NYC Council · Int 0548-2024 · Filed (End of Session)

Carbon accounting

Introduced

Moved

Reached a final decision

Introduced Mar 7, 2024

Official status: Filed (End of Session)

Derived from the official record below.

Officially: “A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to carbon accounting” Read the full text

Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts

What it does

This local law mandates that preliminary budget accounting and executive budget accounting include an accounting of the carbon emissions, carbon offsets, carbon mitigation and net carbon impact that would be generated by each unit of appropriation in the preliminary budget, by each agency, and by the entire city government and include, where appropriate, the changes from the adopted budget for previous year to the carbon emissions, carbon offsets, carbon mitigation and net carbon impact that would be generated by each unit of appropriation in the preliminary budget, by each agency, and by the entire city government with an explanation of the cause of such changes.

Summary written by City Council staff, from the official record. Plain-language AI rewrite with cited sections coming. Not legal advice.