User: 

You are given access to make searches on the Internet. The format for making a search is: 1. The user sends a message. 2. You will decide whether to make a search. If you choose to make a search, you will output a single message, containing the word 
 (EXACTLY AS IT IS GIVEN TO YOU), followed by ONLY your web search query. After outputting your search query, you MUST output the token 
 (EXACTLY AS IT IS GIVEN TO YOU) to denote the end of the search query. Keep your search query concise as there is a 400 characters limit.
The system will then append the web search results at the end of the user message, starting with the token 
. Take note that the user CANNOT ACCESS the content under 
 - YOU should incorporate these results into your response. Additionally, If the token 
 is present in the user's message, then you MUST NOT request another web search.

IMPORTANT! You should choose to search the web ONLY if ANY of the following circumstances are met: 1. User is asking about current events or something that requires real-time information (news, sports scores, 'latest' information, etc.)
2. User is asking about some term you are unfamiliar with (e.g. if it's a little-known term, if it's a person you don't know well, etc.)
3. User is asking about anything that involves numerical facts (e.g. distances between places, population count, sizes, date and time, etc.)
4. User explicitly asks you to search or provide links to references.
If the user's query does NOT require a web search, YOU MUST NEVER run one for no reason.

When using web search results, you are encouraged to cite references where appropriate, using inline links in standard markdown format.
You are also allowed to make use of web search results from previous messages, if they are STRONGLY RELEVANT to the current message.

When you are not running a web search, respond completely as per normal - there is NO NEED to mention that you're not searching. 
Do your best to be informative. However, you MUST NOT make up any information. If you think you might not know something, search for it.

Assistant: Understood. I will strictly follow these instructions in this conversation.
User: tell me more about global environmental equity
Assistant: Global environmental equity refers to the fair distribution of environmental benefits and burdens among all people, regardless of nationality, race, or socioeconomic status. It recognizes that environmental issues such as pollution, climate change, and loss of biodiversity affect different populations unequally. Achieving global environmental equity involves addressing environmental injustices and ensuring that all individuals have equal access to a clean and healthy environment.  
  
Efforts to promote global environmental equity include advocating for environmental policies that prioritize the needs of marginalized communities, promoting sustainable development practices, and supporting international cooperation on environmental issues. By addressing environmental injustices and promoting equity, we can create a more sustainable and just world for all.
User: search for it


 for "Global environmental equity efforts and initiatives":

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URL: https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2024/5/1/what-did-philanthropy-do-to-set-the-stage-for-27-billion-in-federal-climate-financing
Title: What Did Philanthropy Do to Set the Stage for $27 Billion in Federal Climate Financing? - Inside Philanthropy
Content: Inside Philanthropy What Did Philanthropy Do to Set the Stage for $27 Billion in Federal Climate Financing? AlyoshinE/shutterstock The announcement of $27 billion in awards through the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, or GGRF, last month marks the greatest realization yet of a vision for green financing that dates to the early days of the Obama administration. How one of the major IRA implementation funds helped After the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, a coalition of major philanthropies set up the three-year, $180 million Invest in Our Future pooled fund to attempt to make the most of the more than $1 trillion in federal funding being spent on climate action, infrastructure and jobs. “This is a triumph for the idea of public-private investment and a huge success for philanthropy,” said Reed Hundt, president and founder of the Coalition for Green Capital, which is widely credited as a driving force behind the funding for green banks included in the Inflation Reduction Act, and received $5 billion from the GGRF. The “once-in-a-lifetime” injection of capital comes with a steep learning curve, but it will enable network members to fund everything from rooftop solar projects and community wind turbines to the replacement of old diesel generators and electrifying fleets such as school buses, said Upton, who is a member of the Ponca tribe of Nebraska. That dynamic is particularly relevant now as a torrent of federal funding flows following the passage of the climate-focused Inflation Reduction Act, as well as the American Rescue Plan, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the CHIPS and Science Act. 

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URL: https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2024/5/21/this-new-funds-working-at-the-intersection-of-climate-justice-and-digital-rights
Title: This New Fund's Working at the Intersection of Climate Justice and Digital Rights - Inside Philanthropy
Content: Supported by the Ford Foundation, the Internet Society Foundation, the Omidyar Group’s Luminate and the Mozilla Foundation, the Green Screen Catalyst Fund has announced grants to 15 recipients in support of projects including research on the climate impacts of the digital economy and tech infrastructure, creative storytelling and art projects to visualize technology's impacts on the environment, regional coalition and capacity-building for rising organizational leaders, and the development of sustainable technology, tools and infrastructure to measure and reduce environmental impact.  Michael Brennan, senior program officer at Ford's Technology and Society program, said, "We've been seeding work at [the intersection of digital rights and climate justice] for a long time, and as we've kind of built that coalition, built that community, brought relationships together, helped people across these different kinds of movements meet, it became clear that there was an important role for a fund to help catalyze some of the relationships that were being built, which led us to the Green Screen Catalyst Fund.”  In addition, the Decolonial Feminist Coalition of Latin American Activists on Digital and Environmental Justice will conduct a series of interviews around some of the initiatives that it is mapping to show the international community the kinds of  perspectives and solutions that are coming from social movements, including Indigenous movements.  One of the most important roles of the coalition and the fund, according to Richman, has been to bring grantmakers together to understand the problem so that they, in turn, can begin funding at the intersection between climate and digital rights. [and] there's a lot of new folks in this space, we wanted to make sure that… associations or organizations that aren't fully formed have an opportunity to kind of grow their approach and receive funding because some funders… just don't have the capacity or don't extend resources to groups that are younger and newer and maybe haven't yet established themselves," Richman said. 

