IndyStar: Hours after alarming UN climate report, City-County Council passes environmental committee

Just hours after a United Nation’s report sparked alarm worldwide about the quickening climate change crisis, the Indianapolis City-County Council passed a proposal to create a standing committee Monday night with the goal of mitigating global warming’s impact on the city.

Environmental groups voiced strong support for creating the standing committee.

“The Committee [would] become a formalized platform for discussing critical issues facing our community, reporting on the progress of Thrive Indianapolis (the city’s first sustainability and resiliency action plan), and demonstrating our collective urgency to effectively respond to and prepare for climate change at the local level,” a spokesperson for the sustainability office said in an emailed statement.”

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