Alliance members are working to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius by reducing emissions, accelerating action, centering equity, and tracking progress. 

Explore Hawai'i's policies and actions across the Alliance's 10 key policy areas. Numbers presented below only reflect the number of policies in this database and thus may not reflect all climate policies pursued.

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State of Hawai'i Perkins V State Plan

Includes strategies and activities to strengthen the state's career and technical educational system. Encourages the creation of a new career pathway to address workforce and economic development needs including around climate change, food and agriculture, clean energy, and transportation.

The Career and Technical Education program serves schools and communities by designing programs to meet the needs of Hawai'i's labor workforce,   The state’s pilot program for 2023-2024 school year provided a framework for incorporating career exploration, including those in clean energy, into high school curricula.

Career and Technical Education Program

Hawaiʻi Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report for 2020 and 2021

The GHG emission estimates presented in this report include anthropogenic3 GHG emissions and sinks for the state of Hawaiʻi for 1990, 2005, 2007, 2010, and 2015 – 2021 from the following four sectors: Energy; Industrial Processes and Product Use (IPPU); Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU); and Waste, and primarily serve the federal mandatory GHG reporting requirements in accordance with 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 98 (EPA 2021).

Hawai‘i Department of Transportation Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan

Per the Navahine Climate Litigation Settlement, the Hawai'i Department of Transportation will establish a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan within one year of the agreement, laying the foundation and roadmap to decarbonize Hawaiʻi’s transportation system within the next 20 years. It will set interim five year GHG emission reduction targets in the transportation sector through 2045, and include different benchmarks for ground, air, and marine transportation. The Plan will also incorporate specific benchmarks and performance metrics, including interim targets to:

- reduce vehicle miles traveled and the number of single occupancy vehicles in the state's mode share
- expand multimodal transportation options
- improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists
- electrify transportation and support expansion of public charging infrastructure
- reduce petroleum uses from ground transportation and increase the use of zero-carbon alternative fuels and electric vehicles in the ground, air, and marine transportation sectors
- convert to zero-emission technologies (whether electric or otherwise) all ground equipment at airports and harbors in the state

Historic Agreement Settles Navahine v. Hawai‘i Department of Transportation Climate Litigation

The State of Hawai‘i reached a historic agreement to the Navahine v. Hawai‘i Department of Transportation case, the world’s first youth-led constitutional climate case. The settlement agreement ultimately acknowledges the constitutional rights of Hawai‘i’s youth to a life-sustaining climate and confirms the commitment to plan and implement transformative changes of Hawai‘i’s transportation system to achieve the state’s goal of net-negative emissions by 2045. Thirteen youth from across the Hawaiian islands brought the case in June 2022, asserting their rights to a safe and healthy climate and asking the Hawai‘i state government to take action to meet the climate emergency and enable Hawai‘i’s paradigm shift to a climate-safe, zero-emissions transportation system. Many of the plaintiffs were Native Hawaiian youth, already experiencing climate harms to their well-being and their ability to perpetuate cultural practices.

Mapping tool that gives users a way to assess hazard and economic vulnerabilities associated with exposure to rising sea levels in Hawai'i.