NYU URBAN LAB
Schack Institute of Real Estate
The long-term alteration of temperature and typical weather patterns in a place.
Transportation, Decarbonization, & Urban Environmental Change: Evidence from Traffic, Air Pollution, and Heat Trends in New York City, 2010-2024 (pdf) 4.82 MB
2024 ULI Resilience Summit – Exhibit (pdf) 13.35 MB
December 29, 2025
COP30 and Emerging Global Trends in Resilient Infrastructure, Renewable Energy, and Climate Finance
November 19, 2025
Brazil’s Lula Makes Diplomatic Push for Early Climate Deal at COP30 Summit
November 12, 2025
China’s Green Triumph
November 11, 2025
LA Will Double its Wastewater Recycling Capacity to Serve Half a Million Residents
November 10, 2025
China is Building the World’s First Underwater, Wind-Fueled Data Center
November 09, 2025
It’s Getting Harder to Figure Out Whether You Live in a Flood Zone or Not
After Jamaica’s Disastrous Storm, Solar Power Is a Bright Spot
November 04, 2025
Global Methane Hub Announces $10 Million Investment to Accelerate Methane Reduction in Latin American and Caribbean Cities
October 31, 2025
Cities in Amazonia: Unlocking Prosperity and Protecting Ecosystems
October 22, 2025
How China Raced Ahead of the U.S. on Nuclear Power
October 21, 2025
Green Bank’s New Resilience Financing Tool in Suburban Maryland
October 20, 2025
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
From Liability to Asset: How Water Reuse Is Transforming Property Economics
October 14, 2025
Announcing the Fifth Cohort of the ULI Net Zero Imperative—Eight Cities Tackling Building Decarbonization
October 10, 2025
New Florida Law Bars Communities From Planning for Climate, Disaster Resilience
October 09, 2025
LA is Finally Tackling its Concrete Problem
Bloomberg Philanthropies Names 26 Cities as Finalists for the 2025 Local Leaders Awards
October 08, 2025
How Voluntary Carbon Markets Can Reshape Real Estate’s Sustainability Playbook
September 30, 2025
‘Fish-Friendly’ Washington Development Blends Affordability and Sustainability
September 24, 2025
Lexington’s Housing Boom Proves Green Building Policies Don’t Slow Development
September 23, 2025
IDB Group Launches Reinvest+: Going Where the Money Is to Unlock Private Climate Finance
September 22, 2025
Judge Says Work on Wind Farm Off Rhode Island Can Proceed, for Now
Proposed Gas Pipeline Tests New York’s Allegiance to Green Energy
California’s Key Environmental Law Is Blocking Its Path to Carbon Neutrality
September 16, 2025
AI Is Going to Consume a Lot of Energy. It Can Also Help Us Consume Less
September 11, 2025
Rating Agencies Give $991 Million in MTA Green Bonds High Marks
September 10, 2025
Lima Presents Historic Advances in Sustainable Mobility and Air Quality With International Support
September 09, 2025
Charger Data Transparency: Curing Range Anxiety, Powering EV Adoption
Multilateral Development Banks Hit Record $137 Billion in Climate Financing to Drive Sustainable Development Worldwide
September 02, 2025
Hochul Urges Trump to Back Offshore Wind, Protect Clean Energy Job Boom
August 29, 2025
The Future of Trash Pickup, From Self-Driving Bins to AI-Powered Sorting
August 26, 2025
To Boost Housing, Chicago Kills Parking Minimums
August 21, 2025
The Fix for Solar Power Blackouts Is Already Here
August 07, 2025
How Climate Change Could Spread Malaria
August 05, 2025
Leveraging Adaptive Building Forms to Enhance Operational Efficiency in Selected Four-Star Hotels in Lagos, Nigeria
July 29, 2025
Climate Regulation Liberation Day
July 26, 2025
Opinion | Is Decarbonization Dead?
July 24, 2025
The World Court Joins the Fight Over Climate Change
July 11, 2025
Does Brooklyn Need a New Waterfront Neighborhood?
April 21, 2024
WSJ: Underground Thermal Energy Networks May Be About to Have Their Moment
April 20, 2024
WSJ: Planes, Trains and Buses: What Gets Electrified Next?
April 19, 2024
Crain’s: Brooklyn Navy Yard seeks new ideas for empty manufacturing space
NYT: Scotland Made Big Climate Pledges. Now They’re ‘Out of Reach.’
