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Priority
Strengthen Protections for Climate Vulnerable Communities
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 Support California Native American tribes’ development of climate change and health equity resilience planning tools and capacity.
Success Metric: Tribal health or environmental programs accessing technical assistance resources for leadership and planning.
Timeframe: 2022 and annually thereafter
Agency: Health and Human Services Agency - Department of Public Health
For More Details: Climate Change and Health Equity Section
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Plans, tools and resources developed by tribes or tribal programs receiving technical assistance.
Timeframe: 2022 and annually thereafter
Agency: Health and Human Services Agency - Department of Public Health
For More Details: Climate Change and Health Equity Section
Progress Indicator: Underway
Timeframe: 2022–2024
Agency: Governor’s Office of Planning and Research – Strategic Growth Council
For More Details: Community Assistance for Climate Equity Program
Progress Indicator: Scoping
Success Metric: Develop and implement early and often government-to-government consultation strategies with California Native American tribes involving shared decision-making and a focus towards long-term management agreements that build climate resilience.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agencies: All relevant state agencies
For More Details: Natural Resources Agency Tribal Consultation Strategy; Compliance Timeline and Consultation Process Flowchart
Progress Indicator: Scoping
Success Metric: Incorporate traditional ecological knowledges and tribal expertise into land and resource management practices and decisions to build climate resilience.
Timeframe: 2021–2025
Agencies: Natural Resources Agency - State Lands Commission
For More Details: State Lands Commission Environmental Justice Policy; State Lands Commission 2021-2025 Strategic Plan
Progress Indicator: Scoping
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Action 2 Support state resources and promote partnerships to expand the capacity of under-resourced communities, including California Native American tribes, to lead and implement climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience plans, programs, and projects.
Success Metric: Under-resourced communities, including rural, disadvantaged, and tribal communities, have increased success in accessing state climate resilience funding.
Timeframe: 2022–2024
Agency: Governor’s Office of Planning and Research - Strategic Growth Council
For More Details: Community Assistance for Climate Equity Program
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Increased participation and leadership in climate adaptation decision-making processes and projects by climate vulnerable communities and community organizations.
Timeframe: 2022–2024
Agencies: Governor’s Office of Planning and Research - Strategic Growth Council | Environmental Protection Agency | Natural Resources Agency – San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, Coastal Commission
For More Details: Community Assistance for Climate Equity Program; Environmental Justice Small Grants Program; San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission Bay Adapt; Coastal Commission Environmental Justice Policy; Coastal Commission Tribal Consultation Policy;
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Increased engagement and input of Delta communities likely to be most affected by climate change, including through sharing vulnerability assessment findings and developing an adaptation strategy.
Timeframe: 2022–2025
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Delta Stewardship Council, State Lands Commission
For More Details: Delta Adapts: Delta Stewardship Council Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment; State Lands Commission 2021-2025 Strategic Plan
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 3 Prioritize social equity, tribal nations, and disadvantaged communities in climate adaptation planning and strategies.
Success Metric: Support for land use planning and decisions that address climate change and prioritize communities and residents most vulnerable to the climate crisis.
Timeframe: 2021–2025
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – State Lands Commission
For More Details: State Lands Commission Strategic Plan
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Support for programs, planning documents, and investments that address climate threats and prioritize the most climate communities and residents.
Timeframe: 2024
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Coastal Commission
For More Details: Coastal Commission Environmental Justice Policy
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Timeframe: 2021 and ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Ocean Protection Council
For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan and State Sea-Level Rise Principles
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Amount of funding going towards grants to communities and residents that are most vulnerable to climate impacts, and portion of grants that support community involvement and partnership activities.
Timeframe: 2025
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – State Coastal Conservancy
For More Details: State Coastal Conservancy Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Guidelines
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Timeframe: 2024
Agency: Governor’s Office of Planning and Research
For More Details: Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Resources are prioritized to address the impact of sea-level rise on contaminated sites in climate vulnerable communities.
Timeframe: 2023
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Toxic Substances Control
For More Details: Site Mitigation and Restoration Program
Progress Indicator: Scoping
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Action 4 Increase community participation in planning transportation projects to build climate resilience.
Success Metric: Cultivate partnerships with, and build capacity of, community-based organizations and residents who engage in Caltrans’ funding programs and project development.
Timeframe: 2022–2023 and ongoing
Agency: State Transportation Agency – Caltrans |Natural Resources Agency - Coastal Commission
For More Details: Caltrans Strategic Management Plan 2020-2024
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Update the California Transportation Plan’s Public Engagement Plan to ensure outreach strategies include equitable practices.
