{"id":324839,"date":"2022-11-12T23:59:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T04:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=324839"},"modified":"2022-11-12T02:23:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T07:23:21","slug":"biden-administration-launches-multimillion-dollar-climate-gender-equity-fund-to-address-inequalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2022\/11\/biden-administration-launches-multimillion-dollar-climate-gender-equity-fund-to-address-inequalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Launches Multimillion-Dollar \u2018Climate Gender Equity Fund\u2019 to Address Inequalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Jordan Dixon Hamilton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/11\/11\/joe-biden-administration-launches-multimillion-dollar-climate-gender-equity-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"width: 35%;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FhTg1LcXEAMWyKc?format=jpg&amp;name=medium\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden announced the launch of his multimillion-dollar \u201cClimate Gender Equity Fund\u201d to address purported inequalities women face in climate finance at the United Nations COP 27 climate conference in Egypt on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The Climate Gender Equity Fund\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/11\/11\/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-new-initiatives-at-cop27-to-strengthen-u-s-leadership-in-tackling-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">will<\/a>\u00a0\u201cleverage private sector contributions to help provide women climate leaders with technical skills, networks, and capital to develop and scale climate solutions,\u201d according to a White House statement.<\/p>\n<p><!--more Read More--> TRUTH LIVES on at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sgtreport.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">https:\/\/sgtreport.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Biden White House just announced the launch of a &#8220;Climate Gender Equity Fund&#8221; to &#8220;help provide women climate leaders with technical skills, networks, and capital to develop and scale climate solutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s being funded by USAID and Amazon. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3WGnwzMuum\">pic.twitter.com\/3WGnwzMuum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1591143920666570752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The program will have initial seed funding of $6 million, with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) matching e-commerce giant Amazon\u2019s $3 million investment.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon said the program will have a \u201cglobal focus\u201d and \u201chelp women access the networks and technical skills they need to accelerate the development of their climate change technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon worldwide sustainability vice president Kara Hurst\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/sustainability\/amazon-commits-53-million-to-fast-track-innovations-by-female-climate-tech-entrepreneurs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As an important step in solving climate change, we must address the gender inequalities that persist in climate finance, and ensure female entrepreneurs have an equal seat at the table and access to the funding, networks, and technical support they need to scale climate solutions. We\u2019re proud to collaborate with USAID and the Biden administration to help scale women-led climate solutions globally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazon\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/sustainability\/amazon-commits-53-million-to-fast-track-innovations-by-female-climate-tech-entrepreneurs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">added<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cfemale-founded companies typically receive a fraction of total venture capital, and that percentage fell during the pandemic.\u201d Amazon also announced it would allocate an additional $50 million from its Climate Pledge Fund to invest in women-founded and women-led climate tech companies.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s White House also\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/11\/11\/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-new-initiatives-at-cop27-to-strengthen-u-s-leadership-in-tackling-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">launched<\/a>, among other programs, the \u201cIndigenous Peoples Finance Access Facility,\u201d a $2 million program that will \u201cenable the continued climate stewardship by Indigenous peoples and local communities improving their access to climate finance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/11\/11\/joe-biden-administration-launches-multimillion-dollar-climate-gender-equity-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read More @ Breitbart.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jordan Dixon Hamilton, Breitbart: President Joe Biden announced the launch of his multimillion-dollar \u201cClimate Gender Equity Fund\u201d to address purported inequalities women face in climate finance at the United Nations COP 27 climate conference in Egypt on Friday. The Climate Gender Equity Fund\u00a0will\u00a0\u201cleverage private sector contributions to help provide women climate leaders with technical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[142077],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}