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Building Resilient Habitats
The Global Warming Wildlife Survival Act: S. 2204
The Global Warming Wildlife Survival Act, S.2204, will create a comprehensive framework for a coordinated national approach to address the impacts of global warming on wildlife.
For years, scientists have recognized that global warming poses unprecedented risks to wildlife. The changing, shrinking and destruction of habitat caused by global warming requires wildlife to migrate or adapt and threatens their very existence;
Key Facts:
- Global warming is – and will continue to be -- one of the greatest threats to ecosystem integrity, individual fish and wildlife species, coastal human settlements and world economic development throughout the 21st century;
- Bills such as the Safe Climate Act of 2007, (H.R. 1590) introduced by Representative Waxman (D-CA), and the Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act, (S. 309) introduced by Senators Sanders (I-VT) and Boxer (DCA) appropriately focus on reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. The Global Warming Wildlife Survival Act takes a complementary step to prepare for current and future effects of global warming on ecosystems and wildlife;
- Even with significant emission reductions, wildlife will continue to suffer from the impacts of global warming for the next 100 years until greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere dissipate. Since global warming is one of the most significant threats facing wildlife in the coming century, its future will depend upon our ability to design and implement strategies to help them through this bottleneck period.
The Global Warming Wildlife Survival Act will:
- Ensure that federal and state agencies develop and implement plans to reduce the impact of global warming on wildlife and its habitat.
- Coordinate a national strategic response to enable wildlife to adapt to the current and future impacts of global warming that will occur over the next century as we work to reduce emissions.
- Establish a national scientific advisory council to determine likely impacts of global warming on wildlife.
- Establish a framework through which significant levels of federal funding can be allocated to help wildlife survive global warming.
For more information, please contact Myke Bybee; (202) 675-2389, or via email at
myke.bybee@sierraclub.org
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