NYC Council Introduction 548

intro.nyc/0548-2024 2024-2025 Legislative Session
Carbon accounting
Status: Committee Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
Sponsored by Justin L. Brannan
Introduced: March 7, 2024

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.