Title 22Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§7905 Greenhouse Gas Intensity Reducing Technology Export Initiative

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 86— - CLIMATE CHANGE TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES › § 7905

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a government working group to help sell U.S. technologies and practices that lower greenhouse gas intensity around the world. The group must promote those exports, pick priority developing countries using a report required under section 7902(a)(2)(A), find barriers to using the exported technologies using reports under section 7904, and study past energy-export efforts to learn what worked. The group is led by the Secretary of State and includes the USAID Administrator, the U.S. Trade Representative, and designees from the Energy, Commerce, and EPA offices. Within 180 days after August 8, 2005, and every year after, the group must review federal efforts and send a report to the appropriate authorizing and appropriating committees of Congress with results and recommendations.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §7905

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(a)There is established an interagency working group to carry out a Greenhouse Gas Intensity Reducing Technology Export Initiative to—
(1)promote the export of greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies and practices from the United States;
(2)identify developing countries that should be designated as priority countries for the purpose of exporting greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies and practices, based on the report submitted under section 7902(a)(2)(A) of this title;
(3)identify potential barriers to adoption of exported greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies and practices based on the reports submitted under section 7904 of this title; and
(4)identify previous efforts to export energy technologies to learn best practices.
(b)The working group shall be composed of—
(1)the Secretary of State, who shall act as the head of the working group;
(2)the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development;
(3)the United States Trade Representative;
(4)a designee of the Secretary of Energy;
(5)a designee of the Secretary of Commerce; and
(6)a designee of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
(c)Not later than 180 days after August 8, 2005, and each year thereafter, the interagency working group shall—
(1)conduct a performance review of actions taken and results achieved by the Federal Government (including each of the agencies represented on the interagency working group) to promote the export of greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies and practices from the United States; and
(2)submit to the appropriate authorizing and appropriating committees of Congress a report that describes the results of the performance reviews and evaluates progress in promoting the export of greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies and practices from the United States, including any recommendations for increasing the export of the technologies and practices.

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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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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 7905

Title 22Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73