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Goal A Expand economic opportunities for California by building climate resilience

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Build a Climate Resilient Economy

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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 Support regions experiencing economic transitions resulting from climate impacts by incorporating high road economic principles, emphasizing high quality jobs, environmental sustainability, and broad access to opportunities for a diversity of businesses and workers.

    Success Metric: Include high road principles in individual program guidelines, so that all programs score and evaluate applications on a rubric that integrates job quality, climate resilience, equity, and inclusivity.

    Timeframe: Immediate and ongoing

    Agency: Governor’s Office of Planning and Research | Labor and Workforce Development Agency | Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, in coordination with all relevant state agencies

    For More Details: Community Economic Resilience Fund

    Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements

    Success Metric: Build a clear set of related metrics for the Community Economic Resilience Fund, measuring both short-term and long-term outcomes.

    Timeframe: 2021–2026

    Agency: Governor’s Office of Planning and Research | Labor and Workforce Development Agency | Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, in coordination with all relevant state agencies

    For More Details: Community Economic Resilience Fund

    Progress Indicator: Underway

  • Action 2 Support California communities to attract businesses and economic opportunities resulting from adaptation actions that build resilience to economic assets and services.

    Success Metric: Number of communities who are including climate resilience as a location advantage to businesses.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

    For More Details: California Business Investment Services

    Progress Indicator: Scoping

  • Action 3 Protect agricultural land from development and provide the technological tools necessary for sustainable growth to maintain the economic viability and resiliency of California’s agricultural lands.

    Success Metric: Number of plans to guide improvements in soil health and habitat created through Department of Conservation and California Department of Food and Agriculture grant programs.

    Timeframe: 2022 and ongoing

    Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Conservation| Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Department of Conservation Division of Land Resource Protection; Conservation Agriculture Planning Grants Program

    Progress Indicator: Securing Funding

    Success Metric: Number of local government plans to address economic viability funded by Department of Conservation grant programs.

    Timeframe: 2022 and ongoing

    Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Conservation

    For More Details: Department of Conservation Division of Land Resource Protection

    Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements

    Success Metric: Number of Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities grants and Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation grants in the same region that support a regional approach to affordable housing and land conservation.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency: Governor’s Office of Planning and Research – Strategic Growth Council

    For More Details: Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities; Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation

    Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements

  • Action 4 Support and incentivize climate resilience in the agricultural sector.

    Success Metric: Stand up the Fresno-Merced Future of Food Innovation Corridor to support the Central Valley’s investment in the labor forces and technology needed to scale up climate smart agricultural practices.

    Timeframe: 2024

    Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Department of Food and Agriculture Budget Highlights

    Progress Indicator: Underway

    Success Metric: Number of Healthy Soils Program projects funded, acres of resilience-building and soil protecting measures from incentives, and outreach through demonstration projects as part of the Healthy Soils Program.

    Timeframe: Annual reporting

    Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Healthy Soils Program

    Progress Indicator: Underway

    Success Metric: Support participation in the State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program that improve agricultural water use efficiency and/or diversify farm income.

    Timeframe: Annual reporting

    Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program

    Progress Indicator: Underway

    Success Metric: Ensure stability of critical pollinator populations by supporting pollination projects and technical assistance support.

    Timeframe: Annual reporting

    Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Pollinator Habitat Incentives Program; Regional Pollinator Habitat Program

    Progress Indicator: Securing funding; beginning project work

    Success Metric: Increase early detection and rapid response ability to prevent or eradicate new or expanding pests.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services

    Progress Indicator: Underway

  • Action 5 Enhance and protect California’s nature-based tourism economy through resilience investments.

    Success Metric: Complete an assessment of California's sustainable coastal tourism industry with recommendations on how to grow the industry consistent with marine conservation law and policy.

    Timeframe: 2022

    Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Ocean Protection Council, California Water Commission, Coastal Commission

    For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan

    Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements

    Success Metric: Coordinate shared management of California’s inland recreation landscapes among Federal, state, and local land managers, communities, and members of the recreation economy.

