The New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) was convened by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in August 2008 as part of PlaNYC[1] and codified into law in 2012 by New York City Local Law 42.
[2][3] The NPCC reports have also included chapters on coastal flooding, public health, energy insecurity, and equity, among other topics.
[4][5][6] Many leading Earth scientists from the region and researchers from Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) were part of the panel's work since its beginning.
[7] Among them Cynthia Rosenzweig, who helped pioneer the study of climate change and agriculture,[8] who was a co-chair for the first iteration of the panel along with William Solecki, founding director of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities.
[9][10] Additionally, legal, insurance, and risk management experts are part of the NPCC.