Guidance for Addressing Climate Change in California Coastal Conservancy Projects

The California Coastal Conservancy has posted the first components of the Guidance for Addressing Climate Change in California Coastal Conservancy Projects. The purpose of the guidance is to assist you in understanding and applying the Conservancy’s adopted Climate Change Policy and Project Selection Criteria. The Conservancy is committed to incorporating emerging research and public and peer review comments into periodic updates of the climate change guidance. Comments may be directed to the following email address: climate@scc.ca.gov.

The completed sections of the guidance can be viewed through the links (more…)

2009 California Climate Adaptation Strategy

This document summarizes the best known science on climate change impacts and provides recommendations on how to manage against those threats.

Coastal Conservancy Climate Change Policy and Project Selection Criteria

The Conservancy Board adopted the Climate Change Policy and the Project Selection Criteria on June 4th, 2009. (more…)

Climate Change Resources

Adaptation for Ecosystems

• Buying Time: A User’s Manual for Building Resistance and Resilience to Climate Change in Natural Systems (1MB)
• Draft CEC PIER-EA Discussion Paper: Ecology and Adaptation (598KB)
• Managing an Uncertain Future: Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for California’s Water (1.9 MB)
• Climate Change and Forests of the Future: Managing in the Face of Uncertainty (143 KB)

Emissions Reduction

• Climate Action Team Proposed Early Actions to Mitigate Climate Change in California: Draft for Public Review (176KB)

CEQA and Climate Change

• CEQA and Climate Change: Addressing Climate Change Through the California Environmental Quality Act(CEQA) Review (223KB)

Presentations

• Predicting the Effects of Climate Change on California Bird Distributions – Diana Stralberg (2.3 MB)
• Riparian Restoration and Climate Change – Nathaniel Seavy (1.7 MB)
  
• Climate Change and the Future of California’s Endemic Flora – Scott Loarie (448 KB)
  
• Adaptive Management in an Era of Climate Change: No More Business as Usual? – John A. Wiens (2.5 MB)
• Climate Change as Wildcard in Invasive Species Management: Opportunities for Action – Doug Johnson (2.5 MB)

Reports

• Our Changing Climate: Assessing the Risks to California – A Summary Report from the California Climate Change Center (1.9 MB)
• Preparing for the Impacts of Climate Change in California – Opportunities and Constraints for Adaptation (479 KB)
• California Department of Fish and Game – Climate Change Activities Overview (31 KB)