WSJ: Bezos Earth Fund Commits to Continue Financing Climate Targets Group
WSJ: The Push to Store Renewable Energy in Massive Salt Caverns
April 18, 2024
Crain’s: New York’s first electric skyscraper promises luxury with lower emissions
NYT: Drought Pushes Millions Into ‘Acute Hunger’ in Southern Africa
NYT: The Missing $1 Trillion
NYT: Hot Oceans Worsened Dubai’s Dramatic Flooding, Scientists Say
April 17, 2024
WSJ: How to Make Climate Progress: Tie It to CEO Pay
April 16, 2024
WSJ: Are Battery-Powered Home Appliances in Our Future?
April 15, 2024
NYT: Al Gore Thinks Trump Will Lose and Climate Activists Will Triumph
NYT: The Widest-Ever Global Coral Crisis Will Hit Within Weeks, Scientists Say
April 09, 2024
NYT: In Landmark Climate Ruling, European Court Faults Switzerland
April 05, 2024
NYT: New Report Reveals N.Y.C. Areas Most Hurt by Environmental Inequities
April 04, 2024
NYT: Can We Engineer Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?
April 02, 2024
NYT: Warming Is Getting Worse. So They Just Tested a Way to Deflect the Sun.
April 01, 2024
NYT: The New Climate Tech
March 17, 2024
NYT: The Best Way to Find Out if We Can Cool the Planet
March 16, 2024
NYT: In Paris, the Olympics Clean Up Their Act
March 15, 2024
NYT: Court Temporarily Halts S.E.C.’s New Climate Rules
March 14, 2024
NYT: A New Surge in Power Use Is Threatening U.S. Climate Goals
NYT: U.S. Approves $500 Million for Bahrain Oil Project, Despite Opposition
March 13, 2024
NYT: Brazil’s Clashing Goals: Protect the Amazon and Pump Lots More Oil
NYT: Oil Fields Release Far More Methane Than Thought, Study Finds
March 12, 2024
NYT: A Pop Star’s Wonky Climate Campaign
March 08, 2024
NYT: Biden Vows to ‘Save the Planet From the Climate Crisis’
March 07, 2024
NYT: Biden Makes the Case on Climate
March 06, 2024
NYT: Weirdly Warm Winter Has Climate Fingerprints All Over It, Study Says
NYT: S.E.C. Approves New Climate Rules Far Weaker Than Originally Proposed
NYT: John Kerry: ‘I Feel Deeply Frustrated’
March 05, 2024
NYT: Global Warming Is Particularly Bad for Women-Led Families, Study Says
NYT: How a Climate Rule Got Watered Down
March 04, 2024
WSJ: Forest Investors Debate What to Do With All Their Trees: Time or Carbon Credits?
February 26, 2024
WSJ: Companies Say Push to Decarbonize Comes From Their Own Boards
February 22, 2024
NYT: Disasters Forced 2.5 Million Americans From Their Homes Last Year
February 21, 2024
WSJ: U.S. Renewable Power Growth is Setting New Records on the Back of Federal Support
February 14, 2024
WSJ: Climate Change Has Hit Home Insurance. Is Health Insurance Next?
February 11, 2024
NYT: The Planet Needs Solar Power. Can We Build It Without Harming Nature?
February 09, 2024
NYT: Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis?
February 08, 2024
NYT: Iceland Is Living in our Future
NYT: Have We Crossed a Dangerous Warming Threshold? Here’s What to Know.
NYT: Why the Cost of Biden’s Climate Law Keeps Going Up
February 07, 2024
NYT: 2024 Begins With More Record Heat Worldwide
February 06, 2024
NYT: Making Farming More Climate-Friendly Is Hard. Just Ask Europe’s Politicians.
NYT: In Los Angeles, a Growing Sense That ‘Historic’ Weather Is Becoming Normal
February 05, 2024
NYT: Six Spongy Sea Creatures Suggest Warming Might Be Worse Than Thought.
NYT: The Fingerprints on Chile’s Fires and California Floods: El Niño and Warming
January 26, 2024
NYT: Biden Administration Faces Pushback on Another Gas Project, This Time Overseas
January 25, 2024
The Economist: Could AI transform life in developing countries?
Crain’s: What to know about New York’s nascent offshore wind industry
Crain’s: New York eyes joining with nearby states to regionally plan offshore wind projects
Crain’s: New York’s offshore wind industry faces a financial reckoning
January 24, 2024
WSJ: Some Private-Equity Firms Stick With Natural Gas Despite Climate Concerns
WSJ: Global Emissions From Electricity Set to Fall Even as Power Demand Climbs, IEA Predicts
January 23, 2024
The Economist: Can scientists save your morning cup of coffee?
