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(ii) restoration, protection, or sustainable use of diverse animal and plant species;

(iii) establishment, restoration, protection, and maintenance of parks and reserves;

(iv) development and implementation of

sound systems of natural resource management;

(v) development and support of local conservation programs;

(vi) training programs to strengthen conservation institutions and increase scientific, technical, and managerial capabilities of individuals and organizations involved in conservation efforts;

(vii) efforts to generate knowledge, increase understanding, and enhance public

commitment to conservation;

(viii) design and implementation of

sound programs of land and ecosystem

management; and

(ix) promotion of regenerative approaches in farming, forestry, and watershed management.

(b) Negotiation of guidelines for restoration, protection, or sustainable use policies

The United States Executive Directors of the

multilateral development banks shall seek to

negotiate with the other executive directors to

provide guidelines for restoration, protection, or

sustainable use policies. Pending the outcome of

such negotiations, the United States Executive

Directors shall consider restoration, protection,

or sustainable use policies to be those which—

(1) support development that maintains and

restores the renewable natural resource base

so that present and future needs of debtor

countries’ populations can be met, while not

impairing critical ecosystems and not exacerbating global environmental problems;

(2) are environmentally sustainable in that

resources are conserved and managed in an effort to remove pressure on the natural resource base and to make judicious use of the

land so as to sustain growth and the availability of all natural resources;

(3) support development that does not exceed

the limits imposed by local hydrological cycles, soil, climate, vegetation, and human cultural practices;

(4) promote the maintenance and restoration

of soils, vegetation, hydrological cycles, wildlife, critical ecosystems (tropical forests, wetlands, and coastal marine resources), biological diversity and other natural resources essential to economic growth and human wellbeing and shall, when using natural resources,

be implemented to minimize the depletion of

such natural resources; and

(5) take steps, wherever feasible, to prevent

pollution that threatens human health and

important biotic systems and to achieve patterns of energy consumption that meet human

needs and rely on renewable resources.

(c) Inclusion of certain items in guidelines

The United States Executive Directors shall

endeavor to include the provisions of paragraphs

(1) through (5) of subsection (b) of this section in

the guidelines developed through the negotiations specified in this section.

(Pub. L. 95–118, title XVI, §1614, as added Pub. L.

101–240, title V, §512, Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2508.)

PRIOR PROVISIONS

A prior section 1614 of Pub. L. 95–118 was renumbered

section 1622 and is classified to section 262p–5 of this

title.

DEFINITIONS

The definitions in section 262p–5 of this title apply to

this section.

§ 262p–4j. Promotion of lending for environment

The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct

the United States Executive Director of the

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to initiate discussions with the other

executive directors of such bank and the management of such bank and propose that, in order

to reduce the future need for bank lending for

reforestation and restoration of environmentally degraded areas, the bank establish a

project and policy based environmental lending

program (including a loan a portion of which

could be used to reduce and restructure private

debt), to be made available to interested countries with a demonstrated commitment to natural resource conservation, which would be based

on—

(1) the estimated long-term economic return

which could be expected from the sustainable

use and protection of tropical forests, including the value of tropical forests for indigenous

people and for science;

(2) the value derived from such services as—

(A) watershed management;

(B) soil erosion control;

(C) the maintenance and improvement of—

(i) fisheries;

(ii) water supply regulation for industrial development;

(iii) food;

(iv) fuel;

(v) fodder; and

(vi) building materials for local communities;

(D) the extraction of naturally occurring

products from locally controlled protected

areas; and

(E) indigenous knowledge of the management and use of natural resources; and

(3) the long-term benefits expected to be derived from maintaining biological diversity

and climate stabilization.

(Pub. L. 95–118, title XVI, §1615, as added Pub. L.

101–240, title V, §512, Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2510.)

DEFINITIONS

The definitions in section 262p–5 of this title apply to

this section.

§ 262p–4k. Promotion of institution-building for

nongovernmental organizations concerned

with environment

The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct

the United States Executive Directors of the

multilateral development banks to vigorously

promote the adoption of policies and procedures

which seek to—

(1) increase collaboration with, and, where

necessary, strengthen, nongovernmental orga-