
→ PR speciaiss
→ Managemen anayss
→ Saes reps (whoesae and manufacuring)
→ HR speciaiss
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New Yorkers
in he reen
Economy
The wide range of aciviies and empoyers in he
green economy creaes diverse job opporuniies
ranging from roes in consrucion and finance o saes
and adminisraion. Enabing New Yorkers o acquire
necessary skis and knowedge o access hese job
opporuniies requires buiding a comprehensive
undersanding of he green economy job andscape.
Mos occupaions in he green economy are no
specific or unique o green secors, wih fewer han
haf of a green jobs requiring green-specific skis.
Today, i is esimaed ha:
→ A very sma proporion of jobs are in new occu-
paions ha are unique o he green economy
and require green economy-specific skis and
knowedge (e.g., soar insaers, energy audiors, or
compos microhauers)
→ Fewer han haf of he jobs in NYC’s green econ-
omy are in exising occupaions ha wi require
green economy-specific skis and knowedge o
work in green secors (e.g., eecricians working
on renewabe energy projecs, HVAC speciaiss
insaing hea pumps, or mechanica engineers
designing new energy ecien heaing and cooing
sysems for buidings)
→ Up o a hird of he jobs are in exising occupaions
ha require green economy-specific knowedge
bu no skis (e.g., bankers financing renewabe
energy projecs or saes peope working a a soar
company)
→ Fewer han a quarer of jobs are in exising occu-
paions ha require no green economy-specific
skis or knowedge (e.g., human resources specia-
iss, accounans, or cashiers)
This means ha many New Yorkers are aready
we-posiioned o ransiion o he green economy.
Organizaions in NYC’s green economy ypicay empoy
workers in a range of occupaions wih varying eves
of green economy-specific skis and knowedge. The
foowing pages show a coecion of New Yorkers
working in he green economy oday, wha hey do, and
how hey go here.
Chapter 2 Working in the Green Economy 53
In his roe a Huner Robers, Ehan manages he
Baery Coasa Resiience Projec, which is one of sev-
era projecs ogeher known as he Lower Manhaan
Coasa Resiiency (LMCR) Projec, an inegraed coasa
proecion iniiaive o reduce ood risk from sorms
and sea-eve rise in Lower Manhaan. Ehan oversees
he projec’s budge, impemens cos conros, ensures
conformance o design documens, and communicaes
progress o various sakehoders.
“
Take as many cerificaion corses as
yo can. Tak o as many peope in he
indsry as possibe. e invoved. Learn
where he indsry is going and ge
ahead of he crve.
”
“
I saw a gap ha wasn’ being fied
and creaed somehing ha addressed
i. We need more innovaors in he
ssainabiiy fied, peope wih fresh
perspecives and ideas ha can make i
easier for everyone o ge invoved.
”
Dior is a Bronx naive working o reimagine New
York Ciy’s wase managemen sysem by increasing
he oca processing of organics. She oversees opera-
ions a BK ROT, a nonprofi bike-powered food wase
hauing and composing service. She receny founded
reenFeen OrganiX, a worker-owned cooperaive ha
serves secions of he Bronx and Upper Manhaan wih
Microhauing and composing a a communiy garden.
Dior hods a bacheor’s degree in urban susainabiiy
and communiy deveopmen from Baruch Coege and
is curreny pursuing a maser’s in environmena poicy
and Susainabiiy Managemen a The New Schoo. She
hods severa oher green credenias, incuding a Maser
Composer cerificae from The New York Boanica
arden sponsored by he Deparmen of Saniaion and
anoher in Compos Operaions Training from he US
Composing Counci.
Dior was firs exposed o composing a seepaway
summer camp and became inspired o work in he fied
afer aking a course a Baruch on agribusiness and he
food indusria compex.
DIO ST. HILLAIE,
Co-Direcor, BK OT;
Founder, reenFeen OrganiX
ETHAN SMITH
Projec Manager,
Huner obers Consrucion roup
Ehan hods a bacheor’s degree in geosciences from
SUNY New Paz and is compeing his maser’s degree in
environmena geoogy a Rugers. He began his career as
a sa geoogis a firms incuding LiRo and Langan before
pivoing o resiience-focused consrucion managemen.
Ehan deveoped an appreciaion for he waer
whie growing up on Long Isand and aways waned o
pursue a career ha heped ensure marine and coasa
environmens coud as for generaions o come.
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54
LINDSAY DOIN
Direcor,
NY reen Bank
Lindsay is a ife-ong New Yorker and a Direcor a
he NY reen Bank, a Sae-sponsored invesmen fund
and division of he New York Sae Energy Research and
Deveopmen Auhoriy (NYSERDA). Her work a he NY
reen Bank heps fi he financia gaps in cean energy
and susainabe infrasrucure markes by mobiizing
privae capia in key energy ransiion secors serving
New York.
Lindsay spen much of her career in invesmen
banking, originaing, and execuing srucured finance
“
Undersanding ha rising sea eves
hreaen my ciy and way of ife compeed
me o ake acion firs hrogh voneer
work in he cean energy secor and hen
by joining NY reen Bank, where I have
he saisfacion of working aongside a
dedicaed grop of cimae warriors.
”
ransacions across indusries, incuding he infrasruc-
ure and energy secors. During her ime as an invesmen
banker, she enroed in a professiona cerificae course
in energy finance from New York Universiy. The course
heped her reaize ha he ransiion away from fossi
fues o vasy ceaner forms of energy was no jus
aspiraiona bu was aready in progress and expand-
ing across he economy. This promped her o vouneer
in he cean energy secor, and evenuay join he NY
reen Bank.
Crisina is a naive New Yorker who manages a Con
Edison program ha heps increase and acceerae he
upake of buiding eecrificaion echnoogies and oher
energy eciency measures in 1-4 famiy homes hrough-
ou he ciy.
She hods bacheor’s and maser’s degrees in envi-
ronmena engineering from The Ciy Coege of New York
and was inspired o pu hem o use by addressing green-
house gas emissions in New York’s bui environmen
during an inernship a CUNY’s Buiding Performance
Lab, which oers coninuing educaion programs for
CISTINA ACIA
Program Manager, esidenia Energy
Eciency & Heaing Eecrificaion, Con Edison;
Founder, Lainxs in Susainabiiy
“
As a naive New Yorker, I’m so prod o
work on a program ha no ony heps
New York Ciy as a whoe by redcing
greenhose gases and combaing
cimae change, b aso heps individa
New Yorkers by making heir homes more
comforabe, reiabe, and safe.
”
buiding operaors as we as inernships for CUNY
sudens and conducs buiding sysems research and
deveopmen. Over her career, Crisina has worked
a he Mayor’s Oce of Susainabiiy, he Buiding
Eecrificaion Insiue, and in he consrucion secor.
She is passionae abou diversifying he susainabiiy
workforce and is he founder of Lainxs in Susainabiiy, a
nonprofi ha oers menorship, career exporaion, and
oher resources ha seek o ge more workers from under-
represened communiies ino cean energy jobs.
Chapter 2 Working in the Green Economy 55
JASON TAULLI
Civea Mechanica Journeyman,
UA Pumbers Loca 1
Jason is a Queens naive, a journeyman pumber wih
UA Loca 1, and is empoyed by Civea Mechanica, a
Bronx-based pumbing conracor. He is curreny insa-
ing a new waer main a rand Cenra, an upgrade ha
wi ensure he ong-erm susainabiiy and resiience of
he saion’s pumbing.
Jason’s firs experience wih green buiding sysems
came in 2019, when his firm was hired o insa hea
pumps a Manhaan Wes, a six-buiding compex in
Hudson Yards. Jason had no received any forma raining
in hea pump insaaion prior o his projec. He earned
“
Coming ino he appreniceship, I had
no experience in consrcion, b afer
spending enogh ime working aongside
he jorneymen, I go o a poin where I
was comforabe wih insaing sysems
on my own.
”
on-he-job by observing and working aongside his more
experienced coeagues.
Jason enered he fied in 2005 by enroing in a five-
year appreniceship program oered hrough UA Loca 1.
Over he course of his 17-year career, Jason has worked
as a foreman on pumbing projecs for severa high-rise
buidings hroughou Manhaan.
LUCIE DUPAS
Chief Deivery Ocer,
PowerFex
Lucie is he Chief Deivery Ocer a PowerFex, a com-
pany ha deveops smar energy sorage, soar, and eec-
ric vehice charging sysems for commercia cusomers.
PowerFex (formery known as EnerSoar) was founded
in New York Ciy and has since expanded naionwide.
Lucie hods a maser’s degree in energy and environ-
mena engineering from he Naiona Insiue of Appied
Sciences in Lyon, a program ha bends eecrica and
mechanica engineering wih enrepreneuria insruc-
ion. Afer moving o New York, she worked a severa
“
The massive chaenge of depoying
renewabe energy sysems is reay
exciing. There’s so mch more o do
when yo ook a a he empy roofs
ha cod be fied wih soar!
”
energy consuing firms incuding Soega and Brigh
Power before choosing o speciaize in arge-scae soar
depoymen and joining EnerSoar.
Ouside of work, Lucie eads he Board and vouneers
wih reenHomeNYC, a grassroos nonprofi organiza-
ion ha focuses on susainabiiy educaion and pro-
vides opporuniies for indusry professionas o nework
and earn from one anoher.
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TOM BONILLA
Chief Engineer, Hines
Inernaiona Union of Operaing Engineers
Loca 94
Tom oversees a eam of 16 engineers who are respon-
sibe for mechanica, eecrica, and pumbing operaions,
mainenance, upgrades, and oher capia projecs for
1251 Avenue of he Americas, a 2.3 miion-square-foo
commercia buiding managed by Hines. Over his 36-year
career, he has worked in more han 10 dieren buidings
in New York Ciy, gaining skis and knowedge reaed o
pneumaic and digia conros, dieren ypes of chier
pans, direc and indirec seam and boier pan heaing,
and oher faces of energy-ecien buiding operaions.
Tom is a member of he Inernaiona Union of
Operaing Engineers’ Loca 94 chaper. In addiion o
he exensive amoun of on-he-job raining ha Tom
received hrough his work experience, he has com-
peed coursework on energy conservaion and oher
“
New York Ciy has i a, aowing yo
o work in bidings of varied ages and
wih diverse generaions of eqip-
men and eves of sophisicaion of
echnoogy. Tha’s how yo bid he
knowedge and experience yo need,
piece by piece, day by day, year by year.
”
JO JUMALON
Lead Training & Deveopmen Speciais,
eve
Jo eads he onboarding and educaion of new
empoyee drivers for Reve, an a-eecric vehice ride-
share sarup based in New York. Jo is responsibe for
geing drivers comforabe driving eecric vehices and
serves as a resource when hey encouner issues on he
road.
Jo was a rideshare driver himsef who has ong been
ineresed in eecric vehices. He fe ha his roe was an
“
Like every indsry, ransporaion
is changing rapidy, so having an
open mind and waning o soak p a
he knowedge is absoey key.
”
environmenay conscious operaing parameers, which
Loca 94 deveops in response o shifing reguaions and
emerging echnoogies.
Tom has been essenia o he amos 40 percen
reducion in annua greenhouse gas emissions for 2019
agains a 2010 baseine ha was achieved a 1251 Avenue
of he Americas. Much of his work incuded modernizing
he buiding’s operaions, conducing reguar audis of
various buiding sysems, and modeing he reurns on
invesmen for eciency upgrades.
Tom beieves ha onsie operaing engineers are he
grassroos of susainabiiy in commercia buidings and
ha eaching curren and fuure workers how o maximize
he energy eciency of faciiies hey manage is para-
moun o he success of hese iniiaives.
opporuniy o expore his passion whie supporing oher
drivers in he process.
Jo beieves ha geing more drivers and riders
exposed o eecric vehices can bring abou greaer
adopion of he echnoogy.
Chapter 2 Working in the Green Economy 57
KEVIN BAITHWAITE
adiaor Technician,
Casrads
TINIA PINA
Founder, CEO and Presiden,
e-Nube
Kevin is a radiaor echnician and a ifeong New
Yorker curreny residing in Jamaica, Queens and work-
ing in Sunse Park, Brookyn a Casrads Norh America.
Casrads Norh America is a UK-based company ha
designs and manufacures cusom cas-iron radiaors
using scrap mea. Reusing maerias heps he company
reduce greenhouse gas emissions during producion
and manufacuring.
Kevin has been wih he company for wo years and
provides experise on insaing and mainaining cusom
Tinia Pina has been he Founder and CEO of Re-Nube
for 7 years, since he company’s incepion. Re-Nube is
an M/WBE-cerified company ha provides souions o
susainabe food growing pracices for indoor growers
by creaing bioogica feriizers and pea-free souions
from agricuura wase sreams, which heps reduce
andfi wase and greenhouse gas emissions.
Afer sudying business informaion echnoogy a
Virginia Tech she moved o NYC and worked as a capia
markes audior. Whie working in financia services, she
was exposed o urban agricuure hrough vouneering
opporuniies and became famiiar wih wase consump-
ion and susainabiiy, seeing firshand how imied
heahy food opions coud be. Tinia decided o creae a
business ha woud address he chaenges associaed
“
Having he abiiy o provide for mysef
and my famiy in a way ha is safer
for he cimae and environmen,
i gives me peace of mind.
”
“
Reach o o companies, be a vae
add, research, ndersand wha
heir needs are, and pich ideas.
”
radiaors across Brookyn and Manhaan. Wihou
previous work experience in fieds inked o he green
economy, he iniiay worked a he company as a
dispach assisan, ony handing paes, accessory
orders, deiveries, and various warehouse duies. As
he became more famiiar wih Casrad’s radiaors, he
earned o assembe hem, repace produc pars, and
fix eaks and damages. As a resu of his upskiing, he
deveoped experise o hande soo onsie duies and
provide echnica assisance in he fied.
wih urban agricuure hrough circuariy and upcycing
food wase ino producs wih second uses. raviaing
owards he mission of boosing oca food producion
hrough innovaive souions, she founded Re-Nube,
where he eam uses “organic cycing science” o rans-
form food byproducs ino susainabe nuriens which
can be used in soiess farming and conribue o a mini-
ma carbon fooprin.
Tinia’s advice o hose ineresed in cimae ech is o
join he ecosysem hrough meeups o connec wih indi-
viduas and companies o share knowedge. She is aso
curreny a menor in NYCEDC’s Women.NYC Nework
which oers opporuniies o mee wih professionas in
high-growh secors incuding cimae ech.
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Sared working as a handyman in high
schoo, and hen began working as a buiding
superinenden a age 23
Coninued o work as a superinenden a
buidings hroughou Manhaan
Managed his firs LEED-cerified buiding in
Baery Park Ciy in 2006
Spen neary 15 years managing oher green
buidings, mosy in Baery Park
Began working as an energy-eciency
consuan wih Dougas Eiman in 2019
Sared exporing ideas for echnoogies o
enhance buiding energy performance
Joined Aernaive Susainabiiy o
coninue o design, paen, and scae cimae
echnoogy producs
JOHN’S CAEE PATH
JOHN STEVENS
esiden Manager, iver & Warren Condominium,
Baery Park Ciy; Direcor of Buiding Operaions for
one of he arges propery managemen firms in
New York Ciy; Consuan, Aernaive Susainabiiy
John is he Residen Manager a River & Warren
Condominium in Baery Park Ciy and serves as he
Direcor of Buiding Operaions for a arge residenia
propery managemen company, where he heps heir
buiding managemen eams address mechanica issues
and deveop sraegies for enhancing energy eciency.
John is aso a consuan for Aernaive Susainabiiy,
a New Jersey-based company ha designs and manu-
facures new, innovaive ypes of HVAC equipmen and
urbines ha can reduce buidings’ energy consumpion
by up o 50 percen.
John is no an engineer by raining, bu his upbringing
in a househod of buiding managers and superinen-
dens fosered a naura curiosiy and commimen o
coninuous earning. He has carried his curiosiy and
ehos of coninuous earning ino his career and beieves
he bes way o earn is o spend ime on he job, asking
quesions, and exporing how hings work.
John spen more han 40 years working in he buid-
ings indusry, saring as a handyman whie in high-
schoo, and working his way up o become a residen
buiding manager and direcor of buiding operaions
for muipe buidings in he ciy. Over his career, he has
commissioned nine dieren buidings and moved from
propery o propery o gain exposure o new ypes of
buiding sysems and echnoogies.
Through his work, John idenified ways ha buidings
coud become more susainabe and energy-ecien
and began exporing ideas for producs and echnoo-
gies ha coud enhance heir performance. John has
since designed and esed dieren ypes of cimae
echnoogies for buiding sysems, boh independeny
and hrough Aernaive Susainabiiy, wih hree paens
graned and six more pending.
“
This is abo more han js aking some
casses and providing some insrcion; i’s
abo consany asking ‘why’ and changing
peope’s hinking arond bidings and how
hey work in he process.
”
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CLEMENTINE JACKSON
Seamfier
Enerprise Associaion of Seamfiers
Loca 638
Cemenine is a seamfier who works on he insaa-
ion and mainenance of pipes for sprinker and heaing
sysems in high-rise buidings across New York Ciy.
She curreny serves as an apprenice wih Enerprise
Associaion of Seamfiers Loca 638, where she is
simuaneousy earning a wage and earning he rade,
hrough cassroom insrucion and on-he-job work expe-
riences faciiaed by he union.
Before enering he consrucion fied, Cemenine
worked as a nurse and in he securiy fied. She was
eager o join he consrucion indusry because of her
passion for hands-on work. She compeed an enry-eve
hree-monh consrucion raining program hrough he
Andromeda Communiy Iniiaive, a Queens-based non-
profi ha prepares workers for career opporuniies in
he buiding resoraion indusry. The program equipped
Cemenine wih severa credenias ha heped her
pivo ino consrucion, incuding a reen Professiona
Training (PRO) cerificae in green buiding funda-
menas from he Urban reen Counci, a program ha
eaches workers in he buiding and consrucion rades
how o inegrae high-performance pracices ino heir
everyday work.
Afer ha, she aso paricipaed in he Pahways
o Appreniceship program, which heps New Yorkers
gain admission ino buiding rades appreniceships by
providing workforce readiness raining, key safey cer-
ificaions, and exposure o various career pahways in
he buiding rades. This program payed a crucia roe in
heping her secure her curren appreniceship.
“
I see a biding ha I worked on and ake
pride in he fac ha I payed a roe in
creaing ha. I ove being abe o ook a he
prodc of my work and fee ike I’m giving
back o he commniy becase of i.
”
Worked as a Licensed
Pracica Nurse (LPN)
Pivoed o securiy and
spen 10 years in he fied
Deveoped ineres in he consrucion fied
and sared exporing careers in i
Compeed a hree-monh consrucion
raining program hrough he Andromeda
Communiy Iniiaive
Became aware of and
enroed in he Pahways o
Appreniceship Program
Joined Enerprise Associaion of
Seamfiers Loca 638
as an apprenice
Working on high-rise buidings and
simuaneousy aking casses (as par of
Loca 638’s appreniceship program)
CLEMENTINE’S CAEE PATH
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ANDEW FISHE
Presiden, AMF Eecrica Conracing Corp.
Inernaiona Broherhood of Eecrica Workers
Loca 3
Andrew is he founder and presiden of AMF Eecrica
Conracing Corp., an MBE eecrica conracor ha
primariy works on buiding eecrica sysems across
New York Ciy. The firm previousy speciaized in
eecommunicaions infrasrucure, fire deecion and
aarms, and oher sandard buiding eecrica sysems.
Andrew waned o capiaize on opporuniies in
he growing cean energy indusry and enroed in Con
Edison’s EV Ready program, which prepares conracors
o work on charging infrasrucure. Afer compeing he
program, Andrew and AMF worked on iseecric’s firs
EV charging saions in Brookyn and EecricFish’s pio
projec. He’s excied o ake on more projecs in he cean
energy and ransporaion fied.
Andrew hods bacheor’s and maser’s degrees in
eecrica engineering from he New York Insiue of
Technoogy. He has worked as an eecrica engineer for
over 15 years, wih much of ha ime spen on designing
eecrica sysems for various appicaions. Prior o
saring his own business, Andrew worked as a projec
manager for severa arge eecrica conracing firms
ha serve New York’s buidings secor.
Andrew is a member of he Inernaiona Broherhood
of Eecrica Workers’ Loca 3 chaper, which has
provided him wih access o coursework on projec cos
esimaion and managemen, soar insaaion, and
eecric vehice infrasrucure.
