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A MOTION approving the climate action plan toolkit, a summary of recommendations, a report detailing the outreach and engagement process and feedback received and the plan to distribute and promote the toolkit's use, as required by Motion 15555, and calling for King County to work in partnerships regarding issues about greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
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WHEREAS, Motion 15555 requires the King County executive to transmit to the King County council the climate action toolkit, a summary of recommendations, a report detailing the outreach and engagement process and feedback received and the plan to distribute and promote the toolkit's use by July 31, 2020, and
WHEREAS, the council passed Motion 15620 on March 10, 2020, which extended the transmittal date for all work products by sixty days in consideration of the impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic and statewide mitigation efforts, and
WHEREAS, with this motion, the executive has transmitted to the council as attachments to this motion the climate action toolkit, a summary of recommendations, a report detailing outreach and engagement process and feedback received and the plan to distribute and promote the toolkit's use, and
WHEREAS, in 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report concluding that global greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by forty-five percent by 2030 to limit global warming to one and one-half degrees Celsius, and
WHEREAS, a rise in global temperatures above one and one-half degrees Celsius is projected to irrevocably impact food systems, water supplies, public health, economic growth and natural resources around the globe, and
WHEREAS, King County is already experiencing the impacts of climate change with more frequent wildfires, declining snowpack and summer water supplies, rising sea levels, increased flooding and more extreme heat events, and
WHEREAS, climate change will disproportionately negatively impact communities of color, those wi...

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