1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Green Climate Fund Authorization Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) climate change most severely impacts vulnerable and disadvantaged communities in the United States and around the world; (2) it is the responsibility of the United States Government to work with its global partners to promote environmental justice and climate justice; (3) the 2023 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, entitled AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023 , found that current global financial flows for climate adaptation are insufficient for, and constrain implementation of, climate adaptation options, especially in developing countries; (4) the report of the United Nations Environment Programme entitled Climate Change and the Cost of Capital in Developing Countries , dated May 2018, found that, in the 10 years prior to the publication of the report, climate vulnerability had cost the 20 nations most affected by catastrophes rooted in climate change an additional $62,000,000,000 in interest payments alone; (5) individuals and families, particularly communities of color, indigenous communities, and low-income communities, that are on the frontlines of climate change across the globe are often in close proximity to environmental stressors or sources of pollution; (6) the communities described in paragraph (5)— (A) are often the first exposed to the causes and impacts of climate change; and (B) have the fewest resources with which to mitigate those impacts or to relocate; (7) all efforts to adapt to and mitigate climate change must include specific protections for and acknowledgment of the harm of climate change to communities of color, indigenous peoples, women, and other frontline communities and marginalized peoples around the world; (8) in Paris, on December 12, 2015, the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted the Paris Agreement, a benchmark agreement— (A) to combat climate change