Earned his bacheor’s and maser’s
degrees from he New York
Insiue of Technoogy
Worked as a Projec Manager for he
NYC Deparmen of
Environmena Proecion
Moved ino he eecrica conracing fied,
aso working as a projec manager
Joined he Inernaiona Broherhood of
Eecrica Workers Loca 3
Sared his own firm, AMF Eecrica
Conracing Corp.
Paricipaed in Con Edison’s
EV Ready Program
Insaed EV charging infrasrucure
for iseecric and EecricFish
ANDEW’S CAEE PATH
“
The andscape of he eecrica indsry
is changing, creaing opporniies ha
new bsinesses and workers can ap ino
if hey have he open-mindedness and
preparedness o ake on his work.
”
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MINAIEL SHOAIB
HVAC and Energy Manager,
L+M Deveopmen Parners
Minaie receny joined L+M Deveopmen Parners as
an HVAC and Energy Manager. Serving as a cenraized
resource on energy and HVAC managemen, Minaie
drives impac on he company’s buiding porfoio by
increasing he operaiona eciency of HVAC sysems
and heping wih decision making of sraegic rerofis.
Previousy, she was a Buiding Sysems Engineer a
Seven Winer Associaes, where she performed energy
audis and buiding greenhouse gas emissions anayses
on exising buidings, which informed recommendaions
for energy conservaion and eecrificaion inervenions.
When Minaie began her engineering degree a The
Ciy Coege of New York, she was enirey unaware of
he buiding decarbonizaion fied and he opporuniies
ha exised wihin i. Afer a friend convinced her o ake
a susainabe energy conversion sysems course, she
was inspired o pursue an inernship a CUNY’s Buiding
Performance Lab, which furher cuivaed her ineres in
susainabiiy and he bui environmen.
“
This indsry remains niche, wih imied
awareness among sdens and fresh
gradaes. Engaging in career expos and
menorship iniiaives fis me wih pride
becase i nderscores he pivoa roe
peope pay in driving cimae acion and
cerainy moving he indsry forward.
”
MINAIEL’S CAEE PATH
Enroed in he Ciy Coege of
New York’s Bacheor’s of Mechanica
Engineering program
Took a mechanica engineering
inernship a Honda in Pakisan
Learned abou CUNY’s
Buiding Performance Lab and
compeed an inernship here in 2018
Worked as a mechanica engineering
inern a NYC DOB
upon compeing bacheor’s degree
Joined Seven Winer Associaes (SWA)
as a Buiding Sysem Anays
in 2020
Promoed o Buiding Sysems Engineer
a SWA
Sared a posiion as
an HVAC Manager a L+M Deveopmen
Parners in 2023
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Workforce
Chaenges
in Focus
Occupaions
There are aso specific chaenges and dispariies
ha mus be addressed in growing hese focus
occupaions. One, he workforce in hese occupaions
generay skews oder, suggesing he need o increase
he pipeine of younger workers. Two, hese focus
occupaions are no represenaive of he broader
New York Ciy demographic makeup.
1. AIN WOKFOCE AND THE
DWINDLIN PIPELINE
A arge share of many jobs in focus occupaions are cur-
reny hed by oder workers. The proporion of oder work-
ers in consrucion, insaaion, and operaions focus
occupaions is paricuary arge and growing. Over
roughy he as decade, he share of workers over 55
years od in hese occupaions has increased from 14
percen (in 2009) o 24 percen (in 2021). A coninuaion
of hese rends poses a chaenge for muipe reasons.
For one, whie oder workers ofen possess a deep
undersanding of egacy buiding and energy
sysems, indusry represenaives have noed ha
incenivizing hese workers o ransiion ino green
secors ha require new skis and knowedge can
be chaenging, especiay if here aready is a robus
pipeine of consrucion-reaed work ouside of hese
green secors.
Bu more criicay, he evenua reiremen of hese
workers over he nex decade wi ead o an increase
in demand for new workers in hese roes, which coud
be a chaenge o fi as fewer young peope choose o
ener hese vocaiona jobs. Consrucion, insaaion,
and operaions occupaions experienced a 7 percen
decine in he share of workers under he age of 35,
despie he average ciywide share of workers in his
age group remaining seady over he as decade.
Meanwhie, over he same period, here has been a
subsania increase in he proporion of workers in
engineering and design professions, which ypicay
require bacheor’s degrees. Enrance ino he green
economy mus be accessibe o New Yorkers boh wih
and wihou coege degrees and incudes muipe
pahways o career success. As a growing share of
oder workers nears reiremen, New York Ciy wi need
new green economy workers of varied credenias o
ensure a sufficieny sized workforce equipped o mee
cean energy depoymen and buiding decarboniza-
ion goas. Promoing hese we-paying careers o
New Yorkers and preparing a workforce ha can sep
ino hese pivoa roes as he curren workforce nears
reiremen wi be criica for a green economy o hrive
in NYC ong erm.
2. DEMOAPHIC DISPAITIES
Whie he green economy has he poenia o enabe
equiabe economic opporuniy for a diverse array of
New Yorkers wih and wihou coege degrees, we are
no here ye.
Chapter 2 Working in the Green Economy 63
2009 2021 2009 2021 2009 2021
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Oder
workers
18% o 24%
Yonger
workers
38% o 37%
Yonger
workers
36% o 29%
Oder
workers
14% o 24%
Oder
workers
22% o 24%
Yonger
workers
33% o 42%
NYC workforce Consrcion, Insaaion, and
Operaions
Design and Engineering
55+45–5435–4425–34Beow 24 Source: US Census Bureau American Communiy Survey,
Buro Happod anaysis
FIUE 9 AE DISTIBUTION OF SELECT FOCUS OCCUPATION OUPS CITYWIDE 20092021
Whie workers are overrepresened in more han haf
of he green economy’s focus occupaions (see Figure
10).i Back, Laino, and Asian workers are mos heaviy
represened in focus occupaions ha do no pay
famiy-susaining wages, which are ypicay enry-
eve posiions (such as consrucion aborers and
mainenance and repair workers, which see 86 percen
and 77 percen represenaion from non-whie workers,
compared o 65 percen ciywide). More senior roes,
such as projec managemen speciaiss and con-
srucion managers—where whie workers represen
55 percen and 46 percen of he workforce respec-
ivey—are significany ess diverse han he res of
he ciy’s workforce, of which whie workers comprise
35 percen.
Today’s green economy aso has significan gender
dispariies. This is paricuary eviden in buiding
and consrucion rades, where women are greay
underrepresened in focus occupaions. Women
accoun for ony 2 percen of eecricians, pumbers,
and carpeners, and 4 percen of HVAC mechanics,
which is sarky ower han he ciywide average of 50
i Due o daa imiaions, esimaing he demographic composiion of
jobs in he green economy is no possibe. Hence, his anaysis ooks a
he demographic composiion of he green economy focus occupaions
a he economy-wide eve.
percen across a occupaions. Addiionay, here are
viruay no women roofers or soar PV insaers. This
rend is consisen wih demographic paerns in con-
srucion-reaed occupaions naionay, as women in
NYC experience simiar barriers as women across he
counry.33 These incude poenia workpace discrim-
inaion on consrucion sies, sereoypes associaed
wih he naure of physica work, ack of encourage-
men o ener he consrucion indusry, and dearh
of supporive services (such as chidcare), among
ohers. Simiar barriers exis for oher we-paying and
accessibe focus occupaions in he green economy,
incuding faciiies managers where women accoun
for 24 percen of workers, consrucion managers (16
percen), and energy audiors (20 percen). Women
are aso underrepresened in many STEM-reaed
focus occupaions, such as mechanica engineering,
civi engineering, and eecrica engineering.
To ensure ha he ransiion o a green economy
heps o overcome economic injusices, we wi need
o proacivey buid and promoe workforce pahways
for underrepresened New Yorkers.
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Consrcion, Insaaion, and Operaions
Design and Engineering
Bsiness
Managemen
Mainenance and Repair Workers
Consrcion Laborers
aziers
Carpeners
HVAC Mechanics & Insaers
Pmbers
Eecricians
Saionary Engineers & Boier Operaors
Faciiies Managers
Energy Adiors
Archiecs
Civi Engineers
Mechanica Engineers
Projec Managemen Speciaiss
Consrcion Managers
enera and Operaions Managers
Roofers
Soar PV Insaers
Firs Line Spervisors of Consrcion Trades
Ssainabiiy Speciaiss
Eecrica Engineers
NYC workforce
Hispanic or Laino
Whie Back Asian Oher
100%90%80%70%60%
50%
40%
30%
20%10%0%
Source: US Census Bureau American Communiy Survey, Buro Happod anaysis
FIUE 10 ACIAL AND ETHNIC DISTIBUTION OF FOCUS OCCUPATIONS CITYWIDE 2021i
i New York Ciy’s workforce is herein caegorized
according o five racia and ehnic groups:
Hispanic or Laino peope of any race, and
non-Hispanic or Laino peope in Whie, Back,
Asian, or “Oher” racia groups.
Chapter 2 Working in the Green Economy 65
Consrcion, Insaaion, and Operaions
Design and Engineering
Bsiness
Managemen
Mainenance and Repair Workers
Consrcion Laborers
aziers
Carpeners
HVAC Mechanics & Insaers
Pmbers
Eecricians
Saionary Engineers & Boier Operaors
Faciiies Manager
Energy Adiors
Archiecs
Civi Engineers
Mechanica Engineers
Projec Managemen Speciaiss
Consrcion Managers
enera and Operaions Managers
Roofers
Soar PV Insaers
Firs Line Spervisors of Consrcion Trades
Ssainabiiy Speciaiss
Eecrica Engineers
NYC workforce
Mae Femae
100%90%80%70%60%
50%
40%
30%
20%10%0%
Source: US Census Bureau American Communiy Survey, Buro Happod anaysis
FIUE 11 ENDE DISTIBUTION OF FOCUS OCCUPATIONS CITYWIDE 2021
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reen
Economy
Workforce
Training
Pahways
There are aready many pahs ha prepare New Yorkers
for green economy jobs. Many organizaions are
aready making significan effors o adap heir raining
and educaiona programs o caer o green economy
secors. However, more needs o be done o ensure we
have a robus pipeine of we-prepared workers o ener
he green economy over he nex wo decades.
NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The New York Ciy Pubic Schoo sysem is one of
he arges and mos comprehensive in he naion,
wih neary a miion sudens enroed. In 2022, NYC
Pubic Schoos ouined a bod vision for New York Ciy
hrough a reimagined suden experience ha ceners
career-conneced earning. The vision is o inegrae
academics o ensure career-conneced earning a
every sage of a young person’s journey, incuding
career-conexuaized academics and advising, career
exporaion, career preparaion and raining, work-
based earning, inernships, and appreniceships.
The sysem’s Career and Technica Educaion (CTE)
schoos have ong provided speciaized raining and
ski deveopmen, preparing sudens for a wide range
of professiona pahways ha are reevan o he green
economy, incuding consrucion, ransporaion,
engineering, and archiecure. For exampe, more han
Soar One, a nonprofi organizaion, provides a skis deveopmen curricuum in basic consrucion, eecrica, soar pane insaaion, and mainenance of
high eciency heaing and cooing sysems. Source: Soar One.
Chapter 2 Working in the Green Economy 67
20 CTE schoos incorporae soar insaaion focused
curricuum ino exising eecrica, engineering, and
consrucion programs.
ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS
Beyond secondary educaion, New York Ciy is home
o over 100 higher educaion insiuions and eads
he naion in he number of graduaes wih STEM-
reaed degrees, which are paricuary imporan
for design, engineering, and innovaion occupaions
wihin he green economy. Severa of hese higher
educaion insiuions have made srides in aigning
heir programs wih he aen demands of he green
economy. For exampe, Coumbia Universiy esab-
ished he naion’s firs cimae schoo in 2020, afer
having aready inroduced new maser’s degree pro-
grams (such as he Maser of Science in Susainabiiy
Managemen) as we as cerificaion programs (such
as in Susainabe Finance and Susainabiiy Anayics)
in prior years. The Ciy Universiy of New York (CUNY)
sysem has aunched an Incusive Economy Iniiaive
o beer connec sudens wih indusry in a number
of secors, incuding he green economy. The New York
Cimae Exchange, a consorium ed by Sony Brook
Universiy and 15 universiy, indusry, and communiy
parners wi be bui on overnors Isand by 2028,
expanding educaion and raining opporuniies whie
acceeraing he commerciaizaion of cimae sou-
ions for urban environmens. The fuure wi necessi-
ae consideraby greaer invesmen and deiberae
aenion from higher educaion insiuions oward
ransforming curricua o keep up wih he evouion
of cimae-reaed echnoogies and sysems o
prepare housands of young workers o hrive in he
green economy.
FIUE 12 FOCUS OCCUPATIONS WITH THE HIHEST UNION MEMBESHIP ATES
35%0% 30%20%10% 15%5% 25%
% Union Membership
aziers
HVAC Mechanics & Insaers
Pmbers
Eecricians
Saionary Engineers
& Boier Operaors
Source: US Deparmen of Labor Bureau of Labor
Saisics, Unionsas.com, Buro Happod anaysis
UNIONS O OANIZED LABO
Organized abor unions aso pay a pivoa roe in pre-
paring workers for vocaiona careers, which are par-
icuary imporan in he green economy. Many unions
offer appreniceship programs ha provide srucured,
paid earning opporuniies, and aso provide ongoing
educaion courses for heir members, many of which
focus on cimae-reaed opics. For insance, he
Inernaiona Broherhood of Eecrica Workers (IBEW)
Loca 3, represening eecrica workers, and UA Loca
1, represening pumbers, have inroduced speciaized
courses covering soar insaaion and hea pump
sysems, respecivey. Such union-driven raining ini-
iaives are essenia for meeing he demands of he
growing green economy and woud need o coninue o
be invesed in—boh o prepare new workers o ener
he green economy and rain incumben workers o
underake work in he green economy. However, ony
a sma proporion of workers in focus occupaions
are unionized. Of a focus occupaions, eecricians
have he highes union membership rae, a 30 percen,
as shown in Figure 12. As such, many green economy
workers wi have o pursue aernaive avenues for
raining, incuding empoyer-ed raining programs,
nonprofi and Ciy-sponsored raining iniiaives, and
credenia courses.
NONPOFIT SECTO
The ciy aso has a robus ecosysem of nonprofi rain-
ing providers ha are aready preparing New Yorkers
for opporuniies in he green economy. For exampe,
Urban reen Counci has rained over 20,000 rades-
peope, buiding operaors, engineers, consrucion
managers, and oher professionas hrough is reen
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Professiona Training (PRO) since 2010. Is edu-
caiona opporuniies range from fu-day casses
o on-demand shor courses o recorded programs.
Soar One, a NYC-based nonprofi commied o
advancing renewabe energy and susainabiiy
hrough is educaiona programs, offers environmen-
a educaion iniiaives for K-12 sudens, as we as
echnica skis deveopmen in basic consrucion,
eecrica, soar pane insaaion, and mainenance
of high-efficiency buiding sysems for enry-eve
and incumben workers from underserved com-
muniies. In parnership wih NYCEDC and Empire
Sae Deveopmen, Soar One receny broke ground
on a new and improved Soar One Environmena
Educaion Cener in Lower Manhaan ha wi
be used as a communiy resource o educae he
nex generaion of environmena eaders. Cusom
Coaboraive, a nonprofi dedicaed o raining
ow-income and immigran women o succeed in he
fashion indusry, eaches sudens he ar, echnique,
and business of susainabe fashion design, incuding
designing for zero wase, and using environmenay
susainabe maerias. These nonprofi organizaions
and many more across he ciy have scope o grow as
demand for green economy workers grows over he
nex wo decades.
COMMUNITY HIIN LEISLATION
Communiy Hiring is a new iniiaive ha everages
he Ciy’s purchasing power o drive economic
mobiiy by connecing our communiies o empoy-
men and appreniceship opporuniies on Ciy
conracs. The Ciy of New York provides a wide
range of services for New Yorkers—from wase
waer managemen o decarbonizaion. To make
his possibe, he Ciy spends biions of doars on
services provided by Ciy conracors every year.
Auhorized by Sae egisaion signed in November
2023, Communiy Hiring aows he Ciy o se hiring
goas o require ha businesses conracing wih
he Ciy make bes eors o provide empoymen
and appreniceship opporuniies o ow-income
individuas and hose iving in economicay
disadvanaged communiies. Communiy Hiring
goas wi appy o a broad range of Ciy conracs
for services, incuding consrucion of bioswaes
and resiiency infrasrucure, buiding services
such as eciency and decarbonizaion, and
consuing services such as civi engineering and
design. Once fuy impemened, Communiy Hiring
The Ciy has aso pioneered green economy-spe-
cific workforce raining in recen years hrough
agency-specific inervenions. For exampe, in
2022, NYCHA aunched he Cean Energy Academy
o prepare pubic housing residens for jobs in
he green economy by connecing residen rainees
o energy efficiency and renewabe energy conrac-
ors. The Mayor’s Office of Cimae and Environ-
mena Jusice has aunched free onine courses for
indusry professionas in he buidings and energy
indusry, covering opics ike buiding decarboniza-
ion sraegies and buiding energy aw compiance.
The Ciy is commied o coninued invesmen in such
programs and everaging exising workforce iniia-
ives o increase he pipeine of workers in he green
economy, especiay hose from underrepresened
backgrounds. New York Sae’s new Communiy Hiring
egisaion wi be a key oo for empowering he Ciy
o se hiring requiremens in Ciy-funded conracs,
connecing New Yorkers from economicay disad-
vanaged communiies o appreniceships and jobs
in consrucion and insaaion occupaions, and
srenghen he pipeine ino green economy focus
occupaions.
is projeced o connec ow-income jobseekers o
housands of green economy and oher careers
and over a biion doars in saaries annuay. The
Oce of Communiy Hiring (OCH) is responsibe
for managing he roou and impemenaion of
Communiy Hiring, supporing Ciy agencies and
conracors, and reporing on program oucomes.
OCH’s reporing obigaion provides a key
opporuniy for he Ciy o coninuousy improve
Communiy Hiring by buiding parnerships o reach
more New Yorkers, deveoping raining programs o
beer aign he skis of jobseekers wih he needs
of Ciy conracors, and creaing shared bes
pracices for Ciy agencies, indusry, and communiy
parners. By connecing quaified jobseekers from
disadvanaged communiies wih opporuniies
and Ciy conracors wih a pipeine of capabe
aen, Communiy Hiring wi foser a more incusive
economy and make procuremen work for New York.
Communiy Hiring has he poenia o direcy aign
our cimae invesmens wih economic mobiiy for
New Yorkers.
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CITYLED EEN ECONOMY WOKFOCE POAMS
NYCHA Cean Energy Academy
The NYCHA Cean Energy Academy is a $2 mi-
ion program, aunched in 2022 by he Fund for
Pubic Housing and NYCHA in coaboraion
wih NYSERDA, Naiona rid, he NYCHA reen
Revoving Fund, NYPA, Triniy Church Wa Sree
Phianhropies, NorhLigh Foundaion, and Rise
Ligh and Power o prepare 100 pubic housing
residens over a wo-year period for jobs in he
cean energy workforce. The program connecs
residen rainees o NYCHA energy eciency and
renewabe energy conracors who wi be perform-
ing neary $500 miion in rerofi and renewabe
energy projecs a NYCHA deveopmens hrough
2026. The Academy provides sipends o a paric-
ipans, aong wih wrap-around socia services and
career preparaion suppor, o ensure hey have
he suppor hey need o succeed in he program
and beyond. A oa of 39 NYCHA residens have
compeed he 16-week, 240-hour raining program
as of December 2023.
DCAS Energy Managemen Insiue
To deveop a skied workforce ha manages Ciy
buidings ecieny, he Deparmen of Ciywide
Adminisraive Services (DCAS) creaed he Energy
Managemen Insiue (EMI) in parnership wih
he Ciy Universiy of New York (CUNY). Through
raining, EMI heps empower Ciy sa o make
energy-smar decisions, impemen operaiona
improvemens, and advocae for energy rerofis
and cean energy projecs across he Ciy’s
bui environmen. DCAS oers a diverse se of
energy managemen, buiding operaions, and
HVAC engineering courses ha provide argeed
compeency-based raining and inegrae naiona
cerificaion requiremens. Since 2009, DCAS
has enabed over 1,900 Ciy empoyees o obain
energy and buiding operaions cerificaions and
has rained over 6,500 earners hrough EMI.
