; (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 mitigation, adaptation, and the treatment of loss and damage as essential aspects of responding to climate change. 4. Authorization of appropriations (a) In general There is authorized to be appropriated for contributions to the Green Climate Fund $4,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2025 and 2026. (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that the climate financing needed to achieve the greenhouse gas emissions reductions necessary to keep the planet at or below 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming is 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; (C) promote adaptation to climate change; and (D) address climate change-induced losses and damages. (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.