---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 2902"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "2902"
heading: "Purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/2902"
units:
  - "Chapter 56 — National Climate Program"
---

# §2902. Purpose


It is the purpose of the Congress in this chapter to establish a national climate [program](/usc/15/2903.md?p=3) that will assist the Nation and the world to understand and respond to natural and man-induced climate processes and their implications.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–367, § 3, Sept. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 601.)