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 and restoration of the Nation’s biodiversity;
secure and restore the ecosystem services provided by nature for current and future generations;
deliver on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals;
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, nongovernmental stakeholders, civil society, and international cooperation 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 conserving at least 30 percent of United States lands and waters to protect biodiversity and address climate change by 2030, supporting international efforts to achieve the same goal on a global scale, and setting other goals necessary to reduce the threats to biodiversity as indicated by the best available scientific information;
taking action 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, including 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, including foreign policy and foreign assistance;
advancing conservation in collaboration with the State and Tribal governments and on private lands through incentives, funding, technical support, and partnerships;
incorporating indigenous knowledge and practices to support conservation and biodiversity, safeguarding the rights and needs of indigenous peoples, 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 biodiversity, in the Nation and globally, 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;
assessing and integrating the United States role in international biodiversity, ecosystem services, and nature conservation in national security and foreign policy strategies, including in international development policies, planning and finance, diplomatic dialogues, and trade agreements, and advancing global adoption of and progress towards the “30x30” goal; and
funding existing conservation programs, developing new funding sources, and reducing subsidies that harm biodiversity, in amounts commensurate with the scale of the challenge.