GM has announced the creation of the new Climate Equity Collaborative, a joint effort with the National Wildlife Federation aimed at addressing the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities and youth.
As a founding member, GM will donate $1 million to the new Collaborative, pulling funds from its recently created Climate Equity Fund. GM launched its Equitable Climate Action initiative and $50 million Climate Equity Fund in 2021, and has since provided over 40 grants to nonprofit organizations, benefitting an estimated 1.2 million people through various programs.
With regard to the latest Climate Equity Collaborative, GM will work alongside the National Wildlife Federation to co-design the initiative framework. Other founding nonprofit partners in the initiative include WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Children’s Environmental Health Network, and Community and College Partners Program.
“Too often, the people and communities most vulnerable to climate change are left out of conversations that impact their lives,” said GM’s vice president of Sustainable Workplaces and chief sustainability officer, Kristen Siemen. “We’re proud to be a founding member of the Climate Equity Collaborative, and we invite other companies to join us in this movement to take stronger, more inclusive action on climate change.”
Goals for the new initiative include the elevation of environmental justice and education within the broader climate conversation, as well as the creation of pathways to the climate equity space for like-minded organizations. Additionally, the initiative will strengthen knowledge and leadership among youth and vulnerable communities through engagement opportunities, and drive investment to non-profits and platforms that advance education, environmental justice, and economic opportunity.
The new collaborative effort will also include an EV road trip from the Detroit Auto Show to New York City with musician and climate advocate AY Young. Young will drive the all-electric Chevy Bolt EUV, stopping along the way to talk to students about advancing equitable climate solutions before performing a concert in New York.
GM’s support as founding member of the new initiative builds on the automaker’s pivot to an all-electric lineup. The automaker plans to launch 30 new EVs globally by 2025.
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BOO!!! We really don’t care. And that’s coming from me right now vacationing in the Rockies where I’m seeing all these programs for wildlife gone to waste. Today I saw a program that built little bird houses close to the ground for some kind of roadrunner, all empty of birds but occupied by plenty of insects!!! And yesterday, there was more than 1 site I had seen fenced off for the “growth of rare, indigenous flowers”….. full of thistles with not a single flower to boot.
We don’t care about your stupid environmentalism. Mostly because it’s crazy and you make the world worst while doing it. We do care about the fact that new cars cost more than the average family’s yearly income.
Now I’m going to go throw away all the trash I found while hiking left behind by last weekend’s hippie convention on this mountainside.
Oh, okay. You saw some things. Guess that proves it’s all a bunch of crap.
Thanks for picking up the trash left behind by obviously stupid people. ‘Course, we really don’t know who those people were. Unless you were there to witness it? If so, did you say anything to the obviously stupid people? You don’t seem to have much trouble speaking up….
Do you not understand that there are many varieties of thistles that are natives throughout North America? Just because you don’t like them doesn’t mean they don’t provide enormous value for many species of birds, bees and other insects. Hopefully you weren’t to stupid to go trampling through the closed of area?
The bird houses provide a protective area for various species to nest. Since most birds only nest in the springtime while in the Rockies, no surprise they’re empty.
Protecting and enjoying our natural resources goes way beyond picking up garbage left behind. Please take some time to educate yourself.
Nobody cares
NO! You don’t care. Many people do.
The bird houses were probably empty because nesting season is over with, dumb@ss.
Virture Signalling 101
Imagine thinking the above and then writting it. Hilarious.
No, I learned it from Brandon and the woke left.
What is Virture Signalling 101? Some secret society?
LOL! Hilarious. Enjoy your mandated EVs.
Good one. How many hours did it take for you to come up with that?
Four.
Thank you I will. Enjoy your smelly ICE.
“People and communities most vulnerable to climate change…” are the same people the Left says don’t even realize they’re being oppressed by systematic racism or the patriarchy or white privilege or voter ID laws. It’s all the same, and the Left has no clue how actually bigoted that way of thinking is.
My eyes were opened by the very people who are supposedly oppressed and are now fighting back to say it’s common sense to know how to obtain an ID, to work hard, get an education, and even research climate studies and peer reviews of climate studies, and to suggest anything different is to be bigoted towards them.