In June of 2018, The City of Berkeley was the 5th government in the world to declare a climate emergency. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the Climate Emergency movement first found its footing thanks to the leadership of Armando Davila-Kirkwood and his mother former Berkeley City councilwoman Cheryl Davila. Armando Davila-Kirkwood recruited The Climate Mobilization, 350 Bay Area and Council-member Davila to take on the regional Campaign.
Armando Davila-Kirkwood, and his mother Cheryl Davila successfully carried forth a regional campaign to declare climate emergencies and move the bay area into a regional mobilization. This is the original document put forth by Cheryl Davila passed by the City of Berkeley.
Campaign Goal:
Implement a regional-scale climate emergency mobilization in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Use the San Francisco Bay Area to prototype and prove that declared jurisdictions can go directly to a mobilization.
Catalyze a viral process wherein governments who declared a Climate Emergency move directly to a Government-Led “emergency transition effort” following the San Francisco Bay Area example.
Campaign Outcome:
The campaign was a huge success resulting in 64 Climate Emergency Declarations in California and the following cities in the Bay Area:
Richmond, Oakland, Hayward, El Cerrito, Fairfax, Sebastopol, San Jose, Petaluma, Cupertino, Alameda, San Anselmo, Benicia, Cloverdale, Cotati, Healdsburg, Santa Rosa, Windsor, Menlo Park, Santa Cruz, and the counties of Alameda, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, and Sonoma.
Draft Resolution can be seen here: