Does The U.S. Need To Stop Using Taxpayer Dollars To Fund UN Climate Change Initiatives? (H.R. 383)
Do you support or oppose this bill?
What is H.R. 383?
(Updated July 8, 2019)
This bill would prohibit all U.S. federal departments and agencies from making financial contributions to two major United Nations (UN) entities that address global climate change:
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC);
- The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The Obama administration had nearly doubled the funding received by these agencies from what they were given by the Bush administration to a level of more than $10 million per year.
Argument in favor
The President should not be wasting taxpayer money on initiatives that are founded in controversial science. Why should we spend our tax money to advance the United Nations’ global warming agenda?
Argument opposed
Global warming is a pressing issue that affects everyone on the planet. U.S. contributions to the UN’s climate change initiatives benefit everyone, and the generations to come.
Impact
Taxpayers, the United Nations, climate change activists and climate change skeptics, federal agencies and departments that might contribute to UN climate change entities.
Cost of H.R. 383
A CBO cost estimate is unavailable.
Additional Info
In-Depth: Sponsoring Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer’s (R-MO) introduced this legislation (his first in the 114th Congress) in response to President Obama's $3 billion dollar pledge to the UN's Green Climate Fund. Luetkemeyer and other supporters see the bill as barring the use of taxpayer dollars for "the U.N.’s global warming schemes.":
“For far too long, American tax dollars have been sent to the United Nations to produce controversial science and feel-good conferences. Now the president is pledging to pony up billions more to implement these ill-gotten policies. American taxpayers should not foot the bill for an unelected organization that is fraught with waste.”
Of Note: The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was established with the aim of channeling funds to aid developing countries in implementing greener climate policies. The money raised will go towards helping developing countries curb their carbon emissions and develop better infrastructure to deal with the effects of climate change.
Other major contributors to the fund include Japan, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, and Belgium.
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(Photo Credit: Flickr user John Gillespie)
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