Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States is committed to ensuring a safe and healthy climate for future generations, and to creating solutions for restoring the climate.

Bill: 115-hconres-137
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Raskin, Jamie [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2018-09-25
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality

Climate change and greenhouse gases
Latest action: action_date: 2018-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-09-25
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States is committed to ensuring a safe and healthy climate for future generations and creating solutions for restoring the climate.<br /></p>

tv_txt: IV 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. CON. RES. 137 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 25, 2018 Mr. Raskin submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States is committed to ensuring a safe and healthy climate for future generations, and to creating solutions for restoring the climate.

Whereas humanity has a continuing obligation to provide future generations a safe and healthy climate, similar to the climate of a hundred years ago; Whereas the human species has never before lived with sustained atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) levels above 300 parts per million (ppm), which were exceeded in 1925; Whereas current CO 2 levels are already about 410 ppm, and are expected to rise to 450 ppm or higher by 2050, based on current Paris Agreement goals; Whereas the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated that temperatures corresponding to CO 2 levels of 450 ppm or above will lead to grave damage to ecosystems; Whereas restoring CO 2 to levels of 300 ppm requires removing about 1 trillion tons of CO 2 from the atmosphere, and doing that in 20 to 50 years requires removing 50 gigatons (GT) of CO 2 (which is equal to 50 billion tons) per year from the atmosphere; Whereas multiple methods capable of CO 2 removal from the atmosphere at 50 GT CO 2 per year have been demonstrated, and annual costs for implementing these methods are expected to be less than 1 to 3 percent of global gross domestic product (GDP); Whereas if known methods prove to be incapable of removing 50 GT CO 2 per year, then we must develop other methods that will restore a safe and healthy climate for future generations; Whereas scientists have researched methods for keeping warming below 2° C, but have not yet researched the best methods to remove all excess CO 2 , stop sea-level rise, and restore a safe and healthy climate for future generations; and Whereas declaring a goal of restoring a safe and healthy climate will encourage scientists to research the most effective ways to restore safe CO 2 levels, stop sea-level rise, and restore a safe and healthy climate for future generations: Now, therefore, be it

That it is the sense of Congress that the United States is committed to ensuring a safe and healthy climate for future generations, and to creating solutions for restoring the climate.