California Key Climate Adaptation Legislation
por Sarah Lindbergh
1. California Ocean Protection Act (COPA)(2004)
1.1. amended in 2011: COPA also becomes a tool to assist govs to plan for adaptation and SLR
1.2. Establishes Ocean Protection Council and CA Ocean Protection Trust Fund
1.3. 2004-2008
2. EO S-3-05 Global warming impacts (2005)
2.1. Driver of CA Climate Change Assessments
2.2. CalTrans Vulnerability Assessment (2018)
2.3. AB 32 was an outcome
2.4. EPA responsible for reporting mitigation & adaptation plans every 2 years
3. AB 32 (2006): Global Warming Solutions Act
3.1. 1st CCA outcome
3.2. SB 375 (2008) Sustainable Communities and Climate protection Act
3.3. Ten years later overview
3.4. CA GHG inventory
4. AB 2140 (2006) : General Plans: Safety Element should contain hazard and risk strategies complementary with those of the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP)
4.1. Reduce potential for short and long-term risk of death injuries, property damage and economic and social dislocation resulting from fires, floods, droughts, landslides, climate chnage, and other hazards. {airport land use may also be included}
5. SB 732: Strategic Growth Council (2008)
5.1. Assist state & local entities in meeting AB 32 goals and sustainable planning
5.2. CARB
6. EO S-13-08 Requiring State Adaptation Strategy (2008)
7. AB 1482 is an outcome
8. CNRA responsible for developing state Climate Action Strategy
9. Under CNRA, National Academy of Sciences (NAS) responsible for convening 1st CA SLR Assessment report to ve reviewed every 2 years.
10. All state agencies planning construction in areas vulnerable to SLR to consider 2050-2100 vulnerability scenarios
11. Business Transportation and Housing Agency to assess vulnerability of state transportation system to SLR
12. OPR responsible for providing land-use planning guidance related to SLR and other climate impacts
13. Cal-Adapt is an outcome
14. Safeguarding California is an outcome (2009 - 2014) by CNRA
15. SB: 97 (2007 GHG Update) CEQA
15.1. CEQA & Climate Chnage
15.1.1. 1970: balance economic and environmental interests
15.1.2. SB 97: CEQA Guidelines for Mitigating GHG Emissions (2007) - Ammendaments became effective in 2010
15.1.2.1. OPR & CNRA
16. 2009-2012
17. SB 1006: Natural resources: climate change: Strategic Growth Council (2010)
17.1. amends funding eligibility criteria: co-benefits: of urban greening for decreased pollution and increased adaptability to climate change. Enhanced nature-based solutions as "urban greening" ; interagency cooperation, economically disadvantaged communities; uses exiting public lands and resources
17.2. Strategic Growth Council, help meet goals of AB 32
18. AB 296: Cal Cool Pavements Research and Implementation Act (2012)
18.1. Cal EPA, Caltrans, CA Climate Action Team (CAT)
19. Local Coastal Program (LCP) Planning CCC (2010, updated 2013)
20. California Coastal Commission
21. Conflicts
22. SB 535 (Redirecting GHG reduction fund for environmental justice (2012)
22.1. CalEPA
22.2. CARB
23. 2013-2015
24. AB 691: State lands: granted trust lands: sea level rise (2014)
24.1. Cal State Lands Commission
24.1.1. Historical context of trust lands
25. CalGreen: Green Residential Building Code (2014)
25.1. California Building Standards Commission
26. AB 2516: Planning for SLR Database (2014)
26.1. CNRA & OPC
27. Water Bond: California Proposition1 - Water Quality Supply and Infrastructure Improvement act of 2014
28. EO B-30-15: Establishing 2030 CA emissions target, Adaptation initiatives (2015)
28.1. EO B-30-15 Guidance
29. AB 802 (2015): Energy Efficiency
29.1. CEC & CPUC
30. AB 350: Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act of 2015
30.1. CEC & CPUC
31. SB 379 (2015): General Plan: Land use: safety element: climate adaptation
31.1. (Jackson, 2015) amend Section 65302 of the Government Code
31.2. Upon the next revision of a local hazard mitigation plan after Jan 1, 2017, or, if the local jurisdiction has not adopted a LHMP, beginning of before Jan 1, 2022, require safety element to be reviewed and updated as necessary to address climate adaptation and resilience strategies
31.2.1. ICARP Adaptation Planning Guide
31.2.2. Requires 1. Vulnerability Assessment
31.2.2.1. Cal-Adapt tool to be utilized
31.2.2.2. APG (Adaptation Planning Guide) to be utilized 2012 - 2020 update CalOES
31.2.2.3. utilize information from local agencies on exposed assets and capacity to deal with CC impacts; historical data on natural hazards, sites that have been repeatedly damaged; existing and planned at-risk areas and structures; federal, state and local agencies with responsibilities towards public health and safety
