HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 5130
COUNCIL RESOLUTION NO.5130
A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING A CARBON PRICING POLICYFOR
THE STATE OF OREGON.
PASSED: 5:2
REJECTED:
OPPOSED:Poling, Clark
ABSENT: Evans
CONSIDERED:April 22, 2015
RESOLUTION NO. 5130
A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING A CARBON PRICING POLICYFOR
THE STATE OF OREGON.
The City Council of the City of Eugenefinds that:
A.
The City Council is compelled by the scientific consensus that carbon dioxide
emissions are the primary cause of global climate change.
B.
The City Council agrees that climate change is a crisis demanding immediate
measures to reduce its negative effects.
C.
Climate change is a threat to public health, national security, food security, and
business supply chains. These have costs to our society that are not reflected in the price of
fossil fuels.
D.
The City Council believes that assigning a cost to carbon dioxide emissions is
one of the most efficient waysto decrease carbon pollution, discourage consumption of fossil
fuels and encourage development of alternatives.
E.
The 2013 Tax and Shift: How to Make it Work for Oregon’s Economyreport
published by the Portland State University Northwest Economic Research Center and the
December 2014 report to the legislature on the feasibility of a fee or tax on greenhouse gas
emissions, also by Northwest Economic Research Center,conclude that imposing a price on
carbon within the State of Oregon would have relatively small impacts on the economy and
would significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF EUGENE, A Municipal
Corporation ofthe State of Oregon,as follows:
Section 1.
The City Council requests that the Oregon State Legislature carefully craft
legislation to impose a carbon pricing policy,in part relying on modeling described in the
reports outlined in the above findings and the experience of British Columbiawith special
attention for mitigating adverse impacts on low income families.
Section 2.
The City Council urgesthe Environmental Protection Agencyto allow
states the option of voluntarily usingmarket based,economy-wide carbon pricing as an
alternative compliance mechanism for the Clean Power Plan.
Section 3.
A copy of this resolution shall be forwarded to Governor Brown, Senators
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