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.

S. Con. Res. 13 · 118th Congress · Jul 13, 2023 · Lineage

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

That it is the sense of Congress that—

(1)

leadership by the United States is still urgently needed to address the human-caused climate crisis that disproportionately affects the health, economic opportunity, and fundamental rights of the children of the United States; and

(2)

there is a human-caused climate crisis that—

(A)

has inspired children across the United States 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 that—

(i)

is prepared by Federal departments and agencies pursuant to delegated authority over energy and climate policy; and

(ii)

upholds the fundamental rights of children and puts the United States on a trajectory consistent with reducing global atmospheric carbon dioxide to less than 350 parts per million by 2100.

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Jul 13, 2023viewing Introduced in Senate Mr. Merkley (for himself, Mr. Markey, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Booker, Ms. Warren, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Padilla, Mrs. Murray, Ms. Duckworth, and Mr. Welch) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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