HomeMy WebLinkAboutPackets - Council Packets (971)Presentation to Oro Valley Town Council
Tucson/Oro Valley Chapter Citizens Climate Lobby
January 23, 2019
Citizens Climate Lobby 10th Annual Conference & Lobby Day—June 2018
A Carbon Fee is Effective
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Source: Regional Economic Modeling, Inc. 2014
RESOLUTION NO. 2017-83
A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING NATIONAL LEGISLATION TO ENACT A
CARBON FEE AND DIVIDEND PROGRAM TO REDUCE POLLUTING AND
CLIMATE -CHANGING CARBON EMISSIONS
WHEREAS, Pima County government is charged with maintaining and
enhancing the health, safety and quality of life of all County residents, and
WHEREAS, carbon emissions pollute the air we breathe and leading scientists
around the world are in near -unanimous agreement that they are changing the climate of
the Earth to a degree that is perilous to human habitation, and
WHEREAS, carbon is a primary element in emissions impacting public health
and altering our climate, and non-renewable fossil fuels are the leading source of carbon
emissions, so reducing their use is necessary to slow and eventually halt the pollution of
our air and the deadly changing of our climate, and
WHEREAS, a carbon fee applied at the points of carbon -emissions production
and fossil -fuels importation will reduce the profitability and desirability of these
practices, and
WHEREAS, a "carbon fee and dividend" approach is revenue -neutral, can be
implemented without extensive governmental regulatory controls, and applies equally to
every sector of the economy regardless of size, and
WHEREAS, Pima County is resolved to support the carbon -emissions reduction
of the Paris Climate Agreement, and a carbon fee and dividend program would enhance
Pima County's actions under its Sustainable Action Plan to reduce carbon emissions,
increase efficiency and use of renewable energy, and improve the health of County
residents, and
WHEREAS, such an approach at the national level could start at a relatively low
rate and be increased steadily over time to minimally disrupt the economy while sending
a clear and predicable price signal to businesses for them to develop and use alternative
energy sources, and
WHEREAS, Citizens Climate Education Corporation commissioned Regional
Economic Models Inc. to conduct a nationwide macroeconomic projection of the impact
of a revenue -neutral carbon fee and dividend program, and
WHEREAS, this study predicted that, after ten years, such a program would lead
to a 33 -percent decrease in carbon -dioxide emission, an increase in national employment
of 2.1 million jobs, and an average monthly dividend to a family of four of $288, and
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WHEREAS, a national carbon fee and dividend program would make the United
States a leader in mitigating air pollution and climate change, and in promoting clean
energy technologies -- encouraging other countries to adopt a similar approach,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Pima County Board of
Supervisors hereby urges the United States Congress to enact, without delay, a carbon fee
and dividend program, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Pima County Board of Supervisors
hereby urges Congress to direct all revenue derived from the fee in this program be
returned to households equitably to protect low- and middle-income residents from the
impact of rising prices due to the fee, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the Board transmit copies of this
resolution to the President of the United States, to the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, to the Senate Majority Leader, and to each of the I 1 members of the
Arizona Congressional Delegation.
Passed by the Board of Supervisors of Pima County, this 21 day of November , 2017.
Sharon Bronson, Chair
Pima County Board of Supervisors
ATTEST: V TO FORM:
Julie Ovstafteda, Clerk of the Board ew F agg, Deputy County Attorney
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