{"id":114736,"date":"2020-03-31T09:49:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T19:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=114736"},"modified":"2020-04-08T09:47:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T19:47:23","slug":"climate-change-teachers-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/31\/climate-change-teachers-webinar\/","title":{"rendered":"Statewide webinar for teachers on climate policy and change in the ‘age of COVID’"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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High sea level in Waik\u012bk\u012b. Credit: Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Sea Grant King Tides Project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With schools across the country shuttering classes due to the coronavirus, one climate education project is moving full-speed ahead.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, April 7 at 3:30 p.m., Kapiʻolani<\/span> Community College will host a statewide webinar focused on equitable local solutions that can be implemented in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> to help respond to anticipated climate disruptions. The project, called Solve Climate By 2030<\/a>, features simultaneous, university-led webinars in almost all 50 states plus Washington D.C., Puerto Rico<\/a> and 10 other countries.<\/p>\n

For college and high school teachers adapting to remote learning, “Climate Policy, Resilience, and Change in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> in the age of COVID” provides a ready-made lesson plan. Teachers can participate in the webinar, and then do related class activities online the next day.<\/p>\n

“We in these islands cannot shape a hopeful, beautiful and rewarding future for the next generations, by ourselves. We will need the 50 other states, Pasifika territories and nations, and the other 180 sovereign nations to work together to find solutions fast,” said Bob Franco, director of Kapiʻolani<\/span> CC<\/abbr>\u2019s Office for Institutional Effectiveness.<\/p>\n

This event will bring together climate experts in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> who have been asked to identify three ambitious, but feasible things that could happen in the state over the next couple of years\u2014reforms that would really move the needle on solving climate change.<\/p>\n