2024-11-04 Christopher Barham Testimony - GP 2045

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• Promoting regenerative agriculture practices that reduce emissions and enhance carbon sequestration while not further regulating farms or increasing fines. • Greening urban areas increases the availability of cool areas for residents to live and recreate. • Integrating energy savings and waste management, without more regulations and fines on the population, provides an opportunity to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in new development. Conservation • Protecting reefs and marine ecosystems that act as carbon sinks, without hindering public use. • Implementing a One Water strategy and other water-saving technologies and practices can reduce the energy required for water treatment and distribution. This is NOT a good idea. If this • Conserving natural habitats without hindering public use to preserve biodiversity and enhance ecosystem resilience to climate change. • Efforts to expand renewable energy, with third party safety studies and without hindering public Developing a County building code that balances health and safety, affordability, and carbon footprint (REMOVE! This is more regulations and fines. NOT Pono! It is NOT your responsibility to focus on people’s health. That is for each individual! This is an overreach! goes down, where will people get their water? Remove or revise. use, can consider the preservation of unique and diverse ecosystems, avoiding negative impacts on wildlife and natural habitats. Additional Measures • Implementing policies and regulations that support climate mitigation efforts, without further regulations or fines on locals. (Please educate yourself) • Supporting research into new technologies and approaches for reducing emissions and enhancing resilience and include third party safety studies while ensuring no further cost to the public. Page 67 Water Resources • Management Promoting a One Water strategy can create cross-agency collaboration to identify and address overlapping challenges in adapting to sea level rise and building more resiliency into infrastructure across water, wastewater and stormwater sectors. How does this promote collaboration? This seems like a monopoly. Agriculture & • Food Security Encouraging the cultivation of climate-resilient and diversified crops to enhance food security without further regulations and fines. Infrastructure & Urban Planning Implement zoning and land use planning policies that consider climate risks and promote sustainable development after a full investigation of the climate change narrative is examined. Social Equity Engage communities in planning and decision-making processes to ensure that adaptation measures are socially