Speaker Menin highlights Climate Week and environmental initiatives
Speaker Julie Menin discusses the Council's Climate Week celebration, water quality testing law, and the Generative Canopy Project to map trees and address extreme heat in Hunts Point, East New York, Corona, and Elmhurst.
We will now have communication from Speaker Julie Minnin.
Good afternoon, everyone.
On Tuesday, the council hosted a Climate Week celebration, and that was just one of a thousand events held in this city where more than 100,000 people
from around the world came together to advance solutions for a more sustainable and safer future.
As activists sound alarms of despair, it's up to us as government officials to respond with action and play a leading part in the fight against climate change.
Back in April, the City Council passed a law to increase water quality testing and created an advisory board to develop a wildlife...
management plan.
And in this year's budget, we allocated funding to support Cornell Tech and launch the Generative Canopy
Project, investing a quarter of a million dollars to protect New Yorkers from extreme heat and bring environmental justice to the streets that we walk on.
In particular, this project is going to focus on three regions that will, and the first ones are Hunts Point and Longwood and Councilmember Sanchez's district, East New York and parts of Councilmember Banks and Nurses districts,
Corona and Elmhurst in parts of Councilmember Thomas Henry, Krishnan's, and Wong's districts.
The initiative is going to map the location of each tree in the five boroughs as well as the cooling effect that they have, which will inform where it's most effective to plant trees.
And these efforts serve as just one example of the many ways that we are working on building a safer and healthier city.