(2) seeking to expose, or raise awareness of, en-
vironmental damage; or 
(3) obliged to leave the individual’s habitual 
home due, in whole or in part, to sudden or progres-
sive change in the environment that adversely affects 
the individual’s life or living conditions. 
SEC. 6. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO SIG-
NIFICANT ACTIONS THAT EXACERBATE CLI-
MATE CHANGE. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the President should employ the authorities 
provided by this section to prioritize action against, and 
deterrence of, egregious behaviors that undermine efforts 
to limit the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 
degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. 
(b) IN GENERAL.—The President may impose one or 
more of the sanctions described in subsection (c) with re-
spect to any foreign person the President determines, 
based on credible information— 
(1) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to 
have directly or indirectly engaged in, a covered ac-
tivity, including a government official who approves 
or implements policies or acts that serve to promote 
a covered activity; 
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(2) to have acted or purported to act for or on 
behalf of, directly or indirectly, any foreign person in 
a matter relating to a covered activity, including for 
or on behalf of a government official described in 
paragraph (1); 
(3) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or 
provided financial, material, or technological support 
for, or goods or services to or in support of, a cov-
ered activity; or 
(4) to be owned or controlled by a foreign per-
son described in paragraph (1). 
(c) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.—The sanctions that 
may be imposed with respect to a foreign person under 
subsection (b) are the following: 
(1) INADMISSIBILITY TO UNITED STATES.—In 
the case of a foreign person who is an individual— 
(A) ineligibility to receive a visa to enter 
the United States or to be admitted to the 
United States; or 
(B) if the individual has been issued a visa 
or other documentation, revocation, in accord-
ance with section 221(i) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), of the visa 
or other documentation. 
(2) BLOCKING OF PROPERTY.— 
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(A) IN
GENERAL.—The blocking, in ac-
cordance with the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), 
of all transactions in all property and interests 
in property of the foreign person if such prop-
erty and interests in property are in the United 
States, come within the United States, or are or 
come within the possession or control of a 
United States person. 
(B) INAPPLICABILITY OF NATIONAL EMER-
GENCY
REQUIREMENT.—The requirements of 
section 202 of the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701) shall 
not apply for purposes of this paragraph. 
(3) OTHER SANCTIONS OPTIONS.—Any of the 
sanctions described in section 235 of the Countering 
America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (22 
U.S.C. 9529). 
(d) CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION IN 
IMPOSING SANCTIONS.—In determining whether to im-
pose sanctions under subsection (b), the President shall 
consider— 
(1) information provided jointly by the chair-
person and ranking member of each of the appro-
priate congressional committees; and 
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(2) credible information obtained by other coun-
tries and nongovernmental organizations that mon-
itor environmental harm or violations of human 
rights. 
(e) REQUESTS
BY APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL 
COMMITTEES.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days 
after receiving a request that meets the require-
ments of paragraph (2) with respect to whether a 
foreign person has engaged in an action described in 
subsection (a), the President shall— 
(A) determine if that person has engaged 
in such an action; and 
(B) submit a classified or unclassified re-
port to the chairperson and ranking member of 
the committee or committees that submitted the 
request with respect to that determination that 
includes— 
(i) a statement of whether or not the 
President imposed or intends to impose 
sanctions with respect to the person; and 
(ii) if the President imposed or in-
tends to impose sanctions, a description of 
those sanctions. 
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(2) REQUIREMENTS.—A request under para-
graph (1) with respect to whether a foreign person 
has engaged in an action described in subsection (b) 
shall be submitted to the President in writing jointly 
by the chairperson and ranking member of one of 
the appropriate congressional committees. 
(f) EXCEPTIONS.— 
(1) INTELLIGENCE
AND
LAW
ENFORCEMENT 
ACTIVITIES.—Sanctions under this section shall not 
apply with respect to— 
(A) any activity subject to the reporting 
requirements under title V of the National Se-
curity Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3091 et seq.); or 
(B) any authorized intelligence or law en-
forcement activities of the United States. 
(2) COMPLIANCE WITH UNITED NATIONS HEAD-
QUARTERS
AGREEMENT.—This section shall not 
apply with respect to the admission of an individual 
to the United States if the admission of the indi-
vidual is necessary to comply with United States ob-
ligations under the Agreement between the United 
Nations and the United States of America regarding 
the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed at 
Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered into force 
November 21, 1947, under the Convention on Con-
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