Whereas global climate change is a threat to the United States national security, public health, national economy, and the legacy we will leave to our children; Whereas there is expert-level consensus within the Federal Government, from the intelligence community and Department of Defense to the Department of Agriculture, Department of Transportation, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, that climate change is real, already affecting the United States, and poses a dire threat to our well-being and security if left unaddressed; Whereas on November 23, 2018, the U.S. Global Change Research Program, a collaboration of thirteen Federal agencies, released Volume II of its Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) outlining the impact climate change will have on human and societal welfare, including region-specific effects, and issues affecting natural resource management, public health, emergency response, and other critical issues to national well-being; Whereas NCA4 makes clear that communities around the country are already facing climate-driven impacts on human health such as extreme heat, expanded exposure to vector-borne diseases, poor air quality, and weather events that are displacing communities; Whereas NCA4 found that reducing greenhouse gas emissions could, by the end of the century, result in thousands of American lives saved and hundreds of billions of dollars in health-related economic benefits gained each year; Whereas NCA4 highlighted that already-aging United States infrastructure, from stormwater management to the electrical grid, would be stretched to its limit in the face of Federal inaction toward combating climate change; Whereas on May 6, 2019, the United Nations Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released its updated Global Assessment, which found that around one million species, 1 in 4, are at risk of extinction as a result of climate change