The Hawaii State Energy Office said local governments need to “strengthen their efforts” to combat climate change after the U.S. officially withdrew from the Paris climate agreement today.

“The need for state and local governments to strengthen their efforts to counter the devastating effects of the climate crisis has never been greater,” Scott Glenn, the state’s chief energy officer, said in a statement. “Hawaii pledges to work on a bipartisan basis with its partners in the 25-state U.S. Climate Alliance to accelerate our ambition and pace of climate leadership.”

Glenn said that the Climate Alliance states, a bipartisan group of governors who follow science-based climate policies, are doing a better job than the rest of the country at reducing emissions and economic output.

“We have shown that building resilient communities and growing a clean energy economy can be achieved,” Glenn said. “Even as we await the outcome of the U.S. presidential election and the US’ future role in the climate crisis, Hawaii will continue its leadership.”

There are nearly 200 parties in the Paris agreement, a global agreement to fight climate change by lowering greenhouse emissions and moving toward a low-carbon future.