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Our lands are a critical yet underutilized sector in California’s fight to achieve carbon neutrality and build resilience to the impacts of climate change. Healthy land can sequester and store carbon emissions, limit future carbon emissions into the atmosphere, protect people and nature from the impacts of climate change, and build resilience to future climate risks. Unhealthy lands have the opposite effect – they release more greenhouse gases than they store, increase climate risks to people and nature, and are more vulnerable to future climate change impacts.
This Strategy:
• Defines California’s eight natural and working landscapes.
• Describes how these lands can deliver on our climate change goals.
• Highlights priority nature-based climate solutions to address the climate crisis.
• Explores opportunities for regional climate smart land management.
• Identifies options to track nature-based climate action and measure progress.
• Outlines nearly 200 opportunities to scale climate smart land management across regions and sectors in California.
