Climate Change

Climate Change

Support climate goals and policies that are consistent with the best available climate science and that will ensure a stable climate system for future generations.

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Transitioning Toward 100% Clean Energy

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Submitted by Alachua County in September 2021.

Event Date: 
09/25/2021 - 9:00am

NAACP Alachua Environmental and Climate Justice Committee will host a virtual discussion on how Alachua County can transition toward 100% clean energy. LWVAC Natural Resource Committee Co-Chairs, Roberta Gastmeyer and Jay Rosenbek and LWVAC Local Issues Chair, Jeff Shapiro serve on this committee. All League members are invited and encouraged to attend.

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Gainesville Sun Op-Ed Article: To quickly cut greenhouse gas emissions, stop investing in new fossil-fuel infrastructure

Submitted by Alachua County in September 2021.

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released a report that clearly summarizes our desperate situation: We are already feeling the effects of climate change and the heat waves, droughts and floods will only get worse unless we accelerate our transition away from oil, coal and gas.

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“Decarbonizing” Our Buildings

Submitted by PASADENA AREA in August 2021.

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Can California Wring Carbon Emissions Out of Buildings? So Far the Pace Is Slow

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Environmental Quality and Climate Change

In April, 2024, we reported to the League's all-member annual meeting that the Metro St. Louis League's Environmental Quality and Climate Change (EQC3) Committee studies and acts on environmental issues including land, air, water, energy, waste, sustainability, biodiversity, foods, soils and agriculture, renewable energy, electrification, forests and wildfires, health, climate justice, oceans, recycling, plastic pollution, and climate change using League positions.

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Gainesville Sun Op-Ed Article: Climate change responses must rest on principles of environmental justice

Submitted by Alachua County in August 2021.

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The League of Women Voters of Alachua County supported the Gainesville City Commission’s 2018 commitment to 100% renewable energy and its 2019 Proclamation of a Climate Emergency. League members, like others in the community, recognized the potential health, economic, quality of life, and social and environmental justice benefits of a rapid transition from fossil to renewable energy.

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Climate Change

 

Climate change is here and already changing our world. Bold climate action is needed now!

The evidence of climate change is all around us. More frequent and intense storms. Deadly heat waves and massive wild fires. Melting glaciers, rising sea levels and coastal flooding. These rapid and devastating changes highlight the urgent need for action — by all of us — as individuals and collectively — in our communities, at the state and federal levels, and internationally.

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LWVAC Recommends GRU Remain under Local Control

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Submitted by Alachua County in July 2018.

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By Carole Fernandez

Published July 31, 2018

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