; (E) includes best practices for environmental and social safeguards to ensure that projects and programs supported by climate financing respect fundamental human rights; and (F) addresses both mitigation and adaptation as essential aspects of responding to climate change. 4. Authorization of appropriations (a) In general There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year thereafter such sums as may be necessary for contributions to the Green Climate Fund— (1) to achieve the greenhouse gas emissions reductions required to keep the planet at or below 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming, consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement; and (2) to exceed the commitment by developed countries to jointly mobilize, starting in 2020, $100,000,000,000 for climate financing each year, as committed to in the 2009 Copenhagen Accord and reaffirmed in 2015 in Decision 1/CP.21 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Adoption of the Paris Agreement. (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that climate financing needs are significantly greater than those described in subsection (a)(2). 5. Definitions In this Act: (1) Climate financing The term climate financing means the transfer of new and additional public funds from developed countries to developing countries for projects and programs that— (A) reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions; (B) enhance and restore natural carbon sequestration; and (C) promote adaptation to climate change. (2) Green Climate Fund The term Green Climate Fund means the independent, multilateral fund— (A) established by parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; and (B) adopted by decision as part of the financial mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. (3) Paris Agreement The term Paris Agreement means the annex to Decision 1/CP.21 adopted by the 21st Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris, France, on December 12, 2015.