The BPC Sustainability Plan builds on Battery Park City’s robust environmental legacy with a refreshed commitment to take and facilitate bold and effective action to enhance sustainability and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Broad stakeholder engagement and creative partnerships will be necessary to achieve our goals. We will work together with diverse user groups in the community to realize these efforts across various scales—from individual action, to actions at a single building level, to actions taking place in the neighborhood at-large. Looking beyond our neighborhood, we seek to inspire, collaborate with, and offer guidance to other urban communities, whether new or well-established, to take resolute action on environmental sustainability.

The Battery Park City Sustainability Plan is a comprehensive plan to achieve progressive sustainability targets over the next decade, and lays the groundwork for continued sustainability action after 2030. Developed in consultation with a broad range of residential, local, and governmental stakeholders, the Plan provides the framework for developing and implementing a carbon neutral Battery Park City by the middle of the century, in keeping with the mandate set forth in the New York State’s 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The BPC Sustainability Plan is centered on four Topic Areas: Energy, Water, Materials and Waste, and Site.

The Sustainability Implementation Plan outlines the policies, programs, partnerships, tools, and funding mechanisms that are available, or can be created, to assist in transforming the Sustainability Plan into a reality.

The BPC Climate Action Plan (CAP) calculates current greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the neighborhood, as well as projections of how those emissions would change year-by-year through 2050. The CAP provides a detailed roadmap of GHG emissions reduction strategies in the energy, transportation, and waste sectors to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

We envision a Battery Park City that will serve as an innovative model for urban climate action, where all of us who live, work, and spend time here mobilize to create a sustainable future.

–BPC Sustainability Plan Vision Statement

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