22 U.S.C. § 262l–3 — Environmental and energy initiatives; benchmarks; Global Warming Initiative; appropriations

(a) Instructions to Executive Directors of Multilateral Development Banks It is U.S. policy that sustainable growth must be based on sustainably managing natural resources. The Secretary of the Treasury must instruct the U.S. Executive Director of each multilateral development bank (MDB) to keep strongly promoting the environmental and energy initiatives set out in section 533(a) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991 (Public Law 101–513). The Secretary of the Treasury, working with the Secretary of State, must also hold direct bilateral talks with officials from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member governments, aiming to build broader international support for the environmental goals in subsection (d). The Secretary of the Treasury must report to the Appropriations Committees by March 1, 1993, on the progress of these talks. (b) Report to Congress By March 1, 1993, the Secretary of the Treasury must report to Congress with the same information required under section 533(b) of Public Law 101–513. (c) Improved environmental performance; benchmarks (1) To carry out the policies in section 533(a) of Public Law 101–513 and section 1308 of the International Development and Finance Act of 1989 (Public Law 101–240), and to better measure the MDBs' progress on the environment, the Secretary of the Treasury must instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the MDBs to encourage each MDB to meet, at minimum, the benchmarks below in four areas: sustainable energy development, forest conservation, forced displacement of populations, and environmental impact assessment. On March 1, 1993, and March 1, 1994, the Secretary of the Treasury must report to Congress in detail on the MDBs' progress toward these benchmarks. (2) The benchmarks are: (A) Sustainable energy development — All energy-sector loans should be based on, or help build, "least-cost" integrated resource plans that study energy-efficiency options and renewable-energy alternatives and reflect the real environmental costs of proposed energy projects. A large share of energy, industry, and transportation loans and grants should go toward end-use energy efficiency and non-conventional renewable energy. Every unit within the MDBs should create management-level staff positions for efficiency and renewable energy, filled by people with relevant professional and educational experience. (B) Forest conservation — Forestry loans should not support commercial logging in relatively undisturbed primary forests, and no loan should cause significant loss of tropical forests. Forestry loans should not be paid out until the legal, economic, land-tenure, and other conditions needed for sustainability are in place. Loans should not support mining, oil, or other industrial development, or new or upgraded roads, in relatively undisturbed primary forests unless adequate safeguards — developed with local people — are already in place to prevent forest damage. Loans must respect the needs and rights of indigenous peoples and other long-standing forest residents, and should not go to countries unwilling to fairly resolve those people's land claims. Support for protecting biological diversity, done closely with local communities, should grow as a share of MDB lending. (C) Forced displacement of populations — The World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and Asian Development Bank should keep a list, available to the Secretary of the Treasury, of all ongoing projects that force people from their homes, including how many people are displaced and the status of resettlement compliance for each project, and get borrowers to agree that all such projects will fully comply with resettlement guidelines by mid-1993. The African Development Bank should adopt and carry out similar forced-displacement policy guidelines. (D) Environmental impact assessment (EIA) procedures — Each MDB should make draft and final EIA reports available to the public in both borrowing and donor countries, and give the public real chances to comment throughout the EIA process — including initial scoping, review of a project's assigned EIA category, and comments on draft and final reports. Each MDB should apply EIA requirements to all sector loans and build a method for assessing structural adjustment loans environmentally. Each MDB should require EIAs to study potential impacts on the global environment. Each MDB should have the head of its environmental unit — not project officers — decide what type of environmental analysis a project needs. (d) Global Warming Initiative The Administrator of the Agency for International Development must instruct all Agency missions and bureaus to keep carrying out every part of the "Global Warming Initiative," as defined in and continued under sections 533(c)(1) through (4) of Public Law 101–513. The Initiative must keep emphasizing reducing greenhouse-gas emissions through strategies compatible with continued economic development — such as forest conservation, end-use energy efficiency, least-cost energy planning, and renewable energy. The Administrator must direct Agency mission directors to build these strategies into their country programs. (e) Environment and energy activities Of the funds this Act appropriates under "Agency for International Development" in title II, at least $650,000,000 must go to environment and energy activities, including funds earmarked under section 533, and specifically: (1) At least $20,000,000 of funds for sections 103 through 106 and chapter 10 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for biological-diversity activities — of which $5,000,000 goes to the Parks in Peril project, $1,500,000 to the National Science Foundation's international biological diversity program, $750,000 to the Neotropical Bird Conservation Initiative, and up to $2,000,000 to Project Noah. (2) At least $15,000,000 of Development Assistance Fund and chapter 10 funds to support replicable renewable-energy projects, with the Agency starting at least five significant new renewable-energy activities in fiscal year 1993. (3) At least $7,000,000 of those funds for elephant conservation and preservation. (4) At least $25,000,000 of Development Assistance Fund money for the Agency's Office of Energy. (5) Up to $50,000,000 of chapter 4, part II funds that may go to the "Forests for the Future Initiative" and to reaching a Global Forest Agreement. (f) International development and economic support Of the funds appropriated for parts I and chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the Agency for International Development should, as far as feasible and including the amounts in subsection (e), target: (1) $50,000,000 for Global Environment Facility projects. (2) A total of $10,000,000 for CORECT, the Environmental Technology Export Council, and the International Fund for Renewable Energy Efficiency. (3) $55,000,000 for activities that support the Global Warming Initiative. (g) Development Assistance Fund and Development Fund for Africa Funds this Act, or any later Act, appropriates for the Development Assistance Fund and Development Fund for Africa may pay expenses — including related support costs — for people detailed to or employed by the Agency for International Development who work in environment and energy, particularly on the Global Warming Initiative described in this section. (h) Conservation and biological diversity in Africa Of the funds appropriated under section 2763 of this title, at least $15,000,000 must go to African countries for conservation and biological-diversity programs.