NYC Mayor Adams reveals plan to take on climate change. Here are 3 takeaways.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City has a new sustainability agenda.

Mayor Eric Adams and his administration late last month unveiled PlaNYC, an ambitious 92-page report outlining a range of initiatives designed to encounter the threat posed by extreme weather, adjust the city’s energy portfolio and bolster its green energy workforce.

“New York City has already taken major steps to become more sustainable, resilient, and equitable, including breaking ground on the Lower East Side Resiliency Project, passing Local Law 97 to reduce building emissions, and rapidly electrifying our city’s fleet, which is already the greenest in the nation,” said Adams. “But we are just getting started.”

The mayor’s plan, with a moniker of “Getting Sustainability Done,” aims to protect against two major forms of extreme weather worsened by climate change — flooding and extreme heat — while removing pollutants from the air and meeting the need for burgeoning clean energy industries.

Here are three takeaways from the plan:

PLANNING FOR FUTURE IS A NECESSITY

Climate change has disrupted the way governments plan for the future.

A step taken today requires a thought of how climate change will affect decisions in the coming years and decades.

To take climate into account, the city Office of Management and Budget’s newly established Environmental Sustainability & Resiliency Task Force will help guide the city’s hand, in conjunction with the Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice, as it considers sustainability investments.

“While the costs of preparing for and responding to climate change are significant, the cost of inaction is far greater,” reads the PlaNYC report. “Climate change poses risks to our health, safety, housing, environment, and economy, and has a disproportionate impact on communities that are already vulnerable.”

In practice, it means the city will post regular updates in an…