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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9554 
To prohibit the use of Federal funds to negotiate or contribute to inter-
national agreements that provide for ‘‘loss and damage’’ funds as a 
result of climate change. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 14, 2022 
Mr. LAMALFA (for himself, Mrs. BOEBERT, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. ROUZER, 
Mrs. HARTZLER, Mr. MAST, Mr. JACKSON, Mr. BOST, Mr. SMITH of New 
Jersey, Mr. WEBER of Texas, and Mr. MOONEY) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To prohibit the use of Federal funds to negotiate or con-
tribute to international agreements that provide for ‘‘loss 
and damage’’ funds as a result of climate change. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) On November 26th, 2022, the Biden Ad-
ministration agreed to establish a ‘‘climate justice’’ 
fund which compels United States taxpayers and 
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other wealthy nations to pay developing countries for 
‘‘loss and damage’’ caused by natural disasters. 
(2) The world’s top polluter, China, generated 
more CO2 in 2019 than the United States and the 
next four largest countries combined, and many indi-
vidual corporations in China have more sway over 
warming temperatures than most developed coun-
tries as a whole. 
(3) Despite being the world’s second-largest 
economy, China is still categorized as a ‘‘developing’’ 
country by the United Nations and enjoys the same 
differential treatment afforded to nations like Guin-
ea-Bissau and Yemen. 
(4) Other countries the United Nations has 
identified as ‘‘developing’’, and are therefore still eli-
gible for the $1,000,000,000 in United States tax-
payer dollars committed by President Biden to the 
‘‘Loss and Damage’’ fund include the Islamic Re-
public of Afghanistan, the Russian Federation, the 
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Islamic Republic of 
Iran, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the United 
Arab Emirates, the Republic of Cuba, and the 
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. 
(5) According to a study by Accenture, 93 per-
cent of all large companies with net zero emission 
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commitments have failed to back those pledges, and 
are larger polluters than most developed nations. 
(6) In December 2009, at the United Nations 
Climate Change Conference, Todd Stern, President 
Obama’s special envoy for climate change, outright 
rejected arguments by diplomats from developing na-
tions that the United States owes them hundreds of 
billions of dollars in reparations for decades of 
American emissions, stating, ‘‘I actually completely 
reject the notion of a debt or reparations or any-
thing of the like’’, he said. 
(7) President Biden’s own climate envoy, John 
Kerry, was quoted at the COP27 summit on Novem-
ber 12th, 2022, stating, ‘‘It’s a well-known fact that 
the United States and many other countries will not 
establish . . . some sort of legal structure that is tied 
to compensation or liability’’, yet, a week later, the 
Biden Administration had caved to activist demands, 
and Kerry released a statement saying he ‘‘wel-
comes’’ the fund’s creation. 
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FUNDS TO NEGOTIATE OR CON-
TRIBUTE TO INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS 
THAT PROVIDE FOR ‘‘LOSS AND DAMAGE’’ 
FUNDS AS A RESULT OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 
None of the funds available to any Federal depart-
ment or agency may be used to negotiate or contribute 
to international agreements that provide for ‘‘loss and 
damage’’ funds as a result of climate change. 
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