Timeframe: 2021–2022
Agency: State Transportation Agency – Caltrans | Natural Resources Agency – Coastal Commission
For More Details: Caltrans Strategic Management Plan 2020-2024
Progress Indicator: Scoping
Success Metric: Under-resourced communities have a greater participation in key decision-making processes in planning transportation projects that build resilience.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Coastal Commission | State Transportation Agency – High-Speed Rail Authority
For More Details: Coastal Commission’s Environmental Justice Policy; High-Speed Rail Authority Sustainability Policy
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Transportation facilities are planned and designed to support vibrant livable places, with a focus on addressing the needs and concerns of underserved communities.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Coastal Commission | State Transportation Agency – High-Speed Rail Authority
For More Details: Coastal Commission’s Environmental Justice Policy; High-Speed Rail Authority Sustainability Report: Chapter 6
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
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Action 5 Partner with underserved communities, including tribal communities in California, to build coastal and ocean climate resilience.
Success Metric: Availability and accessibility of multilingual sea-level rise interpretive and educational materials.
Timeframe: 2022–2024
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Parks and Recreation, Coastal Commission, State Lands Commission, State Coastal Conservancy
For More Details: Coastal Commission Environmental Justice Policy; State Parks Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Strategy; State Lands Commission Environmental Justice Policy; State Lands Commission 2021-2025 Strategic Plan
Progress Indicator: Scoping
Success Metric: Develop and update tribal consultation policies to engage in meaningful government-to-government consultations with California Native American tribes regarding policies that may affect tribal communities.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agencies: All relevant state agencies
For More Details: Executive Order N-15-19
Progress Indicator: Scoping
Success Metric: Incorporate traditional ecological knowledges and tribal expertise into land and resource management practices and decisions.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agencies: All relevant state agencies
For More Details: Executive Order N-82-20
Progress Indicator: Securing funding
Success Metric: Support opportunities through existing and new grant and other funding programs to advance tribal nations’ cultural and environmental priorities.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agencies: All relevant state agencies
For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan
Progress Indicator: Securing funding
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Action 6 Support Technical Assistance, through providers such as the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, to make climate smart agricultural knowledge and incentives available to Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers and disadvantaged communities.
Success Metric: At least 25% of technical assistance consultations are made with Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers through the Climate Smart Agriculture Technical Assistance grant program.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Climate Smart Agriculture Technical Assistance Grant Program
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Number of non-English language outreach materials prepared by technical assistance providers.
Timeframe: 2024
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Climate Smart Agriculture Technical Assistance Grant Program
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Number of applications submitted by socially disadvantaged farmers.
Timeframe: Annual reporting
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Climate Smart Agriculture Technical Assistance Grant Program
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 7 Enhance adaptive capacity of communities through increased climate-related service and volunteerism.
Success Metric: In Frontline climate vulnerable communities: Number of service hours provided by California Climate Action Corps fellows; number of Community Based Organizations and local government partners supported; number of volunteers engaged; number of people provided with climate-related educational information; number of trees planted, maintained, or given away; number of structures protected from wildfire, and pounds of food waste diverted.
Timeframe: 2022–2025
Agency: California Volunteers
For More Details: California Volunteers Climate Action Corps
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 8 Through meaningful multilingual and culturally-relevant outreach and engagement, seek and facilitate community partnership and input into health impact studies of climate-related hazards, including air pollution, wildfire smoke, and heat, while highlighting disparities and ways to minimize exposures in vulnerable communities.
Success Metric: Number of outreach events and mechanisms implemented to engage community-based organizations, non-governmental organizations and other relevant entities; ensuring vulnerable communities clearly understand opportunities to provide input to health impact studies; tracking the extent to which health impact studies consistently incorporate community input; number of studies that advance the understanding of disparities, vulnerabilities, and ways to mitigate them.
Timeframe: Biennial evaluation of progress starting in 2023
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
For More Details: Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Strategic Plan: 2018 Update; Human Health Impacts of Climate Change
Progress Indicator: Scoping
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Action 9 Engage with communities most likely to be affected by state climate adaptation planning decisions.
Success Metric: Engage with key stakeholders who participated in the 2020 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice that represent climate vulnerable groups and regions to review action steps related to disaster recovery, resilience, mitigation and fair housing; particularly action steps to address impediment #7 Climate and Environmental Vulnerabilities.
Timeframe: 2023
Agency: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency – Department of Housing and Community Development
For More Details: 2020 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice
Progress Indicator: Scoping
Success Metric: Engage with and develop tools to support groundwater sustainability agencies and the agricultural communities they represent to implement the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources |Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Statewide Groundwater Management – Assistance and Engagement; Department of Food and Agriculture Office of Environment Farming and Innovation
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements