The Children's Fundamental Rights to Life and a Stable Climate System resolution recognizes a health and safety emergency disproportionately affecting the fundamental rights of children due to the Trump administration’s directives that unleash fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, block a clean, renewable energy transition, while suppressing Congressionally-mandated climate change science.

The resolution calls on Congress to:

• Support the youth climate movement and children on the frontlines of climate change - Black, brown, Indigenous, and low-income children;

• express opposition to the unconstitutional executive orders and demand that the executive branch comply with congressional statutory mandates, reverse ongoing implementation of the orders, and restore climate science resources;

• recognize that Congress and the Federal Government have a duty to constrain any government actions that harm young people and discount the lives of children; and

• demand that all energy and climate laws enacted by Congress and practices by the executive branch be consistent with protecting children’s fundamental rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, including a right to a stable climate system, and put the U.S. on a trajectory consistent with reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide to less than 350 parts per million by 2100.