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events — like droughts and floods - and also adversely affect wildlife habitats and food and water supplies.
The Cool Counties program is designed to help counties reduce greenhouse gas emissions through measures such as environmentally responsible land-use policies and the use of renewable energy.
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald Connolly has been working with the Sierra Club and other local elected officials during the past six months to develop the program.
Connolly wrote a letter to Rappahannock’s Board of Supervisors to request that they join Cool Counties. He also commended Rappahannock for the county’s far-sighted policies toward preserving open space.
"You have set an example in the region for how to protect open space and preserve agriculture in the face of immense growth pressures,” Connolly wrote. “Your stewardship of natural resources not only reduces congestion in the entire region, but also protects our watershed and precludes massive increases in greenhouse gas emissions.”
Members of the Cool Counties program make commitments to inventory the greenhouse gas emissions that result from the county government’s operations and implement measures to achieve significant and sustainable reductions in those emissions.
Cool Counties sets a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent below current levels by 2050. The declaration recommends that counties stop increasing emissions by 2010 and achieve a 10 percent reduction every five years afterward through 2050.
Member counties will urge the federal government to enact requirements, limits and incentives to meet that target of an 80 percent reduction.
Nearly 600 cities in the United States have joined a less comprehensive Sierra Club program called Cool Cities. The program challenges cities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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