Through our Better Bulb Blitz, we replaced more than 300,000 incandescent bulbs with energy efficient bulbs, saving $40 million statewide and displacing 190,000 barrels of oil. Our programs empower communities statewide through smart, replicable renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions. Through our education program, we host an annual Student Energy Summit and deliver weekly school presentations that promote taking energy learning beyond the classroom. We provide education and outreach to help communities understand key energy issues, what’s at stake, and why it matters. Our policy efforts are high-impact initiatives we found that our effort to pass the 100% renewable electricity law helped galvanize statewide support for clean energy and spurred interest from other states to adopt similarly aggressive renewable energy goals. In 2015, we led the campaign to pass the nation’s first 100% renewable energy law.
We engage community leaders, local lawmakers, and energy experts in creating long-term plans and public policy initiatives that lead the charge for a sustainable future. By selecting Blue Planet Foundation as your Jet-Set Offset partner, you will directly support programs that help us move beyond oil faster, such as: Blue Planet is focusing its efforts first in Hawaii because of the islands’ unique opportunity-with high energy prices, an abundance of natural resources, and a history of social innovation-to lead the globe in clean energy transformation. Starting in Hawaii, we envision a world powered by abundant renewable energy that sustains all life on Earth. These projects include filling pits left after World War II, which means land is reclaimed, and some large projects that involve raising the height of atolls.Blue Planet Foundation is a nonprofit committed to clearing the path for 100% clean energy. "There are things we can do to help them and that are already making a difference," she said. "The longer we wait to have sound policies with respect to how people move under stress, the more we leave open the likelihood of conflict at the individual, household and national level." New Zealand's reactionīut New Zealand's Climate Change Minister, Paula Bennett, is convinced those in Kiribati and Tuvalu would prefer to remain living in their own country. Prof Burkett wants policy developed sooner rather than later to take an expected future into account. More humanitarian and human rights based - or more exclusion and security based and looking to national security concerns." "On a country-by-country level we need to have a conversation about the climate-induced migration of people and it's either going to be more co-ordinated or more chaotic. While it remains difficult to identify who might already have been forced to move by the effects of global warming, University Of Hawaii law professor Maxine Burkett has been researching climate-induced migration, displacement and relocation, and the need for proactive policies to be developed to protect small island states.
"Of all the vulnerable nations of the world, these three are the most vulnerable," he told the audience, before going on to offer Fiji's help to those who might be forced out of their homes. Maxine Burkett Photo: RNZ / Philippa Tolleyįiji will chair COP23 in November - and in Suva, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama opened the regional meeting, saying Pacific nations were fighting for their very survival, especially extremely low-lying nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands. Nevertheless, the state is moving towards renewable energy with a target of 100 percent renewable energy by 2045.īut the impact of rising sea levels is harder to deal with and the action of the waves adds to erosion. Last year we imported about 43 million barrels of oil and people are surprised to learn we have a coal-powered power plant in Oahu," he said. But also more than 300 plant and animal species face extinction. We have all the challenges of any major city: everything from run-off to waste issues. "We are completely dependent on imports, both for energy and food. "It's beautiful here, but underneath the surface we have some challenges," is how the foundation's executive director, Jeff Mikulina, summed up the situation.
That is why Hawaii is united in its political leadership on tackling climate change."Īmong those trying to reduce the state's CO2 emissions is the Blue Planet Foundation, a non-profit organisation working towards 100 percent clean energy in Hawaii. We must acknowledge these realities at home. "Tides are getting higher, bio-diversity is shrinking, coral is bleaching, coastlines are eroding, weather is becoming more extreme. Jeff Mikulina of Hawaii's Blue Planet Foundation Photo: RNZ / Philippa Tolley
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