House Appropriations Committee
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee
Budget Hearing – Fiscal Year 2024 Request for the Department of State
Witness:
- Antony Blinken, Secretary, Department of State
- Congressional Budget Justification: $63.1 billion for the Department of State and USAID
- $800 million in ESF for the State Department to provide to the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
- $425 million for Climate Investment Funds
- $168.7 million for Global Environmental Facility
- $27 million for Multilateral Development Bank Climate Trust Funds and Facilities
- $18.5 million for Diplomatic Policy and Support, Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, including costs for the U.S. Center at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- $16 million for World Meteorological Organization
- $6 million for Diplomatic Policy and Support, Energy Resources
- $4.8 million for International Renewable Energy Agency
- $537 thousand for International Union for Conservation of Nature