# 119-s-3509: Global Climate Resilience Act of 2025

119-s-3509, Global Climate Resilience Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] (D-VT); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-07-09).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-3509
- Congress: 119
- Title: Global Climate Resilience Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-12-16
- Sponsor: Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] (D-VT)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: International Affairs
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-07-09

## Summary

**Debt relief for climate-vulnerable countries** would create a U.S. program to reduce or restructure loans and to enable debt-for-resilience swaps and buybacks so money freed from debt funds adaptation, disaster recovery, and nature-based solutions. The package also pushes U.S. officials at multilateral banks to advocate debt relief and to promote a World Bank parametric insurance program for quick payouts after disasters. - Eligible national governments could have U.S. loans reduced, exchanged, or canceled to support resilience work. Eligibility ties to World Bank income categories or U.N. small island status, democratic governance, human-rights standards, and a plan to use benefits for resilience or recovery. - Plans that involve local communities and Indigenous peoples and that aim to reduce gender and income inequalities get preference when debt relief is approved. Freed resources must target resilience activities, preventative disaster risk reduction, recovery, or nature-based solutions. - The bill would let the U.S. sell loans to eligible private purchasers or buy privately held debt up to 65 percent of face value to facilitate swaps and buybacks. It also directs U.S. representatives at international financial institutions to press for debt restructuring and a parametric international climate insurance program that can pay governments and small producers after disasters.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Sen. Kim, Andy [D-NJ] (D-NJ), 2025-12-16T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Push for debt relief and climate insurance: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would direct U.S. Executive Directors at a set of international banks to use the U.S. voice and vote to push for debt forgiveness, buybacks, and debt-for-resilience or debt-for-nature swaps for countries vulnerable to climate disasters. It would also direct U.S. representatives…
- Who can get climate debt relief: benefit, medium. If enacted, this bill would let World Bank low, lower-middle, or upper-middle income countries, and U.N. small island developing states, apply for debt reduction tools if they have democratically elected governments, no consistent pattern of gross human rights violations, and an approved plan to sp…
- Debt relief tools for climate-vulnerable countries: mixed, medium. If enacted, this bill would create a Part VI program to reduce, restructure, buy, sell, or cancel certain foreign loans to help countries adapt to extreme weather and slow-onset climate disasters. The President would be allowed to buy privately held debt for up to 65 percent of face value and to ex…

## Related bills

- 119-s-5022: Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act
- 119-s-2819: Head Start for America's Children Act
- 119-s-5283: Momnibus Act
- 119-s-3990: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026
- 119-s-2823: FAMILY Act
- 119-s-2763: Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act

## Sources
- [119-s-3509 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3509)

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- [119-s-2819: Head Start for America's Children Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2819)
- [119-s-5283: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5283)
- [119-s-3990: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3990)
- [119-s-2823: FAMILY Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2823)
- [119-s-2763: Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2763)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3509 (as of 2026-07-09).