Community- Draft City and County of Honolulu 2025-2030 Climate Action Plan
The 2025–2030 Climate Action Plan is developed with a clear commitment to relationships, trust, and shared responsibility. Over the past year, we traveled across Oʻahu, and sat with kūpuna, youth, families, and City departments, listening to stories of place, challenges, and hopes for the future.
This plan carries forward 27 climate actions across five focus areas: transportation, waste, community energy solutions, sustainable communities, and food systems. Each action is written in plain language, connecting technical goals to real, everyday benefits like cleaner air, affordable energy, safe streets, thriving local food, and stronger communities. Guided by equity, cultural integrity, and feasibility, these actions are shaped to work for both our communities and the City departments that serve them.
We invite you to review the plan and tell us what works, what’s missing, and what’s hard to understand so that together we can grow a plan that serves both our people and our island. The comment period will run from August 19 – September 12, 2025.
This plan is organized into the following sections:
1. Introduction
2. Community Engagement & Partnership
3. Baseline Assessment & Progress to Date
4. Oʻahu Greenhouse Gas Reduction Pathways
5. Strategies & Actions*
6. Monitoring & Evaluation*
7. Looking Ahead*
Appendixes
Endnotes
*Please note: Sections 5.7 Benefits Analysis, 5.8 Workforce Planning Analysis, and 5.9 Limitations & Tradeoffs have been pulled out for direct public comment. Additionally, Sections 6 (Monitoring & Evaluation) and 7 (Looking Ahead) have been combined for this platform.
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HideDraft City and County of Honolulu 2025-2030 Climate Action Plan
We invite you to review and comment on the draft 2025–2030 Oʻahu Climate Action Plan. The 2025–2030 Climate Action Plan is developed with a clear commitment to relationships, trust, and shared responsibility.
As you explore each section below, please tell us what works, what’s missing, and what’s hard to understand so that we can grow a plan that serves both our people and our island. Your feedback will help ensure this plan truly serves our people and our island.
Front Matter
Introduces the plan’s purpose, grounding it in Community, Accountability, and relationships that make climate action possible. Offers acknowledgments and opening reflections that frame the CAP as a collective commitment between government and community.
1. Introduction
Explains why Oʻahu must act on climate now and how this plan was built through island-wide engagement. Presents the principles and values so readers can easily understand where we’re starting and how we move forward together.
2. Community Engagement & Partnership
Highlights what we heard from residents across Oʻahu and how their stories, concerns, and solutions shaped this project from beginning to its current form. Emphasizes that strong partnerships and trust are essential to long-term resilience.
3. Baseline Assessment & Progress to Date
Provides a snapshot of current emissions, vulnerabilities, and systems across transportation, waste, community energy solutions, sustainable communities and food. Establishes where we are today and celebrates progress already made to guide practical and equitable next steps.
4. Oʻahu Greenhouse Gas Reduction Pathways
Translates the vision into concrete, department-led steps that will be tracked through clear milestones, metrics, costs, and implementation timelines. Designed to be transparent, community-centered, and actionable.
5. Strategies & Actions
Translates the vision into concrete, department-led steps that will be tracked through clear milestones, metrics, costs, and implementation timelines. Designed to be transparent, community-centered, and actionable.
5.8 Benefits Analysis
Connects each strategy to real-life improvements including lower bills, better health, economic opportunity, and stronger neighborhoods especially for communities most impacted by climate change.
5.9 Workforce Planning Analysis and 5.10 Limitations & Tradeoffs
Shows how climate action has the potential to create pathways to local jobs while being honest about constraints like funding, capacity, and time. Emphasizes the need for just transitions and shared responsibility in overcoming challenges.
6. Monitoring & Evaluation and 7. Looking Ahead
Describes how we will report progress, adapt over time, and remain accountable to the public. Reinforces that this is a living document that grows with community guidance and emerging needs.
Appendixes and Endnotes
Provide detailed data, engagement methods, technical references, and citations that underpin the plans intent to offer transparency and clarity for those who want to dive deeper.
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