It shifts from a pure COVID-19 impact analysis to exploring how jurisdictions build resilience for future extreme events through carbon neutrality, trade, and tourism.
In regions like the Northern Mariana Islands, sea level rise and stronger tropical storms threaten high-value coastal infrastructure, human health, and cultural sites. The Island (2021)
Ocean acidity near Hawai'i has increased by 12% since 1988, and subsurface heat content has risen across most of the Western Warm Pool. It shifts from a pure COVID-19 impact analysis
