That—
leadership in the United States urgently needs—
to recognize and address the current health and safety emergency faced by children that is well documented and supported by the scientific community;
to express their opposition to President Trump’s Executive orders that unleash fossil fuels, increase greenhouse gas emissions, block a vital clean, renewable energy transition, and chill climate change-related speech; and
to demand the Trump administration—
comply with congressional statutory mandates and reverse ongoing implementation of the Executive orders that increase fossil fuel production, block clean, renewable energy and electric vehicles, and weaken protections for children;
restore the Environmental Protection Agency to its core mission approved by Congress; and
restore climate change resources and climate science data on Federal websites;
Congress and the Federal Government, including the Trump administration—
have a duty to constrain any government actions that harm young people’s lives and deprive them of their fundamental constitutional rights only to those actions strictly necessary to achieve a compelling government interest; and
should institute an intergenerational system of governing that ensures equal treatment of children by no longer discounting the lives of children and future generations; and
all energy and climate laws enacted by Congress and Executive orders, regulations, and practices issued by the executive branch with long-term impacts on the climate system and human communities should be consistent with—
protecting children’s fundamental rights to life, liberty, and property, which include rights to the pursuit of happiness, dignity, personal security, family autonomy, bodily integrity, the ability to practice cultural and religious traditions, and a stable climate system necessary for children to exercise these rights; and
putting the United States on a trajectory consistent with reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide to less than 350 parts per million by 2,100.