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Goal B Increase awareness of climate adaptation and resilience issues

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Partner and Collaborate to Leverage Resource

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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

  • Action 1 Facilitate collaboration on adapting to climate change amongst grant applicants, grantees, and sub-grantees through convenings, trainings, and peer-to-peer learning in the agricultural sector.

    Success Metric: Number of convenings, trainings, and peer-to-peer learning events held per year, as well as videos produced and visited using farmers’ voices, and extension publications focused on farmer case studies.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Healthy Soils Demonstration Projects

    Progress Indicator: Scoping

    Success Metric: Use of peer-to-peer learning, farmers’ voices, and grower organizations to promote conservation agriculture practices.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Healthy Soils Demonstration Projects

    Progress Indicator: Securing Funding

    Success Metric: Use of peer-to-peer learning, farmers’ voices, and grower organizations to disseminate drought updates and drought management approaches.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Healthy Soils Demonstration Projects

    Progress Indicator: Scoping

  • Action 2 Coordinate with Universities to share climate adaptation and resilience research and training opportunities.

    Success Metric: Number of opportunities for training publicized.

    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

  • Action 3 Working with partners, maintain and build up Climate Smart Agriculture outreach videos on the Department of Food and Agriculture website.

    Success Metric: Use of videos to demonstrate a wide variety of adaptation approaches, increasing adoption and visibility.

    Timeframe: 2022 and annually

    Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Department of Food and Agriculture Climate Change Programs

    Progress Indicator: Scoping

  • Action 4 Increase meaningful government-to-government consultations with tribal nations, public awareness of, and encourage participation in, planning to address climate change in coastal communities and statewide.

    Success Metric: Working with Ocean Protection Council and other state partners, develop and implement a targeted outreach and education campaign to inform the public of the risks posed by climate change, including sea-level rise, how adaptation can build resilience, the trade-offs associated with various adaptation strategies, and disproportionate burdens experienced by tribal nations and environmental justice communities.

    Timeframe: 2021

    Agency: Natural Resources Agency – 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, Coastal Commission Tribal Consultation Policy

    Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements

    Success Metric: Tell local and regional stories about people and places adapting to climate change.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency: Natural Resources Agency – San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission

    For More Details: San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission Bay Adapt

    Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements

  • Action 5 Empower Californians to take meaningful climate action through increased service and volunteerism opportunities.

    Success Metric: Number of people educated, number volunteers engaged, number and type of individual actions reported.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency: California Volunteers

    For More Details: California Volunteers Climate Action Corps

    Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements

  • Action 6 Increase protection of heritage and cultural resources from climate impacts through science-based, tribal expertise, and traditional ecological knowledge solutions, in partnership with California Native American tribes, adjacent communities, and the cultural and arts sector.

    Success Metric: Complete assessment of climate impacts on cultural heritage based on emerging understanding being discussed through the Cultural Resources Climate Change Taskforce.

    Timeframe: 2022

    Agency: Natural Resources Agency – State Parks Office of Historic Preservation

    For More Details: Cultural Resources Climate Change Task Force

    Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements