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ately harm the health and well-being of people of color 
and the elderly; 
Whereas access to clean water, in the United States and 
around the globe, is severely impacted by climate change, 
adversely affecting communities of color that already 
struggle with clean water access; 
Whereas studies demonstrate that catastrophic hurricanes 
impacting the United States and Caribbean nations in re-
cent years have been magnified by the effects of climate 
change; 
Whereas families in the ‘‘dry corridor’’ of Honduras, Guate-
mala, and El Salvador lost up to 80 percent of their corn 
and bean crops in both the first and second harvest sea-
sons of 2018 due to drought; 
Whereas 300,000 subsistence farmers in Guatemala reported 
crop loss because of low rainfall at the end of the year; 
Whereas rising temperatures, more extreme weather events, 
and increasingly unpredictable rainfall patterns disrupt 
agricultural cycles, endangering the livelihood of Central 
American farmers and driving migration; 
Whereas in southern Africa, crop yield losses compounded by 
climate change would increase food prices by an average 
of 12 percent by 2030, placing a drastic strain on poor 
households, who spend as much as 60 percent of their in-
come on food, the resulting malnutrition could lead to a 
23 percent increase in severe stunting of normal growth 
and development; 
Whereas 800,000,000 people in South Asia depend on water 
from the Himalayas, and as temperatures warm and the 
ice recedes, the combination of droughts and the reduced 
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flow threaten Nepal’s tourism industry as well as the 
lives of rural farmers; 
Whereas Small Island Developing States acutely face health 
risks resulting from climate change, which increases 
flooding due to sea-level rise and raises exposure to infec-
tious diseases due to the contamination of freshwater 
supplies; 
Whereas the Climate Change and the Cost of Capital in De-
veloping Countries report of the United Nations Environ-
ment Programme finds that in the last ten years, climate 
vulnerability has cost the twenty nations most affected by 
catastrophes rooted in climate change an additional 
$62,000,000,000 in interest payments alone; and 
Whereas the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review for the De-
partment of Defense highlights that climate change influ-
ences ‘‘resource competition while placing additional bur-
dens on economies, societies, and government institutions 
around the world,’’ serving as ‘‘threat multipliers that 
will aggravate stressors abroad such as poverty, environ-
mental degradation, political instability, and social ten-
sions—conditions that can enable terrorist activity and 
other forms of violence’’: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes that climate change most se-
verely impacts vulnerable and disadvantaged commu-
nities 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 pro-
mote environmental justice and climate justice; 
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(2) recognizes that all efforts to adapt to and 
mitigate climate change must include specific protec-
tions for and acknowledgment of the harm to com-
munities of color, indigenous peoples, and other 
frontline communities around the world; 
(3) recognizes that mitigating climate change 
must be a global endeavor, in which the United 
States should act as a leader among the inter-
national community; 
(4) urges the United States Government to ex-
pand collaboration and cooperation among its global 
partners to pursue policies that prioritize climate ad-
aptation among vulnerable and disadvantaged com-
munities, given the disproportionate impact climate 
change has on minority communities, who are least 
responsible for the causes of climate change yet bear 
the greatest burden of its effects; 
(5) expresses the need for all countries to pro-
mote vulnerable community-focused adaptation to 
occur across all sectors, including in agriculture, in-
frastructure, and health; 
(6) recognizes and encourages all countries to 
undertake inclusive stakeholder engagement when 
developing policies to address environmental justice 
and climate justice; and 
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(7) expresses that immediate, multilateral ac-
tion is needed to drastically reduce global green-
house gas emissions in order to mitigate the effects 
of climate change. 
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