Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States is committed to ensuring a safe and healthy climate for future generations, and thus to restoring the climate.
United States119th CongressHCONRES-46House of Representatives
Updated: Jul 23, 2025
Summary
This concurrent resolution expresses the sense of Congress that the United States is committed to ensuring a safe and healthy climate for future generations through climate restoration . It formally recognizes an obligation to restore atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations to below 300 parts per million (ppm), a level at which humans have historically survived long-term, contrasting with today's approximately 420 ppm. The resolution emphasizes that climate restoration is a crucial complement to rapid emissions reductions and is a precondition for intergenerational climate justice. Achieving this goal by 2050 will require removing approximately one trillion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere, leveraging both natural processes and new technologies for sequestration. In addition to CO2 removal, the resolution highlights the importance of reducing feedback loops that negatively affect the Earth's energy balance and addressing short-lived climate pollutants like methane. Congress declares climate restoration and achieving net-zero CO2 emissions as key policy priorities, calling on the President, Secretary of State, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations to take actions to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at preindustrial levels.
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Submitted in House
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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