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Hawai‘i and Pacific Islands
Climate change impairs access to clean water and healthy food, undermines human health, threatens cultural resources and the built environment, exacerbates inequities, and disrupts economic activity and diverse island ecosystems. Adaptation efforts that build upon community strengths and center local and Indigenous Knowledge systems improve resilience.
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- Climate change impairs access to healthy food and water
- Climate change undermines human health, but community strength boosts resilience
- Rising sea levels threaten infrastructure and local -- economies and exacerbate existing inequities
- Responses to rising threats may help safeguard tropical ecosystems and biodiversity
- Indigenous knowledge systems strengthen island resilience
