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 02/11/19 - Introduced

 AJR-7 Green New Deal.(2019-2020)

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AJR7:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Revised
 September 03, 2019

 Corrected
 September 04, 2019

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 July 01, 2019

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Joint Resolution

No. 7

Introduced by Assembly Member Gloria
(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Kalra)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Berman, Bonta, Carrillo, Chiu, Friedman, Eduardo Garcia, Jones-Sawyer, Robert Rivas, and Mark Stone) Mark Stone, Aguiar-Curry, Arambula, Bauer-Kahan, Bloom, Boerner Horvath, Burke, Calderon, Chau, Chu, Eggman, Gabriel, Cristina Garcia, Gipson, Gonzalez, Gray, Holden, Irwin, Kamlager-Dove, Levine, Limón, Low, McCarty, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, O’Donnell, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Reyes, Luz Rivas, Blanca Rubio, Santiago, Smith, Ting, Weber, Wicks, and Wood)

February 11, 2019

Relative to the Green New Deal. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AJR 7, as amended, Gloria.
 Green New Deal.

This measure would encourage the United States Congress to adopt climate policies, including those that might be adopted under the Green New Deal, that build upon California’s programs that have reduced greenhouse gas emissions while improving air and water quality, create new green jobs, and improve disadvantaged communities and that just climate actions offer the nation an opportunity to achieve community-mindful policies that California has successfully adopted while growing its economy.

This measure would encourage the United States Congress to enact a Green New Deal that would, among other things, comprehensively address our current climate emergency, transform our economy to one that places the health and wellness of communities at its center, promotes ecological resilience, and restores biodivesity.

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WHEREAS, Experts conclude we have a little over 10 years to begin rapidly reducing our global carbon emissions; and

WHEREAS, The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization in 1988 to provide policymakers with regular scientific assessments concerning climate change and its implications and potential future risks, as well as to put forward adaptation and mitigation strategies; and

WHEREAS, The IPCC is the leading world body for assessing the science related to climate change, its impacts and potential future risks, and possible response options; and

WHEREAS, The IPCC recently released a special report, the full name of which is “Global Warming of 1.5°C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty”; and

WHEREAS, The IPCC report compares the impacts of climate change at 1.5 degree Celsius to 2 degrees Celsius and found that a change of overall climate of 2 degrees Celsius will result in more heat-related deaths, smaller crop yields, more people in poverty, and slower economic growth; and

WHEREAS, Preventing global temperatures from increasing is possible, but will require the complete transformation of our economy and unprecedented global cooperation; and

WHEREAS, The human impacts of climate change are real and felt now, from the new year-round wildfire season in California to the devastating hurricanes in Puerto Rico and Texas; and

WHEREAS, Recognizing the level of death and public health impacts and environmental destruction occurring today at just over 1 degree Celsius of global warming, the protection of public health and the achievement of global climate justice requires the reversal of global warming; and 

WHEREAS, The emissions that accelerate climate change are also proven to cause serious harm to human health, and emissions from transportation, natural disasters like wildfires, industrial agriculture, fossil fuels, and industrial facilities create unhealthy air quality; and

WHEREAS, Carbon-emitting facilities, which facilities and carbon-emitting mobile and area sources are concentrated in low-income communities and communities of color, also col