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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the establishment and implementation of a program to fund city projects to reduce energy demand; and amending Ordinance 17166, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 18.50.010.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Climate change is one of the paramount challenges of our generation and will have long-term consequences for the economy, the environment, and public health and safety in King County. The county is already experiencing the impacts of a changing climate, including warming temperatures, acidifying marine waters, rising seas, increasing flooding risk, decreasing mountain snowpack and less water in the summer.
2. King County has a long record of innovation, leadership and investment in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for the impacts of climate change. Consideration of climate change impacts and opportunities to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions are deeply embedded throughout the work plans and capital investments of county departments and lines of business.
3. The 2015 King County Strategic Climate Action Plan maps specific pathways and actions needed to achieve the ambitious countywide goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by eighty percent by 2050 against a 2007 baseline with interim goals of twenty-five percent reduction by 2020 and fifty percent reduction by 2030.
4. The plan establishes goals, targets, measures and priority actions in five goal areas: transportation and land use; building and facilities energy; green building; consumption and materials management; and forestry and agriculture.
5. The plan establishes energy use reduction goals for county operations of five percent by 2020 and ten percent by 2025 below 2014 levels and countywide energy use reduction goals of twenty-five percent reduction below 2012 levels by 2030.
6. While King County surpassed its internal efficiency goal for 2015 and is actively pursuing additional energy reductions by 2020, countywide energy use in existing...
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