Regional Meetings on California’s Natural and Working Lands Climate Change Implementation Plan 

The California Natural Resources Agency, California Environmental Protection Agency, California Air Resources Board, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, and California Strategic Growth Council invite you to participate in regional public meetings on the development of California’s Natural and Working Lands Climate Change Implementation Plan. Final meeting dates and times for tentative workshops will be posted as soon as they become available. Please RSVP for in-person or remote attendance using the links below.

Background: The 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan Update commits the State to finalizing a goal for carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions on natural and working lands by September 2018. The 2030 Natural and Working Lands Climate Change Implementation Plan (NWL Plan) will further describe this GHG goal and provide a blueprint to achieve it through state-funded conservation, restoration, and management activities. 

The NWL Plan will detail regional targets for a variety of state-funded conservation, restoration, and management practices that sequester carbon, such as wetland and meadow restoration, fuel reduction and improved management in forests, soil conservation on rangelands, and avoiding land use conversion from development. These acreage targets will be run through California-developed carbon models to project cumulative GHG benefits of these activities by 2030, by region and statewide. 

Purpose: Regional meetings are intended to help state agencies gain feedback on opportunities and priorities and refine draft acreage targets for conservation, management, and restoration practices to be modeled and included in the final NWL Plan. These workshops seek engagement with landowners and stakeholders from Resource Conservation Districts, land trusts, nonprofits, academic institutions, NGOs, and local, regional, federal, and tribal governments, with the goals of: 

1.                Ensuring that draft regional acreage targets for resource management are inclusive of significant local plans, goals, and programs, particularly regional multi-partner or landscape-scale plans; and
2.                Better understanding local priorities and stakeholder needs for successful regional implementation of the NWL Plan through 2030. 

We ask that you please bring information on existing plans for conservation, restoration, and management priorities and targets as described above to inform our discussion. After the workshop, we will continue to solicit this information before regional targets are finalized for the NWL Plan.

For more detailed information, please follow the link to the NWL Plan Concept Paper.

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Webinar Recording From May 18 Public Workshop Posted. An webinar recording of the May 18, 2018 Public Workshop for the California Natural and Working Lands Climate Change Implementation Plan is posted here. For more information on the workshop, please see the California Air Resources Board or California Natural Resources Agency Natural and Working Lands webpages.  

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If you have questions or comments regarding this email or workshops, please contact Emma Johnston at the Natural Resources Agency at emma.johnston@resources.ca.gov or 916-651-7591. 

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