NYT: ‘We’re All Climate Economists Now’
NYT: To Slash Carbon Emissions, Colleges Are Digging Really Deep
Crain’s: Con Edison advances $1.2B Queens energy project at ratepayers’ expense
January 22, 2024
WSJ: Exxon Sues Two ESG Investors
NYT: Reading, Writing, Math … and Climate Change?
January 11, 2024
NYT: Climate Change Is Driving a Sharp Drop in Snow Levels, Study Finds
NYT: Drought Touches a Quarter of Humanity, U.N. Says, Disrupting Lives Globally
NYT: Tackling Climate Change in the Birthplace of Oil
January 09, 2024
NYT: A New Era in Global Heat
January 04, 2024
NYT: In Europe, Trains Are Full, and More Are on the Way
December 31, 2023
WSJ: Volkswagen’s Elusive Quest to Make an EV for the Masses
December 30, 2023
NYT: Electrify All the Big, Noisy, Belching Trucks
December 29, 2023
NYT: Climate Museum Pops Up in SoHo, Capital of Buying Stuff
December 28, 2023
WSJ: A Fracker Tries to Produce ‘Guilt-Free’ Gas
December 27, 2023
WSJ: Can America Reach Its Clean Energy Goals? Here’s Where It Stands
December 26, 2023
NYT: A Record-Breaking Warm, Snowless Winter Confounds Midwesterners
December 25, 2023
WSJ: Florida Developers Head West With $1 Billion Ski-Town Project
December 24, 2023
NYT: Will You Have a White Christmas This Year? Probably not.
December 22, 2023
WSJ: Storm Brings Flooding Rains in Southern California, Threatens Arizona
December 20, 2023
WSJ: What Sustainability Executives Are Saying About COP28
December 19, 2023
NYT: Power Outages and Flooding Afflict New England After Storm
December 18, 2023
NYT: East Coast Storm – Heavy Winds and Rain Push Through New England
NYT: The storm brought flooding and high tides to South Carolina on Sunday.
WSJ: Mount Everest is in Trouble
WSJ: Biden Pushes Strict Climate-Subsidy Rules Despite Energy Producers’ Warnings
WSJ: Australia Floods: Planes Submerged, Crocodile Seen In Middle of Town
December 17, 2023
WSJ: A Shale Oil CEO’s Second Act: Going Green
December 09, 2023
NYT: Tiny Electric Vehicles Pack a Bigger Climate Punch Than Cars
December 08, 2023
NYT: How Much Can Forests Fight Climate Change? A Sensor in Space Has Answers.
NYT: In Dubai, a ‘Good Vibes Only’ Approach to Climate Change
December 07, 2023
NYT: What Does ‘Unabated’ Mean, Anyway?
December 06, 2023
NYT: U.S. Supports ‘Largely’ Phasing Out Fossil Fuels, John Kerry Says at Climate Summit
December 05, 2023
NYT: Air-Conditioning Use Will Surge in a Warming World, U.N. Warns
November 30, 2023
WSJ: Why No One Wants to Pay for the Green Transition
November 23, 2023
The Economist: Progress on climate change has been too slow. But it’s been real
November 19, 2023
NYT: ‘A Beautiful Place That Has a Dragon’: Where Hurricane Risk Meets Booming Growth
November 16, 2023
The Economist: Three climate fights will dominate COP28
November 14, 2023
NYT: U.S. and China Agree to Displace Fossil Fuels by Ramping Up Renewables
November 13, 2023
WSJ: China’s Spending on Green Energy Is Causing a Global Glut
Crain’s: It’s boom times for startups trying to electrify aviation
NYT: Polluting Industries Say the Cost of Cleaner Air Is Too High
NYT: Exxon Mobil Plans to Produce Lithium in Arkansas
October 17, 2023
The New York Times: The hope and hype of hydrogen
The New York Times: Electric Grids Are a Hidden Weak Spot in World’s Climate Plans, Report Warns
NYT: Electric Grids Are a Hidden Weak Spot in World’s Climate Plans, Report Warns
October 14, 2023
The Economist: How to deal with the global anti-climate backlash
October 11, 2023
Bloomberg: Cape Town’s Demand for Home Solar Panels Surges on Power Outages
October 04, 2023
NYT: Climate Change Is a Key Obstacle for New York City’s Transit System
October 03, 2023
US DoT: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Climate and Transportation Research Funding
September 29, 2023
Bloomberg: NYC Flooding Renews Calls for Safer Basement Apartments
September 27, 2023
NYT: Climate Change and The Rise of Energy Efficient Buildings
September 22, 2023
AP News: Energy Department announces $325M for batteries that can store clean electricity longer
