ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMS

ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMSSec. 555. (a) Funding.—Of the funds appropriated under the heading “Development Assistance”, not less than $155,000,000 shall be made available for programs and activities which directly protect biodiversity, including forests, in developing countries, of which $1,500,000 should be made available to improve the capacity of indigenous groups and local environmental organizations and law enforcement agencies to protect the biodiversity of indigenous reserves in the Amazon Basin region of Brazil, which amount shall be in addition to the amount requested in this Act for assistance for Brazil for fiscal year 2004: Provided, That not later than 1 year after enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development and other appropriate departments and agencies, and after consultation with appropriate governments and nongovernmental organizations, shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations a strategy for biodiversity conservation in the Amazon Basin region of South America: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under the headings “Development Assistance” and “Andean Counterdrug Initiative”, funds shall be made available in fiscal year 2004 to develop the strategy described in the previous proviso: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated by this Act, not less than $180,000,000 shall be made available to support policies and programs in developing countries that directly: (1) promote a wide range of energy conservation, energy efficiency and clean energy programs and activities, 118 STAT. 190 including the transfer of clean and environmentally sustainable energy technologies; (2) measure, monitor, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions; (3) increase carbon sequestration activities; and (4) enhance climate change mitigation and adaptation programs.(b) Climate Change Report.—Not later than 45 days after the date on which the President’s fiscal year 2005 budget request is submitted to Congress, the President shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations describing in detail the following—(1) all Federal agency obligations and expenditures, domestic and international, for climate change programs and activities in fiscal year 2004, including an accounting of expenditures by agency with each agency identifying climate change activities and associated costs by line item as presented in the President’s Budget Appendix; and(2) all fiscal year 2003 obligations and estimated expenditures, fiscal year 2004 estimated expenditures and estimated obligations, and fiscal year 2005 requested funds by the United States Agency for International Development, by country and central program, for each of the following: (i) to promote the transfer and deployment of a wide range of United States clean energy and energy efficiency technologies; (ii) to assist in the measurement, monitoring, reporting, verification, and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; (iii) to promote carbon capture and sequestration measures; (iv) to help meet such countries’ responsibilities under the Framework Convention on Climate Change; and (v) to develop assessments of the vulnerability to impacts of climate change and mitigation and adaptation response strategies.