house gas emissions, reduce deforestation, and adapt 
to unavoidable changes in the climate. 
(6) Internationally, economic actors continue to 
pursue activities, such as development of new coal- 
fired power plants and deforestation, that contribute 
to dangerous levels of greenhouse gas emissions and 
the destruction of carbon sinks. In addition to car-
rying a significant climate risk, many of those activi-
ties are associated with serious human rights abuses, 
acts of corruption, and environmental injustice 
against Indigenous communities, communities of 
color, and other communities that have historically 
faced marginalization and discrimination. 
(7) Illegal deforestation is a significant driver 
of the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Crimi-
nal networks with the capacity to coordinate large- 
scale extraction, processing, and sale of timber de-
ploy armed personnel to protect their interests. 
Those criminal networks regularly attack and 
threaten members of Indigenous communities, other 
environmental defenders, and enforcement officials. 
Perpetrators of such violence are rarely brought to 
justice. Numerous studies show that transnational 
criminal organizations no longer limit themselves 
only to drug trafficking but diversify their oper-
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ations to include natural resource crimes, among 
other activities. 
(8) The goals articulated in the Paris Agree-
ment depend on collective action involving the entire 
international community. Progress made by one eco-
nomic actor can be reduced or cancelled out if an-
other economic actor emits significant greenhouse 
gas emissions into the Earth’s atmosphere or de-
stroys important carbon sinks. 
(9) In 2025, President Donald J. Trump with-
drew the United States from the Paris Agreement 
and attacked climate change-related activities across 
the Federal Government. 
(10) President Trump’s decision to ignore cli-
mate change has provided the People’s Republic of 
China with a strategic opportunity to make signifi-
cant competitive gains in preparing for a new eco-
nomic order in a world that has warmed by 1.5 de-
grees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. 
(11) During the first year of President Trump’s 
second term, the United States experienced one of 
its costliest years on record for wildfires and storms, 
record-breaking heat waves, and severe flooding—all 
disasters that were linked to climate change. 
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(12) The United States Government has devel-
oped and implements targeted measures to restrict 
access to the United States financial system for spe-
cific individuals and entities whose actions threaten 
or run counter to United States national interests. 
While the United States has not yet used such meas-
ures for climate-related activities alone, the United 
States Government has deployed such measures in 
response to terrorism, proliferation of weapons of 
mass destruction, transnational organized crime, 
narcotics trafficking, malicious cyber-enabled activ-
ity, wildlife trafficking, serious human rights abuses, 
and acts of corruption. 
(13) The United States should take action to 
address the urgency of the climate crisis and hold 
actors responsible for environmental and climate 
harm. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON A COMPREHENSIVE AP-
PROACH TO ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the targeted measures described in this Act 
are only one component of the comprehensive ap-
proach needed to address climate change and miti-
gate its effects; 
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(2) the United States Government must ensure 
through law and regulation that entities in the 
United States are not engaged in or complicit in any 
of the egregious behaviors for which foreign persons 
may be targeted under this Act; 
(3) the United States Government should con-
tinue to make progress toward scaling international 
climate finance to more than $11,000,000,000 annu-
ally and promote international efforts to support cli-
mate change adaptation and mitigation; 
(4) the United States Government must work 
proactively with foreign governments, including by 
offering positive incentives, to address climate 
change and to promote economic development in 
ways that do not needlessly increase carbon emis-
sions, deforestation, or the risk of corruption; 
(5) the targeted measures described in this Act 
should be employed if engagement has failed to pre-
vent significant actions that exacerbate climate 
change and deforestation; and 
(6) given broad international support for coun-
tering climate change, the Secretary of State should 
encourage the governments of other countries to im-
plement targeted measures that are similar to the 
provisions of this Act, and the Secretary of the 
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Treasury should support implementation of such 
measures, in order to increase the effectiveness of 
actions taken by the United States to combat signifi-
cant actions that exacerbate climate change, includ-
ing related corruption and human rights violations. 
