Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§7905 Greenhouse Gas Intensity Reducing Technology Export Initiative

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

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a team of federal agencies that must promote the export of technologies and practices that lower greenhouse gas intensity. The team must pick priority developing countries using the report required by section 7902(a)(2)(A), find likely barriers to using those technologies using reports under section 7904, and study past U.S. energy export efforts to learn best practices. Members include the Secretary of State as head, the USAID Administrator, the U.S. Trade Representative, and designees from the Energy, Commerce, and EPA offices. No later than 180 days after August 8, 2005, and every year after, the team must review what the federal government has done and the results. It must send a report to the relevant congressional committees describing those results and offering recommendations to increase exports.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §7905

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(a)In general
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)Composition
The working group shall be composed of— (1)
(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)Performance reviews and reports
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 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110