; Whereas 8.4 percent of children suffer from allergic rhinitis and the ragweed pollen season in North America has grown 13 to 27 days longer since 1995 due to higher temperatures and greater CO2 levels; Whereas children exposed to wildfires suffer substantial eye symptoms, as well as upper and lower respiratory symptoms, which lead to increased rates of asthma-related hospitalizations and emergency room visits; Whereas extreme weather events can negatively impact children’s mental health due to family loss or separation, school interruption, scarcities of food, water, and shelter, and public service outages; Whereas without immediate steps to address human-caused climate change, the health impacts on children will increase in severity and in terms of the number of children impacted and will cost the United States billions of dollars per year by the end of the century; Whereas children will largely shoulder the costs of human-caused climate change and further increases in global temperature will saddle children with an enormous, perhaps incalculable, cost burden, undermining their economic security and the economic security of the United States; Whereas children are deserving of special consideration and protection with respect to human-caused climate change; Whereas children on the frontlines of human-caused climate change across our Nation and globally have risen up and called upon government leaders around the world to take concrete, science-based, and equitable action to address human-caused climate change and ensure climate justice for their generation, future generations, and frontline and vulnerable communities, including communities of color, low-income communities, and indigenous peoples; Whereas global atmospheric CO2 concentrations must be reduced to below 350 ppm by the end of the century, with further reductions thereafter, in order to restore the planet’s energy balance, stabilize our climate system, and protect the planet’s ice sheets and oceans for posterity