Reading time: 2minutes Researchers will assess how bioenergy generated from agricultural residues and animal manures could contribute to Hawaiʻi’s renewable energy.
Reading time: 2minutes The blue economy are coastal- and ocean-based industries such as aquaculture, biotechnology or blue carbon, where C02 is sequestered from the atmosphere to mitigate climate change.
Reading time: 2minutes Chip Fletcher was appointed as special advisor for Climate and Resilience and David Karl was appointed as chair of the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Marine Affairs.
Reading time: 3minutes The delegation from Ghana and PDC also visited the Maui County Fire Department for a briefing on the recent Maui wildfire disaster.
Reading time: 2minutes UH Mānoa researchers participated in the kick-off meeting hosted by the Marine Corps Base Hawaiʻi for the Koʻolau Poko Resilience Review project.
Reading time: < 1minute The Institute for Sustainability and Resilience received $950,000 from the Healy Foundation to support a five-year cohort of Healy Climate Fellows.
Reading time: 3minutes Cities with complex networks of buried infrastructure have interaction with shallower and saltier groundwater which exacerbates corrosion and failure of critical systems.
Reading time: 2minutes The study summarizes the grave threats facing the planet but rejects a “doom and gloom” philosophy and argues that the threats should motivate swift and substantial actions.
Reading time: 3minutes Climate change is expected to increase the intensity and frequency of cyclones, causing huge potential risks to forests and the people who depend on them.