The mayor will introduce a "retrofit accelerator" — a free one-stop shop for private landlords to help them refurbish buildings for energy efficiency, clean energy and water conservation. De Blasio's stated goal is to cut building emissions by about one million metric tons through retrofits in roughly 1,000 buildings a year by 2025. If successful, the city says, the reductions will be the equivalent of taking 200,000 cars off the road and will save building owners $350 million a year in utility costs.
"Business as usual simply won't do when our very survival is at stake," de Blasio said in a statement provided to POLITICO New York. "We're ensuring that building owners have the tools they need to go green through the NYC Retrofit Accelerator."
In conjunction with the accelerator, de Blasio will announce an expansion of the city's carbon challenge, which commits building owners to cutting emissions by 30 percent within the next ten years. Roughly 700 multi-family buildings will join 40 institutions in pledging to a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions over the next ten years.
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