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Southwest Environmental Finance Center staffer gives talk at Cornell University
March 5, 2024 - by Kim Delker
A project director for the Southwest Environmental Finance Center at UNM gave a talk recently at Cornell University.
On Feb. 14, joni m palmer spoke as part of the Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series. Her talk was titled “A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Transcending Disciplines to Develop and Finance Green Stormwater Infrastructure.” The talk is available online.
UNM’s Southwest Environmental Finance Center, a part of the Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, offers a variety of services that promote self-reliance through innovative training. Among the center’s services are tribal water operator certification, asset management for green and gray infrastructure; GIS; rates studies and financial sustainability; affordability; managerial assistance; process development; resiliency; regulatory research and analysis; and energy management.