Development of carbon-intensive electrical power plants is continuing across the developing world through new foreign investments, despite broad awareness of the dangers. (7) The current investment plans of countries likely to receive significant foreign energy investments may lead to an excess build-out of fossil fuel assets and create carbon lock-in absent urgent action. (8) Governments that are investing in or directing foreign investment toward legacy fossil fuel energy generation often lack the incentive to formulate more efficient or sustainable national energy policies. Those governments are thus likely to default to established but harmful forms of energy generation. (9) Alternatives to carbon-intensive electrical power generation are now available and technological advancements continue to strengthen the economic competitiveness of such alternatives. (10) Corruption is especially harmful when individuals who abuse positions of influence for personal gain can simultaneously cause great damage to the global commons by facilitating significant increases in the emission of, or decreases in the absorption of, greenhouse gases. (11) Deforestation is doubly damaging because it undercuts the absorption of carbon dioxide, while also raising greenhouse gas emissions. (12) According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, most pathways to limit warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius require reduced deforestation in concert with reforestation, af­for­es­ta­tion, and bioenergy efforts. (13) From 2013 to 2019, some of the largest financial institutions in the world provided tens of billions of dollars in financing to entities either directly or indirectly deforesting the largest rainforests in the world. Most financial institutions have no internal policy covering dealings in key forest-risk commodities. (14) On September 22, 2019, 130 financial institutions worth $47,000,000,000,000 collectively, representing 1/3 of the global industry, signed on to the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible