Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 104 Part 3.djvu/662

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104 STAT. 2014 PUBLIC LAW 101-513—NOV. 5, 1990 (4) an updated anal3rsis of each MDB's forestry sector loans, and a current analysis of each MDB's energy sector loans, and their impact on emissions of CO2 and the status of proposals for specific forestry and energy sector activities to reduce CQ2 emissions; and (5) the progress the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development has made in implementing the recommendations set forth in the April 1, 1988, report on "Debt-for-Nature Swaps" by the World Bank. (c)(1) The Administrator of the Agency for International Development shall update and issue guidance to all Agency missions and bureaus detailing the elements of the "Global Warming Initiative", which will continue to emphasize the need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, especially CQz and CFCs, through strategies consistent with continued economic development. This initiative shall continue to emphasize the need to accelerate sustainable development strategies in areas such as reforestation, biodiversity, end-use energy efficiency, least-cost energy planning, and renewable energy, and shall encourage mission directors to incorporate the elements of this initiative in developing their country programs. (2) The Administrator shall pursue this initiative by, among other things— (A) increasing the number and expertise of personnel devoted to this initiative in all bureaus and missions; (B) devoting increased resources to technical training of mission directors; (C) accelerating the activities of the Multi-Agency Working Group on Power Sector Innovation; (D) focusing tropical forestry assistance programs on the key middle- and low-income developing countries (hereinafter "key countries") which are projected to contribute large amounts of greenhouse gases to the global environment; (E) assisting countries in developing a systematic analysis of the appropriate use of their total tropical forest resources, with the goal of developing a national program for sustainable forestry; (F) focusing energy assistance activities on the key countries, where assistance would have the greatest impact on reducing emissions from greenhouse gases; and (G) continuing to follow the directives with respect to key countries and countries that receive large Economic Support Fund assistance contained in section 534(b)(3) of Public Law 101-167. (3) None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be available for any program, project or activity which would— (A) result in any significant loss of tropical forests; or (B) involve industrial timber extraction in primary tropical forest areas. (4) Funds appropriated to carry out the provisions of sections 103 and 106 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may be used by the Agency for International Development, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the purpose of supporting tropical forestry and energy programs aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases with regard to the key countries in which deforestation and energy policy would make a significant contribution to global warming, except that such assistance shall be subject to sections 116, 502B, and 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.