Title 22Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§7903 Technology inventory for developing countries

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 86— - CLIMATE CHANGE TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES › § 7903

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Energy, working with the Secretaries of State and Commerce, must make a list of U.S. technologies that cut greenhouse-gas emissions and could be shared, used, and sold in the developing countries named in an earlier report. Within 180 days after finishing that list, the Secretaries of State and Energy must send Congress a joint report with the list, the main barriers to transfer and sale, related findings from past federal reports, and a market analysis.

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Title 22, §7903

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(a)The Secretary of Energy, in coordination with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce, shall conduct an inventory of greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies that are developed, or under development in the United States, to identify technologies that are suitable for transfer to, deployment in, and commercialization in the developing countries identified in the report submitted under section 7902(a)(2)(A) of this title.
(b)Not later than 180 days after the completion of the inventory under subsection (a), the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Energy shall jointly submit to Congress a report that—
(1)includes the results of the completed inventory;
(2)identifies obstacles to the transfer, deployment, and commercialization of the inventoried technologies;
(3)includes results from previous Federal reports related to the inventoried technologies; and
(4)includes an analysis of market forces related to the inventoried technologies.

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Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 2005, except as otherwise provided, see section 739 of Pub. L. 101–240, set out as a note under section 7901 of this title.

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22 U.S.C. § 7903

Title 22Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73