The 2024 draft plan outlines the state's key climate resilience priorities, includes specific and measurable actions, and serves as a framework for collective efforts across sectors and regions in California.

The California state government is statutorily required to update its climate adaptation strategy every three years. The state's approach to the 2024 California Climate Adaptation Strategy is designed to accelerate climate adaptation action across regions and sectors in California; identify how key state agency actions fit together to achieve the State’s six climate resilience priorities; and build on the successes and lessons learned.
The 2024 draft builds on the 2021 Strategy which included a more integrated framework reflecting key elements of the state’s latest sector-specific plans; success metrics and timeframes for achieving them to increase transparency and accountability; and a dynamic format that reflects the evolving nature of climate adaptation. All metrics and timeframes presented in the draft are an area of focus that will be further developed between this draft and the final 2024 Strategy.
The actions and success metrics in the draft Strategy include both:
- Direct actions State government is taking to improve climate resilience through its responsibilities for managing landscapes and infrastructure, among other assets and resources; and
- State resources, such as tools, funding, and guidance, that support on-the-ground capacity for others to advance resilience planning and projects.
The 2024 draft is available for public comment through July 12, 2024. Interested parties may submit written input via mail to California Natural Resources Agency, 715 P Street, Sacramento, CA 95814, or email [email protected].
FULL STORY: California Climate Adaptation Strategy

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