City of Baltimore - File #: 05-0074R

• File #: 05-0074R
• Version: 0
• Name: Baltimore City Being Kyoto Compliant by 2012
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 8/15/2005
• In control: Dept. of Public Works
• Final action: 8/14/2006
• Title: Baltimore City Being Kyoto Compliant by 2012 FOR the purpose of requesting the creation of an emission reduction program that will help provide economic and quality of life benefits such as reduced energy bills, green space preservation, air quality improvements, reduced traffic congestion, improved transportation choices, and economic development and job creation through energy conservation and new energy technologies in order to help Baltimore City be Kyoto Compliant by 2012.
• Sponsors: James B. Kraft, President Dixon
• Indexes: Educ., Housing, Health, & Human Serv., Kyoto, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/14/2006	0	Education, Housing, Health and Human Services	Recommended Favorably
8/14/2006	0	City Council	Adopted
5/15/2006	0	Education, Housing, Health and Human Services	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
8/18/2005	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/18/2005	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/18/2005	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report	Pass
8/15/2005	0	City Council	Introduced
8/15/2005	0	The City Council	Assigned
8/15/2005	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Kraft


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Baltimore City Being Kyoto Compliant by 2012

FOR the purpose of requesting the creation of an emission reduction program that will help provide economic and quality of life benefits such as reduced energy bills, green space preservation, air quality improvements, reduced traffic congestion, improved transportation choices, and economic development and job creation through energy conservation and new energy technologies in order to help Baltimore City be Kyoto Compliant by 2012.
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In February 2005 the U.S. Conference of Mayors passed a resolution to endorse the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement at its annual meeting in Chicago. This agreement holds signing cities to the same standards set in the Kyoto Protocol, in which participating nations agree to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to 7 % below 1990 levels by 2012.

The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the international community's most respected assemblage of scientists, has found that climate disruption is a reality and that human activities are largely responsible for increasing concentrations of global warming pollution. Climate disruption of the magnitude now predicted by the scientific community will cause extremely costly disruption of human and natural systems throughout the world.

In order to become Kyoto co...