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The public is invited to join the County of Maui Office of Innovation & Sustainability today for the launch of the ‘Mayor Sustainability Series.’ Featuring individuals dedicated to caring for the planet, this series seeks to facilitate critical conversations on climate change and how to come together to create a more sustainable Maui Nui and collective world.
$20 Million in Funding to Strengthen Climate Resilience for Native Hawaiian Community Announced
The new Kapapahuliau Climate Resilience Program aims to enhance climate change mitigation efforts for the Native Hawaiian community.
These are among the findings of the U.S. National Climate Assessment, released by the Biden Administration which involved five UH Mānoa researchers.
“Landscape conservation,” a now common term in conservation biology, emphasizes the importance of planning at scales that encompass ecological processes and species migrations, and addresses large-scale environmental threats. Formal frameworks for evaluating the effectiveness of these efforts are rare, however, and made difficult because these multi-scalar efforts involve many actors over multiple jurisdictions and long timescales. Recognizing the need for collaborative responses to large-scale environmental stressors such as climate change, the Department of the Interior supported a n...