Number
060424
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. ZIELINSKI
Title
Substitute resolution authorizing and directing application by the City of Milwaukee for membership in ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, and appropriating $875 from the City Clerk’s Special Purpose Account for city memberships for the City’s 2006, pro-rated annual membership dues.
Analysis
This resolution authorizes application by the City of Milwaukee for membership in ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, and directs the proper City officials to apply for the City’s membership in said organization. It directs the appropriation of $875 from the City Clerk’s Special Purpose Account for city memberships for the City’s 2006, pro-rated annual dues required for ICLEI membership.
Body
Whereas, Scientific consensus shows that Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere have a profound effect on the earth’s climate and cause global warming, and most of these emissions are a result of preventable or modifiable human activity, and it is a goal of the City of Milwaukee to reduce or prevent greenhouse gas emissions; and
Whereas, Climate disruption of this magnitude will have a wide range of impacts on plants, wildlife and humans, including extremely costly disruption of human and natural systems throughout the world, a greater risk of flood or droughts, higher sea levels that erode beaches and more frequent and greater concentrations of smog; and
Whereas, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) is an organization of local, national and regional governments that has more than 475 members worldwide, representing 300 million people, which believes that there are global common goals for sustainable development, and that the best way to reach those goals is to encourage and support sustainable development at the local level, and one of its goals is to reduce and prevent global climate change through its Cities for Climate Protection...
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