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What is the California Climate Adaptation Strategy?
The Strategy is California’s overarching framework for building community, economic, and environmental resilience to climate impacts, such as fire, floods, heat, drought, and sea level rise. It reflects key pillars of sector or threat-specific efforts, showing how they fit together and drive us toward California’s six climate resilience priorities:
- Strengthen Protections for Climate Vulnerable Communities
- Bolster Public Health and Safety to Protect Against Increasing Climate Risks
- Build a Climate Resilient Economy
- Accelerate Nature-Based Climate Solutions and Strengthen Climate Resilience of Natural Systems
- Make Decisions Based on the Best Available Climate Science
- Partner and Collaborate to Leverage Resources
These resilience priorities are California’s climate adaptation “north stars” – they guide our collective efforts, connect the dots between our sector-specific work, and reflect the outcomes we are seeking to achieve. The Strategy was called for in Assembly Bill 1482 (Gordon, 2015), which also requires it be updated every three years. It was last updated in 2021.
California Climate Adaptation Strategy Implementation Progress Reports
The Annual Implementation Progress Reports for the 2021 California Climate Adaptation Strategy summarize the state's overall progress that year to implement the Strategy and highlight key accomplishments that support the Strategy's six priorities.
Explore the Priorities
Climate Adaptation in Partnership with California Native American Tribes
Tribal nations are critical leaders and key knowledge holders in land stewardship, habitat restoration, and natural resource management. In recognition of this truth and the critical importance of partnership with California’s many Native American tribes to strengthen climate resilience, this Strategy commits to incorporating and supporting tribal expertise and traditional ecological knowledge into this work at all levels.
Climate Impacts
While the impacts vary in different regions of California, the evidence is clear – every corner of the state is already experiencing the impacts of climate change. Explore the summary of projected climate change impacts on California.