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Priority
Make Decisions Based on the Best Available Climate Science
Progress Indicators
- Scoping: Scoping and organizing action; collecting input and conducting community engagement.
- Securing Funding: Securing funding; beginning project work.
- Underway: Work underway; documentation and reporting in progress.
- Nearing Completion: Work nearing completion.
- Complete: Work complete; shifting to ongoing maintenance, monitoring, evaluation and assessment.
- Ongoing Improvements: Ongoing advancements; continual improvements.
Actions
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Action 1 Support consistent integration of climate risk into state agency decision making through regularly updated guidance.
Success Metric: Update the Planning and Investing for a Resilient California Guidebook (implementing EO B-30-15 and EO N-19-19) and hold training workshops with agencies who operate, maintain, and invest in state infrastructure.
Timeframe: 2022
Agency: Governor’s Office of Planning and Research
For More Details: Planning and Investing for a Resilient California
Progress Indicator: Scoping
Success Metric: Provide guidance for state agency staff and local governments to plan for sea-level rise adaptation, impacts, and hazards in a way that is responsive and flexible, and based on best available science and unique local community contexts.
Timeframe: 2023 and every five years thereafter
Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources, Ocean Protection Council, Coastal Commission, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission | Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Toxic Substances Control | Governor’s Office of Planning and Research
For More Details: Planning and Investing for a Resilience California, California’s Sea-Level Rise Guidance; Coastal Commission Coastal Management Program 309 Assessment and Strategy; 2021-2025 Coastal Commission Strategic Plan; Coastal Commission Sea-Level Rise Policy Guidance; Sea-Level Rise Working Group Joint Statement on Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Planning; Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan; San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission Bay Adapt
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Provide scientific guidance to agencies to understand potential impacts of sea-level rise to contaminated sites.
Timeframe: 2022
Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources, Ocean Protection Council, Coastal Commission, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission | Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Toxic Substances Control | Governor’s Office of Planning and Research
For More Details: Planning and Investing for a Resilience California, California’s Sea-Level Rise Guidance; Coastal Commission Coastal Management Program 309 Assessment and Strategy; 2021-2025 Coastal Commission Strategic Plan; Coastal Commission Sea-Level Rise Policy Guidance; Sea-Level Rise Working Group Joint Statement on Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Planning; Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan; San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission Bay Adapt
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Issue guidance on the consistent use of sea-level rise data in cleanup decisions in 2022 and train staff on the use of this guidance.
Timeframe: 2022
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Toxic Substances Control
For More Details: Site Mitigation and Restoration Program
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Develop a GIS tool to present sea-level rise data and the sites that the Department of Toxic Substances Control works on.
Timeframe: 2022
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Toxic Substances Control
For More Details: Site Mitigation and Restoration Program
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Issue guidance on the use of pathways of adaptation and resiliency measures.
Timeframe: 2023
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Toxic Substances Control
For More Details: Site Mitigation and Restoration Program
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Provide policy guidance and other forms of technical assistance to Coastal Commission staff, tribal and local governments, and other state agencies in support of updating Local Coastal Programs to address climate impacts, such as on addressing environmental justice and equity in sea-level rise planning, increased risk of wildfire and post-fire land management, droughts, seawater intrusion and ocean acidification.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Coastal Commission
For More Details: Coastal Commission Coastal Management Program 309 Assessment and Strategy; 2021-2025 Coastal Commission Strategic Plan; Coastal Commission Sea-Level Rise Policy Guidance; Sea-Level Rise Working Group Joint Statement on Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Planning
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
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Action 2 Improve wildfire smoke guidance for schools, children, and other vulnerable populations (including low-income populations, communities of color, and tribal communities). Develop outreach materials for health care providers and the public on wildfire smoke health effects and ways to decrease exposure.
Success Metric: Guidance on the health effects of wildfire smoke for vulnerable populations including children; fact sheets and other outreach materials on wildfire smoke risks and adaptation measures for use by county health departments, health care providers, and school authorities; consultations with the Environmental Protection Agency and other state agencies on wildfire smoke risks and adaptation measures.
Timeframe: FY 2022-2023; additions and updates annually as appropriate
Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency - Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment | Health and Human Services Agency - Department of Public Health | Department of Education
For More Details: Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Strategic Plan: 2018 Update, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Children’s Health Web Page, California Department of Public Health Emergency Preparedness Office
Progress Indicator: Environmental Protection Agency: Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment: Underway
Progress Indicator: Progress Indicator – Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health: Complete
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Action 3 Understand climate impacts on agricultural land viability and use that information to inform conservation decisions and strategies.
Success Metric: Coordinate information sharing with the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources’ agriculture adaptation research team.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Conservation | Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Department of Conservation Division of Land Resource Protection
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 4 Improve the ability of regions to anticipate water-related weather and climate changes.
Success Metric: Support increased understanding and tribal and regional decision making related to water with watershed-scale climate vulnerability and adaptation assessments.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Department of Water Resources, Delta Stewardship Council, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission | Department of Food and Agriculture | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board | Governor’s Office of Planning and Research
For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission Adapting to Rising Tides Program
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Improve spatial coverage of climate change studies. Ensure all hydrologic regions have comprehensive climate change analyses.
Timeframe: 2028
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Improve forecasting of vulnerable areas to water supply shortages by identifying and refining lists of vulnerable regions.
Timeframe: 2023
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Increase the number of flood control facilities that utilize Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations.
Timeframe: 2023
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio
Progress Indicator: Securing Funding
Success Metric: Complete watershed scale climate vulnerability and adaptation studies for the San Joaquin River watershed and its tributaries.
