Naima Te Maile Fifita Email & Phone Number

New Zealand

The Institute for Climate and Peace is a 501(c)(3) organization based out of Hawaiʻi. ICP is a climate justice organization that understands science and advances peace to build equity and resiliency for communities most affected by climate change. Within Hawaiʻi and the greater Pacific-Asia region, there exists relatively little climate change work that effectively centers the human experience and none outside of ICP that operates at the intersection of climate change and peacebuilding. We see an urgent need to change this and to catalyze a body of actions that centers justice and activates ground-up climate resilience and positive peace strategies. ICP is helping re-envision how we relate to ourselves, each other, and our environment by investing deeply in transformative peacebuilding strategies that support the vision of communities at the frontlines of climate change. https://www.climateandpeace.org/

World Future Council is committed to a healthy and sustainable planet with just and peaceful societies – now and in the future.

- COSIS aims to take collective action to protect and preserve the climate system, including the marine environment, through the promotion, progressive development, and implementation of rules and principles of international law concerning climate change.- Spearheaded requests for advisory opinions on behalf of Tuvalu and COSIS to the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea and International Court of Justice on the topic of climate change.

Tuvalu/Aotearoa

- Two-year fellowship aimed to honor and memorialize the traditional ecological wisdom of Tuvaluan peoples, who currently face permanent displacement and the loss of statehood as a result of anthropogenic climate change. - Masters (LLM) in International Environmental Law (climate migration and ocean diplomacy)- Development of program that addresses a wide array of environmental sociocultural issues through collective capacity-building across Pacific communities in four areas: resilience, advocacy, environmental stewardship, and cultural connection. The program would aim to empower Pacific peoples in the face of potential climate displacement and loss of land and ocean resources.

Aotearoa, New Zealand

Moana Tasi is a Pasifika-led organisation that seeks to address a wide array of environmental and sociocultural issues by holding space for Pasifika communities affected by climate change.

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Co-founded KANU Offset, an online platform that facilitates the planting of carbon-sequestering trees (breadfruit) to nourish and regenerate our island home.

Oceania Regional Office

Designed capacity-building initiatives and educational curricula for environmental lawyers and judges in the Pacific region, tailored to embrace community-led perspectives and culturally responsive needs.

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

- Earned Certificates in Environmental Law and Native Hawaiian Rights- Highest Grade Awardee for International Protection of Human Rights Course and Legal Research Writing Seminar

Hawai'I

- Worked directly with Conservation International’s Hawaiʻi Conservation Policy and Incentives Lab, which works to understand complex conservation challenges facing ocean ecosystems in Hawai’i and the Pacific and to identify, develop, and test innovative solutions that meet the needs of people and benefit nature. - Researched the processes and mechanisms by which ocean conservation sites can formally acknowledge and incorporate Indigenous rights and authority into the governance and management frameworks.

Hagåtña, Guam

Blue Ocean Law is a boutique international law firm based in Guam, specialising in human and indigenous rights, self-determination, and environmental justice in the Pacific.

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Honolulu, Hi

The Institute of Climate and Peace seeks to advance effective and inclusive processes to build peaceful and climate-resilient futures for the well being of all, especially the most vulnerable.

Amherst, Ma

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Honolulu, Hi

Career Criminals Division

Doctor Of Law - Jd

B.A.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Na Wahine Pa'ani O Punahou