About the Assessment

The New York State Climate Impacts Assessment: Understanding and Preparing for Our Changing Climate explores current and future climate change impacts to New York State communities, ecosystems, and economy. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) assembled more than 250 New York–based, national, and Indigenous climate science experts and representatives from diverse communities and industries across the state to contribute to this assessment.

The assessment provides a credible, science-based analysis of what to expect from climate change in New York State. The findings are intended to help residents, businesses, and decision-makers across the state plan and prepare for climate change impacts.

Learn more about what the assessment is, how it is organized, and who contributed to and helped develop the scientific findings. More detailed information on these topics can be found in the Assessment Introduction.