---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13388"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13388"
heading: "Global Climate Change Response Fund"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13388"
units:
  - "Chapter 134 — Energy Policy"
  - "Subchapter VII — Global Climate Change"
---

# §13388. Global Climate Change Response Fund

- (a) **Establishment of Fund—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall establish a Global Climate Change Response Fund to act as a mechanism for United States contributions to assist global efforts in mitigating and adapting to global climate change.
- (b) **Restrictions on deposits—** No deposits shall be made to the Global Climate Change Response Fund until the United States has ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
- (c) **Use of Fund—** Moneys deposited into the Fund shall be used by the President, to the extent authorized and appropriated under [section 2222 of title 22](/usc/22/2222.md), solely for contributions to a financial mechanism negotiated pursuant to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including all protocols or agreements related thereto.
- (d) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated for deposit in the Fund to carry out the purposes of this section, $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1994 and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1995 and 1996.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–486, title XVI, § 1609, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3007.)