    Timeframe: Summer 2022

    Agency: California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force, CalRec Vision workgroup

    For More Details: California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force Work Groups

    Progress Indicator: Scoping

    Success Metric: Ensure attractive recreation facilities are supported as economic drivers in gateway recreation communities, and that these facilities are protected and rebuilt during and after wildfire and other climate-driven disasters.

    Timeframe: Summer 2022

    Agency: California Wildfire and Fire Forest Resilience Task Force, CalRec Vision workgroup

    For More Details: California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force Work Groups

    Progress Indicator: Securing Funding

  • Action 6 Ensure continued public access to California’s coast in light of changing shoreline conditions and sea-level rise, prioritizing climate vulnerable communities.

    Success Metric: Identify locations where public access ways, the California Coastal Trail, or roadways that facilitate access to these areas may be limited or eliminated in the future due to sea-level rise and increased storm events. Begin planning for other options to maintain maximum public access such as through new vertical access ways, trail relocations, rerouting of transportation corridors, bluff top facility enhancements, or other alternatives that incorporate adaptation measures to ensure long-term continuance of public access.

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Parks and Recreation, Coastal Commission, State Coastal Conservancy, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development 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; Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan; State Coastal Conservancy Strategic Plan; State Parks’ Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Strategy

    Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements

    Success Metric: Develop a “Coastal Access for All” Plan that ensures equitable public access to and along the ocean, with measurable targets for beaches, physical trails and access points, education, transportation, and recreational opportunities.

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Parks and Recreation, Coastal Commission, State Coastal Conservancy, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development 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, Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan, State Coastal Conservancy Strategic Plan

    Progress Indicator: Securing Funding

  • Action 7 Develop adaptive management approaches to assess and effectively respond to climate-caused shifts in fisheries.

    Success Metric: Number of new Enhanced Status Reports and Fishery Management Plans for species identified through the prioritization and scaled management processes described in the 2018 Marine Life Management Act Master Plan.

    Timeframe: Annually

    Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Ocean Protection Council

    For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan; California Marine Species Portal; Readying California Fisheries for Climate Change

    Progress Indicator: Underway

    Success Metric: Number of fisheries transitioned to electronic catch logbooks/monitoring, number of landings by port.

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Ocean Protection Council

    For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan; California Marine Species Portal; Readying California Fisheries for Climate Change

    Progress Indicator: Scoping

  • Action 8 Bring to scale a thriving forest and wood products market in California that leverages public investments by energizing private capital for sustainable forest management, regional economic recovery, and climate resilience.

    Success Metric: Deploy $17 million in federal funds under the Biomass Utilization Fund in Tuolumne County. Create over 40 jobs, with over half of job opportunities offered to low- and moderate-income individuals.

    Timeframe: September 2023

    Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Sierra Nevada Conservancy

    For More Details: Biomass Utilization Fund

    Progress Indicator: Securing funding

    Success Metric: Deploy climate catalyst fund and track the number of executed loans from the Climate Catalyst fund.

    Timeframe: June 2024

    Agency: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

    For More Details: California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank

    Progress Indicator: Securing funding

    Success Metric: Support pilot projects that sustainably use Sierra Nevada forest management residues to create carbon-negative fuels.

    Timeframe: 2023

    Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Conservation, Energy Commission | Environmental Protection Agency – Air Resources Board

    For More Details: Joint Institute for Wood Products Innovation

    Progress Indicator: Underway

    Success Metric: Deploy pilot projects to develop regional strategies to establish reliable access to woody feedstock through a variety of feedstock aggregation mechanisms and organizational innovations.

    Timeframe: 2022–2025

    Agency: Governor’s Office of Planning and Research

    For More Details: Governor’s Office of Planning and Research

    Progress Indicator: Securing funding

    Success Metric: Reduction of agricultural burning in the San Joaquin Valley.

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Air Resources Board | Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Burning

    Progress Indicator – Department of Food and Agriculture: Scoping

    Progress Indicator – Environmental Protection Agency – Air Resources Board: Underway