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Hawaii Poised to Become First State to Declare Climate Emergency The Hawaii State Capitol building in Honolulu, pictured May 3, 2019. Masci Giuseppe / AGF / Universal Images Group via Getty Images By The Hawaii state legislature is set to make history later on Thursday by becoming the first state in the country to pass a resolution declaring a climate emergency. Hawaii lawmakers will declare in a nonbinding resolution that the current global climate crisis is a threat to both humankind and the environment. The text of the resolution calls for a collaborative effort to address the effects of the crisis and come up with ways to halt the increase of global temperatures.