Targeting Environmental and Climate Recklessness Act of 2025

Summary

Creates new U.S. authority to target and sanction foreign persons and entities whose activities significantly drive greenhouse‑gas emissions, cause illegal deforestation or loss of carbon sinks, or knowingly misrepresent environmental impacts. It directs use of existing sanctions tools (including visa restrictions and asset‑blocking authorities), expands definitions to protect environmental and Indigenous defenders, calls for scaled international climate finance and cooperation, and authorizes funding for Treasury/OFAC to implement the measures.

• Authorizes the President to sanction foreign persons responsible for major greenhouse‑gas emissions, illegal deforestation, or deliberate misrepresentation of environmental impacts.
• Expands protections for environmental, public health, Indigenous, and community land rights advocates and for people displaced by human‑driven environmental change.
• Directs use of existing tools (Global Magnitsky authorities, EO 13818, visa bans, and asset‑blocking) to impose targeted restrictions.
• Defines a broad set of covered conduct, including aiding, financing, or creating impunity for violence against environmental defenders.
• Calls for scaled international climate finance (target > $11 billion annually) and urges diplomatic cooperation and incentives to reduce deforestation and corruption risk.
• Authorizes unspecified appropriations to Treasury/OFAC to implement and enforce the sanctions program.
• Focuses U.S. economic statecraft on environmental and climate harms as part of broader national security and human‑rights policy.
• Implementation depends on executive branch designations and Treasury procedures rather than establishing new criminal statutes for U.S. actors.