The Guarini Center advances innovative energy and environmental policies for a sustainable economy. Drawing upon our faculty and fellows’ diverse areas of expertise, we tackle issues at the municipal, state, national, and global level.

Events

Sep. 24, 2020 – Decarbonizing the Downstate Grid: A Look at Transformational Clean Energy Projects

Sep. 15, 2020 – Carbon Trading for Buildings? Insights from the German Emissions Trading Program

Jun. 22, 2020 – Electrifying Buses in New York City: Insights from Québec

Jun 2, 2020 – NYU on NYC: The Future of Our City After COVID

Feb. 3, 2020 – Getting to Net Zero? Evaluating Pathways Towards New York State’s Climate Goals

News and Updates

April 2019 - Crain’s New York Business: Let Buildings Trade to Meet Carbon Mandate

April 2019 - Daily News: Only Half the Bag Solution

September 2018 - NYT: Law That Saved the Bald Eagle Could Be Vastly Reworked

July 2018 - Crain’s: Greening the City from the Top Down

April 2018 - Call for Papers: Guarini/Copenhagen Workshop on Ocean Governance

Publications

April 2020 - The Urban Environmental Renaissance

March 2020 - Impact of mandatory energy audits on building energy use

March 2020 - Closing the high seas to fishing: A club approach

February 2020 - Reforming CEQR: Improving Mitigation Under the City Environmental Quality Review Process

September 2019 - Cities as Global Environmental Actors: The Case of Marine Plastics