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Clerk 07/30/2026
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A MOTION accepting the 2025 Strategic Climate Action Plan (SCAP) Workplan for Code Updates, submitted as requested under Motion 16898.
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WHEREAS, preparing for climate change impacts is urgently needed given the accelerating pace of climate change and the time required to increase the resilience of communities, infrastructure, and natural systems, and
WHEREAS, the King County executive and council unanimously adopted the 2025 King County Strategic Climate Action Plan, and
WHEREAS, the 2025 King County Strategic Climate Action Plan establishes specific goals, performance measures and related targets, and actions to advance the goal of reducing countywide sources of emissions fifty percent by 2030, seventy-five percent by 2040, and ninety-five percent by 2050, compared to a 2007 baseline, and
WHEREAS, the 2025 Strategic Climate Action Plan charts a five-year framework for climate action, integrating climate change considerations into all areas of county operations and in our work with King County cities, partners, communities, and residents, and
WHEREAS, the 2025 Strategic Climate Action Plan identifies countywide and county operations sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and quantifies the emissions reductions from implementing key strategies, and
WHEREAS, implementation of the 2025 Strategic Climate Action Plan will require updates to King County Code;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
The 2025 Strategic Climate Action Plan (SCAP) Workplan for Code Updates,
which is Attachment A to this motion and prepared as the workplan for code updates as requested by Motion 16898, is hereby accepted.