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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: December 2, 2019 <br />Resolution - Council <br />Agenda Section:File Number:19-614 CONSENT CALENDAR <br />Agenda Number: <br />TO:City Council <br />FROM:Jeff Kay <br />City Manager <br />BY:Debbie Pollart <br />Public Works Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW:Not Applicable <br />TITLE:RESOLUTION of the City of San Leandro City Council Endorsing the Declaration <br />of a Climate Emergency and Requesting Regional Collaboration on an <br />Immediate Just Transition and Emergency Mobilization Effort to Restore a Safe <br />Climate <br />WHEREAS, in April 2016 world leaders from 175 countries recognized the threat of climate <br />change and the urgent need to combat it by signing the Paris Agreement, agreeing to keep warming <br />“well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” and to “pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to <br />1.5°C”; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, global warming has increased the earth’s temperature by approximately 1°C, and <br />has also resulted in increased and intensifying wildfires, floods, rising seas, diseases, droughts and <br />extreme weather; and <br />WHEREAS, the United States of America has disproportionately contributed to the climate and <br />ecological crises and thus bears significant responsibility to rapidly solve these crises; and <br />WHEREAS, a recent state-wide report, Rising Seas in California, projects a conservative <br />estimate of between 1 and 3.4 feet of sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay by the year 2100; and <br />WHEREAS, the range of projections in the report includes the possibility of up to 10 feet of sea <br />level rise in the San Francisco Bay by 2100, a scenario consistent with rapid Antarctic ice sheet mass <br />loss that would be catastrophic to San Leandro and virtually every other coastal community; and <br />WHEREAS, restoring a safe and stable climate requires immediate action to reach zero <br />greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors to rapidly and safely drawdown or remove all the excess <br />carbon from the atmosphere, and to implement measures to protect all people and species from the <br />consequences of abrupt climate change; and <br />WHEREAS, frontline communities, which have historically borne the brunt of the extractive <br />fossil-fuel economy, must actively participate in the planning and implementation of this mobilization <br />effort at all levels of government and that they benefit first from the transition to a renewable energy <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 11/27/2019 <br />128