You’ve been discussing many important issues such as jobs, economic justice, education, and healthcare. But we’ve heard little from you on another critical issue: climate change. The Bloomberg administration has made climate change a high profile issue and has scored significant policy achievements. What will you do?

Reversing Climate Change and its effects is a top priority for members of the Organizing for Action NYC Climate Team and many other New Yorkers. That’s why we want each of you (meaning mayoral candidates in both parties) to spell out your climate change action plans in detail and tell us how you will ensure that New York City will be a world leader on the issue of climate change.

Urban areas are the most vulnerable to the worst effects of climate change and, at the same time, are the innovation hubs that will generate the technologies and policies that will solve climate change. If you are the next mayor of New York City, it is imperative that you build upon President Obama’s efforts to reduce carbon pollution, deal with aspects of climate change that can’t be reversed (mitigation/resiliency), and lead global efforts to address climate c