IV 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 367 
Recognizing that climate change most severely impacts vulnerable and dis-
advantaged communities in the United States and around the world, 
and that it is the responsibility of the United States Government to 
work with its global partners to promote environmental justice and cli-
mate justice. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 9, 2019 
Mr. ESPAILLAT (for himself, Ms. MOORE, Ms. JAYAPAL, and Ms. OMAR) sub-
mitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing that climate change most severely impacts vul-
nerable and disadvantaged communities in the United 
States and around the world, and that it is the responsi-
bility of the United States Government to work with 
its global partners to promote environmental justice and 
climate justice. 
Whereas climate change poses an existential threat for this 
generation and generations to come; 
Whereas the world is already experiencing the omnipresent 
danger of climate change; 
Whereas the recent, current, and future impacts of changes 
in the Earth’s climate present real and immediate dan-
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gers to the United States and countries around the 
world; 
Whereas there needs to be a global approach to addressing 
issues of climate change and emergency preparedness; 
Whereas climate change is a threat multiplier to global con-
flicts, leading to droughts, floods, hurricanes, heat waves, 
fires, natural disasters, and food shortages, in turn exac-
erbating competition and conflict over resources, dis-
placing large populations, and creating migration and ref-
ugee crises; 
Whereas the Fourth National Climate Assessment is in 
agreement with the scientific community that ‘‘the evi-
dence of human-caused climate change is overwhelming 
and continues to strengthen’’; 
Whereas the Paris Agreement acknowledges that all ‘‘Parties 
should, when taking action to address climate change, re-
spect, promote and consider their respective obligations 
on human rights, the right to health, the rights of indige-
nous peoples, local communities, migrants, children, per-
sons with disabilities and people in vulnerable situations 
and the right to development, as well as gender equality, 
empowerment of women and intergenerational equity’’; 
Whereas the Paris Agreement notes the importance of ‘‘cli-
mate justice’’ when mitigating and adapting to climate 
change and recognizes ‘‘the need for an effective and pro-
gressive response to the urgent threat of climate change’’; 
Whereas the Fourth National Climate Assessment states that 
‘‘people who are already vulnerable, including lower-in-
come communities and other marginalized communities, 
have lower capacity to prepare for and cope with extreme 
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weather and climate-related events and are expected to 
experience greater impacts’’; 
Whereas the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 
Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C acknowl-
edges that already vulnerable and marginalized commu-
nities include communities of color, indigenous peoples, 
and agrarian communities, among others, and that these 
communities experience disproportionate impacts of cli-
mate change; 
Whereas the World Health Organization finds that 7,000,000 
people die prematurely every year from diseases exacer-
bated by air pollution, a major contributor to climate 
change, around 90 percent of which are in low- and mid-
dle-income countries; 
Whereas the World Health Organization considers air pollu-
tion as the greatest environmental risk to health, and es-
timates that ‘‘between 2030 and 2050, climate change is 
expected to cause 250,000 additional deaths per year, 
from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat stress’’; 
Whereas a recent study published in the Proceedings of the 
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of 
America, Black and Hispanic individuals in the United 
States face 56 percent and 63 percent more exposure to 
air pollution, respectively, that is caused by their con-
sumption of goods and services that generate fine partic-
ulate matter; 
Whereas disparities in poverty and health will only increase 
as climate change becomes more extreme; 
Whereas heat islands, urban areas with little green space 
leading to constantly higher temperatures, disproportion-
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