That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that—
it is in the national interest for the Federal Government to establish a National Biodiversity Strategy to—
ensure the conservation of the Nation’s biodiversity;
secure and restore the ecosystem services provided by nature for current and future generations;
set ambitious yet necessary goals for protecting biodiversity in the coming decades;
promote social equity and justice in the conservation of the Nation’s biodiversity;
coordinate the actions of Federal agencies to advance the conservation of biodiversity;
promote collaboration among the Federal, State, and Tribal governments and non-governmental stakeholders to advance conservation;
honor the Federal trust obligations to Tribal nations and Native Americans; and
provide global leadership in addressing the biodiversity crisis; and
the National Biodiversity Strategy should include direction on—
setting a national goal of protecting at least 30 percent of United States lands and waters to conserve biodiversity and address climate change by 2030 and other goals necessary to reduce the threats to biodiversity as indicated by the best available scientific information;
affirming the need to protect threatened, endangered, and at-risk species from further imperilment or extinction;
climate adaptation and mitigation strategies for biodiversity conservation, including—
joining and leading international agreements to combat climate change, such as the Paris Agreement;
establishing climate refugia and climate corridors for conservation of species affected by climate change; and
the rapid build-out of renewable energy;
reviewing existing laws, plans, programs, and strategies that are relevant to addressing threats to biodiversity to assess how they can contribute to the objectives of this resolution and, as found necessary, to recommend new laws, plans, programs, and strategies;
ensuring integration of biodiversity protection across the activities of the Federal Government;
advancing conservation in collaboration with the State and Tribal governments and on private lands through funding, technical support, and partnerships;
incorporating indigenous knowledge and practices to support conservation and biodiversity, and ensuring fulfillment of the Federal trust obligations that apply to government decisionmaking that impacts the interests of Native Americans;
means to ensure equitable access to nature, inclusive decisionmaking on biodiversity protection, and just allocations of resources to achieve the goals of this resolution, including for systematically and deliberately targeted populations such as communities of color, low-income communities, and Native American communities;
establishing regular monitoring and reporting on the status of the Nation’s biodiversity, including a quadrennial assessment reported to Congress and the American people;
prioritizing programs to identify knowledge gaps and accelerate research and development of new conservation solutions across sectors; and
funding existing conservation programs, developing new funding sources, and reducing subsidies that harm biodiversity, in amounts commensurate with the scale of the challenge.