CAP Team (s):
Pacific RISA
Years Active (s):
2020 –
2023
Principal Investigator (s):
Abby Frazier
Co-Investigator (s):
Zena Grecni, Victoria Keener, Kirsten Oleson, Christopher Shuler
Project Supporters:
Not Available
State/Locations:
American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Hawai’i, Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands
Research Partners:
US Global Change Research Program
End User / Practitioner Partners:
Nationwide public; US Federal agencies; US Congress, Hawaii and US-Affiliated Pacific Islands public, educators, and other stakeholders
Deliverables:
Hawaii and US-Affiliated Pacific Islands chapter in the 5th National Climate Assessment; regional and subject-matter contributions to the Assessment as a whole; original and adapted figures and tables; reference list of up-to-date climate literature for the region
Adaptation:
State-of-knowledge of how climate change is already affecting key sectors, including health, energy, infrastructure, national security, agriculture, and water managment, among others, and characterizes key future risks across those sectors
Categories:
adaptation, impacts, national climate assessment, policy, Risks
Geographic Scope:
Hawaii and US-Affiliated Pacific Islands
Geographic Communities Benefited:
Hawaii and US-Affiliated Pacific Islands
Non-Geographic Underserved Communities Benefited:
Not Available
This congressionally-mandated assessment report aims to provide Americans with access to practical, usable information on how climate change affects them, and has the potential to inform policy at local, regional, and national scales.