SEC. 4. STATEMENT OF POLICY ON APPLICATION OF GLOB-
AL MAGNITSKY SANCTIONS TO ENVIRON-
MENT-LINKED 
CORRUPTION 
AND 
HUMAN 
RIGHTS ABUSES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—It is the policy of the United 
States to consider use of applicable authorities described 
in Executive Order 13818 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating 
to blocking the property of persons involved in serious 
human rights abuse or corruption) in relation to activities 
described in section 5(b), including for acts of corruption 
and serious human rights abuses against individuals de-
scribed in subsection (b). 
(b) INDIVIDUALS DESCRIBED.—An individual de-
scribed in this subsection is an individual who— 
(1) advocates for the protection of the environ-
ment, public health, Indigenous rights, or commu-
nity land rights; 
(2) investigates, exposes, or raises awareness of 
harm or corruption related to natural resource use; 
or 
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(3) is obliged to leave the individual’s habitual 
home due, in whole or in part, to sudden or progres-
sive change in the environment— 
(A) caused by human activities or attrib-
utable to climate change; and 
(B) that adversely affects the individual’s 
life or living conditions. 
SEC. 5. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO SIG-
NIFICANT ACTIONS THAT EXACERBATE CLI-
MATE CHANGE, DEFORESTATION, OR HARM 
TO ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS. 
(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— 
(1) undermine efforts to limit the increase in 
global average temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius 
above pre-industrial levels; 
(2) contribute to deforestation; or 
(3) present specific harm to environmental de-
fenders. 
(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— 
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(1) knowingly, recklessly, or willfully engages in 
an activity in a foreign country that causes, or is 
likely to cause, greenhouse gas emissions that are 
not in line with scientifically established pathways to 
help avoid a sustained increase in the Earth’s tem-
perature of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre- 
industrial levels, as determined by the Intergovern-
mental Panel on Climate Change, including any ac-
tion that significantly undermines, as a result of 
timing, magnitude, or corruption, projects for the 
adoption in the country of high-efficiency, low-car-
bon, or renewable energy technology or infrastruc-
ture, including the construction of low-efficiency fos-
sil fuel power plants; 
(2) engages in an activity in a foreign country 
that causes, or is likely to cause, illegal deforestation 
or loss of natural carbon sinks, including— 
(A) establishment of incentives for, or pro-
motion of, knowingly conducting deforestation; 
or 
(B) engagement in, or failure to combat, il-
legal logging, mining, or ranching; 
(3) knowingly engages in an activity in a for-
eign country that misrepresents the environmental 
impact of a project, investment, or product, includ-
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ing misrepresenting the amount of greenhouse gas 
emissions associated with the project, investment, or 
product, in the context of— 
(A) assessments conducted by multilateral 
organizations, national governments, or inves-
tors; or 
(B) public efforts to gain market advan-
tage based on purported environmental advan-
tages of a product; 
(4) engages in an activity in a foreign country 
that causes, or is likely to cause, limitations on or 
circumvention of opposition to deforestation or 
projects described in paragraph (1) by individuals 
seeking to protect the environment, public health, or 
community land rights, including actions that en-
courage impunity for those perpetrating physical 
threats or violence against such individuals; 
(5) is otherwise responsible for or complicit in 
an activity described in any of paragraphs (1) 
through (4), including a government official who ap-
proves or implements policies or acts that serve to 
promote such an activity; 
(6) has acted or purported to act for or on be-
half of, directly or indirectly, any foreign person in 
a matter relating to an activity described in any of 
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paragraphs (1) through (4), including for or on be-
half of a government official described in paragraph 
(5); 
(7) has materially assisted, sponsored, or pro-
vided financial, material, or technological support 
for, or goods or services to or in support of, an ac-
tivity described in any of paragraphs (1) through 
(4); or 
(8) is owned or controlled by a foreign person 
that engages an activity described in any of para-
graphs (1) through (4) or is described in paragraph 
(5). 
(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 travel 
to 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. 
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(2) BLOCKING OF PROPERTY.— 
(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— 
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