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CRE Can Help Solve Climate Change

NEW YORK CITY-A new study enumerates the many ways the city's office buildings can help fight climate change.

By Rayna Katz | Updated on February 15, 2013

NEW YORK CITY-On the heels of President Obama’s state of the union address—in which he issued a call-to-action to cut energy waste from homes and businesses in half over the next 20 years—a new study points up the major role NYC’s CRE industry can have in this effort. The country’s largest city can feasibly reduce its carbon emissions 90 percent by 2050, according to the study, released Thursday by the Urban Green Council, the New York Chapter of the US Green Building Council.

Issued in the wake of Superstorm Sandy and other unprecedented weather events that re-focused attention on building preparedness, the timely study, called 90 By 50, finds that by updating and streamlining the city’s buildings and infrastructure, New York City can meet that goal and even exceed it. That’s because the changes would reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions to the low levels identified by scientists as necessary to contain climate change.

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