Hawaii Green Growth

What We Do

Hawaiʻi Green Growth (HGG) is a vibrant, statewide public-private partnership committed to advancing economic, social, and environmental goals, including Hawaiʻi’s six community-developed and measured Aloha+ Challenge goals, which span topics such as managing our natural resources, facilitating the clean energy transformation, and supporting a green workforce and education, and connect to the 2030 Global Agenda for Sustainable Development. The broad HGG Network of over 200+ partners works to scale local solutions to build a more resilient, secure, and sustainable future for our communities by convening regularly to identify shared priorities, determine indicators to measure our goals, and collaborate to drive meaningful and concrete action. Five working groups gather quarterly to build consensus and drive progress on sustainability topics related to measuring data, policy and legislation, the Hawaiʻi SDG Youth Council, the CEO-led Sustainability Business Forum, and the Ala Wai Watershed Collaboration.

We are interested in partnering to drive progress on our collective sustainability goals. Please reach out to discuss opportunities at info@hawaiigreengrowth.org.

Who We Are

HGG emerged as a response to the 2011 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Honolulu, aiming to identify crucial green growth priorities and promote a sustainable economy, particularly within an island context. Hawaiʻi Green Growth stewards the six Aloha+ Challenge goals and manages the Aloha+ Dashboard tracking progress towards these local goals and their targets and indicators by convening public and private partners and coordinating strategic priorities and action to get us closer to reaching those goals. HGG, along with a diverse multi-stakeholder Task Force also develops bi-annual statewide reports to submit to the United Nations, called Voluntary Local Reviews, on the status of these local priorities and goals and key recommendations for how to get us closer to these targets.

In 2018, HGG was recognized as a UN Local2030 Hub, a distinction given for its global leadership in community-led goal setting on sustainability metrics and measurement. HGG’s recognition as the thematic Hub for islands, supported by its large Network of partners, locally-supported framework, and sustainability Dashboard for goals measurement, then catalyzed the Local2030 Islands Network. This peer-to-peer, solutions-forward Network has garnered international support from various international island-based partners, technical agencies, and governments intending to share and implement culturally-informed and locally-developed solutions for regenerative development in islands, and continues to learn and draw from Hawaiʻi’s wisdom and innovation in these areas. The Network convenes global technical and policy experts in Hawaiʻi annually in areas related to tourism, climate resilience, clean energy, green growth, sustainable water management, and a special cohort of young leaders across all of the Sustainable Development Goals focused on collective action rooted in a local context.

Cause Areas

Animals|Keiki|Kupuna|Special Needs|Gender & Equality|Food Insecurity|Housing & Homelessness|Social Services|Health & Wellness|Environmental Conservation|Cultural Preservation|Preparedness & Response|Education & Training|Advocacy|Human Rights|Community Engagement