Expressing the need for protecting and conserving at least 50 percent of the land, freshwater, and ocean ecosystems in the United States and encouraging diplomatic community efforts to achieve this goal worldwide.
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Latest Action · April 24, 2025
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
H.Res. 346 is a non-binding resolution expressing Congress's support for protecting and conserving at least 50 percent of U.S. land, freshwater, and ocean ecosystems, while encouraging similar conservation efforts globally. The resolution emphasizes that biodiversity is in crisis, with wildlife populations declining dramatically since 1970 and over one million plant and animal species facing extinction, which threatens human health and economic wellbeing. The measure highlights benefits of ecosystem protection, including climate change mitigation, cleaner water and air, disease prevention, and support for outdoor recreation industries that generated $1.2 trillion in economic output in 2023. The resolution calls for collaboration among government agencies, private partnerships, indigenous communities, and international partners to achieve this 50 percent conservation goal, building on the Biden administration's earlier initiative to conserve 30 percent by 2030. While this resolution does not appropriate funding or create new legal requirements, it expresses the House's commitment to prioritizing biodiversity conservation and addresses concerns that low-income and minority communities have been disproportionately impacted by habitat loss.
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