The Department of City Planning, in cooperation with the Mayor’s Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability, will undertake several activities as part of a citywide strategic planning process for building climate resilience. This process will include outreach to a range of stakeholders, efforts to assess the risks, costs, and potential solutions for building climate resilience; and will outline an ongoing, dynamic, risk-based planning process that can take advantage of new information and projections as they become available. The study will also explore in greater detail a range of best practice adaptation strategies that have potential for implementation throughout the region to reduce climate risks to populations and property, including within New York City as well as in coastal areas of Connecticut and Long Island that are vulnerable to sea level rise and storm surge.

The effort will build on the City’s achievements to date in increasing climate resilience, including those of the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), a panel of climate scientists, academics, and private sector practitioners convened by the City, which has developed a set of climate change projections that have been adopted by New York City and New York State, and the New York City Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, a committee of public and private entities that own and operate key infrastructure systems tasked to assess risks and identify adaptive strategies for critical infrastructure.