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The County is embarking on the process of creating the Climate Roadmap 2030, which will outline actions the County and partners will take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve our community.

Actions taken have to be equitable by design. Creating and implementing equitable strategies means being one step closer to eliminating disparities and environmental injustices experienced by historically marginalized communities based on income, race/ethnicity, age, ability, immigration status, sexual orientation, and gender, and ensuring that the distribution of benefits and burdens is equal across all communities.

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Sample: strategy increases access to jobs, housing, transportation, funding, education, healthy foods, and a clean environment for low-income communities and communities of color, especially in unincorporated communities. Strategy removes barriers to access through better policy, and investments.

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Sample: Strategy increase access to information/education around climate, i.e. impacts, benefits, and programs.

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Sample: Strategy ensures historically marginalized communities in unincorporated communities are prioritized in the economic or workforce benefits of a strategy and are protected from negative consequences.

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Sample: Strategy supports job training programs, prioritizing low-income communities and communities of color in unincorporated communities.

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Sample: Strategy improves health (physical and mental) outcomes for low-income communities and communities of color. The strategy upholds the fundamental human right to clean, healthy and adequate air, water, land, food, education, transportation, safety, and housing.

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Sample: Strategy helps communities avoid extreme heat, air pollution, and fires, while prioritizing action in historically marginalized communities.

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Sample: Strategy supports benefits beyond greenhouse gas reduction.

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Sample: Strategy addresses shared community values and cultural differences in order to support implementation.

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Sample: Strategy ensures that historically marginalized communities in unincorporated communities can hold the County accountable to equitable implementation.

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Sample: Strategy lowers and stabilizes costs related to basic living needs (housing, food, utilities, healthcare, transportation, etc.) for historically marginalized communities in unincorporated communities.

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Sample: Strategy extends expected longevity and/or quality of life for populations experiencing health disparities.

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The following are sample equity "guardrails" or guidelines that will ensure measures and actions in the Roadmap strive towards equity.

Please help us craft and define the purpose and goals of the guardrails by posting comments or interacting with existing posts.

When providing your ideas and inputs on the guardrails, consider how they can be applied to the strategies in the following climate sectors:

Energy

Transportation

Waste

Water

Carbon Sequestration

Consumptive Emissions (direct and lifecycle GHG emissions of goods and services)

Agriculture

For example, you can help us answer questions like what does the guardrail of accessibility mean when applying it to energy sector strategies?

How to use this virtual board
Post ideas, pictures, and more by clicking on the '+' button at the bottom of each column. Review existing contributions, and react by commenting or liking the post.

Be sure to check out all the guardrails by scrolling to the right!

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Sample: Inclusive outreach and engagement processes for equal participation in the 2030 Roadmap from all communities

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Access to opportunities, resources, and solutions for all including persons with access and functional needs, older adults, the unhoused community, and the multi-lingual community. 

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Access to opportunities, resources, and solutions for all including persons with access and functional needs, older adults, the unhoused community, and the multi-lingual community. 

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Access to opportunities, resources, and solutions for all. 

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Access to opportunities, resources, and solutions for all. 

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Create low-income programs to help build community infrastructure. For example, buying solar panels for the home. 

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Create low-income programs to help build community infrastructure. For example, buying solar panels for the home. 

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I'm unclear about what Just Transition means. Does this mean that community members should just transition to green products/services, make the shift, and just go green altogether? The strategy does not appear to align with the Just Transition guardrail title. Perhaps you could consolidate this section with the Community & Culture section?

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I'm unclear about what Just Transition means. Does this mean that community members should just transition to green products/services, make the shift, and just go green altogether? The strategy does not appear to align with the Just Transition guardrail title. Perhaps you could consolidate this section with the Community & Culture section?

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You should include this section to show community members how you will sustain this program long term. Will it be sustainable? Sub topics should include a maintenance program - how will you conduct reviews of the program, who is responsible for updating sections of the roadmap? You should also include a process improvement process - who is the responsible stakeholder for making updates and making correctional actions to the roadmap?

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Check out County and City of Honolulu equity programs for ideas: https://resilientoahu.org/equity

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Check out County and City of Honolulu equity programs for ideas: https://resilientoahu.org/equity

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Resilience Office - City and County of Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency

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Climate change exacerbates existing systemic inequities threatening public health, employment, and economic stability. Indigenous communities, people of color, women, children, immigrants, people with disabilities, and lower-income communities are some of the populations considered to be on the frontlines of the climate crisis. A critical need exists for local governments to explicitly invest resources and shift policy into more just and equitable solutions centering the strength and leadership of frontline local communities' abilities, assets, relationships and wellbeing.

"Equitable climate preparedness strives to fairly distribute the benefits and burdens of climate change and climate actions while also advancing racial and social justice more broadly through a community-driven process that supports empowerment for those most affected to shape the decisions that will impact their lives."

Urban Sustainable Leadership Network - USDN Guide to EQUITABLE, COMMUNITY DRIVEN CLIMATE PREPAREDNESS PLANNING, MAY 2017

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Equity - Resilience Office - City and County of Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency

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Climate change exacerbates existing systemic inequities threatening public health, employment, and economic stability. Indigenous communities, people of color, women, children, immigrants, people with disabilities, and lower-income communities are some of the populations considered to be on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

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Equity guardrails need to be evolved to criteria that can be used to inform decision making. The comparison to CEQA is a good one. The strongest approach is to center (prioritize) equity in the entire project. Those actions which provide the highest good for equity outcomes are the priorities.

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Equity guardrails need to be evolved to criteria that can be used to inform decision making. The comparison to CEQA is a good one. The strongest approach is to center (prioritize) equity in the entire project. Those actions which provide the highest good for equity outcomes are the priorities.