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Goal A Reduce urgent public health and safety risks posed by climate change

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  • Action 1 Reduce health impacts of wildfire and prescribed fire smoke.

    Success Metric: Enhance prescribed fire reporting to increase public awareness of where and when prescribed fires are conducted.

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – Air Resources Board

    For More Details: California’s Wildfire And Forest Resilience Action Plan

    Success Metric: Conduct and disseminate research on the health impacts of wildfire smoke and mitigation strategies to protect vulnerable populations.

    Timeframe: 2027

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

    For More Details: Climate Change and Health Equity; Environmental Health Investigations Branch; Emergency Preparedness Office; List of Wildfire Studies Conducted by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

    Success Metric: Remind employers to monitor air quality and protect workers from wildfire smoke as required under the state’s Wildfire Smoke standard. Communicate with employees and employers on worker protections.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Labor and Workforce Development Agency – Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Occupational Safety and Health

    For More Details: Protection from Wildfire Smoke; Department of Industrial Relations Advisory

    Success Metric: Update the workplace wildfire smoke regulation for consideration and adoption by the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board in accordance with AB 2243 (Garcia, 2022). Develop a discussion draft and hold an advisory committee meeting with stakeholders for feedback.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Labor and Workforce Development Agency – Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Occupational Safety and Health

    For More Details: Cal/OSHA Advisory Committees

  • Action 2 Conserve water.

    Success Metric: Make timely data on urban water use publicly accessible.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board

    For More Details: Monthly Water Conservation and Production reports

    Success Metric: Provide technical assistance and training for improved tracking to identify and reduce urban water distribution system loss across the state.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board | Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources

    For More Details: Urban Water Loss; California Statutes Making Conservation a California Way of Life; Making Water Conservation a California Way of Life – Primer of 2018 Legislation on Water Conservation and Drought Planning

    Success Metric: Water Supplier progress in meeting the “water loss standards” required by the Water Loss regulation.

    Timeframe: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board | Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources

    For More Details: Water Loss Control

    Success Metric: Water supplier progress in compliance with the “urban water use objectives” required by the 2018 water conservation legislation.

    Timeframe: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board | Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources

    For More Details: Water Making Conservation a California Way of Life

    Success Metric: Support land use authorities’ adoption and reporting of the Model Water Efficiency Landscape Ordinance by updating the regulation for streamlined implementation.

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources

    For More Details: Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance

    Success Metric: Long-term reduction in aggregate urban water use, compared to the 2020 level.

    Timeframe: 2030

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board | Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources

    For More Details: Water Supply Strategy

  • Action 3 Help regions improve preparation for drought.

    Success Metric: Support urban water suppliers in developing urban water management plans, specifically support the examination of reliability under a five-consecutive-year drought and the planning for a standard set of water shortage levels as part of water shortage contingency plans.

    Timeframe: 2026 and every five years thereafter

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources

    For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio, 2023 Progress Report

    Success Metric: Support agricultural water suppliers in developing agricultural water management drought plans, specifically support examining drought resilience and response planning.

    Timeframe: 2026 and every five years thereafter

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources

    For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio, 2023 Progress Report

    Success Metric: Maintain and update the Drought and Water Shortage Risk Explorer Tool and scoring indicators for small water systems and rural communities.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources

    For More Details: Report to the Legislature on the 2012-16 Drought; Countywide Drought Advisory Group Report to the Legislature (DWR 2021); SB 552 of 2021 (Water Code Sec. 10609.80 et seq.); DWR’s Countywide Drought Planning Program; Drought and Water Shortage Vulnerability Explorer Tool for Small Water Suppliers and Rural Communities; Water Resilience Portfolio, 2023 Progress Report

    Success Metric: Small suppliers serving 1,000 to 2,999 service connections develop and maintain a water shortage contingency plan that includes specified drought-planning elements and small suppliers serving 15 to 999 service connections add a drought element to their Emergency Notification Plan.

    Timeframe: 2027 and every five years thereafter

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board | Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources

    For More Details: Drought Planning for Small Water Suppliers and Rural Communities (SB 552); Report to the Legislature on the 2012-16 Drought; Countywide Drought Advisory Group Report to the Legislature; SB 552 of 2021 (Water Code Sec. 10609.80 et seq.)

