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This bill, called the Targeting Environmental and Climate Recklessness Act of 2025, aims to address climate change by authorizing the President to impose sanctions on foreign individuals and entities whose actions significantly contribute to environmental harm. The bill establishes a comprehensive policy framework that allows the U.S. government to target persons engaged in activities that exacerbate climate change, such as generating excessive greenhouse gas emissions, promoting illegal deforestation, misrepresenting environmental impacts, or threatening environmental defenders. Sanctions can include blocking property, preventing U.S. travel, and other financial penalties for individuals or organizations that knowingly or recklessly engage in actions that undermine global efforts to limit temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The legislation recognizes the urgent threat of climate change, highlighting potential catastrophic effects like increased heat-related deaths, more severe wildfires, reduced crop yields, and disproportionate impacts on low-income and marginalized communities. The bill also emphasizes that these sanctions are just one component of a broader strategy to combat climate change, and encourages international cooperation in implementing similar targeted measures. Additionally, the bill provides protections for environmental defenders and seeks to hold accountable those who contribute to environmental destruction or human rights abuses in the context of climate-related activities.

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