NYC CooRoofs
During a ypica summer day, he a, back aspha
roofops ha exis on buidings hroughou he
ciy can reach emperaures up o 190°F, which
is 90 degrees hoer han he surrounding air
emperaure. NYC CooRoofs provides New Yorkers
wih paid raining and work experience insaing
energy-saving reecive roofops, reducing boh
inerna buiding emperaures by up o 30 percen,
and as a resu, he need for energy-inensive
cooing echnoogies. This is a provided for free
or a a ow cos o buiding owners whie everaging
oca suppiers. In a parnership beween he
NYC Deparmen of Sma Business Services
(SBS), is Workforce1 Indusria & Transporaion
Career Cener, he Mayor’s Oce of Cimae and
Environmena Jusice (MOCEJ), and The HOPE
Program, NYC CooRoofs provides young New
Yorkers wih appied skis and an on-ramp o he
indusry, a supporing he Ciy’s goa o reach
carbon neuraiy by 2050.
CUNY Kingsborough Communiy Coege—
Mariime Technoogy Program
The Division of Workforce Deveopmen and Con-
inuing Educaion in parnership wih he Mariime
Technoogy program a CUNY Kingsborough Com-
muniy Coege (KCC) bends hands-on experience
wih radiiona cassroom earning o prepare
New Yorkers for opporuniies in he ciy’s harbor
and beyond. Saring nex year, KCC wi oer he
oba Wind Organizaion (WO) Basic Safey
Training cerificae, a credenia necessary for a
waer-based workers invoved in he oshore wind
indusry. Sudens wi rain on he firs vesse o
wind ower ransfer simuaor in he counry and
CUNY I, a hybrid-powered boa used for insruc-
ion and research ha is aso he firs of is kind.
Addiionay, sudens wi rain in he sae-of-
he-ar simuaor ab for he Crew Transfer Vesse
wih dynamic posiioning. I wi be used o each
sudens safe ransfer procedures beween a ves-
se and an oshore wind urbine. During he con-
srucion, mainenance, and operaion of oshore
wind farms, CTV personne wi be in high demand
as hese vesses ranspor wind farm echnicians,
oos, equipmen, and personne o sies daiy. In
addiion o he simuaor ab, sudens wi have
he opporuniy o work hands-on in he RV CUNY
I vesse, which is he ony hybrid-powered caama-
ran raining vesse in he US.
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New York Ciy’s vision is o hos 400,000 jobs by 2040,
becoming he anchor of a prosperous, equiabe, and
jus fuure for New Yorkers. Reaizing his vision and
posiioning NYC a he cener of he goba economy
wi require ineniona parnership among a peope
and businesses.
This chaper ays ou 63 Ciy commimens across a
five boroughs o grow an equiabe green economy
for a New Yorkers. The commimens suppor five
key goas:
1. Decarbonize bidings & consrcion
2. Deveop a renewabe energy sysem
3. Enabe ow-carbon aernaives in he
ransporaion secor
4. Caayze innovaion in cimae echnoogies
5. Bid an eqiabe green economy ecosysem
Reaizing hese goas requires advancing our
workforce. We have embedded he foowing workforce
deveopmen oos across our commimens and
cenered hem on he 21 focus occupaions criica o
he success of NYC’s green economy.
→ Training Faciiies across a five boroughs
→ Pace-Based Sraegies o suppor
oca hiring
→ Youh Pahways o ensure ha New York Ciy’s
educaion sysem addresses green economy
careers a every sage
→ Skis-Based Training and Appreniceship o
advance economic mobiiy
→ Indusry Parnerships o embed indusry
perspecives in a workforce deveopmen work
We wi rain over 12,000 New Yorkers for we-paying,
accessibe green economy jobs hrough appren-
iceships and pre-appreniceships. Whie prepared
and driven by NYCEDC and NYC Taen, his pan
is incusive of economic and workforce deveop-
men acion a a eves of Ciy governmen. We wi
furher boser our commimens hrough parnership
wih he Sae and federa governmen, incuding by
everaging an expeced $500 biion in avaiabe fund-
ing opporuniies.
We have aso incuded key ongoing or previousy
announced commimens ha are imporan o he
deveopmen of our green economy. Some of hese
commimens overap wih or advance specific
iniiaives highighed in PaNYC, PowerUpNYC, or
oher Ciy repors. In hese insances, commimens
and iniiaives have been agged (e.g., ) o
indicae aignmen.
The 63 commimens aid ou on he subsequen pages
are he Ciy’s immediae nex seps for making New
York Ciy a rue hub for cimae acion. Seven marquee
commimens denoed wih a igh green ribbon are
expeced o be key marker movers. Whie he Ciy can
creae an enabing environmen for he green economy
o hrive and ead by exampe, we canno achieve our
vision aone. We invie parners across a secors o
ake par in Ciy iniiaives, ead susainabe ransi-
ions wihin radiiona indusries, and furher inves
in he growh and deveopmen of green economy
companies and jobs.
Chapter 3 Action Plan to Grow the Green Economy 73
oa 1.
Decarbonize
Buidings and
Consrucion
The buidings secor makes up he arges share of
NYC’s green economy oday, represening neary 50
percen of green economy jobs. Our more han one
miion buidings are responsibe for neary 70 percen
of greenhouse gas (H) emissions in he ciy. reen
jobs in he buidings secor are expeced o more han
doube by 2040 and be he mos significan driver of
fuure green economy growh in NYC.
The Ciy wi ead by exampe o impemen ambi-
ious susainabiiy measures wihin our own capia
projecs, redeveopmens, and procuremens o drive
invesmen in his secor and se precedens for privae
secor projecs. We wi creae incenives o faciiae
financia viabiiy of susainabe buiding rerofis, and
expand our workforce programming o ensure NYC
aen can readiy ake on he ampe green buidings
and consrucion work o come.
POMOTE WIDESPEAD USE OF LOW
EMBODIED CABONi BUILDIN MATEIALS
1. Launch and appy NYCEDC’s
Circuar Consrucion uideines
NYCEDC wi reease a se of guideines deaiing
ways o inegrae susainabe and/or reused consruc-
ion maerias, and require heir use across a new
NYCEDC capia projecs wherever feasibe beginning
in 2024. NYCEDC commis o 75 percen consrucion
i Embodied carbon is greenhouse gases emissions arising over he
ifecyce of a maeria or produc—incuding exracion, manufacuring,
insaaion, and disposa.
and demoiion (C&D) maeria diversion via reuse/
recycing, 95 percen reuse/recycing of discarded
concree and soi, and 25 percen use of susain-
abe buiding maerias. SPARC Kips Bay, a neary-2
miion-square-foo, firs-of-is-kind innovaion, jobs,
and educaion cener in one of he naion’s premier
ife sciences cusers, wi be he firs arge projec
o impemen he CC. By using innovaive circuar
consrucion mehods a pubic sies wihin he cam-
pus, SPARC Kips Bay wi reduce 26,400 meric ons
of carbon emissions—equivaen o removing neary
5,800 cars from he road. This projec can serve as an
exempar for oher arge pubic and privae projecs.
2. Advance he Mass Timber Sudio
wih seeced design eams
To suppor oher mass imber projecs and famiiarize
NYC’s design and rea esae communiy wih mass
imber use, NYCEDC is aunching he NYC Mass
Timber Sudio, a gran and echnica assisance
program supporing NYC-based mass imber projecs
in he eary phases of panning and design, in January
2024. The Sudio wi work wih seven awarded projec
eams o advance mass imber buidings across he
five boroughs. The NYC Deparmen of Buidings
(DOB) wi provide reguaory guidance, given updaed
aowances for mass imber incuded in he mos recen
Buiding Code revision.
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3. Impemen eing LL97 Done
MOCEJ and DOB are impemening a comprehensive
pan o cu carbon emissions from he ciy’s arge
buidings, as mandaed by Loca Law 97 (LL97) of 2019.
The pan incudes four key eemens: (1) idenifying and
argeing Ciy, Sae, federa, and uiiy-based financ-
ing and funding for upgrades; (2) providing buiding
owners wih needed echnica advice hrough he
NYC Acceeraor; (3) impemening key enforcemen
mechanisms; and (4) decarbonizing cenra sysems
in parnership wih New York Sae.34 In addiion, he
Ciy is creaing an ongoing LL97 Mobiizaion Counci
o monior mobiizaion effors and compiance, and
foser coaboraion wih sakehoders in hree ask
forces: workforce and buiding rerofiers, buiding
owners and managers, and financing organizaions.
4. Deveop Sraegic Energy
Maser Pan for NYCEDC
NYCEDC commis o bringing a asses under direc
operaiona conro ino compiance wih NYC’s car-
bon neuraiy goas and exporing a evers o bring
oher asses ino compiance. NYCEDC is deveoping
a Sraegic Energy Maser Pan (SEMP) which akes a
porfoio-wide approach o energy managemen and
greenhouse gas emissions reducion, and has aready
begun conducing energy audis across 19 miion
square fee of asses o find specific opporuniies
for energy conservaion and emissions reducions a
he buiding eve. NYCEDC wi everage a avaiabe
federa, Sae and Ciy funding opporuniies for emis-
sions reducion projecs, and wi coninue o parner
wih DCAS for echnica assisance and funding
hrough programs such as Acceeraed Conservaion
and Efficiency (ACE) and Expenses for Conservaion
and Efficiency Leadership (ExCEL). NYCEDC wi aso
work wih oher Ciy agencies ike DOB o revise Loca
Law 97 anguage and increase he number of buid-
ings ha mus compy wih new sandards o ensure
he enirey of NYCEDC’s porfoio is moving oward
carbon neuraiy. NYCEDC wi coninue o work wih
enans o deveop decarbonizaion sraegies o aid
his effor and mee he Ciy’s carbon neuraiy goas.
5. Procure innovaive echnoogies
for buiding rerofis
DCAS is aunching a Reques for Informaion (RFI)
o source innovaive rerofi and buiding heaing
echnoogy o suppor ongoing eecrificaion work,
aigned wih DCAS’ commimen o inves over he nex
10 years in rerofis aimed o mee he Ciy’s ambiious
emissions reducions commimens.
6. Faciiae green commercia
rerofis hrough M-CORE
NYCEDC wi faciiae Loca Law 97 compiance a
Manhaan Commercia Reviaizaion (M-CORE)
projecs, driving susainabiiy wihin arge Manha-
an commercia rea esae redeveopmens. M-CORE
provides commercia office buiding owners wih ax
benefis o suppor office renovaions ocaed in Man-
haan souh of 59h Sree. The program aims o hep
decrease buiding vacancy and arac enans, incud-
ing incubaor and acceeraor operaors o generae
high-growh companies incuding hose focused on
cimae ech innovaion.
7. Decarbonize NYCHA buidings hrough
Cean Hea for A Chaenge
As highighed in PaNYC, and commied in PowerUp,
he Ciy wi coninue o deveop and deiver an iniia
30,000 unis of cod cimae packaged window hea
pump unis a exising muifamiy NYCHA buidings.35
This $70 miion invesmen made hrough an indusry
compeiion direced a heaing and cooing manufac-
urers demonsraes boh Ciy eadership and sends a
marke signa ha can drive addiiona innovaion in
green buiding echnoogies.
8. Impemen Leading he Charge
Iniiaive o eecrify schoos
In Ocober 2022, he Ciy aunched an iniiaive o eec-
rify exising schoo and ensure ha a new schoos
consruced are fuy eecric as we. The iniiaive is he
arges schoo eecrificaion effor in he naion.36The
upcoming 2025–2029 Capia Pan incudes funding
for eecrificaion of 33 exising schoo buidings, a
down paymen on he 100 schoos commied o as
par of he Mayor’s “Leading he Charge” iniiaive.
BUILD CONNECTIONS BETWEEN INDUSTY
AND TALENT IN CONSTUCTION
9. Launch and expand green buiding
appreniceship programs
NYC Taen wi parner wih Ciy agencies and he pri-
vae secor o expand exising and aunch new pre-ap-
preniceship and appreniceships for eecricians,
pumbers, projec managers, and faciiies managers,
and buiding operaors o deveop 8,000 aen pipe-
ines for buiding decarbonizaion by 2040. NYC Taen
wi aso maximize he capaciy of he Appreniceship
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Readiness Coecive (ARC) and oher direc-enry pro-
grams o ensure ha he incoming generaion of aen
are aware of and rained in he echnica requiremens
of susainabe consrucion echniques.
10. Esabish communiy hiring and pace-
based workforce connecion sraegies
NYC Taen wi coaborae wih Ciy workforce and
pace-based economic deveopmen parners o
deveop neighborhood raining and referra neworks.
These neworks wi buid off communiy prioriies o
coordinae Ciy invesmens, communiy-based orga-
nizaions, and exising workforce deveopmen infra-
srucure o ensure green economic growh ransaes
and conribues o good jobs for ow-income New
Yorkers and arges hisoric dispariies. These pace-
based sraegies wi suppor he equiabe growh of
he green economy by:
→ Enabing cose parnership wih oca communiies
and service providers o deveop manufacuring,
mainenance, and consrucion raining pahways
in green economy occupaions
→ Enroing residens of environmena jusice neigh-
borhoods and pace-based nework cachmen
areas ino Pahways o Indusria and Consrucion
Careers (PINCC) o ensure hey have he 1:1 sup-
por services needed o successfuy navigae heir
career pah
→ Connecing oca aen o recruimen neworks o
access job raining opporuniies
→ Connecing empoyers o aen, in paricuar o
mee Communiy Hiring goas and hep acke his-
oric economic dispariies
PIONEE INDUSTIAL SUSTAINABILITY AT
KEY MANUFACTUIN AND FEIHT HUBS
11. Redeveop whoesae produce marke
ino modern, energy-efficien faciiy
NYCEDC wi redeveop he Huns Poin Termina
Produce Marke in he Bronx, which suppies approx-
imaey 25 percen of NYC’s produce, wih signifi-
can faciiy, raffic circuaion, and rai connecion
improvemens o drasicay reduce indusria freigh
emissions aribued o ruck iding, inefficien raffic
fow, and inadequae faciiy sorage space. The
redeveopmen is aso anicipaed o incude eecric
condui connecions o suppor fuure eecric vehice
(EV) freigh charging, which woud furher reduce
emissions from rucks. This projec everages $650
miion in Ciy, Sae, and federa funding—incud-
ing a $110 miion US Deparmen of Transporaion
(DOT) INFRA ran and $25 miion USDOT CMAQ
ran funding—and over $250 miion in privae
conribuions.
This projec was aso seeced by US Dep. of Labor’s
Office of Federa Conrac Compiance Program’s
(OFCCP) Mega Consrucion Projec Program o
paricipae in a program focused on fosering equa
opporuniy in arge federa consrucion projecs.
OFCCP wi provide projec sponsors and con-
racors wih free, on-he-ground assisance and
resources o srenghen recruimen, hiring, and
empoymen pracices.
12. Pio indusria decarbonizaion
echnoogy a Brookyn Navy Yard
The Brookyn Navy Yard Deveopmen Corpora-
ion (BNYDC) wi upgrade and decarbonize wo
19h-cenury buidings a he Brookyn Navy Yard as
pio projecs o es decarbonizaion sraegies and
echnoogies, wih he inen of appying earnings o
oher hisorica indusria buidings on heir campus.
Upgrades are expeced o be compeed in ae 2024.
As par of he Navy Yard Maser Pan, BNYDC wi aso
deveop a ~700k-square-foo ne-zero verica modern
indusria buiding ypoogy, o be repicaed for fuure
new deveopmens a he Yard. The buiding wi be
designed o house cimae echnoogy companies
aongside radiiona manufacurers.
DEMONSTATE BEST PACTICES
IN SUSTAINABLE CONSTUCTION
AND DEVELOPMENT
13. Demonsrae a Ne Zero Campus
on overnors Isand
The Trus for overnors Isand (TI) has seeced he
New York Cimae Exchange o buid a sae-of-he-
ar ne-zero academic and research cener o anchor
he Cener for Cimae Souions (see page 79 for
addiiona deai). The New York Cimae Exchange’s
campus incudes mass imber consrucion, on-sie
power generaion, and inegraion of exising buid-
ings o achieve a ne zero energy campus. The
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400k-square-foo Exchange wi begin consrucion in
2025 and is se o open in 2028.
14. Buid a firs-of-is-kind eecric
sadium a Wies Poin
NYCEDC is parnering wih NYCFC on he deveopmen
of NYC’s firs a-eecric sadium a Wies Poin—a
$780 miion, privaey-financed projec—as par of
he ransformaion of Wies Poin. In addiion o he
firs-ever soccer-specific sadium in NYC, which wi
sea 25,000, he projec wi deiver he arges 100
percen affordabe new housing deveopmen in NYC
in 40 years. NYCEDC wi coninue o ead by exampe
and se higher sandards for susainabe projec
deveopmen.
15. Mandae cuing-edge cerificaions
for arge NYCEDC projecs
NYCEDC wi require a projecs over $2 miion o
achieve LEED or Envision od raing cerificaion, as
a minimum, seing sandards requiring he consruc-
ion indusry o become more susainabe.
Rendering of Wies Poin deveopmen incuding a-eecric sadium and 100% aordabe housing deveopmens. Concepua Rendering by HOK
Chapter 3 Action Plan to Grow the Green Economy 77
New York Ciy faces a momenous opporuniy o
become a goba eader in cimae innovaion and
o do so in a way ha ensures an equiabe fuure
for a. This opporuniy is urbocharged by over $2
biion in venure capia funding owing o NYC’s
cimae ech secor since 2021, a 400 percen spike
over he $500 miion in invesmen from 2018 o
2020; ambiious Ciy and Sae cimae poicy ar-
ges; and over $500 biion in pubic funding being
made avaiabe a he Sae and federa eves o
suppor he naion’s shif o a green economy.
The Cimae Innovaion Hub (CIH) a he Brookyn
Army Termina (BAT) furher advance a growing
ecosysem aong he New York Harbor for new
cimae echnoogiss, enrepreneurs, and aen
working o deveop, pio, and depoy new souions
o comba he eecs of cimae change. CIH wi
be a word-cass hub for business deveopmen,
incubaion, and research commerciaizaion,
serving 150 sarups over 10 years and oering
workforce deveopmen opporuniies for he oca
communiy—working in cose parnership wih he
Cener for Cimae Souions on overnors Isand
and he Brookyn Navy Yard o he norh as par of
he new Harbor Cimae Coaboraive (HCC).
NYCEDC is providing up o $100 miion of capia
o suppor experienced, mission-aigned eniies
o deveop and operae he CIH a BAT. CIH wi
deveop and operae shared faciiies incuding
pioing and prooyping space and business
growh programs o suppor cimae-focused
sarups and incumben businesses navigaing
pahways o commerciaizaion. The Hub wi
aso oer workforce deveopmen programming
for New Yorkers, incuding he immediae Sunse
Park communiy, o engage in green job raining
and opporuniies.
BAT is a hisoric and modern-day indusria hub
for he Ciy—boasing 4,000 inear fee of mariime
fronage and a vibran communiy of more han 100
exising businesses empoying over 4,000 peope,
incuding advanced manufacurers and makers.
Couped wih is sraegic proximiy o innovaion
cusers aong he Harbor Cimae Coaboraive
(see page 89), BAT is an opima ocaion for
esabishing a speciaized, dedicaed hub for
cimae innovaion where exising and growing
businesses can ocae and scae as par of a
arger ecosysem.
BAT sis wihin more han 200 acres of rea esae
in NYCEDC’s Sunse Park Disric aong he Souh
Brookyn Waerfron. Sreching from he 65h
sree Raiyard and Brookyn Army Termina a he
souh, o he Souh Brookyn Marine Termina a he
norh, he enire disric is poised o be everaged
as a esbed for supporing he pioing of cimae
echnoogies. NYCEDC’s invesmens in he Sunse
Park Disric, represening hundreds of miions
of doars of pubic and privae invesmen wi
prope he Cimae Innovaion Hub o success,
creaing $2.6 biion in economic impac and 600+
permanen jobs.
THE CLIMATE INNOVATION HUB
A new word-cass innovaion hub in Sunse Park
Cimae Innovaion Hub a he Brookyn Army Termina. Conceptual
Rendering by FXCollaborative
Aeria view of he Brookyn Army Termina. Source: Aber Vecerka
Map of NYCEDC’s Sunse Park Disric
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oa 2.
