Targeting Environmental and Climate Recklessness Act of 2024

This bill authorizes U.S. sanctions against foreign individuals and entities that engage in activities worsening climate change or harming environmental defenders. It targets actions like building new subcritical coal plants that undermine global climate goals, causing illegal deforestation, misrepresenting environmental impacts, or threatening activists. Sanctions could include visa bans, asset freezes, or other penalties under existing Global Magnitsky authorities. The bill specifically affects foreign actors (not U.S. persons) whose activities significantly contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, or human rights violations linked to environmental harm.