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Videos

Panel presentations on Pacific Island partnerships and an introduction to the UN Local2030 Islands Network, featured at the 2021 IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille, France:

The Pacific RISA and partners share a panel on building resilience in Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Learn about the Aloha+ Challenge and how to get involved with Hawaiʻi Green Growth and the UN Local2030 Islands Network

 

 

Perspectives from the Pacific Islands region on the synergistic effects of climate change and invasive species, featured at the 2021 IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille, France:

The US Fish and Wildlife Service shares the agency’s mission and describe the twin threats of climate change and invasive species facing native Hawaiian forest birds
The Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center and the Hawaiʻi Division of Forestry and Wildlife discuss the challenges facing Hawaiʻi’s rangeland managers under changing drought and wildfire conditions
The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Division of Fish and Wildlife shares how accelerated habitat loss, combined with the introduction of invasive species, is threatening endemic birds and other native plants and animals found only on these small islands of Micronesia
The American Sāmoa Visitors Bureau describes how climate change is bringing heavy rains, erosion, and damage, from the island’s coral reefs to farmland and mountaintops, but policies to reduce human impacts in those areas are only as strong as the and agencies who people enforce them
The Guam Department of Agriculture shares how the small island of Guam in Micronesia is deeply connected to the Asia-Pacific region through international trade and shipping, while being buffeted by the impacts of a changing climate

 

EWC Sustained Climate Assessment Specialist Zena Grecni testifies as an expert witness at a US House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources hearing on the draft Insular Area Climate Change bill, which is aimed at reducing climate crisis impacts on US territories and freely associated states.

 

Hawaii-Pacific Highlights of the 2014 U.S. National Climate Assessment from Pacific RISA.

Pacific Islands Regional Climate Forum, PIRCA Overview

Lieutenant Governor’s Opening Remarks.

Panelist Perspectives – Neil Hannahs, Kamehameha Schools.

Panelist Perspectives – Ngedikes Olai Uludong, Alliance of Small Islands States. Panelist Perspectives – Office of Planning Director Jesse Souki. Panelist Perspectives – Dept of Agriculture Chair Russell Kokubun.

Panelist Perspectives- DLNR Director William Aila.

Panelist Perspectives – Scott Hauger, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies.

Please see the Climate Matters Documoments web page to access this project and to view stories of climate impacts on Pacific Islands.

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