KHON interviews PIRCA researchers

Reporters from Hawai‘i ’s TV news channel KHON interviewed Dr. Victoria Keener, Pacific RISA Program Manager and Research Fellow at the East-West Center, as well as Ms. Deanna Spooner, Coordinator of the Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative (PICCC), and Mr. Stanton Enomoto, PICCC’s Cultural Adaptation Coordinator.  The interviews took place at the Dec. 10 Pacific Islands Regional Climate Forum at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai‘i .  The forum convened decision-makers and scientists from across the Pacific Islands region and U.S. mainland to discuss the findings of the 2012 Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment, for which Dr. Keener and Ms. Spooner are co-editors.

The news segment aired Dec. 10 on KHON’s News at 5.  You can watch the video clip of the segment here:

To learn more about the 2012 PIRCA and download PDF versions of the report, executive summary, and case studies, visit our PIRCA page.