Senate Appropriations Committee
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee
138 Dirksen
22/03/2023 at 10:00AM
Presiding: Chair Coons
Witness:
- Antony J. Blinken, Secretary, U.S. Department of State
- Congressional Budget Justification: $63.1 billion for the Department of State and USAID
This includes:
- $800 million in ESF for the State Department to provide to the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
- $425 million for Climate Investment Funds
- $168.7 million for Global Environmental Facility
- $27 million for Multilateral Development Bank Climate Trust Funds and Facilities
- $18.5 million for Diplomatic Policy and Support, Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, including costs for the U.S. Center at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- $16 million for World Meteorological Organization
- $6 million for Diplomatic Policy and Support, Energy Resources
- $4.8 million for International Renewable Energy Agency
- $537 thousand for International Union for Conservation of Nature