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On December 15, 2016, the Boone Town Council adopted by a vote of 5 -0 a resolution calling for a <br />goal of 100% clean energy and green jobs for all energy sectors for the State of North Carolina and <br />the United States by the year 2050. The vote was historic because the Town of Boone became the first <br />municipality in the United States officially calling for a 100% clean energy for all energy sectors goal <br />for their state and the United States.' On January 17, 2017, the Watauga County Board of <br />Commissioners adopted by a unanimous, bipartisan vote of 5 -0 a resolution calling for 100% clean <br />energy and green jobs for the State of North Carolina and the United States by the year 2050 for the <br />purpose of avoiding climate catastrophe.' <br />• A joint Stanford University and University of California- Berkeley study concludes the United States <br />and the world energy supply could be based entirely on renewable energy by the year 2050 using <br />current technologies and 80% renewable energy by 2030 while creating numerous green jobs . 4 <br />Currently, 20 U.S. cities have already committed to 100% clean energy only for their electrical grid <br />and not for all energy sectors (which would include electrical grid, transportation and all other energy <br />sectors) and only for their own city. However, the Town of Boone adoption of the 100% Clean <br />Energy and Green Jobs Resolution calls for achieving 100% clean energy by 2050 for all energy <br />sectors for both North Carolina State and the United States, which is what makes the Boone <br />Resolution the first of its kind in the nation for a town or municipality. <br />A resolution introduced in 2015 in the U.S. House of Representatives calling for a goal of 100% clean <br />renewable energy for all energy sectors for the United States by 2050 had 59 cosponsors <br />(H.Res.540 /Grijalva). H.Res.540, which has the same national goal as this Resolution, has been <br />endorsed by over 450 organizations, local officials, academics, civic leaders and businesses, including <br />the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Environment America, Physicians for Social Responsibility, <br />Public Citizen, Interfaith Power & Light, The Solutions Project, Environment North Carolina, <br />Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, as well as six North Carolina state legislators: Senator Jane <br />Smith; Senator Mike Woodard; Rep. Pricey Harrison; Rep. Shelly Willingham; Rep. Susan Fisher; <br />and Senator Valerie Foushee.s' 6 <br />• In 2016, 48 countries of the Climate Vulnerable Forum agreed while attending the United Nations <br />Climate Change Conference in Marrakech, Morocco (COP22) to make their energy production 100% <br />renewable "as rapidly as possible" and by between 2030 and 2050 at the latest. <br />'http: / /www.ecowatch.com /renewable- energy - solutions- project- 2151130342.htm1 <br />z http://www.wataugademocrat.com / news /boone - council- endorses -call- for - total- clean - energy- <br />by/a rticle _a6848f65- 34c5- 505f- 8f9f -d 17d77fc39b5.html <br />3 http://www.hcpress.com/ front - page /watauga- commissioners - adopt- 100 - clean- energy - green - jobs- resolution- <br />historic- vote.html <br />4 http: / /thesoIutionsproject.org/ <br />' http:/ /www.environmentamerica.org / news /ame/ over - 450 - groups - officials- and - academics -call- congress -back- <br />100- renews b le-e ne rgy-goa 1 <br />6http://environmentamerica.org/ sites / environment / files /resources / 100% 25 %20Coalition %20Letter.pdf ?_ga =1.25 <br />4070088.1904749149.1483228634 <br />Pa <br />
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