S.Amdt. 602

SA 602. Mr. MARKEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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, insert the
following:

SEC. 1299L. GLOBAL CLIMATE ASSISTANCE FUNDS.

(a) In General.--The amount authorized to be appropriated
for fiscal year 2024 by this Act is the aggregate amount
authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2024 by this
Act minus one percent.
(b) Allocation.--The allocation of the reduction under
subsection (a) shall be derived from the additional
$11,000,000,000 above the President's fiscal year 2024 budget
request provided by the Senate to the discretionary
authorizations within the jurisdiction of the Committee on
Armed Services of the Senate, as set forth in the report of
the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate accompanying S.
2226 of the 118th Congress.
(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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