; (27) almost all major contributors doubled the amount of their contribution from the initial resource mobilization phase for the GCF–1 replenishment; and (28) the Green Climate Fund is the world’s largest and most innovative multilateral climate adaptation fund, and is a fully operational and proven institution supporting nearly 200 projects in 127 developing countries. 3. Statement of policy It is the policy of the United States to provide climate financing— (1) as an essential part of the global effort to combat climate change; and (2) that— (A) upholds the principles of environmental justice and climate justice; (B) supports programs and projects developed by recipient countries and communities; (C) is designed and implemented with the free, prior, and informed consent of indigenous peoples and other impacted communities; (D) promotes gender equality as essential in all of the projects and programs supported by climate financing; (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 contributions to the Green Climate Fund $4,000,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2024 and 2025. (b) Sense of congress It is the sense of Congress that the climate financing needs to achieve the greenhouse gas emissions reductions required to keep the planet at or below 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming are significantly greater than the amount of funds authorized to be appropriated under subsection (a). 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