2019-01-03 Citizens Climate Protection Committee MinCitizens Committee on U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement
Mission:
1. Encourage citizens to be a part of the solution
2. Encourage City staff and citizens to conserve current resources
3. Work with the City Council to implement ideas
4. Effectively address the future impacts of climate change
Climate Protection Committee (CPC)
January 3, 2019 — Meeting Minutes
In Attendance: Cynthia Pruitt, Steve Fisher, Hank Landau, Shane Hope, Dawna Lahti, Kernen
Lien, Councilmember Diane Buckshnis, Mark Johnson (ESA), Joshua Proudfoot (Good
Company via phone)
Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 8:45 am
Motion to approve minutes: The motion to approve minutes from the December 2o18
meeting was unanimously approved with one correction added by Shane.
Edmonds Climate Goals Project presentation — Targets and Policy Gap memorandum
discussion (presented by Mark Johnson and Joshua Proudfoot)
Continuation of the ongoing Climate Goals project was presented via video con ferencing.
Mark Johnson led the initial part of the meeting by showing a similar version of the
PowerPoint he presented at the previous evening's Edmond City Council meeting. The
Council meeting had 5 of 7 members in attendance, with Mayor Earling also not in
attendance. The presentation was the formal report to Council on the consultant's
greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory portion of the overall Climate Goals project tasks.
The presentation also touched on the need to set targets for GHG reduction which was what
Mark wanted to offer for discussion with the committee. Starting with a chart that showed
target years in this century and the variables between different capped temperature gains,
plus bringing in the implications across the globe in regards to wealth, consumption, and
responsibility, it became quite apparent how daunting the task to curb temperature rise has
become.
Another graph illustrated temperature levels if continuing on a business -as -usual trajectory,
or if/when current national plans are put in play or if the global community chose those
measures designed to lead to more rapid decreases in temperature.
Lifestyle changes, the impact of offsets, and sequestration were all discussed with Joshua
contributing several measures to ponder. Hank asked and received clarification on the
distinction of the Project's deliverables, i.e. the GHG inventory, the Policy Memo and the
Policy Gap Analysis, since there was a lot of data to digest.
Mark relayed that the Council seemed quite engaged and sobered by the presentation and
agreed that education was paramount for the community to embrace action. He gathered
some feedback on what pieces of the presentation would be the effective to show at the
Climate Goals Project Open House at City hall on the evening of January 17. Cynthia had
made available Fast Facts she had gathered.
Mark said at the next CPC meeting the committee would be briefed on the tool the
consultants will help cull through roughly Soo GHG reduction measures. The committee will
have the opportunity to use the tool to start on that path. The City is creating a designated
Climate Goals Project web page that will feature all the information made public so far and
be updated as the consultants continue their work.
Meeting Adjournment: The meeting adjourned at 10:05 am.