; (2) communities, governments, and businesses are working to reduce risks from, and costs associated with, climate change, by taking action to lower greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies; and (3) while climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts have expanded substantially in the last 4 years, such efforts do not yet approach the scale considered necessary to avoid substantial damages to the economy, environment, and human health over the coming decades; and Whereas the House of Representatives recognizes unprecedented demand for job-creating, American-made, clean energy, and the need to empower individuals and businesses to come together in the marketplace, as a historic opportunity to— (1) create millions of good, high-wage jobs in the United States; (2) enable equal opportunity to achieve unprecedented levels of prosperity and economic security for all people of the United States; and (3) secure the position of the United States as a global environmental leader: Now, therefore, be it