New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA)
Founded in 1991, the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA) is a non-profit, city-wide membership network linking grassroots organizations from low-income neighborhoods and communities of color in their struggle for environmental justice. NYC-EJA empowers its member organizations to advocate for improved environmental conditions and against inequitable environmental burdens by the coordination of campaigns designed to inform city and state policies. NYC-EJA is led by the community-based organizations that it serves, which coalesce around specific common issues that threaten the ability for low-income communities of color to thrive.
As part of its Community Resiliency campaign, NYC-EJA has taken the following actions:
- Released the report, NYC Climate Justice Agenda: Strengthening the Mayor's OneNYC Plan
- Engaged local communities in creating a comprehensive climate resiliency agenda that will strengthen both the physical and social resiliency of the South Bronx Significant Maritime and Industrial Area
- Worked with NY Renews, a coalition of community-based organizations, environmental justice groups, labor unions, faith groups, business leaders, and other advocates from across the state working together to demand healthy communities, good jobs, 100% clean energy, environmental justice, and worker protection
- Developed the ten-point "Climate Works for All" agenda in collaboration with environmental justice, faith, labor, and economic and social justice groups
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Participated in the Sandy Regional Assembly to strategize how government officials should implement a Sandy rebuilding program, resulting in the Sandy Regional Assembly Recovery Agenda and an analysis of Mayor Bloomberg’s SIRR Report
Another major campaign, the Waterfront Justice Project, is a citywide community-based resiliency campaign focused on helping to identify innovative strategies to build climate resilient industrial waterfronts in designated Significant Maritime Industrial Areas.
Sectors:
- Business
- Emergency preparedness
- Energy
- Land use and built environment
- Public health
- Urban
- Frontline Communities
Related Resources:
- NYC Climate Just Agenda 2018 - Midway to 2030: Building Resiliency and Equity for a Just Transition
- NYC Climate Justice Agenda 2016: Strengthening the Mayor's OneNYC Plan
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