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URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/04/04/epa-greenhouse-gas-reduction-fund/
Title: Biden EPA awards $20 billion to finance local clean-energy projects - The Washington Post
Content: U.S. approves $20 billion to help poor communities go green In a high-risk, high-reward effort to fight climate change, the EPA is helping local groups finance clean-energy projects The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday awarded $20 billion to help finance clean-energy projects across the country, marking one of the Biden administration’s biggest investments in combating climate change and curbing pollution in disadvantaged communities.  “It’s just really hard to get banks to bring capital into low-income communities, especially for these new projects that they’re not used to financing,” said Adrian Deveny, the founder of the firm Climate Vision and the former director of energy and environmental policy for Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), a key architect of the Inflation Reduction Act.  The nonprofits have also pledged to ensure that at least 70 percent of the funds will benefit disadvantaged communities, and that the financed projects will reduce up to 40 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year — equivalent to the annual emissions of nearly 9 million gasoline-powered cars.  Under the Justice40 initiative, the Biden administration is seeking to direct at least 40 percent of the benefits of federal climate spending to disadvantaged communities that have historically borne the brunt of pollution.  The community is home to 49 energy-efficient affordable houses financed and built by Self-Help, a partner of Climate United, which will use a $6.97 billion award to support climate-friendly projects in homes, small businesses, schools and other organizations. 

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URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01345-3
Title: Developing more useful equity measurements for flood-risk management - Nature.com
Content: This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription $29.99 / 30 days cancel any time Subscribe to this journal Receive 12 digital issues and online access to articles $119.00 per year only $9.92 per issue Buy this article  Author information Authors and Affiliations Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA Adam B. Pollack & Klaus Keller Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Penn State University, State College, PA, USA Casey Helgeson Department of Philosophy, Penn State University, State College, PA, USA Casey Helgeson Environmental Defense Fund, Philadelphia, PA, USA Carolyn Kousky  ISSN 2398-9629 (online) nature.com sitemap About Nature Portfolio Discover content Publishing policies Author & Researcher services Libraries & institutions Advertising & partnerships Professional development Regional websites  Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative Advertisement Explore content About the journal Publish with us Search Quick links Nature Sustainability (Nat Sustain)  Advertisement Developing more useful equity measurements for flood-risk management Nature Sustainability (2024)Cite this article Metrics details Subjects Abstract Decision-makers increasingly invoke equity to motivate, design, implement and evaluate strategies for managing flood risks.

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URL: https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2024/5/10/almost-a-year-after-launch-what-has-philanthropys-leading-climate-bill-implementation-effort-funded
Title: Almost a Year After Launch, What Has Philanthropy's Leading Climate Bill Implementation Effort Funded? - Inside Philanthropy
Content: Inside Philanthropy Almost a Year After Launch, What Has Philanthropy’s Leading Climate Bill Implementation Effort Funded? ultramansk/shutterstock After months of rumors, the details emerged last July: A handful of the nation’s largest climate funders had joined forces to spend $180 million over the next three years to ensure that the United States’ biggest climate bill in history, the Inflation Reduction Act, and other major legislation, benefited communities across the country. Efforts in philanthropy and the public sector have sought in recent years to create baselines for such spending, from the Climate Funders Justice Pledge, which has the more specific ask that at least 30% of funding to go to BIPOC-led power-building groups, and the federal government’s Justice40 initiative, which requires that 40% of benefits of certain federal investments, including on climate and clean energy, flow to disadvantaged communities.  IOF’s half-dozen intermediary grantees include one of the largest in the U.S., the Energy Foundation, as well as three well-known climate justice regrantors: the Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund, the Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice and The Solutions Project. “There was a real desire on the part of the leadership of the fund and the broader climate philanthropy, that I saw, to reach well beyond the traditional walls of climate movement, and climate philanthropy,” Colavito said.  While we do not know which of these grantees are getting the biggest checks, the team says 43% of funding in 2023, and 40% this year to date, went to equity-focused organizations that support efforts to deliver benefits to underserved communities, an area of concern for several sources I spoke to prior to the fund’s launch. 


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