COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR RESOLUTION NO. 220596
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RESOLUTION - Adopting the City's
Climate Protection and
Resiliency Plan which has been approved by the
Climate Protection Steering Committee and incorporating its findings and recommendations into City policy and operations.
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WHEREAS, the City Council on May 14, 2020, adopted Resolution No. 200005 directing the City to update the 2008
Climate Protection Plan to include new greenhouse gas reduction goals,
resiliency and equity and incorporate the ideas into City policy and operations; and
WHEREAS, the City Council on November 4, 2021, adopted Resolution No. 210967 directing the City Manager to declare a
climate and ecological emergency that threatens our city, region, state, nation, civilization, humanity, and the natural world; and
WHEREAS, the Office of Environmental Quality, in consultation with Brendle Group, Sophic Solutions, the
Climate Protection Steering Committee, stakeholders, and community, has prepared a
Climate Protection and
Resiliency Plan that will simultaneously reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve other high priority goals for the City, such as reducing Kansas City's contribution to
climate change and strategies to help our community adapt to the
climate-related impacts we are already experiencing with a goal of a carbon neutral, equity focused and resilient Kansas City by 2040; and
WHEREAS, groups which have experienced historic and present-day inequities, such as Black, Latine, and Indigenous peoples, are likely to be disproportionately affected by
climate change, and the opportunity to redress former injustices is inherent in the solutions proposed by
climate change actions; and
WHEREAS, the
Climate Protection and
Resiliency Plan builds upon the 2021 KC Regional
Climate Action Plan developed by a coalition led by
Climate Action KC and the Mid-America Regional Council and success will only be achieved if there is equitable access to the benefit...
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