Deveop a
Renewabe
Energy
Sysem
Acceeraed renewabe energy and sorage depoy-
mens ciywide and deveoping oca suppy chains o
suppor hese projecs is expeced o make he energy
secor he hird-arges driver of fuure green economy
growh. The secor is expeced o see an increase of
16,000 jobs by 2040, incuding approximaey 5,000
addiiona jobs in soar and 8,000 addiiona jobs in
offshore wind. Amos a hese jobs are expeced o be
ne new, primariy due o greaer eves of invesmens
in renewabe energy and baery sorage projecs.
The Ciy wi coninue o shape he marke for key
renewabe energy subsecors. We wi enabe he
deveopmen of key infrasrucure required for a
renewabe energy ransformaion hrough direc
invesmens, argeed incenives, and he provision of
pubic sies and asses. We wi aso provide resources
for oca businesses and sudens of New York Ciy
pubic schoos and universiies ha aow hem
o posiion, or reposiion, hemseves for jobs in
hese subsecors.
BUILD AND FACILITATE INVESTMENTS
IN CLEAN ENEY
16. Posiion indusria sies for cean
energy infrasrucure
NYCEDC wi make 112 acres of indusria sies avai-
abe for cean energy infrasrucure o advance NYC’s
goa of 100 percen cean eecriciy by 2040 and
New York Sae’s Cimae Leadership and Commu-
niy Proecion Ac (CLCPA). This incudes NYCEDC
invesmens o deveop he Souh Brookyn Marine
Termina (SBMT), in parnership wih Equinor, ino
a sae-of-he-ar offshore wind faciiy. NYCEDC’s
invesmen everages Equinor’s muibiion-doar ba-
ance shee and up o $126 miion in NYS funding for
SBMT. NYCEDC is aso exporing cean energy uses
a hree addiiona indusria sies, incuding offshore
ransmission, uiiy-scae baery sorage, scaing of
soar echnoogies, and co-ocaed energy innovaion.
As described in PowerUp and PaNYC, he Ciy wi
coninue o suppor deveopmen and inerconnecion
of arge-scae renewabe energy projecs.
17. Make capia invesmens in he
growh of offshore wind
NYCEDC is invesing $191 miion over 15 years o
acceerae he growh of he offshore wind subsecor
in NYC and suppor 12 W of offshore wind produc-
ion, whie heping generae housands of new jobs
reaed o offshore wind infrasrucure ranging from
saging and marshaing sies o manufacuring facii-
ies. In addiion o his direc invesmen, NYCEDC wi
coninue o coaborae wih privae sie owners and
oher offshore wind indusry sakehoders o provide
srong, coninued suppor ha enabes he offshore
wind indusry in NY o weaher headwinds and deays.
18. Se naion-eading arges for
offshore wind
NYCEDC wi coninue o advocae o increase sae-
wide goas for offshore wind power generaion o keep
pace wih Caifornia’s arge of 25 W of offshore
wind power by 2045, sending a srong marke signa
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o goba companies and innovaors seeking o grow
heir offshore wind business in NYC.
EXPAND INSTALLATION OF SOLA
INFASTUCTUE
19. Broaden soar on NYCEDC sies
Buiding on he Ciy’s ongoing effors o enhance
soar on Ciy-owned propery such as widey insaing
soar on pubic schoos and on NYCHA’s porfoio of
pubic housing, NYCEDC wi impemen soar a key
sies where commerciay feasibe. This wi incude
he Brookyn Army Termina in Brookyn, as par of is
redeveopmen, and he Huns Poin Produce Marke in
he Bronx. NYCEDC wi aso work wih enans under-
aking major roof repairs o suppor invesmen in soar
insaaions hrough improved payback periods, ever-
aging Sae and federa incenives o fufi heir Loca
Law 92 and Loca Law 94 compiance requiremens.
Incenives incude federa programs providing ax
credis for soar and oher renewabe energy projecs
enabed by he Infaion Reducion Ac (IRA), and a
series of New York Sae programs supporing soar
impemenaion.
20. Enabe 5,000 LMI househods o
insa soar
In coaboraion wih he NYC Comproer, he
Mayor’s Office of Cimae and Environmena Jusice
(MOCEJ) has submied an appicaion for he EPA’s
reenhouse as Reducion Fund, a federa program
providing grans for cean energy and cimae projecs,
o suppor soar insaaion across ow-and-moderae
income househods in NYC. Pending resus of he Ciy’s
RF appicaion, Pubic Soar NYC, a commimen
incuded in PaNYC, wi focus on using a diverse se of
oos o connec a minimum of 5,000 househods wih
he appropriae echnica assisance and financia
resources necessary o buid and access soar savings
over he nex five years.
Souh Brookyn Marine Termina, which wi be deveoped ino a sae-of-he-ar oshore wind faciiy. Concepua Rendering couresy of Equinor.
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MAKE NYC AN INDUSTY HUB FO
CLEAN ENEY SECTOS
21. Launch and expand energy suppy
chain appreniceships
NYC Taen wi parner wih Ciy agencies and he
privae secor o expand and creae 2,000 apprenice-
ships and skis-based rainings in he offshore wind
and hydro-eecric suppy chain by 2040, incuding for
occupaions such as mariime weders, machiniss for
componen manufacuring, excavaion of uiiies, and
energy audiors.
22. Boser CUNY sudens enering
offshore wind and oher green
indusries
As ouined in PaNYC and PowerUp, NYCEDC wi
suppor he deveopmen of offshore wind and broader
green economy focused workforce, providing over $10
miion for capia invesmens a CUNY campuses.
These invesmens incude renovaing and expanding
he Kingsborough Communiy Coege Mariime Tech-
noogy & Offshore Wind Training Cener o accommo-
dae increased suden enromen and enabe cerifi-
caion for reevan offshore wind occupaions. NYCEDC
wi uiize he exising CUNY Bridges o Offshore Wind
invesmen and programming o ensure robus offshore
wind curricua a Kingsborough Communiy Coege,
Lauardia Communiy Coege, NYC Coege of Tech-
noogy (Ciy Tech), and Coege of Saen Isand. CUNY
Bridges o Offshore Wind wi provide an ineracive
insruciona seminar for peope ineresed in earning
abou he region’s offshore wind indusry and careers
ha are avaiabe o hem in he mariime, eecrica,
consrucion & manufacuring, assemby, and suppy
chain subsecors, whie offering he supporive services
needed for individuas o succeed.
In eary 2024, CUNY wi aunch an inerna Reques
for Proposas o idenify and soici ideas from addi-
iona CUNY schoos for capia invesmens o sup-
por raining for sudens o ener he green economy
workforce. NYCEDC wi work wih CUNY o ensure
programs are indusry-informed and connec sudens
o raining, appreniceships, and career pahways in
he green economy.
Finay, in parnership wih NYC Pubic Schoos,
NYCEDC wi aso coninue o hos professiona
deveopmen days for Career and Technica Educaion
(CTE) eachers seeking o incorporae green economy
curricua ino heir cassrooms and srenghen pah-
ways o CUNY schoos for heir sudens.
SUPPOT TAX INCENTIVES FO BATTEY
STOAE AND OTHE EEN OUTCOMES
23. Mobiize IDA for he advancemen
of he green economy
NYCEDC wi promoe and depoy NYC Indusria
Deveopmen Agency (IDA) ax incenives o suppor
baery sorage and oher green economy uses. Baery
sorage is a criica piece of infrasrucure ha sores
energy and ensures ha power is reiabe and accessibe
despie ouages and unexpeced weaher condiions.
The IDA heps o ower he cos of capia invesmen
hrough discreionary ax incenives and is abe o
suppor cerain green economy projecs ha aign
wih he IDA’s mission. The IDA has aready suppored
200MW of baery sorage capaciy in NYC, generaing
neary $400 miion of privae invesmen and supporing
progress oward he Ciy’s arge for energy sorage
capaciy (500MW insaed by 2025). This incudes a
100MW 174 Power oba projec in Asoria, Queens,
which was awarded a conrac by Con Edison under
he uiiy’s 2022 Buk Energy Sorage RFP and wi be
one of he bigges baery sorage deveopmens in New
York Sae. IDA incenives may aso be used o suppor
EV freigh charging, cod sorage rerofis, and oher
green economy uses. NYCEDC wi acivey promoe
opporuniies for IDA o suppor green economy uses o
reevan acors in he green economy space o enabe
greaer awareness of poenia ax benefis.
LaGuardia oshore wind raining program. Source: CUNY
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oa 3.
Enabe
Low-Carbon
Aernaives
in he
Transporaion
Secor
Abou a quarer of he ciy’s greenhouse gas emissions
come from ransporaion.37 The Ciy and Sae have ong
been commied o srenghening pubic infrasrucure
sysems ha promoe ransi use, waking, and cycing.
There has been significan progress in eecrifying he
Ciy-owned fee and pubic ransi. As of 2022, DCAS
repaced 4,000 fee vehices wih EVs, and hundreds
of addiiona fee vehices are se o be repaced in he
coming years.38 In addiion, MTA pans o ransform he
enire bus fee o zero-emissions buses by 2040.39
The green economy has aso inroduced new ypes of
ransporaion secor jobs, which are projeced o neary
quadrupe beween 2021 and 2040, argey due o he
growh of eecric vehices. overnmen inervenion wi
need o pay a arge roe o drive his growh, paricuary
in he face of infrasrucure needs, reguaory hurdes,
and chaenging marke dynamics. The Ciy wi mobiize
sraegic sies and asses for eecric vehices of various
modes, provide funding suppor for pioneering compa-
nies moving o susainabe disribuion mehods, and
ensure here are cear pahways o pubic secor jobs in
cean ransporaion.
EXPAND EV CHAIN INFASTUCTUE
24. Acivae pubic sies for EV charging
Saring in 2024, EV charging infrasrucure wi be
required a a NYCEDC asses and in soiciaions for
a fuure NYCEDC redeveopmens where feasibe.
NYCEDC has begun impemening his in rea esae
ransacions and asse-based procuremens. This
incudes he sae of wo acres near JFK airpor, which
has been designaed o a deveoper wih a rack record
invesing in he JFK marke and in EV charging. The
deveopmen of his sie wi deiver he arges 100 per-
cen EV Ready charging faciiy in New York Ciy wih a
minimum of 65 pubic EV charging saions, incuding 12
DC Fas Charging Saions, ha are avaiabe 24 hours
a day and seven days a week. The faciiy is curreny
esimaed o charge 1,000 vehices per year, wih poen-
ia for growh depending on marke demand. The EV
chargers are expeced o serve a ypes of vehices, wih
focus on he eecric ruck marke as i maures, and hep
avoid neary 78,000 meric ons of carbon dioxide emis-
sions by 2040. Eecrica conduis wi aso be insaed
hroughou he sie, o aow for addiiona charging
saions o be added over ime as demand grows.
NYCEDC wi aso idenify oher underuiized pubic
sies o acivae as dedicaed EV charging hubs. As a
firs sep, NYCEDC has secured $15 miion in federa
gran funding o deveop a mui-user passenger and
freigh hub in he Huns Poin Food Disribuion Cener
and is issuing an RFP o seec a deveoper and operaor.
This hub wi be sraegicay sied o suppor eecric
ruck adopion, as over 10,000 rucks move hrough
he Huns Poin peninsua on a ypica day. NYCEDC is
furher idenifying underuiized pubic sies across he
ciy ha coud be acivaed for freigh and/or passenger
charging, and is working oward an RFP o assess he
marke ineres in hese sies in 2024. These effors buid
on he Ciy’s commimens ouined in PaNYC such as
significany expanding EV charging ciywide by 2035,
and supporing eecric vehice adopion of axis and
for-hire vehices.
25. Creae hubs for infrasrucure and
innovaion a Brookyn Navy Yard
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The BNYDC is advancing a series of improvemens
ha suppor infrasrucure access and innovaion
in cean ransporaion and micromobiiy. These
invesmens are anchored by Eecric Curbside, a
muimoda EV charging and pioing hub ha wi be
open o EV cyciss, drivers, and deivery workforce by
ae 2024. One-poin renching wi enabe sarups o
pio and demo EV auo and micromobiiy charging,
wih addiiona poenia for baery-swapping kiosks.
The Eecric Aey iniiaive, a series of pre-enrenched
and grid conneced parking spaces, wi furher sup-
por esing and demoing of EV echnoogies. BNYDC
wi aso work wih vendors o insa and operae 80
Leve II and Leve III eecric vehice chargers across
he Yard, which wi be avaiabe o he pubic, fees,
and Yard enans. The firs chargers in his EV Charger
Saion Nework are expeced o be operaiona by
summer 2024.
26. Launch EV operaion and
echnician appreniceships
NYC Taen wi parner wih Ciy agencies and he
privae secor o deveop skis-based raining pro-
grams o rain 2,000 New Yorkers o operae and
mainain emerging eecrifying fees by 2040. New
parnerships are curreny under deveopmen wih
educaiona and raining parners and he privae sec-
or for vehice echnician rainings, whie EV operaion
modues are being embedded ino commercia drivers’
icense raining programs.
27. Eecrify a Ciy schoo buses and sand
up mainenance raining programs
As menioned in PaNYC and PowerUp, he Ciy com-
mied o eecrifying schoo buses by 2035. As par of
he effor he Ciy wi expand workforce opporuniies
and rain schoo bus operaors and mainenance saff
o paricipae in he EV ransiion. Training programs
wi address driving consideraions and basic vehice
and charger mainenance as we as he compexiies
of managing charging o mee roue needs wih mini-
ma coss. As he use of vehice-o-grid (V2) sysems
—where energy can be pushed back o he power grid
from he baery of an eecric vehice—progresses
from pios o broader impemenaion, raining wi aso
cover hese operaions.
DECABONIZE MAITIME TAFFIC
28. Insa and mandae use of shore
power a a cruise erminas
Cruise ship iding creaes significan emissions and
pouion in surrounding communiies. NYCEDC is com-
mied o reducing emissions from cruise ships, incud-
ing by mandaing he deveopmen and use of shore
power infrasrucurei a Manhaan and Brookyn NYC
i Shore power, or shoreside eecrica power, can be pugged in o power
docked ships
Cruise ship docked in Manhaan Source: C. Tayor Crohers/NYCEDC
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Cruise erminas by 2028, as feasibe. Shore power is
eecrica charging ha can power ships whie hey
are docked a he erminas, and is expeced o reduce
carbon and paricuae maer 2.5 (PM2.5) emissions
from iding cruise ships by 6,582 meric ons of carbon
dioxide equivaen (CO2e) and 1.592 meric ons of
PM2.5 respecivey.
29. Eecrify he overnors Isand ferry
New York Ciy’s firs pubic, hybrid-eecric ferry is
schedued o begin service beween Lower Manha-
an and overnors Isand in he summer of 2024. The
vesse’s rapid charging infrasrucure, made possibe
by $7.5 miion of Federa Infrasrucure Funding, wi
enabe he ferry o operae wih zero emission, ba-
ery-ony propusion, which wi drop emissions o neary
zero, avoiding 800 ons of CO2 emissions annuay.
30. Spearhead he adopion of eecric
aircraf a NYC heipors
Eecric aircraf, incuding eecric verica ake-off
and anding (eVTOL) aircraf, are an emerging ech-
noogy nearing Federa Aviaion Adminisraion (FAA)
cerificaion ha can miigae he emissions associ-
aed wih cerain heicoper rips and aeviae noise
pouion near he ciy’s heipors. Once commerciay
viabe, hese eecric aircraf coud aso underpin a
broader green indusry in susainabe aviaion. Origi-
na equipmen manufacurers in his emerging space
have aready raised over $8 biion and booked over
12,000 aircraf orders o dae. Figh esing and man-
ufacuring faciiy deveopmen is ongoing wih FAA
cerificaion anicipaed by mid-decade.
NYCEDC is requiring he Downown Manhaan
and Eas 34h Sree heipors o buid ou charging
infrasrucure for hese quieer and ceaner eecric
aircraf wihin one year of FAA cerificaion. Heipor
operaors wi aso be required o provide incenives
for eVTOL fighs. New M/WBE paricipaion goas are
required in ongoing and fuure procuremens, aong-
side workforce deveopmen pans ha improve and
diversify access o careers in aviaion, ogisics, and
oher reaed secors.
ENABLE AND ETAIN SUSTAINABLE
FEIHT JOBS AND SEVICES
31. Impemen a marine highway
for freigh ranspor
NYCEDC wi deiver six anding sies where vesses wi
bring freigh o disribuion hubs for as-mie deivery
reducing ruck moves. DOT, suppored by NYCEDC,
reeased a Reques for Expression of Ineres (RFEI) o
Mayor Eric Adams, Depuy Mayor Maria Torres Springer, and NYCEDC Presiden and CEO Andrew Kimba announce he aim o become he firs heipor
in he word wih he infrasrucure o suppor eecric igh wih demonsraion ighs of various eecric aircraf. Source: Michae Appeon/Mayora
Phoography Oce, NYC Mayor’s Oce
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gauge curren indusry ineres in mariime freigh o
inform fuure acivaions and inervenions for privae
vesse operaors o provide marine highway service.
32. Suppor mariime ogisics businesses
NYCEDC seeks o provide a ong-erm ease o
Mier’s Launch, a Norh Shore Saen Isand-based
company ha provides barge-based ransporaion
for a variey goods and services, and empoys cose
o 100 peope, many of whom are Saen Isanders.
Mier’s Launch is known as he “Swiss Army Knife” of
NY Harbor, and wih heir fee of 39 vesses and 14
barges, his NY-famiy-owned-and-operaed business
provides a variey of services on NY Harbor. They are
acive in providing emergency pouion response,
offshore wind, and waerfron consrucion services.
Over he years, hey have payed a criica ogisics roe
divering consrucion vehices from NYC srees via
providing ro-on ro-off ruck-o-barge ransporaion
souions (e.g., bringing consrucion vehices o and
from Corne Tech on Rooseve Isand and overnors
Isand whie avoiding oca neighboring srees).
Providing a ong-erm ease o Mier’s Launch
ensures NY Harbor wi coninue o have a wide array
of sma and medium oca marine service providers,
whie aso providing pubic waerfron access. Sma
businesses ike Mier’s Launch are criica for having
he oca and echnica capaciy o reaize he Ciy and
Sae cimae and resiience goas.
33. Acceerae adopion of cargo bikes
As described in PaNYC, he Ciy wi promoe
commercia cargo bikes as ceaner and more efficien
echnoogies for as-mie deiveries. In 2022, cargo bikes
made more han 130,000 rips deivering over 5 miion
packages, resuing in he reducion of over 650,000
meric ons of CO2 emissions, and demonsraing heir
effeciveness as a as-mie deivery mode. The program’s
success indicaes a growing demand for susainabe
freigh souions in urban areas, and as a resu DOT wi
seek federa funding o expand he program and work
wih he Ciy and Sae egisaive parners o remove
barriers o depoymen of commercia cargo e-bikes. As
ouined in PaNYC, hese effors wi hep reach a goa
of growing paricipaion in he program from 350 bikes
in 2020 o 2,500 bikes by 2026.
34. Boser New York Ciy’s Cean Trucks
Program (NYCCTP)
NYCCTP aims o reduce emissions from rucks in
NYC, prioriizing he depoymen of zero-emission
baery eecric repacemen rucks, whie aso offering
incenives for he depoymen of non-eecric aer-
naive fue and diese repacemen rucks. DOT is
direcing approximaey $10 miion of is NYS-DEC/
VW Diese Seemen funding award as we as $20
miion in funding from MTA’s Cenra Business Disric
Toing Program (CBDTP) o expand he program o
indusria business zones ciywide, offering incenives
for companies ha swich o new baery eecric,
EPA emission-compian aernaive fue (compressed
naura gas, diese-eecric hybrid, and pug-in hybrid
eecric), or diese rucks. DOT aims o cover as many
as anoher 1,000 rucks by 2030 and wi seek federa
funding opporuniies o furher scae he program. As
an addiiona invesmen in air quaiy made hrough
he CBDTP, MTA has aso aocaed $15 miion for
DOT’s Truck Refrigeraion Uni (TRU) Repacemen
Program, which wi fund he scrappage and upgrading
of high-emission auxiiary power unis used for food
refrigeraion a he Huns Poin markes.
FACILITATE DEMAND FO
PASSENE MICOMOBILITY
35. Advance SAFEMicromobiiy for pubic
housing
NYCHA is aunching is SAFEMicromobiiy program-
ming afer being awarded USDOT’s RAISE gran.
