New York City Office of the Utility Consumer Advocate

The Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice (MOCEJ) works to protect New Yorkers from the threats of climate change and extreme weather by creating and advancing policies, programs, and projects that secure the city, while making our critical infrastructure cleaner and more reliable. We strengthen our defenses, tackle the sources of pollution, and provide resources to all New Yorkers so that our businesses, families, and communities can thrive in healthy and safe neighborhoods. **Our Work includes:** - **Prioritizing City resources and action in low-income and communities of color** most vulnerable to climate change so they reap the benefits of a climate-adapted future, which includes augmenting social service programs and community partnerships. - **Addressing racial and social inequities in health outcomes resulting from our environment**, including ensuring clean air and water, mitigating extreme heat impacts, increasing access to and quality of open spaces, and expanding sustainable transportation options. - **Reimagining how we invest in and use land** to create housing safe from flooding, find space for renewable energy and composting, produce food while educating New Yorkers about agriculture and healthy eating, and return contaminated property to productive use. - **Retrofitting buildings that serve New Yorkers**—our homes, community spaces, and service centers—to be energy-efficient, healthy, and safe from flooding and high heat, and lead by example in applying state-of-the-art green building and adapted design requirements to new construction. - **Adapting and augmenting our transportation systems**, rights of way, and open space to reduce emissions, keep New Yorkers safer from urban heat, and improve quality of life. - **Prioritizing an equitable shift to renewable energy**, including rooftop solar energy generation, utility-scale renewables, and building- and grid-scale energy resiliency and storage. - **Transforming how the City manages food waste, wastewater, and construction and demolition debris** to improve conditions in our neighborhoods, create circular economies, and reduce emissions and material sent to landfills and incinerators. - **Communicating with, educating, and learning from New Yorkers** to ensure all City projects and programs advance our climate and environmental justice goals.