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4	4	STSESSION H. RES. 347
5	5	Recognizing the significant impact and legacy of Cecil Corbin-Mark in the
6	6	environmental justice community and further recognizing that climate
7	7	change most severely impacts vulnerable and disadvantaged communities
8	8	in the United States and around the world, and that it is the responsi-
9	9	bility of the United States Government to work with its global partners
10	10	to promote environmental justice.
11	11	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
12	12	APRIL24, 2025
13	13	Mr. E
14	14	SPAILLATsubmitted the following resolution; which was referred to the
15	15	Committee on Foreign Affairs
16	16	RESOLUTION
17	17	Recognizing the significant impact and legacy of Cecil
18	18	Corbin-Mark in the environmental justice community and
19	19	further recognizing that climate change most severely
20	20	impacts vulnerable and disadvantaged communities in the
21	21	United States and around the world, and that it is
22	22	the responsibility of the United States Government to
23	23	work with its global partners to promote environmental
24	24	justice.
25	25	Whereas climate change poses an existential threat for this
26	26	generation and generations to come;
27	27	Whereas the world is already experiencing the omnipresent
28	28	danger of climate change;
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31	31	•HRES 347 IH
32	32	Whereas the recent, current, and future impacts of changes
33	33	in the Earth’s climate present real and immediate dan-
34	34	gers to the United States and countries around the
35	35	world;
36	36	Whereas there needs to be a global approach to addressing
37	37	issues of climate change and emergency preparedness;
38	38	Whereas climate change is a threat multiplier to global con-
39	39	flicts, leading to droughts, floods, hurricanes, heat waves,
40	40	fires, natural disasters, and food shortages, in turn exac-
41	41	erbating competition and conflict over resources, dis-
42	42	placing large populations, and creating migration and ref-
43	43	ugee crises;
44	44	Whereas the Paris Agreement acknowledges that all ‘‘Parties
45	45	should, when taking action to address climate change, re-
46	46	spect, promote and consider their respective obligations
47	47	on human rights, the right to health, the rights of indige-
48	48	nous peoples, local communities, migrants, children, per-
49	49	sons with disabilities and people in vulnerable situations
50	50	and the right to development, as well as gender equality,
51	51	empowerment of women and intergenerational equity’’;
52	52	Whereas the Paris Agreement notes the importance of ‘‘cli-
53	53	mate justice’’ when mitigating and adapting to climate
54	54	change and recognizes ‘‘the need for an effective and pro-
55	55	gressive response to the urgent threat of climate change’’;
56	56	Whereas the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
57	57	Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C acknowl-
58	58	edges that already vulnerable and marginalized commu-
59	59	nities include communities of color, indigenous peoples,
60	60	and agrarian communities, among others, and that these
61	61	communities experience disproportionate impacts of cli-
62	62	mate change;
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65	65	•HRES 347 IH
66	66	Whereas the World Health Organization finds that 7,000,000
67	67	people die prematurely every year from diseases exacer-
68	68	bated by air pollution, a major contributor to climate
69	69	change, around 90 percent of which are in low- and mid-
70	70	dle-income countries;
71	71	Whereas the World Health Organization considers air pollu-
72	72	tion as the greatest environmental risk to health, and es-
73	73	timates that ‘‘between 2030 and 2050, climate change is
74	74	expected to cause 250,000 additional deaths per year,
75	75	from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat stress’’;
76	76	Whereas disparities in poverty and health will only increase
77	77	as climate change becomes more extreme;
78	78	Whereas heat islands, urban areas with little green space
79	79	leading to constantly higher temperatures, disproportion-
80	80	ately harm the health and well-being of people of color
81	81	and the elderly;
82	82	Whereas access to clean water, in the United States and
83	83	around the globe, is severely impacted by climate change,
84	84	adversely affecting communities of color that already
