NY Renews is leading the fight to implement New York’s landmark Climate Justice Law. After winning our landmark Climate Law (CLCPA) and the state Climate Action Fund, we’re currently organizing our Fund Climate Campaign to ensure our Climate Law is fully funded and that investment serves our communities, not corporate interests.
In 2025, New York State will begin collecting dedicated climate funding through the state cap-trade-and-invest program. If implemented, our Fund Climate Campaign would ensure this new climate funding goes where it matters most: to community-led solutions that increase affordability, decrease pollution, and make right on decades of environmental injustice.
Our Fund Climate Campaign centers on two transformative programs:
1. Affordable Climate Ready Homes Program: A statewide program that will focus on building decarbonization for low and moderate income households, to increase energyaffordability and provide home repairs for those who need it most. This includes upgrades such as free heat pumps, free insulation, renewable energy installations, and repairs including asbestos, mold and other hazard remediation.
2. The Community-Directed Grant Program: This program would provide grants to community-based organizations in disadvantaged communities to design and implement community-led pollution reduction projects. Right now, the State has no structured support for communities to develop community-led plans or projects. This program would change that, democratizing how projects are designed and funded.
Cap-trade-and-invest funding will flow through our hard-fought Climate Action Fund, ensuring democratic oversight.
NY Renews is also advocating that all projects and programs funded through the Climate Action Fund meet our Fund Climate spending criteria. Every dollar must meet strict criteria: creating good jobs with gold star labor standards, cutting emissions while improving public health, and directing at least 35% of investments to disadvantaged communities.
Together, we'll ensure NY funds climate!
Read more about NY Renews’ Fund Climate Campaign Here.
