22 U.S.C. § 7909 — Authorization for the Clean Technology Fund
submitted 17 years ago by Pub. L. 111-117 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 503 words · no verdicts yet
For fiscal year 2010, up to $300 million was authorized for a United States contribution to the Clean Technology Fund. The Treasury Secretary must use United States influence to impose country, planning, cost-sharing, and clean-technology conditions; paragraph (3) is repealed.
(1) For fiscal year 2010, up to $300,000,000 was authorized to be appropriated for a United States contribution to the Clean Technology Fund.
(2) The Treasury Secretary must use the United States voice and vote to ensure (A) no country receives more than 15 percent of Fund resources; (B) before funds are obligated, recipient countries submit an investment plan to the Fund’s governing body and that body properly reviews and considers it, with the plan achieving significant net national greenhouse-gas reductions; (C) an IDA-blend borrower contributes at least 15 percent of the total public-sector-activity cost from its public funds, and an IBRD-Only borrower contributes at least 25 percent; and (D) Fund assistance is used only to deploy clean-energy technologies in developing countries, including suitable technical support or policy or institutional reform, in a way achieving substantial net emission reductions.
(3) Repealed. Pub. L. 113–76, div. K, title VII, § 7034(i), January 17, 2014, 128 Stat. 514.
(4) Definitions. (A) “Net reductions” means how much a supported project or program produces lower emissions than the same entity or sector in the same country would produce without the Fund project, considering, unless impracticable, effects outside the project’s physical boundaries caused by its activities. (B) “Public sector activities” may include sovereign loans the recipient assumes to finance the plan. (C) “Clean energy technology” means technology that, compared with then-widely-used commercial technology in the country, substantially reduces emissions, does not significantly worsen public health or the environment, and does at least one of: (i) generates electricity or useful heat from a renewable resource; (ii) substantially improves building, industrial, agricultural, electricity transmission, distribution, or end-use efficiency; or (iii) substantially improves transportation efficiency or increases use of fuels whose lifecycle emissions are substantially below fossil-fuel alternatives.
For fiscal year 2010, up to $300,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated for a United States contribution to the Clean Technology Fund (the Fund).
The Secretary of the Treasury shall use the voice and vote of the United States to ensure that—
The Fund does not provide more than 15 percent of Fund resources to any one country;
Prior to the obligation of funds, recipient countries submit to the governing body of the Fund, and the governing body of the Fund appropriately reviews and considers, an investment plan that will achieve significant net reductions in national-level greenhouse gas* emissions;
The investment plan for a recipient country, whose borrowing status is classified by the World Bank as “International Development Association (IDA) blend”, shall have at least 15 percent of its total cost for public sector activities contributed from the public funds of the recipient country, and any recipient country whose borrowing status is classified by the World Bank as “International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Only” status, shall have at least 25 percent of its total cost for public sector activities contributed from public funds of the recipient country; and
Assistance made available by the Fund is used exclusively to support the deployment of clean energy technologies in developing countries (including, where appropriate, through the provision of technical support or support for policy or institutional reforms) in a manner that achieves substantial net reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
For purposes of this section—
The term “net reductions” refers to the extent to which a project or program supported under this section results in lower greenhouse gas emissions than would be emitted by the same entity or sector in the same country in the absence of the Fund’s project, taking into account, unless impracticable, effects beyond the physical boundaries of the project or program that result from project or program activities.
The term “public sector activities” may include sovereign loans assumed by the recipient country to contribute to the financing of the investment plan.
The term “clean energy technology” means a technology that, as compared with technologies being deployed at that time for widespread commercial use in the country involved—
achieves substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions;
does not result in significant incremental adverse effects on public health or the environment; and
does one or more of the following:
generates electricity or useful thermal energy from a renewable resource;
substantially increases the energy efficiency of buildings, industrial, or agricultural processes, or of electricity transmission, distribution, or end-use consumption; or
substantially increases the energy efficiency of the transportation system or increases utilization of transportation fuels that have lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions that are substantially lower than those attributable to fossil fuel-based alternatives.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 111–117, div. F, title VII, § 7081(g), Dec. 16, 2009, 123 Stat. 3398; Pub. L. 113–76, div. K, title VII, § 7034(i), Jan. 17, 2014, 128 Stat. 514.)
- 2009Enacted · Pub. L. 111-117 · 123 Stat. 3398
- 2014Amended · Pub. L. 113-76 · 128 Stat. 514
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 111-117 on 2009-12-16.
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