85	85	struggle with clean water access;
86	86	Whereas studies demonstrate that catastrophic hurricanes
87	87	impacting the United States and Caribbean nations in re-
88	88	cent years have been magnified by the effects of climate
89	89	change;
90	90	Whereas families in the ‘‘dry corridor’’ of Honduras, Guate-
91	91	mala, and El Salvador lost up to 80 percent of their corn
92	92	and bean crops in both the first and second harvest sea-
93	93	sons of 2018 due to drought;
94	94	Whereas rising temperatures, more extreme weather events,
95	95	and increasingly unpredictable rainfall patterns disrupt
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98	98	•HRES 347 IH
99	99	agricultural cycles, endangering the livelihood of Central
100	100	American farmers and driving migration;
101	101	Whereas in southern Africa, crop yield losses compounded by
102	102	climate change would increase food prices by an average
103	103	of 12 percent by 2030, placing a drastic strain on poor
104	104	households, who spend as much as 60 percent of their in-
105	105	come on food, the resulting malnutrition could lead to a
106	106	23-percent increase in severe stunting of normal growth
107	107	and development;
108	108	Whereas 800,000,000 people in South Asia depend on water
109	109	from the Himalayas, and as temperatures warm and the
110	110	ice recedes, the combination of droughts and the reduced
111	111	flow threaten Nepal’s tourism industry as well as the
112	112	lives of rural farmers;
113	113	Whereas Small Island Developing States acutely face health
114	114	risks resulting from climate change, which increases
115	115	flooding due to sea-level rise and raises exposure to infec-
116	116	tious diseases due to the contamination of freshwater
117	117	supplies; and
118	118	Whereas Cecil Corbin-Mark, Deputy Director of WE ACT for
119	119	Environmental Justice, dedicated his career to uplifting
120	120	environmental justice communities, from his native Har-
121	121	lem to around the globe, fighting to combat systemic in-
122	122	equities faced by communities of color: Now, therefore, be
123	123	it
124	124	Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 1
125	125	(1) recognizes the significant impact and legacy 2
126	126	of Cecil Corbin-Mark in the environmental justice 3
127	127	community and further recognizes that climate 4
128	128	change most severely impacts vulnerable and dis-5
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131	131	•HRES 347 IH
132	132	advantaged communities in the United States and 1
133	133	around the world, and that it is the responsibility of 2
134	134	the United States Government to work with its glob-3
135	135	al partners to promote environmental justice and cli-4
136	136	mate justice; 5
137	137	(2) recognizes that all efforts to adapt to and 6
138	138	mitigate climate change must include specific protec-7
139	139	tions for and acknowledgment of the harm to com-8
140	140	munities of color, indigenous peoples, and other 9
141	141	frontline communities around the world; 10
142	142	(3) recognizes that mitigating climate change 11
143	143	must be a global endeavor, in which the United 12
144	144	States should act as a leader among the inter-13
145	145	national community; 14
146	146	(4) urges the United States Government to ex-15
147	147	pand collaboration and cooperation among its global 16
148	148	partners to pursue policies that prioritize climate ad-17
149	149	aptation among vulnerable and disadvantaged com-18
150	150	munities, given the disproportionate impact climate 19
151	151	change has on minority communities, who are least 20
152	152	responsible for the causes of climate change yet bear 21
153	153	the greatest burden of its effects; 22
154	154	(5) expresses the need for all countries to pro-23
155	155	mote vulnerable community-focused adaptation to 24
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158	158	•HRES 347 IH
159	159	occur across all sectors, including in agriculture, in-1
160	160	frastructure, and health; 2
161	161	(6) recognizes and encourages all countries to 3
162	162	undertake inclusive stakeholder engagement when 4
163	163	developing policies to address environmental justice 5
164	164	and climate justice; and 6
165	165	(7) expresses that immediate, multilateral ac-7
166	166	tion is needed to drastically reduce global green-8
167	167	house gas emissions in order to mitigate the effects 9
168	168	of climate change. 10
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