    Success Metric: Small water suppliers, including water systems that serve schools, implement, subject to funding availability, specified drought resiliency measures, including having at least one backup source of water supply, metering each service connection, and meeting fire flow requirements.

    Timeframe: 2027

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board

    For More Details: Report to the Legislature on the 2012-16 Drought; Countywide Drought Advisory Group Report to the Legislature; SB 552 of 2021 (Water Code Sec. 10609.80 et seq.)

    Success Metric: Provide technical assistance for counties to establish a standing county drought and water shortage task force and contingency plan to facilitate drought and water shortage preparedness for state small water systems, tribal water systems, and domestic wells within the county’s jurisdiction.

    Timeframe: 2026

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources

    For More Details: Guidebook; Water Shortage Vulnerability Tool (for County Drought Risk Assessment); Assistance Program (direct assistance and grant options)

    Success Metric: Convene a standing interagency drought and water shortage task force three times annually to facilitate proactive state planning and coordination, both for pre-drought planning and drought emergency response, to enhance collaboration, and to consider all water user types.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board, and members of the Drought Resilience Interagency & Partners Collaborative (DRIP)

    For More Details: Drought Resilience Interagency and Partners Collaborative; Report to the Legislature on the 2012-16 Drought; Countywide Drought Advisory Group Report to the Legislature; SB 552 of 2021 (Water Code Sec. 10609.80 et seq.)

  • Action 4 Protect groundwater as an important water source for future generations.

    Success Metric: Ongoing progress toward implementing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: local groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) must achieve sustainable groundwater conditions by 2040 or 2042 for critically overdrafted basins or other high and medium priority basins, respectively. Progress reported annually by GSAs with periodic updates every five years. Local, state, federal and non-government organizations develop new solution pathways for transition of workforce and sustainable agricultural conditions.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board | Natural Resources Agency - Department of Water Resources

    For More Details: Sustainable Groundwater Management Act; California’s Groundwater (Bulletin 118); California’s Groundwater Live; Drinking Water Well Principles; California's Groundwater Semi-Annual Conditions Updates

    Success Metric: Support multibenefit land repurposing to increase groundwater recharge through regional plans and projects funded. Measure success by the number of multibenefit land repurposing plans, projects funded, groundwater stored, acres of habitat, and other metrics that connect to desired benefits.

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Conservation

    For More Details: Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program

    Success Metric: Support expanding average annual groundwater recharge by at least 500,000 acre-feet.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board | Natural Resources Agency - Department of Water Resources

    For More Details: California's Water Supply Strategy Adapting to a Hotter, Drier Future; California Groundwater Projects Tool; CEQA Exemptions

  • Action 5 Reduce flood risk in California by helping regions prepare for new flood patterns.

    Success Metric: Implementation of the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan, California's strategic blueprint to improve flood risk management in the Central Valley.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources, Central Valley Flood Protection Board

    For More Details: Central Valley Flood Protection Plan

    Success Metric: Achieve and maintain 200-year level of protection in Central Valley urban areas, including the resiliency requirements identified in the Urban Levee Design Criteria.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources, Central Valley Flood Protection Board, local flood control agencies

    For More Details: Flood System Status Report; Urban Levee Design Criteria; Senate Bill 5, 2008; Central Valley Flood Protection Plan

    Success Metric: Implement system-wide flood risk reduction projects -- such as weirs and bypass expansions, improved reservoir outlets, increased surface storage, and forecast-informed reservoir operations -- that modernize and expand system capacity and increase climate and ecosystem resiliency at a regional scale.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources

    For More Details: Central Valley Flood Protection Plan; 2007 Flood System Status Report; Yolo Bypass-Cache Slough Partnership of SB 369 of 2021

    Success Metric: Identify and communicate weather patterns and coordinate emergency operations and resources at local, state, tribal, and federal levels.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources

    For More Details: Bulletin 120; California Data Exchange Center; California Nevada River Forecast Center

    Success Metric: Support the availability of multiple tiers of flood insurance policies to expand flood insurance coverage for property owners and renters.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources | Department of Insurance

    For More Details: CDI Protecting Communities, Preserving Nature and Building Resiliency; DWR's National Flood Insurance Program

    Success Metric: Document state-led flood risk reduction efforts, including grant funding for local projects, floodplain mapping updates, and annual flood risk communication in the Central Valley as part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Flood Insurance Program Community Rating System to help lower annual flood insurance premiums for property owners.

