Katrina M. Wyman teaches and researches environmental law at New York University School of Law, where she is the Wilf Family Professor of Property Law and Faculty Director of the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law. She has published extensively on local environmental law and policy. Danielle Spiegel-Feld spent nearly a decade as Executive Director of the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law at New York University School of Law, where she often worked closely with New York City officials to advance local environmental policy. She is an editor of Global Sustainable Cities (2023).

• Introduction; 1. A Brief History of Cities in Environmental Policy; 2. An Analytical Framework; 3. Local Environmental Protection in NYC; 4. Local Decarbonization Efforts in NYC; 5. Adapting to Climate Change in NYC; 6. An Urban Climate Change Agenda for the Early 21st Century; Coda; Notes.

'At a time of significant federal retrenchment, cities increasingly serve as vanguards of environmental protection and sustainability. Katrina Wyman and Danielle Spiegel‐Feld have now provided the definitive account of the complex nature of this engagement and a clear-eyed, indispensable urban agenda for responding to the climate crisis.' Nestor Davidson, Albert A. Walsh Chair in Real Estate, Land Use and Property Law, Fordham Law School

Katrina M. Wyman teaches and researches environmental law at New York University School of Law, where she is the Wilf Family Professor of Property Law and Faculty Director of the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law. She has published extensively on local environmental law and policy. Danielle Spiegel-Feld spent nearly a decade as Executive Director of the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law at New York University School of Law, where she often worked closely with New York City officials to advance local environmental policy. She is an editor of Global Sustainable Cities (2023).

• Introduction; 1. A Brief History of Cities in Environmental Policy; 2. An Analytical Framework; 3. Local Environmental Protection in NYC; 4. Local Decarbonization Efforts in NYC; 5. Adapting to Climate Change in NYC; 6. An Urban Climate Change Agenda for the Early 21st Century; Coda; Notes.

'At a time of significant federal retrenchment, cities increasingly serve as vanguards of environmental protection and sustainability. Katrina Wyman and Danielle Spiegel‐Feld have now provided the definitive account of the complex nature of this engagement and a clear-eyed, indispensable urban agenda for responding to the climate crisis.' Nestor Davidson, Albert A. Walsh Chair in Real Estate, Land Use and Property Law, Fordham Law School

Katrina M. Wyman teaches and researches environmental law at New York University School of Law, where she is the Wilf Family Professor of Property Law and Faculty Director of the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law. She has published extensively on local environmental law and policy. Danielle Spiegel-Feld spent nearly a decade as Executive Director of the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law at New York University School of Law, where she often worked closely with New York City officials to advance local environmental policy. She is an editor of Global Sustainable Cities (2023).

• Introduction; 1. A Brief History of Cities in Environmental Policy; 2. An Analytical Framework; 3. Local Environmental Protection in NYC; 4. Local Decarbonization Efforts in NYC; 5. Adapting to Climate Change in NYC; 6. An Urban Climate Change Agenda for the Early 21st Century; Coda; Notes.

'At a time of significant federal retrenchment, cities increasingly serve as vanguards of environmental protection and sustainability. Katrina Wyman and Danielle Spiegel‐Feld have now provided the definitive account of the complex nature of this engagement and a clear-eyed, indispensable urban agenda for responding to the climate crisis.' Nestor Davidson, Albert A. Walsh Chair in Real Estate, Land Use and Property Law, Fordham Law School