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•�i <br />COUNTY OF HA'WAIII t STATE OF HAWAIII <br />RESOLUTION NO. '322 19 <br />RESOLUTION DECLARING A HAWAII COUNTY CLIMATE EMERGENCY AND <br />REQUESTING REGIONAL COLLABORATION TOWARDS AN IMMEDIATE <br />JUST TRANSITION AND EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION EFFORT TO RESTORE <br />A SAFE CLIMATE. <br />WHEREAS, on April 22, 2016, world leaders from 175 countries recognized the <br />threat of climate change and the urgent need to combat it by signing the Paris Climate Accord, <br />agreeing to keep warming "well below 35.6°F above pre -industrial levels" and to "pursue <br />efforts to limit the temperature increase to 34.7°F"; and <br />WHEREAS, the October 8, 2018 special report of the United Nations (ITN) <br />Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected that curtailing warming to <br />34.7°F to reduce the risks to health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security, <br />economic growth and plant and animal life this century, will require an unprecedented <br />transformation of every sector of the global economy over the next 12 years, further, stopping <br />warming at the UN target of 34.7°F can only be achieved by overshooting the target and <br />reversing warming with negative emissions (carbon removal from the atmosphere); and <br />WHEREAS, subsequent research in the peer reviewed journal Nature has been <br />released indicating that warming is likely to accelerate in the next decade and reach 34.7°F by <br />2030 (ten years earlier than projected by the 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change <br />(IPCC)), 35.6°F by 2045, and 39.2-41°F by the 2080's; and <br />WHEREAS, on November 23, 2018, the United States Global Change Research <br />Program, comprised of 13 U.S. federal agencies, issued the Fourth National Climate <br />Assessment detailing the massive threat that climate change poses to the American economy <br />and underscoring the need for immediate emergency action by every level of government to <br />reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases; and <br />WHEREAS, the Fourth National Climate Assessment further indicates that the death <br />and destruction already wrought by global warming of approximately 33.98°F above late 19th <br />century levels, demonstrates that the Earth is already too hot for humanity to safely and justly <br />exist, as attested by increased and intensifying wildfires, floods, rising seas, diseases, droughts <br />and extreme weather; and <br />