Traditional boat-building with a modern spin to reduce Marshall Islands' reliance on diesel
ABCWhen Atina Schutz's mum picked her up from school in the Marshall Islands' capital of Majuro, she didn't expect the car ride home to turn frightening. She's a researcher with the Micronesian Center for Sustainable Transport, which is based in the Marshall Islands' capital, Majuro. Exactly how full decarbonisation in the Marshall Islands will look, and how much traditional boat-building skills or new technologies such as hydrogen-based electro-fuels will feed into it, is still, for the most part, unknown. But even though carbon emissions produced by diesel-powered Marshallese boats is barely a blip in the global total, Atina Schutz says transitioning into emission-free and fully sustainable sea transport "is not just important for our society, but it's also our way of walking our talk".
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