On the City Council, Brad helped pass NYC’s pioneering “80 x 50” (80% fossil fuel reductions by 2050) and was an early supporter of NYC’s “Dirty Buildings” law to cut large building emissions by 40% by 2030 and to zero by 2050. Brad led the successful decade-long fight to ban plastic bags and was instrumental in the city’s Styrofoam ban.

As Comptroller, Brad led the New York City public pension funds in developing and adopting the most ambitious plan in the country to reach net zero emissions by 2040. Brad has engaged actively with portfolio companies toward this goal through proxy voting and shareholder initiatives, recently pushing major banks including Citigroup, JPMorgan, and Royal Bank of Canada to agree to disclose their fossil fuel versus clean energy funding ratios, a critical step toward decarbonization.

Brad helped improve the City’s infrastructure planning and capital projects management so it can deliver the projects that will protect New Yorkers on time and on budget. From his decades of experience in the community development movement, and his experience leading communities after Superstorm Sandy, he knows how to lead the large-scale mobilization of “social infrastructure” that will be necessary to protect New Yorkers in the storms to come.

Brad is currently spearheading Public Solar NYC, a “public option” that recently secured millions in federal climate funding to expand rooftop solar and make renewable energy accessible to all.