Timeframe: 2025
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Develop planning guidance and toolkits for assessing climate change vulnerability and adaptation at the watershed scale.
Timeframe: 2025
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio
Progress Indicator: Scoping
Success Metric: Development of a statewide weather generator to create historical and climate change induced climatic information.
Timeframe: Fall 2022
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Number of sub-watershed scale high resolution models developed and available to assess and forecast climate water deficit and inform state land managers how vegetation/habitat will do in drought conditions, as well as to identify climate refugia on state-owned lands, where drought and other climate impacts are buffered.
Timeframe: 2024
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife
For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio
Progress Indicator: Securing funding; beginning project work
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Action 5 Integrate consideration of California’s most recent downscaled climate change projections into state conservation investment decisions.
Success Metric: Strengthen climate adaptation components of conservation planning efforts.
Timeframe: Ongoing, beginning 2022
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Wildlife Conservation Board
For More Details: Department of Fish and Wildlife Natural Community Conservation Planning Program; Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Regional Conservation Investment Strategies Program; Department of Fish and Wildlife State Wildlife Action Plan
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Incorporate climate change projections when assessing the ecological conditions of conservation targets.
Timeframe: Ongoing, beginning 2022
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Wildlife Conservation Board
For More Details: Department of Fish and Wildlife Natural Community Conservation Planning Program; Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Regional Conservation Investment Strategies Program; Department of Fish and Wildlife State Wildlife Action Plan
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
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Action 6 Incorporate the best available science, including the use of adaptation pathways, on sea-level rise into policies, plans, and permits and have explicit processes for updating these with new information.
Success Metric: Number of state-wide policies, plans, permits, or documents completed to reduce future damage from coastal hazards, address sea-level rise, and mitigate climate change.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Coastal Commission, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, Ocean Protection Council | Governor’s Office of Planning and Research
For More Details: Coastal Commission Coastal Management Program 309 Assessment and Strategy; 2021-2025 Coastal Commission Strategic Plan; Coastal Commission Sea-Level Rise Policy Guidance; Sea-Level Rise Working Group Joint Statement on Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Planning; San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission Bay Adapt; San Francisco Bay Plan; Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Number of Local Coastal Programs or other plans completed to reduce future damage from coastal hazards, address sea-level rise, and mitigate climate change.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Coastal Commission, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, Ocean Protection Council | Governor’s Office of Planning and Research
For More Details: Coastal Commission Coastal Management Program 309 Assessment and Strategy; 2021-2025 Coastal Commission Strategic Plan; Coastal Commission Sea-Level Rise Policy Guidance; Sea-Level Rise Working Group Joint Statement on Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Planning; San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission Bay Adapt; San Francisco Bay Plan; Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Number of Local Coastal Program Grants and funding amount.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Coastal Commission, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, Ocean Protection Council | Governor’s Office of Planning and Research
For More Details: Coastal Commission Coastal Management Program 309 Assessment and Strategy; 2021-2025 Coastal Commission Strategic Plan; Coastal Commission Sea-Level Rise Policy Guidance; Sea-Level Rise Working Group Joint Statement on Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Planning; San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission Bay Adapt; San Francisco Bay Plan; Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
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Action 7 Incorporate new practices into the climate smart agricultural incentive program benefit calculators, as science supports.
Success Metric: Changes made to climate smart agricultural incentive program benefit calculators and number of new practices incorporated as science supports.
Timeframe: Continuous
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Department of Food and Agriculture Climate Change Programs
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 8 Support knowledge exchange and outreach to develop a deeper understanding of climate change impacts on crops and livestock, climate change projections, and decision support tools for farmers and ranchers, disseminating up-to-date climate science and climate smart agricultural practices.
Success Metric: Collaboration and co-authorship with U.S. Department of Agriculture Climate Hub on an Agricultural Adaptation Workbook to facilitate technical assistance in California specialty crops.
Timeframe: 2022
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Department of Food and Agriculture Climate Change Programs
Progress Indicator: Nearing Completion
Success Metric: Number of new online adaptation tools supported by the Department of Food and Agriculture.
Timeframe: 2024
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Department of Food and Agriculture Climate Change Programs
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Number of videos and educational material regarding Climate Smart Agriculture on the Department of Food and Agriculture website, as well as the level of distribution of these materials in areas of agricultural adaptation.
Timeframe: 2022 and annually thereafter
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Department of Food and Agriculture Climate Change Programs
Progress Indicator: Scoping
Success Metric: Number and geographical distribution of field days supported by the Healthy Soils Program, and number of technologies discussed at field days.
Timeframe: 2022 and annually thereafter
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Department of Food and Agriculture Climate Change Programs
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Farmer engagement with Community Education Specialists from University of California Cooperative Extension services to expand awareness of climate smart agricultural practices; measuring numbers of workshops and attendees.
Timeframe: 2022 and annually thereafter
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Department of Food and Agriculture Climate Change Programs
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 9 Increase land and aquatic monitoring efforts to better understand and enable the early detection of climate impacts on biodiversity.
Success Metric: Number of state-owned lands and marine protected areas with sustainable long-term monitoring frameworks implemented.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife
For More Details: Department of Fish and Wildlife Climate-Biodiversity Sensor Network (as part of the California Biodiversity Network's Sentinel Sites)
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Planning and execution of multi-benefit or nature-based climate change adaptation projects benefitting biodiversity.
Timeframe: 2024 and ongoing
Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife
For More Details: Department of Fish and Wildlife Climate-Biodiversity Sensor Network (as part of the California Biodiversity Network's Sentinel Sites)
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Improved detection and delimitation of pests and invasive species as an indicator of changing climate pressures.
Timeframe: Annual reporting
Agencies: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services
Progress Indicator: Scoping