Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 103 Part 2.djvu/217

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PUBLIC LAW 101-167—NOV. 21, 1989 103 STAT. 1227 end-use energy efficiency and conservation and renewable energy. (c) Not later than April 1, 1990, the Secretary of the Treasury shall request each MDB to prepare an analysis of the impact its current forestry sector loans will have on borrowing country emis- sions of CO2 and the status of proposals for specific forestry sector activities to reduce CJOz emissions. (d)(1) The Administrator of the Agency for International Develop- ment shall issue guidance to all Agency missions and bureaus detailing the elements of a "Global Warming Initiative" which will emphasize the need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, espe- cially CO2, through strategies consistent with their continued eco- nomic development. This initiative shall emphasize the need to accelerate sustainable development strategies in areas such as re- forestation, biodiversity, end-use energy efficiency, least-cost energy planning, and renewable energy, and shall encourage mission direc- tors to incorporate the elements of this initiative in developing their country programs. (2) The Agency for International Development shall— (A) increase the number and expertise of personnel devoted to end-use energy efficiency, renewable energy, and environmental activities in all bureaus and missions; (B) devote increased resources to technical training of mission directors, in energy planning, energy conservation, end-use energy efficiency, renewable energy, reforestation, and biodiversity; (C) accelerate the activities of the Multi-Agency Working Group on Power Sector Innovation to enable completion of case studies of at leeist ten countries in fiscal year 1990; and (D) devote at least 10 percent of the resources allocated for forestry activities to the preservation and restoration (as op- posed to management for extraction) of natural forests. (3) Funds appropriated by this Act to carry out the provisions of sections 103 to 106 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 may be used to reimburse the full cost of technical personnel detailed or assigned to, or contracted by, the Agency for International Develop- ment to provide expertise in the environmental sector. (4)(A) Section 119(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is 22 USC 2i5lg. amended by inserting ", notwithstanding section 660," after "this part". (B) Not less than $10,000,000 of the funds appropriated to carry out the provisions of sections 103 through 106 of such Act (including funds for sub-Saharan Africa) shall be made available for biological diversity activities, of which $2,000,000 shall be made available for the Parks in Peril project, pursuant to the authority of section 119(b) and $1,000,000 shall be available for the National Science Founda- tion's international biological diversity program. (C) Funds obligated in prior fiscal years pursuant to the authority of section 119(b) may be expended in fiscal year 1990 pursuant to the authority of such section as amended by subparagraph (A). (e) The Secretary of the Treasury shall— (1) instruct the United States Executive Directors to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, to actively support lending portfolios which allow debtor develop-