    Timeframe: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources

    For More Details: FEMA Community Status Book; DWR's National Flood Insurance Program

    Success Metric: Increase awareness of flood risk and evacuation routes through deployment of new river and rain gauges in recently burned watersheds and creation of forecast-based early warning alert systems.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources

    For More Details: Flood After Fire California Toolkit; California Gage Analysis Priority Watersheds Tool

  • Action 6 Protect public health by increasing reliable access to safe, affordable drinking water and sanitation.

    Success Metric: Reduction in the number of drinking water systems on the Failing Water System list over time.

    Timeframe: 2030

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board

    For More Details: FY 2024-25 Fund Expenditure Plan Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund

    Success Metric: Evaluate performance related to funding timelines for water and wastewater system projects most at risk to climate change impacts; and increase the total number of projects funded in high climate risk areas per year.

    Timeframe: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board

    For More Details: Countywide Drought and Water Shortage Contingency Plans; Water Resilience Portfolio

  • Action 7 Support local and regional agencies to recycle or reuse water.

    Success Metric: Increase recycled water use to at least 800,000 acre-feet per year by 2030. Increase statewide recycled water use to at least 1.8 million acre-feet per year by 2040.

    Timeframe: 2030, 2040

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board

    For More Details: Water Quality Control Policy for Recycled Water; California's Water Supply Strategy Adapting to a Hotter, Drier Future

    Success Metric: Increase annual capacity for stormwater capture by at least 250,000 acre-feet by 2030 and 500,000 acre-feet by 2040.

    Timeframe: 2030, 2040

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board

    For More Details: California's Water Supply Strategy Adapting to a Hotter, Drier Future

  • Action 8 Invest state bond funds in water storage that provides flood control, ecosystem, water quality, emergency response, and recreation benefits.

    Success Metric: Put state agency contracts in place related to the delivery of public benefits from relevant water storage projects in the Proposition 1 Water Storage Investment Program.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources, Department of Fish and Wildlife, Water Commission | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board

    For More Details: California Water Commission Water Storage Investment Program; CDFW Prop 1

  • Action 9 Support the public health sector’s capacity to address the climate crisis and increase health equity.

    Success Metric: Number of local health departments and tribal health or environmental programs receiving technical assistance and staff resources to address climate change as a public health crisis.

    Timeframe: 2025, 2026, 2027

    Agency/Agencies: Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health

    For More Details: CDPH Climate Change and Health Equity

    Success Metric: Implement Syndromic Surveillance (near real-time reporting of health conditions seen in an emergency department) for climate-related health conditions, such as heat related illness or conditions related to wildfire smoke.

    Timeframe: 2025, 2026, 2027

    Agency/Agencies: Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health

    For More Details: CDPH Climate Change And Health Equity; About CalSyS (California Syndromic Surveillance)

    Success Metric: Increase the number of models to project climate-related morbidity and mortality in California and tools to assess the health effects of climate-related policy changes.

    Timeframe: 2025, 2026, 2027

    Agency/Agencies: Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health

    For More Details: CDPH Climate Change and Health Equity

  • Action 10 Integrate health equity data, tools, and metrics into state climate change-related plans, policies, and investments, to improve health equity outcomes.

    Success Metric: Increase the number of state climate change-related plans, policies, and investments incorporating health equity-related data, tools, and metrics, such as racial and tribal equity objectives, working with local health jurisdictions, prioritizing funding with evidence-based equity criteria, and requiring robust community engagement.

    Timeframe: 2025, 2026, 2027

    Agency/Agencies: Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health

    For More Details: CDPH Climate Change and Health Equity; California Heat Assessment Tool; Climate Change and Health Vulnerability Indicators for California; California Healthy Places Index; CDC Heat and Health Tracker

  • Action 11 Minimize toxic chemical exposures associated with climate-related events by providing toxicological expertise and consultation to support state and local decision-making and emergency response.

