This bill authorizes the President to impose financial and travel sanctions against foreign individuals and entities whose activities significantly worsen climate change or drive deforestation. The law targets those who knowingly build high-emission fossil fuel infrastructure, engage in illegal logging or mining, misrepresent environmental impacts of projects, or attack environmental defenders and Indigenous communities. Sanctions available include blocking access to the U.S. financial system, denying visas, and other economic penalties already used against terrorism and corruption. The bill also directs the President to consider using existing human rights sanctions authorities against those responsible for climate-related violence and abuse, and it protects environmental activists, climate investigators, and climate refugees from persecution under international law. The legislation grants no specific funding amount in the bill text but authorizes whatever resources the Treasury Department needs to implement these sanctions through its Office of Foreign Assets Control, though a timeline for implementation is not specified.
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