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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County of Hawai`i 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 actively pursue adaptation strategies to allow our community to more proactively respond to inevitable disruption of our communities by rising sea levels and egregious weather disasters. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County of Hawai`i 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 Hawai`i 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 Hawai`i 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 Hawai`i 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, as well as, actively encourage and promote the use of emission-free vehicles and enable a rapid expansion of public EV charging infrastructure. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County of Hawai`i 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 Hawai`i 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 Hawai`i calls on the State of Hawai`i, 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 4