    Success Metric: Develop fact sheets on marine harmful algal blooms and most common potential chemical exposures with different types of climate-related events; develop an online resource in collaboration with state/local emergency response partners.

    Timeframe: Updated fact sheet for Marine Harmful Algal Blooms: Ongoing, as needed; fact sheet on oil spills: 2025; updates of online resources for emergency planning and response: 2025 and annually thereafter

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency - Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

    For More Details: Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Strategic Plan: 2018 Update; Harmful algal blooms; Notification levels for chemicals in drinking water

  • Action 12 As pest pressure intensifies with climate change, promote safer sustainable pest management aimed at creating healthy and resilient farms, cities, natural landscapes, ecosystems, communities, homes, and gardens.

    Success Metric: Invest in more proposals to test, research, and demonstrate economically-viable pest management tools, knowledge, and practices that advance sustainable pest management.

    Timeframe: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Pesticide Regulation | Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Proactive Integrated Pest Management Solutions Program; Interregional Research Program Number Four (IR-4); Biologically Integrated Farming Systems Program; DPR Grants; CDFA Office of Pesticide Consultation & Analysis (OPCA)

    Success Metric: Increase the number of integrated pest management and sustainable pest management technical assistance resources by 10 percent each year.

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Pesticide Regulation | Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: DPR Sustainable Pest Management

    Success Metric: Double the availability of Department of Pesticide Regulation-accredited continuing education credits for Pest Control Advisors that address sustainable pest management practices in partnership with UC Agriculture and Natural Resources.

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Pesticide Regulation | Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: DPR Sustainable Pest Management

    Success Metric: Increase by 300 the number of Pest Control Advisors trained in sustainable pest management crop practices as part of a holistic approach to reducing pest pressures in partnership with UC Agriculture and Natural Resources.

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Pesticide Regulation | Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: New, Cross-sector Work Group will Speed California’s Shift to Safer Pest Management

    Success Metric: Annually release a report that includes a list of pesticides evaluated for potential health and ecological risks and actions taken to address those risks.

    Timeframe: 2025 and annual thereafter

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Pesticide Regulation

    For More Details: DPR Sustainable Pest Management

    Success Metric: Initiate reevaluation of potential health and ecological risks for at least one registered pesticide each year, increasing to at least two pesticides each year in 2029, to minimize impacts to pollinators, native species, air quality, and watersheds.

    Timeframe: 2025 and annual thereafter

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Pesticide Regulation

    For More Details: New, Cross-sector Work Group will Speed California’s Shift to Safer Pest Management

    Success Metric: Update Best Management Practices for pest control via research and on-the-ground testing.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Proactive Integrated Pest Management Solutions Program; Interregional Research Program Number Four (IR-4); Biologically Integrated Farming Systems Program

    Success Metric: Reduce need for pesticides to combat invasive species by increasing the technical capacity of border and county pest interception authorities.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services Division

  • Action 13Protect natural resources and agriculture from invasive species and pests whose impact changes spatially and temporally as a result of climate change.

    Success Metric: Map new and established pest distributions to inform actions to protect natural resource management, native species, and agriculture.

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Pesticide Regulation | Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services Division

    Success Metric: Slow or stop spread of typical plant pests through pest management programs updated with the latest, science-driven approaches.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services Division

    Success Metric: Number of potential or recognized invasive species subjected to risk assessment or modeling for establishment and/or spread in California; number of invasive species added to the regulated list of Restricted Live Animals (14 CA Code of Regulations Sec. 671); number of invasive species with active monitoring, control, or eradication programs in California.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Department of Parks and Recreation’s Division of Boating and Waterways, Invasive Species Council of California

    For More Details: Department of Parks and Recreation’s Division of Boating and Waterways; Invasive Species Council of California

  • Action 14Improve water quality by reducing excess nutrients in groundwater.

    Success Metric: Number of Alternative Manure Management Program and Dairy Plus projects funded by practice type to protect groundwater quality.

