Planning and Setting Goals

• The Town has created a Climate Smart Communities Task Force, which includes Town staff, elected officials and Town residents to advise on climate related activities as well as the Town's Climate Smart Communities certification planning.
  • July 13, 2021 Meeting Minutes
  • October 12, 2021 Meeting Minutes
  • January 11, 2022 Meeting Minutes
  • April 5, 2022 Meeting Minutes
  • July 12, 2022 Meeting Minutes
  • October 11, 2022 Meeting Minutes
  • January 10, 2023 Meeting Minutes
    
  • April 18, 2023 Meeting Minutes
    
  • July 11, 2023 Meeting Minutes
  • October 17, 2023 Meeting Minutes
    
  • Next Meeting: Tuesday, March 19 at 2 PM. This meeting will be held virtually on Zoom. The public is welcome to attend. Please contact sustain@northhempsteadny.gov for Zoom link and more details. 

• Municipal Operations Climate Action Plan- This comprehensive plan details the Town's efforts in locally reducing greenhouse gas emissions, advancing energy saving measures and adapting to the changing climate, as well as other sustainability initiatives in the Town's own operations and facilities. It also includes results of a municipal greenhouse gas inventory for 2019.
• Community Climate Action Plan- The Town is working on a plan detailing actions that can be taken throughout the community to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
  • The Town currently has community GHG emissions data from the LI Carbon Footprint Project completed by NYIT in 2013. The emissions data for 2010 can be viewed HERE and a supplementary report HERE. The Town is looking into doing a current inventory to see if emissions from these different sources have changed over the years and to determine further reductions. The full NYIT report can be found HERE.
• The Town adopted an Organics Management Plan to reduce the flow of wasted food which will in turn reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help feed the hungry in the North Hempstead community.
  
• The Town completed a Public Engagement and Education Plan that details how to accomplish climate change related outreach and events in the community. This includes this webpage, social media posts, multiple educational events, and more.
• In June 2022, the Town released a climate change community survey to identify key issues, perceptions, concerns and priorities facing our Town with respect to climate change. Results will help shape the Town's climate action planning and will be released soon. View the survey results and analysis HERE.
• Benchmarking Town building energy use- the Town is currently tracking all energy use in its buildings over 1,000 square feet to see where it can reduce use:
  • 2022 data
  • 2023 data