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NYU has made great progress in a push to reduce lighting, heating and other carbon footprint components that has lead to a 37 tons of CO2 saved. The cool food pledge program participation has led to a decline in gas emissions from food purchases by around 8.3% in just one year. NYU aims to be cutting emissions by 25% by 2030. All the efforts from NYU has been recognized by the new York state and awarded the university a 2 Million dollar grant to the renovation of the Rubin Hall, A model of sustainability due to 50% energy saving during the renovation. The new 304 solar panels which will be operational has a capacity of 110KW, enough to power 50 NYC homes.

New York City is undertaking major steps in order to create a sustainable future for the future generation. Both the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and the state’s Department of Health have been working together to institutionalize and update policies aimed at protecting the state’s largest freshwater sources. They signed a comprehensive watershed management plan includes mitigating flooding in watershed communities, stabilising eroding stream banks, and upholding agricultural best-management practices in watershed farms. In short, the city is working with the federal government to promote long-term freshwater sustainability. New York is right next to Washington, D.C. in terms of having the lowest carbon emissions per person in any US state. This is according to a Live Science report, which explains that the residents of New York who make up 6% of the American population only consume 1% of the entire nation’s industrial power – and emit less than 3% of the nation’s greenhouse gases