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Climate Crisis and Children's Rights: Call for National Action Plan

This document highlights that the climate crisis negatively impacts children's health, economic opportunities, and fundamental rights. It calls for the United States to develop a comprehensive, science-based climate recovery plan to protect future generations. The aim is to reduce emissions and stabilize the climate, affecting citizens' safety and health.
Key points
Recognition that children are uniquely vulnerable to the effects of climate change, including health and mental issues.
Call for a national plan to phase out fossil fuel emissions and enhance natural carbon sequestration.
Emphasis that inaction will be costly for future generations and the nation's economy.
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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.
Print number: HCONRES 56
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Process start date: 2023-07-13