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Goal B Increase awareness of climate adaptation and resilience issues

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Increase awareness of climate adaptation and resilience issues

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

    Success Metric: Host and support technical assistance provider led convenings, trainings, and peer-to-peer learning events. Number of videos produced and watched using farmers’ voices, and extension publications focused on farmer case studies.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Healthy Soils Program Demonstration Grant

    Success Metric: Use of peer-to-peer learning, farmers’ voices, and grower organizations to promote conservation agriculture practices such as through the Healthy Soils Program Demonstration Grant’s projects field days.

    Timeframe: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Healthy Soils Program Demonstration Grant

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

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Healthy Soils Program Demonstration Grant

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

    Success Metric: Publicize training opportunities.

    Timeframe: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Office of Environmental Farming & Innovation

  • 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: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Office of Environmental Farming & Innovation

  • Action 4 Increase public awareness of and encourage participation in planning processes to address climate change in coastal communities and statewide, including meaningful consultations with California Native American tribes.

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

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency - San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission

    For More Details: BayAdapt

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

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

    Timeframe: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement - California Volunteers

    For More Details: California Volunteers

  • Action 6 Increase awareness and understanding of climate impacts on children and pregnant people, as well as reduce these impacts by providing public health expertise and collaborating with state, tribal and local agencies, community organizations and other entities taking actions to build climate resilience.

    Success Metric: Provide guidance on the climate change impacts and climate vulnerability of children and outreach materials on climate vulnerability of children for county health departments, health care providers, school authorities and the public. Host periodic symposia/webinars for state scientists and the public on the climate vulnerability of children.

    Timeframe: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment | Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health

    For More Details: Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Strategic Plan; Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Children’s Health Webpage; Climate Change and Health Equity

  • Action 7 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: Conduct assessments of climate impacts to cultural heritage, informed by partnerships with California Native American tribes, adjacent communities, State agencies, and non-governmental organizations. Collaboration with national and international efforts to increase knowledge and solutions to meet the urgency is also key. Analyze and refine the assessment process to increase efficacy and distribution of information for greater outcomes.

    Timeframe: 2025 and annual thereafter

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

    For More Details: California State Parks Office of Historic Preservation, Climate Action