This wi insa 173 charging and sorage saions for
micromobiiy devices a 53 NYCHA deveopmens.
NYCHA and Con Edison wi sar by insaing oudoor
charging and sorage saions a four deveopmens,
Queensbridge Norh and Souh (Queens), De Hosos
(Manhaan), and Van Dyke (Brookyn).
INDUSTY EXPOSUE TO SUPPOT
WOKFOCE PIPELINES
36. Deveop he Buiding Pahways MTA
Eecrica Pre-Appreniceship program
A federa gran wi be used o creae an eecrica
pre-appreniceship workforce deveopmen program
for 50 ou-of-schoo young adus o receive raining,
quaifying hem for direc recruimen o empoymen
wih he MTA as Transi Eecrica Hepers. Training
wi iniiay focus on work readiness and sof skis wih
an individuaized suppor services sraegy hrough
case managemen o offer paricipans wraparound
suppor and socia services needed o say engaged
wih he program.
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oa 4.
Caayze
Innovaion
in Cimae
Technoogies
As of 2022, he NYC Meropoian Area is he hird
arges cimae ech ecosysem in he word, wih 179
acive cimae ech companies and VC invesmens
reaching amos $4 biion in 2021. New York can and
wi coninue o be a eader in his space.
The Ciy’s roe has been, and wi coninue o be,
an enaber for ransformaive echnoogies o deveop
and hrive. We wi creae opporuniies o es, demon-
srae, scae, and commerciaize new innovaions and
echnoogies; incubae and arac fuure cimae ech
unicorns; and ensure he reguaory environmen sup-
pors common sense measures o impemen cimae
souions in our bui environmen.
DEVELOP NYC’S HABO
CLIMATE COLLABOATIVE
37. Acivae he Harbor Cimae Coaboraive
NYCEDC, Brookyn Navy Yard Deveopmen Cor-
poraion (BNYDC), and Trus for overnors Isand,
working in cose coaboraion wih he Depuy Mayor
for Housing, Workforce, and Economic Deveopmen,
and NYC Taen are parnering as he “Harbor Cimae
Coaboraive.” The Coaboraive wi be dedicaed
o coordinaing pioing and enan opporuniies o
serve green economy enrepreneurs and businesses,
advancing cimae innovaion and research, and pro-
viding workforce raining for in-demand, good-paying
green economy jobs. Wih over $725 miion in pubic
invesmens for he green economy a NYCEDC’s
Sunse Park Disric, he Brookyn Navy Yard, and
on overnors Isand, he parnering insiuions wi
suppor cimae innovaors hrough pioing, enan-
ing, reguaory coordinaion, workforce deveopmen,
knowedge/daa sharing, fundraising, and faciiaing
access o Ciy agencies. These hree insiuions are
coecivey acivaing six miion square fee of space
for innovaion, supporing 5,000 permanen jobs,
enabing he educaion and raining of 2,100 sudens,
and generaing $55 biion of economic impac.
These insiuions wi anchor a Pio Nework for ci-
mae innovaion, offering a nework of incubaors and
acceeraors and dedicaed pio ocaions o sream-
ine a poin-of-enry for NYC-based companies o
|pio heir cimae echnoogy souions. In is firs
year, he Ciy wi suppor 20+ cimae echnoogy
pios across Harbor of he Fuure sies and enabe
chaenge-based procuremens ha base awards
for procuremen of NYC goods and services on he
success of hese pios.
In addiion, he Workforce1 Indusria Transporaion
Cener a he Brookyn Army Termina has served as
an anchor of a ciywide nework of workforce ceners
ha has heped New Yorkers prepare for and connec
o focus occupaions in he green economy. The Work-
force1 Sysem wi coninue o parner wih businesses,
incuding hose creaed by new and ransiioning com-
panies across he Cimae Coaboraive, o connec
New Yorkers o housands of job opporuniies ha wi
exis in he green economy by 2040.
38. Deveop a word-cass Cimae Innovaion
Hub a Brookyn Army Termina
NYCEDC wi reease an up o $100 miion reques
for proposas (RFP) for an operaor o deveop a
word-cass Cimae Innovaion Hub (he Hub) a he
Brookyn Army Termina (BAT). This Hub wi acceerae
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41.Deveop an effecive reguaory process o pro-
moe cimae innovaion
NYCEDC wi parner wih he Fire Deparmen of he
Ciy of NY (FDNY) and DOB o deveop an effecive
reguaory process—incuding sreamining and
coordinaing agency reviews—o promoe cimae
innovaion and navigae a pah forward o mee he
Ciy’s carbon reducion goas. To suppor he Ciy’s
PowerUp commimen o reduce baery sorage per-
miing imeines by 50 percen, FDNY wi advise on he
nex ieraion of NYCEDC’s Resiien Energy Sudio, a
program ha pios cuing-edge energy sorage ech-
noogies in NYC. To suppor he Ciy’s goa o reduce
embodied carbon in consrucion for Ciy projecs 50
percen by 2033 and ransiion from concree and
see o more susainabe buiding maeria aerna-
ives, DOB and FDNY wi work wih he NYC Mass
Timber Sudio o expore he poenia of mass imber
projecs in NYC. DOB is aso parnering wih he Trus
for overnors Isand o unock he poenia of mass
imber a he New York Cimae Exchange, which wi
be a 400k-square-foo campus dedicaed o research,
educaion, and pubic programs addressing he ci-
mae crisis beginning consrucion in 2025.
42. Launch reenigh Innovaion Fund
NYCEDC aunched a $50 miion+ Ciy capia RFP o
suppor nonprofis and nonprofi join venures ha
focus on ransaing innovaion o commerciaizaion
wih a focus on opporuniies wihin he green econ-
omy, as we as in ife sciences and oher advanced
echnoogies. The fund suppors he creaion of space,
pacemen of speciaized equipmen, deveopmen of
aen, and caayzaion of indusry ecosysems and
prioriizes suppor for diverse enrepreneurs and
minoriy-owned businesses.
43. Updae oudaed and use rues wih
Ciy of Yes for carbon neuraiy
Adoped in December 2023, he Ciy of Yes for Carbon
Neuraiy updaes oudaed reguaions creaing bar-
riers for cimae acion across green energy, buidings,
ransporaion, waer, and wase sysems. The zoning
ex amendmen incudes 17 poicies ha wi open up
over 8,500 acres of parking os across he ciy for
poenia use of soar panes, faciiae he rerofiing
of over 50,000 buidings, enabe EV charging in more
han 400 miion addiiona square fee and hep diver
34 percen of he Ciy’s residenia wase o beneficia
use, among oher hings.
commerciaizaion pahways for cimae ech sarups
and incumben businesses, especiay hose deveop-
ing hardware souions, whie caayzing he ransfor-
maion and enaning of an addiiona space coming
onine a BAT. The RFP wi seek an operaor o deveop
and operae he Hub. The operaor wi work wih en-
ans o buid and rapidy prooype producs, using he
fi-for-purpose space o provide business suppor and
carry ou produc research and deveopmen. They wi
aso provide workforce programming, especiay for he
oca Sunse Park communiy, o upski peope hrough
green job raining and opporuniies. The Hub wi aso
suppor pioing cimae echnoogies buiding on he
receny aunched “Pios a BAT” program—an effor
commied o demonsrae cimae echnoogies and
souions a his hisoric indusria sie.
Aogeher, NYCEDC’s $100 miion invesmen wi
caayze cimae innovaion ha wi creae over 600
permanen jobs and $2.6 biion in economic impac.
39. Compee he 400k-SF New York Cimae
Exchange on overnors Isand
In Apri 2023, foowing a wo-year compeiive pro-
cess, Mayor Eric Adams and he Trus for overnors
Isand announced ha he New York Cimae Exchange
wi serve as he anchor educaiona and research
insiuion of he Cener for Cimae Souions. Led
by Sony Brook Uni ver si y, he New York Ci mae
Exchangecon sor ium incudes 15 members represen-
ing eading universiies from around he word, as we
as business and nonprofi organizaions dedicaed
o deveoping and depoying souions o he goba
cimae crisis. The Exchange wi be a goba hub ha
everages educaion, research, and programming o
funcion as an open, iving aboraory for cimae sou-
ions and suppor communiies in he bae agains
cimae change. Phase 1 of he projec, which incudes
400,000 square fee of sae-of-he-ar faciiies, wi
open in 2028.
ENCOUAE COMMECIALIZATION
OF EEN TECHNOLOY
40. Caayze susainabiiy-focused bio-
echnoogy and maerias innovaion
As ouined in PaNYC, NYCEDC wi coninue o
advance a Maerias Innovaion Hub o drive bioma-
eria innovaion for NYC’s key indusries, incuding
consrucion, fashion, and medicine, and advance he
Ciy’s carbon neura goas.
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THE HABO CLIMATE COLLABOATIVE
A new goba parnership for cimae research, commerciaizaion, and workforce deveopmen aong he
New York Harbor
The Harbor Cimae Coaboraive is a join iniia-
ive beween hree mission-aigned pubic eniies
wih sies aong he New York Harbor—he Trus for
overnors Isand (TI), New York Ciy Economic
Deveopmen Corporaion (NYCEDC) and Brookyn
Navy Yard Deveopmen Corporaion (BNYDC) –
working in cose coaboraion wih he Depuy Mayor
for Housing, Workforce, and Economic Deveopmen
and NYC Taen. Conneced by he NYC Ferry across
overnors Isand, he Brookyn Navy Yard, and
NYCEDC’s Sunse Park Disric—he Coaboraive
wi be he cener of a burgeoning cimae innovaion
ecosysem in New York Ciy. I wi be dedicaed o
coordinaing pioing and enan opporuniies o
serve green economy enrepreneurs and businesses,
advancing cimae innovaion and research, and pro-
viding workforce raining for in demand, good-paying
green economy jobs. The Coaboraive wi everage
each of he parner’s experise in research and ci-
mae educaion, business suppor for emerging com-
panies and souions, preparing New Yorkers for we-
|paying jobs, and o provide a home for new and exis-
ing businesses o scae in New York Ciy’s growing
green economy.
THE HABO CLIMATE COLLABOATIVE
EPESENTS A COLLECTIVE $725 MILLION TO
BUILD A EEN ECONOMY ECOSYSTEM ACOSS
6 MILLION SF AND 72 ACES. IT WILL SUPPOT
5,000 NEW PEMANENT JOBS AND ENEATE
$55 BILLION IN ECONOMIC IMPACT.
The Ciy’s invesmen wi aow he Coaboraive o
creae space for he mos criica aciviies driving
New York’s green economy, incuding shared pioing
and enaning opporuniies, business and workforce
deveopmen programs, and fundraising suppor for
cimae innovaors.
Some of he main aciviies of he Coaboraive
incude:
Research, educaion, and goba convening a
he NY Cimae Exchange. The Exchange, a con-
sorium anchored by Sony Brook Universiy wih
over 45 parner organizaions, wi be a goba hub
ha everages he coecive power of educaion,
research, workforce deveopmen, poicy deveop-
men, and pubic programming, whie supporing
communiies in he bae agains cimae cha-
enges and connecing New Yorkers o opporuniies
in he green economy. By 2028, he Exchange wi
open is marquee, 400k-square-foo campus serv-
ing approximaey 500 pos-secondary sudens
a yearii.
Infrasrucure and opporuniies o pio and scae
cimae echnoogies hrough he Pios a BAT
program a he Brookyn Army Termina, Yard Labs a
Brookyn Navy Yard, and he overnors Isand Living
Lab, wih addiiona purpose-bui infrasrucure a he
Cimae Innovaion Hub a Brookyn Army Terminaiii.
The Coaboraive wi work wih reevan governmen
Future Climate Innovation Hub at Brooklyn Army Terminal. Conceptual Rendering
by FXCollaborative
Planned net-zero vertical industrial building at Brooklyn Navy Yard. Conceptual Render-
ing by WXY Studio
Panned NY Cimae Exchange a Governors Isand. Conceptual Rendering
by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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agencies o faciiae reguaory change and provide
access o municipa procuremen opporuniies.
Acceeraor suppor for cimae sarups wih dedi-
caed prooyping and sep ou space compemened
by acceeraor programming across a hree oca-
ions. These faciiies wi be managed hrough par-
ners ike Newab a BNY, forhcoming Buermik Labs
a overnors Isand, and he Tech Incubaor a he
New York Cimae Exchange. An acceeraor operaor
wi be seeced for he forhcoming Cimae Innovaion
Hub a he Brookyn Army Terminaiii.
Home for new and exising green economy busi-
nesses. In addiion o he exising 10 miion square
fee of rea esae across NYCEDC’s Sunse Park
Disric (4 miion) and he Brookyn Navy Yard (6
miion), he Coaboraive is adding new space o
serve boh esabished and growing businesses in he
green economy. Panned expansion incudes 1 miion
square fee of advanced manufacuring space com-
ing onine in Sunse Park and 5 miion square fee
of new space a he Brookyn Navy Yard, saring wih
~700,000 square fee in NYC’s firs ne-zero emissions
verica modern indusria buiding.
THE MEMBES
Three mission-aigned pubic eniies wih a srong
hisory of caayzing pubic-privae parnerships
wi deveop sies aong he Eas River o serve as
he home of he Coaboraive:
The Brookyn Navy Yard Deveopmen Corporaion
(BNYDC) deveops and manages he Brookyn Navy
Yard, a mission-driven, 300-acre waerfron indus-
ria park ha emphasizes growing enrepreneurship
among hisoricay underrepresened demographics
and emerging indusries. The Brookyn Navy Yard
(BNY) has been redeveoped as a dynamic campus
ha is home o a growing cuser of cimae ech
businesses, and has more han 550 businesses which
empoy more han 11,000 peope oday.
The Trus for overnors Isand (TI) is responsibe
for he panning, oper a ions and deve op men of ov-
er nors Isand, a 172-acre former miiary base ha
has been ransformed as a unique pubic desinaion
for New Yorkers. As par of he Cener for Cimae
Souions, he isand wi soon be home o he New York
Cimae Exchange. I wi funcion as a goba hub for
educaion, research, and raining o grow green jobs
for New Yorkers.
New York Ciy Economic Deveopmen Corporaion
(NYCEDC)’s Sunse Park Disric is an emerging hub
for indusry and cimae innovaion. Composed of he
Brookyn Army Termina (BAT), he Souh Brookyn
Marine Termina (SBMT), and he Made in New York
(MiNY) campus, he Disric is home o more han 150
businesses empoying more han 4,000 peope oday
across 5 miion square fee of space. As par of he
Ciy’s invesmen in he reen Economy, NYCEDC is
redeveoping SBMT ino a word-cass oshore wind
hub and acivaing space for esabished, growing,
and sarup sage indusria businesses incuding
300,000 square fee a BAT and 700,000 square fee
a MiNY over he nex 10 years. The panned redeve-
opmen wi cener around he forhcoming Cimae
Innovaion Hub a BATiii.
MANHATTAN
BROOKLYN
QUEENS
Properties
Innovation Clusters
Ferry Terminal
• 12 minutes from Lower Manhattan
to the Brooklyn Army Terminal
• Connection to all Innovation
Clusters via NYC Ferry
LEGEND
The Brooklyn
Navy Yard
Development
Corporation
The Trust for
Governors Island
NYCEDC’s
Sunset Park District
Brooklyn Army Terminal
Made in New York
Campus
South Brooklyn
Marine Terminal
i Please refer to “The Center for Climate Solutions at Governors Island” on p.92
ii The consortium consists of Core Partners (Stony Brook University, BCG, Georgia Tech, GOLES, Pratt Institute, Pace University, University of Washington), Aliate
Partners (City University of New York, Duke University, Moody’s Corporation, New York University, SUNY Maritime College, University of Oxford) with additional
partnerships with dozens of community, environmental justice, research and business partners
iii Please refer to “The Climate Innovation Hub” on p.92
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TALENT AND WOKFOCE AT HABO CLIMATE COLLABOATIVE
Connecing economicay disadvanaged communi-
ies o career opporuniies and deveoping a diverse,
robus workforce are key prioriies of he Harbor
Cimae Coaboraive. Key iniiaives incude:
→Brookyn STEAM Cener, a DOE-operaed
innovaive career and echnica raining hub
ocaed a he Brookyn Navy Yard, conneced
o eigh oca high schoos and serving oca su-
dens, wi be expanded o serve 700 sudens
by 2025.
→The indusria “Jobs of he Fuure” raining
cener, opening a he Brookyn Navy Yard in 2026,
wi provide hands-on raining opporuniies in
buiding susainabiiy, mariime vesse operaions,
and e-mobiiy ech such as eecric bikes, cars,
and rucks.
→ New York Cimae Exchange on Governors Isand
wi hos a wide range of workforce deveopmen
and raining programs for careers in he green
economy, working in parnership wih New York Ciy
communiy-based organizaions.
→The New York Urban Assemby Harbor Schoo,
a pubic high schoo oering a unique Career
Technica Educaion curricuum focused on envi-
ronmena, waer, and mariime careers wi open
wo new faciiies on Governors Isand by 2027,
hosing sae-of-he-ar aboraory and aquaic
faciiies, and doubing is suden body o approxi-
maey 1,000 sudens.
→Workforce1 Indusria Transporaion Cener a
Brookyn Army Termina has served as an anchor
of a ciywide nework of workforce ceners ha
has heped New Yorkers prepare for and connec
o he Focus Occupaions idenified in he Green
Economy Acion Pan, and wi coninue o parner
wih businesses o connec New Yorkers o hou-
sands of job opporuniies in he green economy.
→Cimae Innovaion Hub, a forhcoming hub
for green economy business incubaion, com-
merciaizaion, and growh wi have dedicaed
space and programming for workforce deveop-
men, wih a paricuar focus for he oca Sunse
Park communiy.
Brooklyn STEAM Center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Brooklyn STEAM Center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
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In Fa 2020, he Ciy announced he Cener for Cimae
Souions a overnors Isand, which wi be a goba
hub ha everages ha coecive power of educaion,
research, workforce deveopmen, poicy deveopmen,
and pubic programming o suppor goba communi-
ies in he bae agains cimae change. The projec
wi buid on an exising communiy of cimae-focused
enans working on overnors Isand incuding he
Urban Assemby Harbor Schoo, Biion Oyser Projec,
Buermik Labs, row-NYC, and more. Projecs
announced o dae incude:
The New York Cimae Exchange
A 15-member cross-secor consorium anchored by
Sony Brook Universiy, he Exchange wi creae a
sae-of-he-ar, $700 miion, 400k-square-foo cam-
pus on overnors Isand dedicaed o researching and
deveoping innovaive cimae souions ha wi func-
ion as a goba hub for educaion, research, and rain-
ing o grow green jobs for New Yorkers. The Exchange
wi serve as an open, iving aboraory where expers
convene o es cimae souions in a mix of newy con-
sruced academic and research space and in resored
hisoric buidings, a designed wih he aes susain-
abiiy principes in mind. The Exchange wi esabish
NYC as he goba epicener for angibe souions ha
give ciies, counries, and oher sakehoders iner-
naionay a paybook for miigaing and adaping o
cimae change.
The consorium incudes over 45 parner organizaions
represening eading universiies, businesses, and non-
profi organizaions dedicaed o deveoping and depoy-
ing souions o he gobacimae crisis. The Exchange
was seeced and announced in Apri 2023 foowing
a wo-year compeiive process seeking an anchor
educaiona and research insiuion for he Cener for
Cimae Souions.
In he Phase 1 pan, which is schedued o open in 2028,
he Exchange wi:
→ Showcase susainabe buiding pracices in wo
newy consruced academic and research space in
he isand’s Easern Deveopmen Zone
→ Resore over 170,000 square fee of space wihin
hisoric buidings, incuding Ligge Ha and he For
Jay Theaer
→ Incude 4.5 acres of new open space, adding o he
Isand’s exising 120 acres of open space across he
Hisoric Disric and Souh Isand Park
The Living Lab
overnors Isand is isef an experimen in creaing
resiien coasa andscapes, wih a new 43-acre park
designed o address projeced sea-eve rise and doz-
ens of educaiona and cuura parners engaging in
hese issues incuding he Biion Oyser Projec, Earh
Maer NY, NYC Audubon, rowNYC, and more.
