§262l–2 Sustainable Use of Natural Resources; Use of Agricultural and Industrial Chemicals

Summary

The Treasury Secretary must tell U.S. representatives at multilateral development banks to push those banks to plan energy projects using the cheapest effective options, offer countries help making national energy plans that weigh both saving energy and new supply, build more know-how about conservation and renewable energy, favor saving energy over just adding new power plants, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, support more energy-efficient transport (including nonmotorized and public transit), and use or develop tools to protect biological diversity (for example, Conservation Data Centers). The Treasury and State Departments, working with USAID, must talk with other bank members to make the banks better at protecting resources and to remove rules or procedures that get in the way, and these efforts must include consulting affected local communities. The USAID Administrator must use biodiversity tools like Conservation Data Centers in future “early warning system” reports (as required by the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1988), send a report to the Committees on Appropriations by January 15, 1989 on how USAID helps or hurts renewable energy overseas and how to improve it (including the idea of a U.S. Renewable Energy Industry Advisory Council), tell all USAID missions to center energy work on renewables and conservation in every Country Development Strategy Statement, and carry out recommendations from the Committee on Health and Environment about safe use of agricultural and industrial chemicals.