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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County of Hawaii commits to educating its employees and residents about the climate crisis and the work needed to catalyze a just emergency climate mobilization effort at the local, regional, state, national, and global level to provide maximum protection for our residents as well as all the people and species of the world; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County of Hawaii commits to integrating current science -based and cultural -based approaches to combating climate change locally involving researchers, cultural practitioners, and other community organizations integral to the emergency climate mobilization effort. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County of Hawaii underscores the need for full community participation, inclusion, and support, and commits to working with and keeping the concerns of vulnerable communities central to all just -transition and climate emergency mobilization effort planning. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County of Hawaii commits to reducing emissions related to transportation by supporting both affordable housing and transit -oriented development while implementing a robust Transportation Demand Management Program calling on the Hawaii County Department of Planning, Mass Transit Agency, and the Department of Public Works, alongside other appropriate local agencies, to participate in this regional emergency climate mobilization effort. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County of Hawaii shall support widespread transitions to climate -smart agriculture to improve retention of water and carbon sequestration, through education, application assistance, and financial incentives, including support for small-scale local farms. Possible methods include cover crops, no -till, mulching, composting and other regenerative planting practices. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County of Hawaii joins a nationwide call for a regional just transition and climate emergency mobilization collaborative effort focused on transforming our region and rapidly catalyzing a mobilization at all levels of government to restore a safe climate. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County of Hawaii calls on the State of Hawaii, the United States of America, and all governments and peoples worldwide, to initiate a just transition and climate emergency mobilization effort to reverse global warming by restoring near preindustrial global average temperatures and greenhouse gas concentrations, that immediately halts the development of all new -fossil fuel infrastructure, rapidly phases out all fossil fuels and the technologies which rely upon them, ends greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible, initiates an effort to safely draw down carbon from the atmosphere, transitions to regenerative agriculture, ends the sixth mass extinction, and creates and guarantees high-quality, good -paying jobs with comprehensive benefits for those who will be impacted by this transition. 4