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October 30, 2020

Dear Financial Institution

New York's banking regulator, DFS, sends a letter to the state's financial institutions to "commence a dialogue as to how DFS can best support our Regulated Organizations' efforts to manage the financial risks from climate change."

October 29, 2020

If You Think...

...knowing about flood insurance is a bore, you'd be wrong in this era of rising climate risk

Hudson Tubes v Hudson Gateway

Which major rail project most merits federal funding? If Democrats win the 2020 election, here's the Daily News choice

Needed: Trains To Planes

Looking ahead to the day when airline travel becomes normal again, NY-NJ Port Authority, with federal assistance, should create the LaGuardia AirTrain

Singapore: Going Very Green

From a climate POV, cities everywhere have a lot to learn from Singapore's new Tengah

Signs of the Times

COVID masking and brand new building energy efficient ratings inform everyone at the front door

October 27, 2020

How To Pluck Out America's Eyes

Sandbag Those Inconvenient Truths

Trump's Department of Energy buries dozens of its own clean energy studies

Test, Learn, Repeat

NY's building energy retrofit program has lessons learned by doing for getting affordable, multi-family buildings into tip-top, climate-friendly shape

October 23, 2020

The Sounds Of Lockdown

Hear a different urban soundscape, sometimes lovely, sometimes neutral, sometimes dreadful

EU: Stop Subsidizing Fossil Fuels

The EU wants its member states to stop subsidizing fossil fuels, still totaling billion of euros annually

Better Ways To Measure Urban Climate Footprints

To measure is to manage, an adage taken onboard by scientific improvements in measuring the size of cities' carbon footprints