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RESOLUTION OF THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS IN <br />SUPPORT OF A STATE AND NATIONAL GOAL OF 100% CLEAN ENERGY BY 2050 <br />AND THE CREATION OF GREEN JOBS <br />Whereas, climate change has increased the global average surface temperature by 1.00 <br />degrees Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1880; Whereas, climate change is expected to <br />increasingly impact North Carolina's temperatures, precipitation and sea level with harmful <br />consequences in coming years; <br />Whereas, climate change and global average temperature increases are primarily due to <br />human - caused fossil fuels emissions, including coal, oil and natural gas, according to the United <br />Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, National Academy of Sciences, American <br />Meteorological Society, United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States <br />Department of Defense, and numerous other leading scientific, academic and governmental <br />authorities both in the United States and internationally; <br />Whereas, a final agreement of the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP21), which <br />included the United States and a total of 195 nations, was reached in Paris, France on December <br />12, 2015, that states the aim is to "holding the increase in the global average temperature to well <br />below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature <br />increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels" and entered into force on November 4, <br />2016; <br />Whereas, scientists have concluded the concentration of carbon dioxide, the leading <br />greenhouse gas, in the Earth's atmosphere is currently and consistently over 400 parts per <br />million (ppm) and will likely stay above this level for the indefinite future for the first time in <br />millions of years; <br />Whereas, sixteen of the seventeen hottest years on record have occurred in the twenty - <br />first century and 2016 is the hottest year on record; <br />Whereas, an increase in the global average temperature is having and will continue to <br />increasingly have major adverse impacts, if not stopped by eliminating the use of fossil fuels, on <br />both the natural and human -made environments due to longer, more intense heat waves, <br />prolonged droughts, spread of infectious diseases, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, wildfires, <br />and more intense and frequent extreme weather events; <br />Whereas, these physical effects are expected to lead to water scarcity, food insecurity, <br />increasing numbers of refugees, increased poverty, and the mass extinction of species; <br />Whereas, studies completed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Risky <br />Business Project, Duke University, and others point to the severe economic costs of climate <br />change and continuing use of fossil fuel, estimating billions of dollars a year in costs nationally <br />and trillions globally; <br />
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