The Trus for overnors Isand’s Living Lab, an-
nounced in 2023, everages hese unique resources o
provide a forma paform for research, parnerships,
and programs o ampify cimae acion hrough he
foowing componens:
→ An annua cimae souions chaenge open o
nonprofis, enrepreneurs, sma businesses, and
sarups seeking o es and demonsrae cimae
souions on he Isand
→ A cimae-focused fied rip curricuum for New York
Ciy sudens
→ A cimae communiy convening space on he isand
By moving experimenaion ou from behind coseddoors,
he Living Lab provides opporuniies fornonprofis,
environmena jusice organizaions, enrepreneurs, and
sma businesses o conduc rea-word research, pio
innovaive responses o pressing resiiency chaenges,
and engage New Yorkers of a backgrounds in heir
work—an exciing exampe of wha resiien and susain-
abe urban deveopmen can mean for ciies.
THE CENTE FO CLIMATE
SOLUTIONS AT OVENOS ISLAND
A groundbreaking iniiaive for deveoping urban
cimae souions and supporing New Yorkers in
cimae and environmena fieds.
1 Exchange Partners include Stony Brook University, BCG, IBM, Georgia
Tech, University of Washington, Pace University, Pratt Institute, Good Old
Lower East Side, Duke University, New York University, University of Oxford,
Rochester Institute of Technology, SUNY Maritime College, The City
University of New York, Moody’s, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Urbs plus
over 30 community, workforce, and industry partners.
Rendered aerial view of the Exchange’s climate campus
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oa 5.
Ensure an
Equiabe
reen Economy
Ecosysem
The growh of he green economy wi depend no ony
on he innovaion and depoymen of ower-emission
souions and echnoogies, bu on he deveopmen
and acivaion of an enire ecosysem ha can
manufacure, suppy, disribue, and insa hese
souions. This incudes oca manufacurers in cimae
ech suppy chains, oca consrucion firms, and sup-
piers o suppor buiding decarbonizaion rerofis
and more.
The Ciy is commied o supporing sma and
medium—and M/WBE—oca businesses across sec-
ors o grow, expand, and ransiion heir work. We wi
make invesmens in workforce programs and facii-
ies, provide direc echnica assisance o oca busi-
nesses, and advance arge-scae projecs ha boh
are criica o he ciy’s resiience o cimae impacs
and promoe he mobiizaion of exising businesses
and workforce for green oucomes.
INVEST IN EEN TALENT
44. Connec young New Yorkers wih
pracica earning and raining
opporuniies in he green economy
NYC Taen wi work wih parners o posiion NYC’s
young peope for success in he green economy
hrough increased career-conneced earning, rain-
ings, preparaion, inernships, and appreniceships
for sudens and young peope across NYC Pubic
Schoos (NYC PS), CUNY, and he NYC Deparmen of
Youh and Communiy Deveopmen (DYCD), in keeping
wih he Ciy’s new acion pan.
45. Ensure 5-10% of Taen Invesmen
Fund suppors he green economy
workforce deveopmen
NYC Taen wi se a goa for 5–10 percen of inves-
mens made hrough he Taen Invesmen Fund, which
poos pubic and privae funders o joiny inves in
promising program modes and services, o be sup-
porive o he green economy. The invesmens wi be
disribued o programs ha connec New Yorkers o
occupaions ha are unique and criica o he green
economy and wi ensure ha 30 percen of a indi-
viduas served by he Fund come from Environmena
Jusice neighborhoods.
46. Enhance Workforce1 Career
Ceners for he green economy
The Workforce1 Indusria Transporaion Cener a
he Brookyn Army Termina has served as an anchor
of a ciywide nework of workforce ceners ha has
heped New Yorkers prepare for and connec o focus
occupaions in he green economy. The Workforce1
Sysem wi coninue o parner wih businesses, incud-
ing hose creaed by new and ransiioning companies
across he Harbor Cimae Coaboraive, o connec
New Yorkers o housands of job opporuniies ha wi
exis in he green economy by 2040.
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47. Provide grans o sma businesses
for green workforce raining
SBS wi everage he Cusomized Training rans Pro-
gram o suppor businesses in raining heir incumben
workforces in heir ransiion o adop new green and
energy efficien equipmen and echnoogies o ensure
business resiience and equiabe workforce coninuiy.
48. Buid Soar One Environmena
Educaion Cener
NYCEDC, Empire Sae Deveopmen (ESD), and Soar
One, a eading susainabe energy nonprofi, broke
ground on he Soar One Environmena Educaion
Cener in 2023, which wi rain he nex generaion of
environmena eaders. I wi consis of a wo-sory
earning cener aowing Soar One o expand is cimae
educaion, incuding aferschoo and summer camp
programs, as we as even and communiy space.
CULTIVATE A LOCAL OFFSHOE
WIND SUPPLY CHAIN
49. Provide echnica assisance o
manufacurers o buid a oca
offshore wind suppy chain
NYCEDC wi aunch an indusry nework and echnica
assisance program o hep oca manufacurers and
oher indusria businesses pug ino he emerging
muibiion-doar offshore wind suppy chain. The
echnica assisance program wi hep deveop oca
manufacuring businesses o capure economic
opporuniies in he regiona offshore wind suppy
chain, wih concered recruimen effors around M/
WBE paricipaion. In spring 2023, NYCEDC engaged
200 indusria businesses (incuding manufacurers,
consrucion service providers, and equipmen
Groundbreaking even for an environmena educaion cener wih SoarOne, NYCEDC, and ESD. Source: NYCEDC
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suppiers) hrough a survey o undersand heir
ineres in and posiioning for pursuing business
opporuniies in offshore wind—and uimaey
idenify a pipeine of exising businesses ha coud
ener he offshore wind secor. These businesses
wi coninue o be a basis of oureach for he
forhcoming programming.
50. Turn Wes Shore of Saen Isand ino
a hub for cean energy reaed jobs
NYCEDC wi coninue o deveop Saen Isand’s
Wes Shore as a hub for cean energy and green
manufacuring jobs ha are good and accessibe
o oca communiies. The Ciy coninues o suppor
he ransformaion of he Rossvie Municipa Sie, a
33-acre Ciy-owned waerfron indusria propery on
he Wes Shore of Saen Isand, ino a sae-of-he-ar
faciiy for indusria uses in he green economy.
BUILD CONNECTIONS BETWEEN
INDUSTY AND TALENT
51. Esabish green raining faciiies
in a five boroughs
NYC Taen wi work wih pubic, privae, and educa-
iona parners o deveop green economy raining
faciiies, wih a goa of having a raining faciiy
in each borough by 2030. NYC Taen wi pio his
mode hrough coaboraion wih he Trus for ov-
ernors Isand and he New York Cimae Exchange on
raining modes focused on buiding and consrucion,
beginning in 2025, wih a goa of serving 100 rainees
per year in eary-phase programs. These programs
wi inform he ong-erm workforce deveopmen
programming ha wi be ocaed on-sie a he
Exchange’s fuure, permanen faciiies and serve
as a mode for fuure programs suppored by NYC
Taen ciywide.
52. Expand and connec indusry parnerships
o inform green workforce prioriies
NYC Taen wi firs ead workforce discussions he
Ciy’s reen Advisory Counci, and subsequeny ever-
age he LL97 Mobiizaion Counci’s workforce ask
force and NYC Taen Indusry Parnership empoyers
o impemen idenified aen deveopmen and upski-
ing effors.
ADVANCE CITICAL COASTAL
ESILIENCE POJECTS
53. Advance Lower Manhaan Coasa
Resiience Projec
Through he Lower Manhaan Coasa Resiiency
Projec, he Ciy seeks o proec Lower Manhaan
from inundaion by rising sea eves and coasa sorms.
Through buiding food proecion a The Baery,
advancing design of Seapor Coasa Resiience,
and impemening he Financia Disric and Seapor
Cimae Resiience Pan, he Ciy wi hep o ensure he
area’s coninuiy in serving residens, workers, visiors,
and commuers who rey heaviy on is ransi nework
and wan o remain in heir dynamic neighborhoods.
Through robus M/WBE commimens, hese projecs
are aso creaing workforce opporuniies for New
Yorkers in he green economy whie advancing
innovaive pracices.
The Baery Coasa Resiience projec, for exam-
pe, served as a mode for he forhcoming NYCEDC
Circuar Consrucion uideines wih an emphasis on
maerias reused, sored, and refurbished on-sie and
is anicipaed o obain Envision Painum. The proj-
ec is funded fuy wih ciy capia funds and arges
neary $40 miion in M/WBE opporuniy.
54. Advance he Raise Shoreines Iniiaive
a Travis Avenue and Od Howard Beach
The Travis Ave. Projec wi reconsruc a ow-ying
and frequeny fooded secion of Travis Avenue wihin
Richmond Couny, Saen Isand. The roadway wi be
raised on eiher side of a bridge over he Fresh Kis
Main Creek o miigae agains ida overopping due
o sea-eve rise a he projeced 2050 eevaion. New
eco-passages (which hep widife safey cross) and
cuvers (which enabe waer conveyance) wi aso be
insaed o enhance hydrauic and ecoogica weand
conneciviy. The Od Howard Beach projec wihin
Queens addresses wo ow-ying and exposed sree
ends facing he NYC shoreine a 95h Sree and 165h
Avenue. The roadway wi be raised, crown was wi
be insaed, and new sormwaer drainage improve-
mens wihin boh srees wi miigae agains ida
fooding a he projeced 2050 sea-eve rise eevaion.
Design for boh projecs is funded hrough Communiy
Deveopmen Bock ran Funds for Disaser Recovery
(CDB-DR Funds) from he U.S. Deparmen of Hous-
ing and Urban Deveopmen (HUD). The projecs are
curreny in consrucion.
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55. Expand Saw Mi Creek Pio
Weand Miigaion Bank
NYCEDC is impemening NYC’s firs ida weand mi-
igaion bank under is MARSHES iniiaive (Miigaion
and Resoraion Sraegies for Habia and Ecoogica
Susainabiiy). The projec wi resore up o 80 acres
of degraded weands on he Wes Shore of Saen
Isand by removing hisoric fi, paning new vegea-
ion, removing invasive species, and re-esabishing
habia and ecoogica funcion. The projec creaes
miigaion “credis” ha serve as offses o waerfron
infrasrucure projecs in NYC, in accordance wih
federa and Sae reguaions. By everaging funds
from he sae of credis, miigaion banking resus in a
arge-scae, proeced ecoogica resoraion projec
whie aso heping waerfron infrasrucure projecs
ge permied. As of December 2023, he projec
has resored and is generaing credis from 54 acres
of weands.
56. Deveop Brookyn Bridge
Mongomery Coasa Resiience
The Deparmen of Design and Consrucion (DDC)
wi insa a combinaion of food was and depoy-
abe fip-up barriers o proec he Two Bridges
neighborhood from sorm surge whie mainaining
access and visibiiy o he waerfron. The projec
wi exend aong he waerfron from he Brookyn
Bridge o Mongomery Sree and wi reduce fooding
risk—from boh sea-eve rise and sorm surge—for
housands of residens, whie coninuing o preserve
views and access o he waerfron. The ocaion of he
food was and poss has been designed o minimize
confic wih subsurface infrasrucure and o maximize
inegraion of pubic space ameniies such as open-
air seaing, finess equipmen, and aheic cours.
BMCR is a fuy funded projec wih $350 miion in
Ciy capia funding and an addiiona $172 miion in
federa funding and is expeced o be compeed in he
summer of 2025.
57. Inves in Coudburs Resiiency
Projecs
Suppored wih neary $400 miion in capia funds,
hese speciay designed, bui, and engineered infra-
srucure projecs wi proec residens and propery
in four new areas, Corona and Kissena Park, Queens;
Parkcheser, Bronx; and Eas New York, Brookyn. The
Coudburs program cusers consrucion of sormwa-
er managemen projecs in food-prone communiies
o beer prepare residens and propery for inense
Rendering of vision proposed by Financia Disric and Seapor Cimae Resiience Pan, aong he Eas River in Lower Manhaan. Concepua Rendering by Arcadis
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rain fa evens ike Hurricane Ida. Coudburs has
aready begun work in wo neighborhoods: Souh
Jamaica and S. Abans, Queens.
SUPPOT NEW AND TANSITIONIN
BUSINESSES ACOSS ALL EEN
ECONOMY SECTOS
58. Inves $40M o seed he NYC Caays Fund
Through he NYC Caays Fund, NYCEDC wi inves in
opporuniies ha prioriize diverse enrepreneurship,
communiy deveopmen, and high-growh emerging
secors incuding he green economy. The goa of he
program is o make invesmens ha generae finan-
cia reurn as we as posiive, measurabe, socia and
environmena impac.
59. Buid capaciy and prioriize diverse
businesses for Ciy consrucion
NYCEDC wi coninue invesing in ConsrucNYC, a
capaciy-buiding program connecing sma-o-mid-
sized M/WBE businesses wih opporuniies o work
on NYCEDC projecs o achieve a eas 30 percen M/
WBE paricipaion in a procuremens. ConsrucNYC
is growing he number of conracors equipped o
suppor he green economy hrough speciaized
raining for susainabe consrucion. ConsrucNYC
prequaifies rade conracors and assiss in reduc-
ing indusry barriers by providing raining, echnica
assisance, and direcy connecing paricipans o
NYCEDC projecs.
60. Leverage Waerfron Pahways
Program o expand access o
green economy opporuniies
The Offshore Wind (OSW) NYC Waerfron Pahways
Program, aunched by NYCEDC in 2023, exiss o
couner documened dispariies in pubic procuremen
by increasing opporuniies for M/WBEs in he offshore
wind and waerfron indusries. NYCEDC wi coninue
and seek o expand his program o enabe more
M/WBE firms ener his emerging green subsecor.
61. Esabish green oans hrough Emerging
Deveoper Loan Fund (EDLF)
NYCEDC wi appy for $10 miion in gran funding, he
maximum award aowed, hrough he reenhouse as
Reducion Fund creaed by he federa governmen’s
Infaion Reducion Ac. NYCEDC wi seek funding o
enabe a recapiaizaion of he EDLF in order o sup-
por ending oward emerging deveopers focused on
green consrucion.
62. Impemen he Pan-Powered
Carbon Chaenge
The Mayor’s Office of Food Poicy wi work wih New
York Ciy’s privae secor o commi o reducing heir
food-based carbon emissions 25 percen by 2030 by
ransiioning o ow-carbon, pan-forward foods. They
wi work wih universiies, heahcare sysems, spors
arenas, hospiaiy groups, and food service providers
o measure and rack heir food-based emissions and
buid a susainabe resource nework for sourcing more
cimae-friendy foods.
63. Esabish M/WBE Procuremen
Opporuniies
The Deparmen of Sma Business Services wi
aunch annua open houses o connec M/WBEs
wih green economy-reaed ciy procuremen
opporuniies. The Earh Day even in Apri wi focus
on susainabiiy, energy efficiency, resiience, and
adapaion projecs. During SBS’ annua Ciywide M/
WBE Procuremen Fair in Fa 2024, heir Division of
Economic and Financia Opporuniy (DEFO) wi hos
an Opporuniy Room focused on he green economy.
Evens coud incude he Mayor’s Office of Cimae and
Environmena Jusice, NYCEDC, Office of Communiy
Hiring, and he Deparmens of Parks & Recreaion,
Environmena Proecion, Housing Preservaion
& Deveopmen, among ohers, o share poicy and
egisaive issues, conracing opporuniies, gran
and financing programs, workforce deveopmen
programming, and capaciy buiding effors for M/
WBEs o avai of and gain access o business and
revenue growh opporuniies from hese projecs. In
addiion o presening conracing and revenue growh
opporuniies, hese open houses wi connec M/WBEs
o capaciy buiding ha heps hem increase heir
own energy efficiency and environmena resiience
as operaing businesses, in order o grow he green
economy furher.
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The Ciy wi work wih our privae, pubic, and nonprofi
parners o mee he demands of he cimae crisis,
proec New Yorkers, and grow he green economy. We
wi work o buid an equiabe green economy, ensuring
New Yorkers can ge adequae raining o ener high-
growh secors and access famiy-susaining wages.
We wi impemen his acion pan aongside a newy
formed reen Economy Advisory Counci composed
of eading communiy, business, and nonprofi
sakehoders. The Counci sakehoders are criica
payers in NYC’s green economy and around he
gobe, and are making fagship commimens of heir
own o address he cimae crisis and capure
economic opporuniy.
Beyond his Advisory Counci, here are many
opporuniies for New Yorkers, nonprofis, sarups,
incumben businesses, and ohers o begin or deepen
heir invovemen in he green economy.
FO COMPANIES IN NEW YOK
CITY’S EXISTIN INDUSTIES
The companies ha make up he energy, buidings and
consrucion, and finance and consuing subsecors
coud conribue 70 percen of projeced growh in he
green economy by 2040. I’s criica for he Ciy o parner
wih hese companies and make resources avaiabe o
hem and heir workers o ensure heir ransiion o green
aciviies. As an immediae acion, hese companies
can parner wih workforce programs ike Urban reen
Counci’s PRO raining and cerificae program, which
equips empoyees wih green buiding skis. Companies
can aso recrui workers from any of he Ciy’s green
economy workforce programs run by various Communiy
Business Organizaions and CUNY schoos.
Deveopers, financers, and manufacurers engaged
in he renewabe energy space can everage he
expanded producion, invesmen, and manufacuring
federa ax credis avaiabe for bringing projecs on
ine. Companies in he buiding decarbonizaion space
can ap ino he rebaes for househods and buiding
owners for whoe-home rerofis and decarbonizing
buiding sysems ike Con Edison’s Commercia and
Indusria Energy Efficiency (CIEE) Program and
NYSERDA’s FexTech assisance program. Buiding
owners, propery managers, and deveopers can uiize
he NYC Acceeraor, which provides suppor around
how o decarbonize rea esae. Sma businesses can
expore ConsrucNYC, which suppors sma-o-mid-
sized M/WBE consrucion firms ooking for oppor-
uniies o work on Ciy projecs and pick up green
buiding skis.
FO NONPOFITS, COMMUNITY
OUPS, POLICY AND ADVOCACY
OUPS, AND WOKFOCE
DEVELOPMENT POVIDES
The effors of hese sakehoders wi be criica
for ensuring an incusive green economy for a
New Yorkers, paricuary hose wihin NYC’s
hisoricay marginaized communiies. Parner wih
NYC Taen and indusry hrough programs ike he
reen Workforce Parnership o creae pahways
for New Yorkers wih a range of skis. Lean ino he
federa governmen’s unprecedened prioriizaion
of underserved communiies in he roou of
cimae programs, and ap ino reevan grans and
opporuniies, incuding he IRA Communiy Change
rans Program and upcoming Ciy programs ike he
Taen Invesmen Fund.
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FO CLIMATE STATUPS AND COMPANIES
POISED TO MAKE NET NEW INVESTMENTS
IN NYC’S NEW EEN ECONOMY
The marke opporuniy in NYC is unparaeed.
New York is aready a eading cener of cimae
innovaion as we as a cener for he goba economy,
providing he infrasrucure, aen, and marke o
grow a business. Sarups and companies ooking o
make new invesmens in he ciy’s green economy
can work wih one of NYC’s many acceeraors
(e.g., Newab, Urban Fuure Lab, Indie Bio, Tech
Sars NYC, and Big Idea Venures). Companies can
connec wih he Harbor Cimae Coaboraive and
everage opporuniies for pioing new echnoogies
hrough programs ike Pios a BAT. Companies can
furher ake advanage of non-diuive capia gran
programs from sources ike he federa DOT, NYC
Pubic Schoos, NOAA, and EPA, among ohers, made
avaiabe as par of he federa IIJA, CHIPS, and IRA.
Sae and Ciy financing is avaiabe o companies as
we, such as Innovaion@NYSERDA’s Cimae Tech
Innovaion programs and NYCEDC’s roing reenigh
Indusries Fund.
FO NEW YOKES WHO WANT TO
ENTE THE EEN ECONOMY
Opporuniies are endess for workers, enrepreneurs,
and consumers, and everyone can make an impac.
For New Yorkers who woud ike o work in he green
economy, here are many resources and programs in
NYC o hep you earn and prepare for green careers.
You can appy o programs ike reen Ciy Force, Soar
One’s reen Workforce Program, or reen Careers
NY. For various empoymen, raining, and educaion
resources, many of which fa wihin he green
economy, visi Job Ready NYC and he Deparmen
of Sma Business Services’ Career websie, nyc.gov/
gework. If you are an aspiring cimae founder, kick off
your enrepreneuria journey by appying o NYCEDC’s
Founder Feowship program. As a consumer, you can
suppor your oca green businesses; your preferences
and doars are a key driver of he green economy.
