Recognizing that the climate crisis is disproportionately affecting the health, economic opportunity, and fundamental rights of children; recognizing the importance of renewed leadership by the United States in addressing the climate crisis; and recognizing the need of the United States to develop a national, comprehensive, and science-based climate recovery plan to phase out fossil fuel emissions, protect and enhance natural sequestration, and put the United States on a path towards stabilizing the climate system.

H. Con. Res. 119 · 116th Congress · Sep 23, 2020 · Lineage

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

That it is the sense of Congress that—

(1)

renewed United States leadership is needed immediately to act to address the human-caused climate crisis that is disproportionately affecting the health, economic opportunity, and fundamental rights of our Nation’s children; and

(2)

there is a human-caused climate crisis that—

(A)

has inspired children across our Nation to organize and demand immediate government action to protect their fundamental rights from the perils of climate change; and

(B)

demands a national, comprehensive, science-based, and just climate recovery plan prepared by the departments and agencies of the executive branch with delegated authority over energy and climate policy, that puts the United States on a trajectory consistent with reducing global atmospheric CO2 to below 350 parts per million by the year 2100 to uphold children’s fundamental rights.

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Sep 23, 2020viewing Introduced in House Ms. Schakowsky (for herself, Mr. Rush, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Nadler, Ms. Barragán, Ms. Speier, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Haaland, Mr. Kennedy, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Mr. Gallego, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. García of Illinois, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Lee of California, Ms. Norton, Ms. Pingree, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. Sarbanes, Ms. Brownley of California, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Welch, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Escobar, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Vargas, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Neguse, Ms. Bonamici, Ms. Bass, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Soto, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Omar, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Castro of Texas, Mrs. Napolitano, and Mr. Blumenauer) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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