; and (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate. (2) Climate change The term climate change means a change of climate that is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity and altering the composition of the global atmosphere. (3) Developing country The term developing country means those countries classified by the World Bank as having a low-income or lower-middle-income economy. (4) Disparate impact The term disparate impact refers to the historic and ongoing impacts of the pattern and practice of discrimination in employment, education, housing, banking, health, and nearly every other aspect of life in the economy, society, or culture that have an adverse impact on minorities, women, or other protected groups, regardless of whether such practices were motivated by discriminatory intent. (5) Environmental disasters The term environmental disasters means specific events caused by human activity that result in seriously negative effects on the environment. (6) Environmental refugees The term environmental refugees means people displaced because of environmental causes, notably land loss and degradation, and natural disasters, who have left their community or country of origin. (7) Extreme poverty The term extreme poverty means having an income level or living standard at a level of extreme deprivation based on living with income below 50 percent of the poverty line as established by the individual country at issue, or below $1.90 per day as determined by the World Bank. (8) Extreme weather The term extreme weather means unexpected, unusual, unpredictable, severe, or unseasonal weather that is at the extremes of the historical distribution range that has been seen in the past. (9) Federal agency The term Federal agency means any executive department, Government corporation, Government-controlled corporation, or other establishment in the executive branch of the Government (including the Executive Office of the President), or any independent regulatory agency.