NYC wi ake bod acion o faciiae he growh of he
green economy. Ensuring i hrives wi require conin-
ued parnership and engagemen from New Yorkers
and he privae secor. To say up-o-dae on curren
and upcoming opporuniies in he green economy:
→ Visi he acion pan webpage (edc.nyc/GEAP) o
sign up for he aes updaes
→ Subscribe o NYCEDC’s RFP is
→ Sign up o receive updaes o he Ciy Record for a
acive soiciaions from NYC agencies
Togeher we can ensure an equiabe and susainabe
fuure for a New Yorkers.
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Appendix
Appendix A: Economic Anaysis Mehodoogy
Appendix B: Job Forecas Sensiiviy Anaysis
Appendix C: Secor-Leve Esimaes and Drivers
Appendix D: Focus Occupaions Daa
Appendix E: Acknowedgemens
Appendix F: Works Cied
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Appendix A:
Economic
Anaysis
Mehodoogy
DEFININ THE EEN ECONOMY
A sandard definiion of he green economy does no
exis naionay or gobay and, as a resu, various
ciies and regions across he word have chosen o
define and segmen heir green economies in differen
ways. Some jurisdicions aso use differen ermino-
ogies, such as he “ow-carbon goods and services
secor” or focus on specific subses of he arger green
economy, such as he “circuar economy” and “cean
energy economy.” For he purposes of his Acion Pan,
New York Ciy required a aiored green economy ax-
onomy ha incudes he major green aciviies aking
pace here and aigns wih he Ciy’s poicy prioriies
and economic goas. To deveop his definiion, he
consuan eam adoped wo primary approaches:
1. Review of exising peer ciy and region sudies:
The consuan eam reviewed green economy,
or reaed, assessmens for London, Torono,
Amserdam, Sockhom, New Jersey, Chicago, Los
Angees, and Miami and documened he secors
and aciviies evauaed in each sudy and heir
raionae for incusion. The eam aso reviewed
NYSERDA’s annua Cean Energy Jobs repor for
New York Sae o undersand how hey define and
caegorize cean energy aciviies, which are a par
of he sae’s arger green economy.
2. Quaiaive anaysis of New York Ciy-specific
green aciviies: The consuan eam inerviewed
indusry expers and represenaives from organiza-
ions in various secors (ised in he acknowedge-
mens) o undersand he naure and exen of green
aciviies and companies ha exis in New York Ciy
oday and hose ha may emerge in he fuure.
SIZIN THE EEN ECONOMY
A sandard mehodoogy o size he enire green
economy does no exis, primariy because he green
economy consiss of many differen secors of varying
eves of mauriy ha are no racked by radiiona
economic daa sources, such as he Bureau of Labor
Saisics (BLS). As a resu, daa avaiabiiy varies
consideraby across green economy secors, wih
more esabished secors having some readiy avai-
abe economic daa and nascen ones having ie o
none. As such, he consuan eam adoped aiored
mehodoogies o size he number of jobs in individua
secors, which were hen aggregaed o esimae he
overa size of he green economy in New York Ciy
in 2021 (he aes year for which daa was avaiabe
across a secors). The consuan eam used hree
primary mehods o deermine he number of green
economy jobs in NYC.
1. Using readiy avaiabe pubished daa by he
U.S. Deparmen of Energy: The U.S. Deparmen of
Energy (DOE)’s U.S. Energy and Empoymen Repor
(USEER) is a comprehensive summary of naiona,
sae, and couny-eve energy jobs broken down
by secor and subsecor. DOE began pubishing
he USEER in 2016 o beer rack and undersand
empoymen wihin key energy secors ha have
been difficu o foow using oher pubicy
avaiabe daa sources. The sudy combines
surveys of businesses wih pubic abor daa o
produce esimaes of empoymen and workforce
characerisics.
2. Esimaing he ‘green’ share of radiiona
secors: For subsecors ha are a par of arger,
more radiiona indusries ha are racked by
radiiona economic daa sources (e.g., green
finance, which is a subse of he broader finance
and insurance indusry), he consuan eam
esimaed a “green haircu” of he radiiona
indusry o size is “green” share. This was necessary
because radiiona economic daa from sources
such as he BLS are no ye avaiabe for green
economy subsecors specificay. To esimae hese
haircus, he eam conduced exensive research
invoving a review of reevan goba, naiona, and
oca secor-specific daa and marke research, and
geaned addiiona insigh from conversaions wih
indusry expers.
3. Creaing boom-up esimaes of jobs for nascen
secors acking exising daa: For subsecors
acking exising daa sources, he consuan eam
deveoped bespoke, boom-up mehodoogies o
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esimae jobs. For exampe, o esimae jobs in he
resiience infrasrucure secor, he eam coeced
capia commimen, cos, and spending daa for
reevan projecs from he NYC Office of Managemen
and Budge (OMB), he Office of he NYS Comproer,
and he U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and
used economic inpu-oupu muipiers from Lighcas
o conver esimaed spending eves o jobs. For he
susainabe food subsecor, he eam compied a
daase of reevan businesses and idenified heir
headcoun using LinkedIn daa.
Foowing he compeion of he iniia job esimaes, he
consuan eam engaged wih indusry professionas
from various secors o vaidae he esimaes
and make necessary adjusmens. This vaidaion
process invoved esing he iniia esimaes agains
sakehoders’ indusry knowedge, addiiona daa
sources, and making minor revisions o ensure he
fina job esimaes accuraey refec he size of New
York Ciy’s green economy secors. The abe beow
indicaes he primary approach used o esimae jobs
in each green economy subsecor.
SECTO SUBSECTO PIMAY SIZIN METHODOLOY USED
enewabe
energy
Soar DOE daa
Oshore wind DOE daa
Onshore wind DOE daa
Hydropower DOE daa
Oher DOE daa
Cean fues DOE daa
Smar grid DOE daa
Sorage DOE daa
Buiding decarbonizaion DOE daa
Susainabe buiding maerias DOE daa
Eecric vehices DOE daa
Micromobiiy Boom-up esimaion
reen freigh and ogisics “reen” share of radiiona secor
ecycing “reen” share of radiiona secor
Susainabe food Boom-up esimaion
Susainabe fashion “reen” share of radiiona secor
reen finance “reen” share of radiiona secor
Cimae consuing and
accouning “reen” share of radiiona secor
Coasa adapaion Boom-up esimaion
Inand adapaion Boom-up esimaion
Susainabiiy poicy, panning,
and advocacy “reen” share of radiiona secor
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FOECASTIN THE SIZE OF
THE EEN ECONOMY
A forecasing anaysis was underaken for each
subsecor o undersand heir poenia size in erms
of jobs in 2030 and 2040. The anaysis invoved an
assessmen of poicies, invesmens, and iniiaives
ha woud infuence subsecors’ rajecories, marke
research and indusry sudies, exising forecass for
specific subsecors (where avaiabe), and inerviews
wih indusry expers. These subsecor forecass were
hen aggregaed o esimae he poenia size of he
green economy in New York Ciy in 2030 and 2040.
The consuan eam used wo mehods o forecas he
number of green economy jobs in NYC.
1. Esimaing NYC’s share of exising sae-eve
forecass, where avaiabe: The New York Sae
Cimae Acion Counci’s Jus Transiion Working
roup (JTW) commissioned he 2021 Jobs Sudy
o forecas he number of jobs in various secors over
he nex wo decades across he sae as a resu
of impemening he Sae’s Cimae Leadership &
Communiy Proecion Ac. For he reevan green
economy subsecors, he consuan eam appied
“capure raes” o he corresponding sae-eve
job forecass o creae NYC-eve forecass. These
capure raes were deermined by evauaing NYC’s
curren and hisorica share of saewide jobs for
each subsecor, as we as an assessmen of Ciy
and Sae poicies, iniiaives, and invesmens
ha coud infuence he fuure rajecories of hese
subsecors.
2. Conducing marke research: For subsecors
ha did no have sae-eve forecass avaiabe,
he consuan eam evauaed indusry ouook
sudies a he oca, naiona, and goba eve, as
we as simiar sudies from peer ciies (e.g., London
and Torono). The consuan eam deveoped
research-driven forecass for hese subsecors
based on he projeced rends in hese sudies, as
we as an evauaion of reevan poicies, iniiaives,
and invesmens, and conversaions wih indusry
sakehoders on subsecor-specific chaenges and
opporuniies.
The abe beow indicaes he primary mehod adoped
for each subsecor:
SECTO SUBSECTO PIMAY FOECASTIN METHODOLOY USED
enewabe
energy
Soar Capure rae of sae-eve forecass
Oshore wind Capure rae of sae-eve forecass
Onshore wind Capure rae of sae-eve forecass
Hydropower Capure rae of sae-eve forecass
Oher Capure rae of sae-eve forecass
Cean fues Capure rae of sae-eve forecass
Smar grid Capure rae of sae-eve forecass
Sorage Capure rae of sae-eve forecass
Buiding decarbonizaion Capure rae of sae-eve forecass
Susainabe buiding maerias Capure rae of sae-eve forecass
Eecric vehices Capure rae of sae-eve forecass
Micromobiiy Marke research
reen freigh and ogisics Marke research
ecycing Marke research
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SECTO SUBSECTO PIMAY FOECASTIN
METHODOLOY USED
CONSUMER PRODUCTS
Susainabe food Marke research
Susainabe fashion Marke research
reen finance Marke research
Cimae consuing and
accouning Marke research
Coasa adapaion Marke research
Inand adapaion Marke research
Susainabiiy poicy, panning,
and advocacy Marke research
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ESTIMATIN NEW AND
TANSITIONIN JOB OWTH
The forecas job increases in he green economy wi
be a combinaion of new jobs (i.e., ne new jobs in he
ciy’s overa economy) and ransiioning jobs (i.e.,
jobs ha aready exis wihin he overa economy,
bu become par of he green economy due o he
changing naure of work). Due o a ack of daa on he
new or ransiioning naure of hese job increases in
preceden indusry sudies and marke research, he
consuan eam reied on quaiaive insighs derived
from conversaions wih indusry professionas o
arrive a an esimae of he forecas share of new and
ransiioning job growh in he green economy. iven
he inheren imprecision of using quaiaive mehods
ony, he consuan eam provided a wide range for
he forecas share of new and ransiioning job growh.
ESTIMATIN THE EEN ECONOMY’S CUENT
AND FUTUE ECONOMIC CONTIBUTIONS
To esimae he green economy’s oher economic con-
ribuions beyond jobs, namey workforce earnings and
DP conribuions, he consuan eam used economic
inpu-oupu muipiers from Lighcas, a commercia
provider of economic and abor marke daa, o conver
curren and forecas green economy jobs o curren and
forecas workforce earnings and DP conribuions. The
muipiers were mapped o each subsecor based on
subsecor-specific “indusry mixes” of Norh American
Indusry Cassificaion Sysem (NAICS) codes ha mos
cosey refec he subsecor’s composiion. The work-
force earnings and DP conribuions forecass are in
rea 2021 doars.
IDENTIFYIN AND ANALYZIN
FOCUS OCCUPATIONS
Whie many conveniona indusry assessmens based
on NAICS daa feaure a breakdown of indusrywide
jobs by occupaion, such anaysis was no possibe for
his assessmen due o he need o use unconveniona
daases and mehodoogies o size NYC’s green econ-
omy. Creaing green economy-specific occupaion-eve
forecass was herefore aso no possibe. In view of his,
a se of crieria, as described beow, were esabished o
idenify and buid an undersanding of he occupaions
wih high growh poenia ha are crucia o he green
economy. Uimaey 21 “focus” occupaions were ideni-
fied based on hese crieria.
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CITEIA METHODOLOY USED
1. OCCUPATION EQUIES EENSPECIFIC
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDE
Deermined based on conversaions wih indusry
expers, empoyers and workforce providers, review
of curricua of reevan raining programs.
2. FOECAST TO INCEASE IN DEMAND
Deermined based on economy-wide
occupaiona forecass for New York Ciy from
he NYS Deparmen of Labor (DOL)’s ong-erm
occupaiona projecions from 2020 o 2030. For
occupaions wih no such forecass avaiabe,
his was deermined based on conversaions wih
indusry expers and empoyers.
3. PAYS FAMILYSUSTAININ WAES O
A PATHWAY TO JOBS THAT PAY FAMILY
SUSTAININ WAES
Deermined based on a comparison of each
occupaion’s median wage (from he NYS DOL’s
Occupaiona Empoymen and Wage Saisics or
Lighcas) o he 2023 famiy-susaining wage of
$63,000 for New York Ciy (from he Massachuses
Insiue of Technoogy’s Living Wage Cacuaor),
which assumes wo working househod members in
a four-person househod. Occupaions beow he
famiy-susaining wage hreshod were evauaed
for poenia progression o higher-paying posiions
wih wages greaer han he hreshod based on
Lighcas’s career pahways oo and insighs from
indusry sakehoders.
Noe: This assessmen does no incude an in-deph anaysis of occupaions
or workforce needs specific o he oshore wind subsecor. The Sae, via
NYSERDA, has pubished an Oshore Wind Workforce Gap Anaysis and
an Oshore Wind Workforce Skis Anaysis, and he Ciy and Sae are
aready invesing in various workforce deveopmen iniiaives o suppor his
indusry’s growh.
Appendix 107
B: reen Economy Forecas Sensiiviy Anaysis
Appendix B:
Job Forecas
Sensiiviy
Anaysis
iven he inheren uncerainy in forecasing fuure
oucomes, a sensiiviy anaysis was conduced on
he job forecas assumpions o iusrae he exen
of poenia aernaive oucomes over he nex wo
decades. Per his anaysis, NYC’s green economy
coud empoy fewer han he forecas 382,000 jobs
in 2040 if NYC’s green economy growh does no
acceerae because of ower-han--expeced pubic
and privae invesmen in green secors, which coud
occur due o myriad reasons. Conversey, NYC’s green
economy coud empoy over 530,000 jobs in 2040
if green economy growh acceeraes far beyond
expeced eves.
NYC EEN ECONOMY JOBS FOECAST SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS
Jobs (k)
200
300
400
500
600
100
2021 2030 2040
530k
382k
258k
133
Forecas Low High
224k
279k
340k
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Appendix C:
reen Economy
Secor-Leve
Esimaes
and Drivers
The green economy’s buidings secor is expeced o
see an increase of 85,200 jobs by 2040, accouning
for 34 percen of he forecased green economy job
growh over his period. Two-hirds of his increase is
expeced o be driven by job ransiions from he con-
veniona archiecure, engineering, and consrucion
(AEC) indusry, whereas one hird is expeced o be
driven by ne new job creaion.
Key facors expeced o drive his growh incude:
→ Ciy and Sae mandaes and poicies incuding:
NYC’s andmark buiding decarbonizaion poicy,
Loca Law 97, which caps emissions for 50,000 of
he ciy’s arge privaey owned buidings saring
in 2024, wih sricer emission imis coming ino
eec in 2030. Today, abou 63 percen of eigibe
properies are esimaed o exceed he emissions
imis se for 2030 and wi need o impemen
emission-reducion measures (e.g., energy e-
ciency rerofis, eecrificaion, on-sie renewabe
energy, purchasing renewabe energy credis,
ec.) o compy wih he aw and avoid penaies.40
Loca Law 154, which ses emissions imis ha
eecivey phase ou fossi fues in new buidings
and gu renovaions saring in 2024.
This secion incudes he 2016 and
2021 job esimaes and he 2030
and 2040 job forecass for each
secor and subsecor, as we as he
expeced key drivers in each secor.
SUBSECTO 2016 2021 2030 2040 CA
20162021
CA
20212030
CA
20302040
BUILDIN
DECABONIZATION 57,304 64,883 128,465 148,333 2.5% 7.9% 1.4%
SUSTAINABLE
BUILDIN MATEIALS 1,103 1,343 2,707 3,126 4.0% 8.1% 1.4%
TOTAL 58,407 66,226 131,172 151,458 2.5% 7.9% 1.4%
BUILDINS
The Sae’s ban on naura gas and fossi fues in
mos new buidings saring in 2026.
→ The Ciy’s work o make Ciy-owned buidings more
ecien and advance soar and sorage projecs in
hese buidings o mee he Loca Law 97 mandaes.
→ Federa home energy eciency and eecrificaion
consumer rebaes auhorized under he Inaion
Reducion Ac (IRA).
→ Emerging eors o reduce buidings’ embodied
carbon emissions by using recyced buiding
maerias, mass imber, and oher susainabe
maerias. Exising iniiaives incude NYC’s Cean
Consrucion Execuive Order (EO 23), announced
in 2022, ha requires he ciy’s capia projec
agencies o commi o acions o ower embodied
carbon from municipa consrucion projecs.
Anoher exising iniiaive is NYCEDC’s NYC Mass
Timber Sudio, which provides echnica assisance
o suppor mass imber deveopmen projecs in
eary phases of projec panning and design.
→ More companies and invesors are easing or
invesing in ow-carbon buidings o mee heir own
susainabiiy and emissions-reducion arges.
Appendix 109
The green economy’s finance and consuing secor
is expeced o see an increase of 80,000 jobs by
2040, accouning for 32 percen of he forecased
green economy job growh over he same period.
Much of his increase is expeced o be driven by job
ransiions from he conveniona finance, insurance,
and professiona services secors.
Key facors expeced o drive his growh incude:
→ Goba invesor preference shifing oward susain-
abe invesmen opporuniies and a growing
number of cimae-focused organizaions and
projecs in need of financing.
→ Marke signas from NYC’s arges banks, incuding
JP Morgan Chase and Cii, as hey buid on he
riions aready invesed o address cimae change
and conribue o susainabe deveopmen by 2030.
→ The depoymen of federa ax incenives (e.g.,
producion ax credi, invesmen ax credi, and
manufacuring ax credis, ec.) being mainained
and expanded by he IRA.
→ Growh of he ciy’s cimae ech venure capia
ecosysem, which has gained momenum in recen
SUBSECTO 2016 2021 2030 2040 CA
20162021
CA
20212030
CA
20302040
EEN FINANCE 6,137 13,477 55,713 90,751 17.0% 17.1% 5.0%
CLIMATE CONSULTIN
AND ACCOUNTIN 820 1,025 2,096 3,364 4.6% 8.3% 4.8%
TOTAL 6,957 14,502 57,809 94,115 15.8% 16.6% 5.0%
C: reen Economy Secor-Leve Esimaes and Drivers
FINANCE & CONSULTIN
years and wi be furher suppored by caayic
Ciy invesmens in he space.
→ Increasing demand for cimae consuing and
carbon accouning services from businesses ha
mus adap o more sringen governmen poicies,
reguaion, and changing invesor/consumer
preferences. For exampe, he US Securiies and
Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a rue
ha woud require US pubicy raded companies
o discose annuay how heir businesses are
assessing, measuring, and managing cimae-
reaed risks. If adoped, his rue woud significany
increase he need for carbon accouning, cimae
risk daa, and associaed consuing services.
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The green economy’s ransporaion secor is expeced
o see an increase of 32,200 jobs by 2040, driven by a
mix of ne new jobs and ransiioning jobs.
Key facors expeced o drive his growh incude:
→ New York Sae’s Zero Emission Vehice (ZEV)
Requiremens, mandaing ha a new passenger
vehices sod in he sae by 2035 are zero-emission
modes.
→ The MTA’s Zero-Emission Transiion Pan, which
wi repace and ransform is enire bus fee wih
zero-emissions vehices by 2040.
→ Federa ax incenives ha have been exended
or creaed for eecric vehices and EV charging
equipmen, and new funding for vehice fee
acquisiions, under he IRA.
→ NYC’s commimens o expand he ciy’s EV
charging nework, suppor EV adopion of axis
and for-hire vehices, and eecrify schoo buses by
2035, as ouined in PaNYC.
→ NYC’s commimen o increase he ciy’s susain-
abe mode share (rips compeed via waking,
biking, or ransi) o 80 percen by 2050, as ouined
in PaNYC.
→ NYC’s $138 miion invesmen ino severa green
freigh iniiaives incuding ransiioning freigh
voume from rucking o mariime and rai freigh,
eecrifying deivery fees, and pioing eecric
cargo bikes for as-mie deiveries.
→ Widespread consumer adopion of micromobiiy
devices and shared mobiiy sysems.
