A concurrent resolution recognizing that the climate crisis disproportionately affects the health, economic opportunity, and fundamental rights of children, expressing the sense of Congress that leadership by the United States is still urgently needed to address the climate crisis, and acknowledging the need of the United States to develop a national, comprehensive, science-based, and just climate recovery plan to phase out fossil fuel emissions, protect and enhance natural carbon sequestration, and put the United States on a path toward stabilizing the climate system.
This concurrent resolution recognizes that the climate crisis disproportionately harms children's health, economic opportunities, and fundamental rights. It expresses Congress's sense that the U.S. urgently needs to develop a national climate recovery plan to phase out fossil fuel emissions, protect natural carbon sinks, and reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide to below 350 parts per million by 2100. The resolution emphasizes the need for a science-based, equitable approach that addresses climate impacts on vulnerable communities, including children in environmental justice areas. While not a law, it urges federal agencies to prioritize climate action as a matter of protecting children's future.
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Jul 13, 2023
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Referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text: CR S2466-2468)
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Jul 13, 2023
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1 primary · 13 co-sponsors
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Jeff Merkley
DDemocratic
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Alex Padilla
DDemocratic
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Bernard Sanders
IIndependent
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Chris Van Hollen
DDemocratic
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Cory A. Booker
DDemocratic
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Edward J. Markey
DDemocratic
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Elizabeth Warren
DDemocratic
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Patty Murray
DDemocratic
Co
Peter Welch
DDemocratic
Co
Richard Blumenthal
DDemocratic
Co
Richard J. Durbin
DDemocratic
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