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Priority
Accelerate Nature-Based Climate Solutions and Strengthen Climate Resilience of Natural Systems
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 Maintain and increase areas of high resilience to climate change.
Success Metric: Per the Executive Order N-82-20, conserve 30 percent of the state’s land and coastal waters.
Timeframe: 2030
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife
For More Details: 30x30 Initiative
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Newly developed Land Management Plans include strategies for maintaining or increasing habitat identified as highly resilient to climate change.
Timeframe: 2024
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife
For More Details: Department of Fish and Wildlife Landscape Conservation Planning Programs; Department of Fish and Wildlife Grant Programs
Progress Indicator: Securing Funding
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Action 2 Utilize California’s Marine Protected Areas to build climate resilience.
Success Metric: Support research to better understand the mechanisms and role that Marine Protected Areas can play in building climate resilience.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Ocean Protection Council
For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan; Climate Resilience and California’s Marine Protected Area Network
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Develop and implement the Marine Protected Area Statewide Leadership Team Work Plan.
Timeframe: 2021 and ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Ocean Protection Council
For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan; Climate Resilience and California’s Marine Protected Area Network
Progress Indicator: Complete
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Action 3 Conserve agricultural lands at risk of development to reduce the rate of conversion.
Success Metric: Increase in agricultural acres permanently protected through state programs.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Governor’s Office of Planning and Research – Strategic Growth Council | Natural Resources Agency – Department of Conservation, Coastal Commission | Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Department of Conservation CA Farmland Conservancy Program , Strategic Growth Council and Department of Conservation Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation Program, Coastal Agriculture in the CA Coastal Act, California Coastal Act
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
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Action 4 Enhance and maintain state wildlife areas and ecological reserves, and increase pace and scale of habitat restoration and adaptive management on state lands, including through the Cutting the Green Tape initiative.
Success Metric: Number of acres improved or restored in highly climate-vulnerable areas on state wildlife areas, ecological reserves, and other state lands.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency - all | Department of Food and Agriculture | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio; California Biodiversity Initiative – A Roadmap for Protecting the State's Natural Heritage; Delta Plan; Cutting the Green Tape
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 5 Reconnect aquatic and terrestrial habitats to help fish and wildlife endure drought and adapt to climate change.
Success Metric: Number of fish passage barriers, as identified in the fish passage assessment database, that are removed.
Timeframe: Ongoing, reported annually
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Department of Water Resources, Wildlife Conservation Board | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio; California Fish Passage Assessment Database; Department of Fish and Wildlife Landscape Connectivity Programs; Natural Resources Agency/Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Flows Working Group
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Adequate flow in California's waterways during normal and drought years to maintain native fisheries in good condition.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources, Department of Fish and Wildlife, Wildlife Conservation Board | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio; California Fish Passage Assessment Database; Department of Fish and Wildlife Landscape Connectivity Programs; Natural Resources Agency/Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Flows Working Group
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Number of terrestrial over/under passes built or retrofitted.
Timeframe: Report progress with next Adaptation Strategy update
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources, Department of Fish and Wildlife, Wildlife Conservation Board | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio; California Fish Passage Assessment Database; Department of Fish and Wildlife Landscape Connectivity Programs; Natural Resources Agency/Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Flows Working Group
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 6 Restore and expand rivers, mountain meadows, and deltaic wetlands to improve water quality and storage, enhance wildlife habitat and biodiversity, sequester carbon, and buffer floods.
Success Metric: Expansion of wetland and floodplain acreage statewide.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Department of Water Resources, Wildlife Conservation Board, Sierra Nevada Conservancy
For More Details: Sierra Nevada Conservancy Watershed Improvement Program; Lake Tahoe Climate Adaptation Action Portfolio; Wetlands Restoration for Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program; Department of Fish and Wildlife Watershed Restoration Grant Programs
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 7 Minimize causes and impacts of ocean acidification and hypoxia.
Success Metric: Based on the latest scientific research, advance adoption of regulations, as needed, establishing water quality objectives for ocean acidification and hypoxia that include, but are not limited to, publicly owned treatment works, stormwater, and non-point source pollution, by 2025, with scientific analysis of the relationship between nutrient inputs and acidification hot spots completed by 2022.
Timeframe: 2022–2025
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Ocean Protection Council | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan; State Water Resources Control Board 2021 Strategic Work Plan
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: With the water recycling industry, and state and federal government, increase support for water reuse projects coastwide.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Ocean Protection Council | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan; State Water Resources Control Board 2021 Strategic Work Plan
Progress Indicator: Ongoing improvements
Success Metric: Based on the latest scientific results, establish interim goals as needed for significantly reducing nutrient loading and/or phasing out coastal wastewater discharge into the ocean; work with partners to achieve a goal of 80-90% coastal wastewater recycling that can be put to beneficial use.
Timeframe: 2022–2040
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Ocean Protection Council | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan; State Water Resources Control Board 2021 Strategic Work Plan
Progress Indicator: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board: Scoping
Progress Indicator: Natural Resources Agency – Ocean Protection Council: Underway
Success Metric: Ensure implementation of California’s Ocean Acidification Action Plan’s Goals.
Timeframe: 2023
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Ocean Protection Council | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan; State Water Resources Control Board 2021 Strategic Work Plan
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Participate in research on ocean acidification and hypoxia and initiate development of water quality objectives, or some other appropriate regulatory action, and a program of implementation once sufficient scientific information is available.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Ocean Protection Council | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan; State Water Resources Control Board 2021 Strategic Work Plan
Progress Indicator: Ongoing improvements