House Foreign Affairs Committee
Forest Conservation in the Fight Against Climate Change
Chair Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.)
Rep. Hoyer will discuss the AMAZON21 Act (H.R 5830), which would authorize a trust fund of $9 billion for the State Department to enter long-term bilateral agreements with developing countries to assist them in ending deforestation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Witnesses:
Panel I:- Steny Hoyer, Majority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives
- Rep. Bruce Westerman, Ranking Member, House Committee on Natural Resources
- M. Sanjayan, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, Conservation International
- Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, President, Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT)
- Romina Bandura, Senior Fellow, Project on Prosperity and Development, Center for Strategic and International Studies