    Timeframe: 2025, 2026, 2027

    Agency/Agencies: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP)

    Success Metric: Increased capacity to produce transportable manure-based and organics-based (food waste/green waste) soil amendments, including compost produced on-farm or at composting facilities that stabilizes nitrogen and improves nutrient cycling.

    Timeframe: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Department of Food and Agriculture | Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery

    For More Details: Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP); CDFA Manure Recycling and Innovative Products Task Force

    Success Metric: Technical assistance, training materials, and consultations provided to farmers through the Alternative Manure Management Program and Water Efficiency Technical Assistance grant programs.

    Timeframe: 2025, 2026, 2027

    Agency/Agencies: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Climate Smart Agriculture Technical Assistance

    Success Metric: Number and breadth of Fertilizer Research and Education Program research projects funded related to fertilizer management.

    Timeframe: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Fertilizer Research and Education Program

  • Action 15 Integrate future climate risk into emergency preparedness and response.

    Success Metric: Number of pre-positioned resources intended to anticipate and mitigate catastrophic wildfires and other climate-driven disasters

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Governor’s Office of Emergency Services | Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources, Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

    For More Details: Governor’s Office of Emergency Services; Department of Water Resources Flood Emergency Response Information Exchange

  • Action 16 Implementation of the indoor heat regulation by the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board.

    Success Metric: Reduction in heat-related incidents in indoor workplaces through enforcement of the indoor heat regulation.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Labor and Workforce Development Agency – Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Occupational Safety and Health

    For More Details: DIR, Cal/OSHA - Division of Occupational Safety and Health – Heat Illness Prevention Guidance and Resources

  • Action 17 Address food system vulnerabilities to extreme heat.

    Success Metric: Improve food security for Californians, with an emphasis on vulnerable populations and on climate resilient food production. This includes support through programs which incorporate climate smart agriculture and build local and resilient food systems like the Farm to School Program.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: CA Farm to School Program

  • Action 18 Review and improve access to and use of air conditioning and other indoor cooling strategies, including passive cooling techniques and other alternate methods that are zero-emission, energy efficient, low-cost, and do not rely on high global warming potential refrigerants. Address obstacles to the use of air conditioning and other cooling strategies for vulnerable populations.

    Success Metric: Increase in the number of vulnerable populations using cooling strategies

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Energy Commission | Public Utilities Commission | Labor Workforce and Development Agency – Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Occupational Health and Safety | Governor’s Office of Emergency Services | Environmental Protection Agency – California Air Resources Board | Health and Human Services Agency – Community Services & Development

    For More Details: Extreme Heat Action Plan; Energy Savings Assistance; Low-Income Weatherization Program; Equitable Building Decarbonization Program

    Success Metric: Adoption of zero-emission, energy-efficient and low-cost cooling methods

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – California Energy Commission | Public Utilities Commission | Labor Workforce and Development Agency – Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Occupational Health and Safety | Governor’s Office of Emergency Services | Environmental Protection Agency – California Air Resources Board | Health and Human Services Agency – Community Services & Development

    For More Details: Extreme Heat Action Plan; Energy Savings Assistance; Low-Income Weatherization Program; Equitable Building Decarbonization Program

  • Action 19 Utilize a One Health approach (a collaborative approach that recognizes that the health of people, animals, plants, and the environment are linked and interdependent) to improve the State of California’s collective understanding of, and capacity to mitigate, public health threats due to biodiversity loss, changes in land management, and climate impacts to human and animal health.

    Success Metric: Launch a multiagency California One Health Consortium, host California One Health Symposia, and issue One Health newsletters that highlight the connections between human, animal, and environmental health.

    Timeframe: Launch consortium: 2025; symposia: 2026 and every two years thereafter; newsletters: ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health

    For More Details: One Health

  • Action 20 Implement a pilot program for community health promoters / promotores de salud in the San Joaquin Valley to refer farmworker families with climate-related health conditions to receive home weatherization and energy efficiency services that can improve housing and health.

    Success Metric: Reach 20 households for enrollment into the pilot weatherization program

    Timeframe: 2026

    Agency/Agencies: Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health

    For More Details: CDPH Climate Change and Health Equity