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O'Shea (19) Tunney (44) Harris (8) Ervin (28) ' Resolution
Declaration of climate emergency and call for initiation of emergency Climate Mobilization effort Committee on Enviromental Protection and Energy
Committee on Environmental Protection & Energy
January 15,2020 City Council Meeting
RESOLUTION DECLARING A CLIMATE EMERGENCY AND EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION EFFORT TO RESTORE A SAFE CLIMATE
WHEREAS, in April 2016 world leaders recognized the urgent need to combat climate change by signing the Paris Agreement, agreeing to keep global warming, "well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels" and to "pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to l.5°C"; and
WHEREAS, the death and destruction already wrought by current average global warming of 1 °C demonstrate that the Earth is already too hot for safety and justice, as attested by increased and intensifying wildfires; floods, rising seas, diseases, droughts, and extreme weather; and
WHEREAS, according to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, 1.5°C of global warming could expose 500 million people to water poverty, 36 million people to food insecurity because of lower crop yields, and 4.5 billion people to heat waves; and
WHEREAS, in October 2018, the United Nations released a special report which projected that limiting warming to even the dangerous 1.5°C target this century will require an unprecedented transformation of every sector ofthe global economy by 2030: and
WHEREAS, the United States of America has disproportionately contributed to the climate and ecological emergencies and thus bears an extraordinary responsibility to rapidly solve these crises; and
WHEREAS, climate change will continue to make basic human necessities such as food, housing, health care, transportation and energy more expensive and difficult to obtain; and
WHEREAS, in July 2019, members of Congress introduced a concurrent Congressional resolution to declare a national ...
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