SUBSECTO 2016 2021 2030 2040 CA
20162021
CA
20212030
CA
20302040
ELECTIC VEHICLES 2,043 4,750 12,667 31,925 18.4% 11.5% 9.7%
MICOMOBILITY 335 935 2,970 4,396 22.8% 13.7% 4.0%
EEN FEIHT AND
LOISTICS 879 1,043 1,778 2,632 3.5% 6.1% 4.0%
TOTAL 3,256 6,728 17,414 38,952 15.6% 11.1% 8.4%
TANSPOTATION
Appendix 111
The green economy’s energy secor is expeced o see
an increase of 16,700 jobs by 2040, accouning for 7
percen of he forecased green economy job growh
over his period. Mos of his increase is expeced o be
driven by ne new job creaion, primariy due o heigh-
ened eves of ne new invesmens in soar, offshore
wind, and baery sorage projecs.
Key facors expeced o drive his growh incude:
→ Increasing energy invesmens by he New York
reen Bank and scaing of federa ax incenives
and federa oans for cean energy projecs
conribuing o achieve carbon neuraiy by 2050.
→ Pubic and privae invesmen in he ciy’s cean
energy ransiion, caayzed by significan Ciy and
Sae poicies and commimens o achieve carbon
neuraiy by 2050, incuding:
NYC’s 1 GW by 2030 soar depoymen arge (as
of 2022, NYC was ess han 45 percen of he way
here),41 suppored by he Pubic Soar program
and NYSERDA’s NY-Sun program.
SUBSECTO 2016 2021 2030 2040 CA
20162021
CA
20212030
CA
20302040
ENEWABLE
ENEY
SOLA 2,719 4,050 6,979 8,898 8.3% 6.2% 2.5%
OFFSHOE WIND – 185 5,129 8,239 – 44.6% 4.9%
ONSHOE WIND 1,411 1,739 1,994 2,058 4.3% 1.5% 0.3%
HYDOPOWE 2,516 2,197 2,406 2,364 -2.7% 1.0% -0.2%
OTHE 1,737 2,733 3,806 4,455 9.5% 3.7% 1.6%
CLEAN FUELS 450 353 391 383 -4.7% 1.1% -0.2%
SMAT ID 57 117 259 430 15.5% 9.2% 5.2%
STOAE 278 357 987 1,610 5.2% 11.9% 5.0%
TOTAL 9,167 11,731 21,950 28,438 5.1% 7.2% 2.6%
C: reen Economy Secor-Leve Esimaes and Drivers
NYSERDA and NYCEDC’s commimen o inves-
ing miions of doars coecivey o spur oshore
wind faciiies.
NYSERDA’s proposed Energy Sorage Roadmap,
caing for 2 GW of baery sorage in NYC by
2030 (o dae, ony 23 MW, or roughy 1 percen of
he arge, has been bui).42
New York Ciy of Yes for Carbon Neuraiy zoning
o faciiae rapid depoymen of soar and ba-
ery sorage sysems.
→ Commimen from uiiies o decarbonize he
energy grid o achieve ne-zero emissions by 2050.
→ Addiiona echnoogica innovaion in oher
secors (such as geoherma and biofues) from
companies, governmen agencies, and academic
insiuions. Exampes incude DEP’s biogas-o-
grid projec a he Newown Creek Wasewaer
Resource Recovery Faciiy and ConEd’s iniiaive
o pio geoherma energy neworks.
ENEY
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The green economy’s resiience infrasrucure secor is
expeced o add 8,800 jobs by 2040, driven by a mix of
job ransiions and ne new job creaion.
Key facors expeced o drive his growh incude:
→ The Ciy’s invesmens in inand adapaion proj-
ecs (e.g., green infrasrucure and sewer sysem
improvemens) o miigae he effecs of exreme
hea and exreme rainfa. Invesmen in inand pro-
ecions are expeced o grow in he coming years,
eading o increased job growh in his secor. For
exampe, he Ciy receny increased invesmen
in he reaivey new Coudburs Program by $400
miion. The program consrucs cusered sorm-
waer managemen projecs in food-prone com-
muniies hroughou he Ciy.
→ The Ciy, Sae, and federa governmens’ sig-
nifican invesmens in coasa adapaion
projecs in NYC, incuding he Lower Manhaan
Coasa Resiiency projec, he Eas Side Coasa
Resiiency projec and he USACE’s New York New
Jersey Harbor and Tribuaries Coasa Sorm Risk
Managemen Feasibiiy Sudy (HATS) pans, which
is esimaed o have a base cos of $52 biion.
SUBSECTO 2016 2021 2030 2040 CA
20162021
CA
20212030
CA
20302040
COASTAL ADAPTATION 10,287 12,067 12,565 13,142 -0.2% 0.4% 0.4%
INLAND ADAPTATION 7,343 10,193 13,312 17,907 10.4% 3.0% 3.0%
TOTAL 17,630 22,261 25,877 31,049 4.8% 1.7% 1.8%
The green economy’s poicy and advocacy secor is
expeced o see an increase of 9,400 jobs by 2040,
driven by a mix of job ransiions and ne new job
creaion.
Key facors expeced o drive his growh incude:
→ Recen cimae egisaion packages ike he
NYS Cimae Ac and he federa governmen’s
IRA, which provide biions of doars in grans,
incenives, and oans, and prioriize invesmen in
disadvanaged communiies, which is expeced o
suppor increased poicy deveopmen, panning,
and advocacy.
→ Increased urgency from governmens and
advocacy groups on cimae change and cimae-
oriened poicy.
SUBSECTO 2016 2021 2030 2040 CA
20162021
CA
20212030
CA
20302040
SUSTAINABILITY POLICY,
PLANNIN, AND ADVOCACY 2,745 2,987 7,640 12,445 1.7% 11.0% 5.0%
RESILIENCE INFASTUCTUE
POLICY & ADVOCACY
Appendix 113
The green economy’s wase secor is expeced o see
an increase of 8,100 jobs by 2040, driven mosy by
job ransiions.
Key facors expeced o drive his growh incude:
→ The Ciy’s commimen o provide recycing
services o a residens, agencies, and insiuions.
→ The Ciy’s commimen o aunch ciywide curbside
organics coecion in 2024.
→ Privae businesses adoping more susainabe
wase managemen sraegies o mee heir
susainabiiy goas.
The green economy’s consumer producs secor is
expeced o see an increase of 8,300 jobs by 2040,
driven by a mix of job ransiions and ne new job
creaion.
Key facors expeced o drive his growh incude:
→ Shifing consumer preferences oward more sus-
ainabe consumer producs, especiay in he
fashion and food indusry, which wi encourage
businesses o design and produce more susain-
abe producs.
→ Ciy and Sae poicies and iniiaives incuding:
The Ciy’s commimen o reduce emissions
from food purchases by 33 percen by 2030, as
announced in Apri 2023.
The Ciy’s invesmens o suppor he bioech
indusry and susainabiiy-focused biomaeria
innovaion and research, as demonsraed by
NYCEDC’s Maerias Innovaion Hub RFEI.
The Sae’s effors o suppor oca anima and
pan fiber growing, processing, and exie man-
ufacuring via he New York Texie Ac.
SUBSECTO 2016 2021 2030 2040 CA
20162021
CA
20212030
CA
20302040
ECYCLIN 3,190 3,185 7,502 11,238 0.0% 10.0% 4.1%
SUBSECTO 2016 2021 2030 2040 CA
20162021
CA
20212030
CA
20302040
SUSTAINABLE FOOD 709 1,316 2,514 3,852 13.2% 7.5% 4.4%
SUSTAINABLE FASHION 4,241 4,432 7,523 10,137 0.9% 6.1% 3.0%
TOTAL 4,950 5,748 10,037 13,989 3.0% 6.4% 3.4%
C: reen Economy Secor-Leve Esimaes and Drivers
WASTE
CONSUMER PRODUCTS
GREEN ECONOMY ACTION PLAN
114
Appendix D:
Focus
Occupaions
Daa
FOCUS OCCUPATION MEDIAN WAE
2023
JOBS
2023
MOST COMMON
EDUCATIONAL
ATTAINMENT 2023
POJECTED
OWTH
20202030
CONSTUCTION, INSTALLATION,
& OPEATIONS
Mainenance and epair Workers $53,322.00 66,590 High schoo dipoma or
equivaen 22.30%
Soar PV Insaers $62,491.00 N/A High schoo dipoma or
equivaen N/A
oofers $58,671.00 950 Less han high schoo
dipoma 13.50%
Consrucion Laborers $59,976.00 15,330 High schoo dipoma or
equivaen 23.20%
aziers $73,635.00 1,070 High schoo dipoma or
equivaen 24.70%
Carpeners $74,374.00 13,460 High schoo dipoma or
equivaen 19.30%
HVAC Mechanics & Insaers $77,778.00 7,280 High schoo dipoma or
equivaen 17.90%
Pumbers $81,189.00 10,380 High schoo dipoma or
equivaen 21.60%
Eecricians $88,374.00 16,920 High schoo dipoma or
equivaen 28.40%
Energy Audiors $83,305.00 N/A High schoo dipoma or
equivaen N/A
Saionary Engineers and Boier
Operaors $103,116.00 2,590 High schoo dipoma or
equivaen 20.40%
Firs Line Supervisors of Consrucion
Trades $105,304.00 10,190 High schoo dipoma or
equivaen 23.10%
Faciiies Managers $130,635.00 3,720 High schoo dipoma or
equivaen 20.80%
JOBS, WAES, AND EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Appendix 115
OCCUPATION WHITE
ALONE
BLACK O
AFICAN
AMEICAN
ALONE
AMEICAN
INDIAN
ALONE
ALASKA
NATIVE
ALONE
AMEICAN INDIAN
AND ALASKA
NATIVE TIBES
SPECIFIED; O
AMEICAN INDIAN
O ALASKA
NATIVE, NOT
SPECIFIED AND
NO OTHE ACES
ASIAN
ALONE
NATIVE
HAWAIIAN
AND
OTHE
PACIFIC
ISLANDE
ALONE
SOME
OTHE
ACE
ALONE
TWO O
MOE
ACES
HISPANIC
O
LATINO
CONSTUCTION, INSTALLATION, & OPEATIONS
Mainenance
and epair
Workers
23.14% 23.73% 0.53% 0.00% 0.19% 9.45% 0.00% 1.74% 3.95% 37.28%
Soar PV
Insaers 37.28% 12.76% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 19.90% 34.69%
oofers 44.94% 18.47% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 5.98% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 30.61%
Consrucion
Laborers 16.35% 14.94% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 12.12% 0.00% 0.98% 1.34% 54.27%
aziers 44.73% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 8.35% 0.00% 0.00% 1.39% 45.53%
Carpeners 25.85% 23.05% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 5.20% 0.00% 1.30% 4.03% 40.57%
HVAC
Mechanics &
Insaers
29.98% 18.52% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 18.83% 0.00% 1.27% 4.64% 26.76%
Pumbers 32.53% 24.96% 0.09% 0.00% 0.06% 7.63% 0.00% 0.82% 2.22% 31.70%
Eecricians 38.61% 21.35% 0.08% 0.19% 0.00% 5.81% 0.00% 1.19% 1.54% 31.22%
Energy
Audiors 24.32% 25.87% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 25.00% 0.00% 0.55% 1.64% 22.63%
ENINEEIN & ACHITECTUE
Archiecs $102,344.00 7,360 Bacheor’s degree 10.20%
Civi Engineers $105,395.00 6,820 Bacheor’s degree 15.50%
Eecrica Engineers $106,068.00 2,650 Bacheor’s degree 10.70%
Mechanica Engineers $105,248.00 1,760 Bacheor’s degree 10.60%
BUSINESS / FINANCE
Susainabiiy Speciaiss $87,981.00 N/A Bacheor’s degree N/A
Projec Managemen Speciaiss $114,718.00 34,630 Bacheor’s degree 24.90%
MANAEMENT
Consrucion Managers $157,596.00 3,190 Bacheor’s degree 18.80%
enera and Operaions Managers $143,786.00 101,140 Bacheor’s degree 27.60%
ACE AND ETHNICITY 2021
Source: NYS DOL, Lighcas
D: Focus Occupaions Daa
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116
OCCUPATION WHITE
ALONE
BLACK O
AFICAN
AMEICAN
ALONE
AMEICAN
INDIAN
ALONE
ALASKA
NATIVE
ALONE
AMEICAN
INDIAN AND
ALASKA
NATIVE TIBES
SPECIFIED; O
AMEICAN
INDIAN O
ALASKA
NATIVE, NOT
SPECIFIED AND
NO OTHE
ACES
ASIAN
ALONE
NATIVE
HAWAIIAN
AND
OTHE
PACIFIC
ISLANDE
ALONE
SOME
OTHE
ACE
ALONE
TWO O
MOE
ACES
HISPANIC
O
LATINO
Saionary
Engineers
and Boier
Operaors
54.82% 7.93% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 8.57% 0.00% 2.86% 1.58% 24.25%
Firs Line
Supervisors of
Consrucion
Trades
38.26% 15.83% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 9.98% 0.00% 1.38% 2.19% 32.36%
Faciiies
Managers 33.84% 16.74% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 8.11% 0.60% 0.00% 3.96% 36.75%
ENINEEIN & ACHITECTUE
Archiecs 58.95% 4.29% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 17.87% 0.00% 0.29% 3.21% 15.38%
Civi Engineers 45.76% 12.81% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 21.68% 0.00% 0.42% 3.02% 16.31%
Eecrica
Engineers 45.24% 18.61% 1.45% 0.00% 0.00% 13.61% 0.00% 0.26% 1.25% 19.58%
Mechanica
Engineers 37.14% 8.95% 1.16% 0.00% 0.00% 16.81% 0.00% 3.28% 10.74% 21.92%
BUSINESS / FINANCE
Susainabiiy
Speciaiss 46.77% 13.26% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 20.63% 0.00% 0.94% 4.67% 13.73%
Projec
Managemen
Speciaiss
55.13% 8.93% 0.29% 0.00% 0.00% 17.38% 0.00% 0.82% 2.32% 15.13%
MANAEMENT
Consrucion
Managers 46.26% 10.60% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 17.15% 0.00% 0.69% 1.36% 23.94%
enera and
Operaions
Managers
46.66% 15.63% 0.19% 0.00% 0.00% 12.00% 0.00% 0.43% 2.85% 22.24%
A NYC
Occupaions 34.61% 20.08% 0.10% 0.00% 0.06% 14.69% 0.03% 0.94% 2.62% 26.87%
Source: US Census Bureau American Communiy Survey
Appendix 117
Source: US Census Bureau American Communiy Survey
ENDE 2021
FOCUS OCCUPATION MALE FEMALE
CONSTUCTION, INSTALLATION, & OPEATIONS
Mainenance and epair Workers 94.56% 5.44%
Soar PV Insaers 100.00% 0.00%
oofers 100.00% 0.00%
Consrucion Laborers 96.37% 3.63%
aziers 93.64% 6.36%
Carpeners 97.87% 2.13%
HVAC Mechanics & Insaers 95.60% 4.40%
Pumbers 98.43% 1.57%
Eecricians 97.79% 2.21%
Energy Audiors 79.88% 20.12%
Saionary Engineers and Boier Operaors 99.46% 0.54%
Firs Line Supervisors of Consrucion Trades 95.06% 4.94%
Faciiies Managers 76.39% 23.61%
ENINEEIN & ACHITECTUE
Archiecs 60.80% 39.20%
Civi Engineers 77.23% 22.77%
Eecrica Engineers 84.97% 15.03%
Mechanica Engineers 92.74% 7.26%
BUSINESS / FINANCE
Susainabiiy Speciaiss 48.68% 51.32%
Projec Managemen Speciaiss 46.77% 53.23%
MANAEMENT
Consrucion Managers 84.08% 15.92%
enera and Operaions Managers 54.46% 45.54%
A NYC Occupaions 50.14% 49.86%
D: Focus Occupaions Daa
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Appendix E:
Acknowedgemens
INTEVIEWEES AND POFILES
We woud ike o hank he many
individuas from he foowing
organizaions for heir exper
opinions and insighs everaged in
his repor.
32BJ Training Fund
Aernaive Susainabiiy
AMF Eecrica Conracors
Amogy
Arcadis
Associaion of Conracing
Pumbers of he Ciy of New York
BK ROT
Brigh Power
Brighcore
Brookyn range
Brookyn Soarworks
Brookyn Workforce Innovaions
Buiding Energy Exchange
CALSTART
Casrads
Cener for an Urban Fuure
Con Edison
Conservaion Labs
Consorium for Worker Educaion
Corne Universiy, Cimae Jobs
Insiue
CUNY Buiding Performance Lab
CUNY Cenra
CUNY Ciy Tech Division of
Coninuing Educaion
CUNY Offshore Wind Nework
Cusom Coaboraive
Ecogy Energy
EcoSave Inc
EecricFish
Enduran
Eneriv
Equinor US
FABSCRAP
Fresh Meadow Mechanica Corp.
ibane
radien
reen Ciy Force
Haydan Consuans
Hines
Huner Robers Consrucion
roup
IBEW Loca Union No. 3
Apprenice Program of he
Eecrica Indusry
Indigo River
iseecric
IUOE Loca 94—Inernaiona
Union of Operaing Engineers
JP Morgan Chase Foundaion
Kevaa Anayics
Lab Farm Foods
Loca 638 union
Massachuses Cean Energy
Cener
Microrid Neworks
Midea
Naiona Offshore Wind Research
& Deveopmen Consorium
Newab
Neweaf
NineDo
Nonradiiona Empoymen for
Women
NSU Waer
NY reen Bank
NYC Energy Efficiency
Corporaion
NYSERDA
Offshore Wind Consuans
Offshore Wind Innovaion Hub
PowerFex
PowerMarke
Renewabe Resource roup
Re-Nube
Reve
ReWire
Seaed
Skanska
SoarOne
Soage
Spencer Ogden
Square Roos
Sacks & Joues
Seven Winer Associaes, Inc.
Sreeife Venures
Sunkeeper Soar
The HOPE Program
UA Pumbers Loca 1
UA Pumbers Loca 1 Pumbers
and as-Fiers Training Cener
Union Square Venures
Urban Eecric Power
Urban Fuure Lab
Urban reen Counci
Wa Sree reen Summi
Workforce Deveopmen Insiue
Appendix 119
CONTIBUTOS
The reen Economy Acion
Pan refecs he hard work,
creaiviy, and dedicaion
of many individuas from
NYCEDC and NYC Taen,
and many Ciy agencies, who
conribued heir ime, energy,
and knowedge of he ciy o hep
shape he anaysis and poicy
recommendaions in his pan.
The success of his effor woud
no have been possibe wihou
heir invovemen and care.
We woud especiay ike o hank:
Ciy Leadership
Andrew Kimba, Presiden & CEO,
NYCEDC
Abby Jo Siga, Execuive Direcor,
Mayor’s Office of Taen &
Workforce Deveopmen
Ceciia Kushner, Chief Sraegy
Officer, NYCEDC
NYC Office of he Mayor
Aaron Charop-Powers
Ciy Drafing Team
NYCEDC:
Nse Esema
Saome vinianidze
Jamie oinkoff
Dion Kadish
Hayoung Kim
Benjamin Mier
E: Acknowedgemens
Isha Pae
Nicoe Spina
Mayor’s Office of Taen &
Workforce Deveopmen:
Tim Currier
Nei Padukone
Projec Saff
NYCEDC:
Dedra Baiey
Jonahan Berk
Chrisopher Carey
Wiis Chen
Sander Doder
Meinda arre
Lia Krawczyk
Jonahan Lane
Arhur Li
Kye Marks
Jana Pohoresky
Meissa Pumphrey
Chesea Sudaey
Berrand Teirinck
Yu Zhong
Mayor’s Office of Taen &
Workforce Deveopmen:
Ryan Cage
Mahew Waker
Agencies
Brookyn Navy Yard Deveopmen
Corporaion
Ciy Universiy of New York
Mayor’s Office of Cimae &
Environmena Jusice
Mayor’s Office of Food Poicy
NYC Deparmen of Ciywide
Adminisraive Services
NYC Deparmen of Ciy Panning
NYC Deparmen of Saniaion
NYC Deparmen of Transporaion
NYC Deparmen of Youh &
Communiy Deveopmen
NYC Housing Auhoriy
NYC Sma Business Services
NYC Pubic Schoos
NYS Energy Research &
Deveopmen Auhoriy
Trus for overnors Isand
Consuan Team
Buro Happod
Urbane
Pubic Works Parners
Nowhere Office
Advisors
Backhorn Venures
Urban reen Counci
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