This agreement provides funding under the infrastructure investment and jobs act to support the southwest environmental finance center (SW EFC) at the university of new mexico located in…

This agreement provides funding under the infrastructure investment and jobs act to support the southwest environmental finance center (SW EFC) at the university of new mexico located in albuquerque, new mexico. The southwest environmental finance center provide finance-related training, education, and analytical studies to help regulated parties develop solutions to the difficult 'how-to-pay' issues associated with meeting environmental standards. The southwest environmental finance center educate state, tribal, and local governments and businesses on lowering environmental costs, increasing environmental investments, improving financial capacity, identifying appropriate revenue generating mechanisms, and evaluating environmental financing options. To address these objectives the southwest environmental finance center plans to consult with the environmental protection agency region 6 and states on approaches to provide technical assistance; creating tools and resources; addressing climate change/resiliency/emergency situations; building a sustainable workforce; technical information sharing/technical information transfer; community capacity building; tribal capacity building; piloting approaches to address environmental issues; accessing funding; program support, and support for a coordinated effort with other members of the environmental finance center network.activities:the activities include a comprehensive community outreach effort and extensive community engagement to bring systems into the program that can benefit from technical assistance. The efforts will help communities with project development, building capacity of systems and providing training, provide assistance with finance and funding options to implement infrastructure projects for implementation, provide construction management, creating tools and resources, evaluating success, participation in southwest environmental finance center (SW EFC) onboarding activities, ongoing coordination between the southwest environmental finance center and the environmental protection agency.subrecipient:the southwest environmental finance center (SW EFC) project team (the team) includes five subrecipients: moonshot missions, US water alliance, waternow alliance, south central climate adaptation center, and the anthropocene alliance. They will bring knowledge of other methods of outreach that may be more effective than traditional means. The anthropocene alliance and the south central climate adaptation center are two such partners. Other partners with experience in community outreach and engagement in disadvantage communities include US water alliance and waternow alliance. To assist with project development, capacity building, providing technical assistance, assisting with financing and funding, and construction management, the southwest environmental finance center included moonshot missions. This entity brings hundreds of years of experience in every area required and will enable the team to provide any type of service needed. The south central climate adaptation science center's key personnel are researching methods for defining 'historically marginalized' and 'underserved' communities by comparing multiple indicator systems. They will be sharing this work as part of the project to help the southwest environmental finance center identify communities for outreach. The US water alliance has been cultivating the people, practices, and policy ideas to accelerate change, which is particularly important at this time. Two of their primary programs have focused on the importance of investing in the nation's water infrastructure and advancing an equitable water future. Among other work, the waternow alliance created the 'TAP into resilience' program that includes an extensive online interactive toolkit tailored specifically for small and under-resourced communities. They have also worked with dozens