On the campaign trail, Barack Obama said his plan to slow climate change would include money to sustain fish and wildlife from its harmful effects.
 
To meet this goal, the U.S. House of Representatives included a Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Fund in its version of a bill that would allow businesses to buy pollution permits from the government. About 4.3 percent of the revenue would go to the fund, and it would be distributed annually to the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, the Army Corps of Engineers and other government entities to pay for species conservation. (Wildlife conservation advocates, like William Geer with the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, say 5 percent of the revenue would be sufficient.)
 
In the Senate, Sens. Max Baucus, Jeff Bingaman, and Sheldon Whitehouse have introduced a bill that would set up such a fund. But the legislation provides no funding mechanism like the House cap-and-trade bill.
 
So, there's an effort afoot to help fish and game survive the impact of climate change. But so far, the legislation is still being debated by Congress. We'll keep our eyes on this promise and move it to In the Works for now.