[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 192 (Tuesday, November 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7683]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4216. Mr. MARKEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to 
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of subtitle G of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1283. GLOBAL CLIMATE ASSISTANCE FUNDS.

       (a) In General.--The amount authorized to be appropriated 
     for fiscal year 2022 by this Act is the aggregate amount 
     authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2022 by this 
     Act minus one percent.
       (b) Allocation.--The allocation of the reduction under 
     subsection (a) shall be derived from the additional 
     $25,026,879,000 provided by the House of Representatives to 
     the discretionary authorizations within the jurisdiction of 
     the Committee on Armed Services of the House of 
     Representatives, as set forth on page 350 of the report of 
     the Committee on Armed Services of the House of 
     Representatives accompanying H.R. 4350 of the 117th Congress 
     (H. Rept. 117-118).
       (c) Use of Funds.--Amounts from the reduction under 
     subsection (a) shall be used by the Secretary of State, in 
     coordination with the Administrator of the United States 
     Agency for International Development and the Secretary of the 
     Treasury, as appropriate, to increase the authorization of 
     appropriations for funds to global climate assistance 
     accounts, programs, organizations, and international 
     financial institutions described in subsection (d) for the 
     following purposes:
       (1) To reduce the risks to United States national security 
     due to climate change, as set forth in the national 
     intelligence estimate of the National Intelligence Council 
     entitled ``Climate Change and International Responses 
     Increasing Challenges to US National Security Through 2040'' 
     (NIC-NIE-2021-10030-A).
       (2) To provide public climate financing to developing 
     countries, with the objective of limiting the increase in 
     global temperature at or below 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-
     industrial levels.
       (d) Global Climate Assistance Accounts, Programs, 
     Organizations, and International Financial Institutions 
     Described.--The global climate assistance accounts, programs, 
     organizations, and international financial institutions 
     described in this subsection are the following:
       (1) The Green Climate Fund.
       (2) Global Environment Facility.
       (3) Adaptation Programs.
       (4) Sustainable Landscapes.
       (5) Clean Energy Programs.
       (6) Biodiversity Programs.
       (7) The Clean Technology Fund.
       (8) Migration and Refugee Assistance.
       (9) International Disaster Assistance.
       (10) Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund (MLF).
       (11) The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate 
     Change.
       (12) The Adaptation Fund.
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