HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 2020-45 - Climate Action Plan I.C. 19826 -CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 2020-45
APPROVE EDEN PRAIRIE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN
I.C.19826
WHEREAS, By 2050, Eden Prairie's community-wide business-as-usual em1ss10ns are
predicted to total 1,028,901 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent coming from travel,
commercial/industrial electricity and natural gas usage, residential electricity and natural gas
usage, and waste; and
WHEREAS, The City of Eden Prairie has developed a Climate Action Plan with a goal of
eliminating these carbon and greenhouse gas emissions by 2050; and
WHEREAS, To achieve a 2050 zero carbon emission goal several strategies have been
identified in the categories of commercial/industrial efficiency, residential efficiency, electric
grid mix changes, renewable energy, fuel switching in buildings, travel, and waste; and
WHEREAS, The strategies that will need to be employed to achieve this reduction include
energy code enforcement, net-zero energy buildings, energy-efficient retrofits, behavior change,
Xcel Energy's planned emissions reduction, on-site renewable electricity, green power
purchases, at-use fuel switching, travel mode shift, fleet electrification, and waste reduction and
diversion; and
WHEREAS, In support of these strategies the City will need to take several actions that
encourage, regulate, incentivize, or demonstrative via leadership ways to accomplish significant
decarbonization of our community's energy usage; and
WHEREAS, These efforts will require critical partnerships with homeowners, businesses,
nonprofit organizations, other regulatory agencies, Xcel Energy, Minnesota Valley Electric
Cooperative, CenterPoint Energy, and the private sector advancement of emerging technologies.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Eden Prairie City Council that the Eden
Prairie Climate Action Plan is hereby adopted.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that while it is the goal of EP CAP to achieve total
communitywide decarbonization by 2050, efforts that work to achieve this goal ahead of 2050
should be sought out and diligently pursued.
ADOPTED by the Eden Prairie City Council on March 17, 2020.
Ronald A. Case, Mayor
ATTEST:
SEAL