31.2.3. Requires 2. Set of adaptation and resilience goals, policies, and objectives based on the information from climate vulnerability assessment
31.2.4. Requires 3. A set of feasible implementation measures designed to carry out the goals, policies and objectives
32. AB 1482 (2015): Climate Adaptation
32.1. Codifies adaptation provisions of EO B-30-15
32.2. Requires CNRA & Strategic Growth Council to update Safeguarding CA Plan by July 2017 and 3 years thereafter
32.3. The updates to the plan are to include climate change vulnerabilities by sector and the priority actions needed to reduce risks, for at least the following sectors:
32.4. Requires state agencies to address vulnerabilities ID by pursuing a number of activities that support regional and local action
32.5. Requires the Strategic Growth Council to review and comment on 2 plans: 5-yr Infrastructure Plan & State Env. Goals to take current and future climate change impacts into account in all infrastructure projects - aligning with Safeguarding California Plan
32.6. Key concepts: Nature-based solutions, public awareness; maintenance of scientific repository for decision-making; encourage regional collaborative efforts
33. SB 758: Atmospheric Rivers: Research, Mitigation, and Climate Forecasting Program (2015)
33.1. Department of Water Resources (DWR)
34. SB 246 (2015): Integrate Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program
34.1. Sets up Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency program, administered by the OPR, designed to coord. state, regional, and local efforts. As of Jan 2017.
34.2. Directs the Strategic growth Council to "inform" state-led programs, including state planning processes, grant programs so they better reflect local and regional considerations
34.3. Requires CNRA and CalOES to update Adaptation Planning Guide (APG) to provide tools, guidance, and strategies for adaptation planning within 1 year of an update to Safeguarding California Plan
34.4. Establishes an advisory council led by the OPR comprised from a range of disciplines to provide scientific and technical support and facilitate coord.
34.5. OPR is charged to establish a clearinghouse for climate adaptation information, including most current science, projections, models, assessments, white papers, case studies, tools that integrate best-available data on vulnerable pop, infrastructure, best practices and funding
34.6. OPR administers programs and coordinates with CNRA, CAT, CalOES, CalEPA, Strategic Growth Council, Caltrans, Public Health, and Food and Agriculture+
34.7. Supports EO S-3-05
35. 2016
36. EO B-37-16: Making Water Conservation a CA Way of Life (2016)
36.1. Water Action Plan (Jan 2014, 5 years plan - Department of Water Resources; must plan with congressional districts for 5 year drought min, more severe and more frequent
37. AB 197: CARB: GHG: Regulation (2016)
37.1. CARB
37.2. Environmental Equity
38. AB 2480: Source Watersheds: Financing (2016)
39. AB 2139: Ocean Protection Council: Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia (2016)
40. AB 2722: Transformative Climate Communities Program (2016)
40.1. CA Strategic Growth Council awards competitive grants to entities for the development of transformative climate communities.
40.2. GHG Reduction FUnd help local jurisdictions and communities accelerate climate justice and sustainability planning
41. SB 1000: General plans: Land use safety and environmental justice (2016)
41.1. Amends SB 379
42. AB 2800: Climate change: infrastructure planning. (2016)
43. CNRA needs to create Climate-Safe Infrastructure Working Group
44. Required to coordinate with CA CCA, Safeguarding C, SLR Guidance Doc.
45. Pursuant to EO S-3-05
46. Pursuant to EO S-13-08
47. SB 1363: OPC: Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia Reduction Program (2016)
47.1. OPC
48. SB 1386: Resource Conservation: Working and Natural Lands (2016)
49. 2017
50. AB 546: Land Use: local ordinances: energy systems
51. AB 574: Potable reuse
51.1. State Water Resources Control Board
52. AB 733: Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts for Climate Adaptation (2017)
53. AB 1530: Urban Forestry
53.1. Dpt. of Forestry and Fire Prevention (CalFire)
54. SB 5: CA Drought, Water, Parks, Climate, Coastal Protection, and Outdoor access for All Act of 2018
55. SB-51: Professional licensees: env. sciences and climate chnage: whistleblower and data protection
55.1. Secretary for Env. Protection
56. SB 667: Dpt. Water Resources: riverine and riparian stewardship improvements (2017)
56.1. CA Dpt. Water Resources (DWR)
57. CEQA: Update Consideration of Significant Effects and Hazards
57.1. CEQA & Climate Change
57.1.1. 2017: Included in Proposed Updates: Technical Improvements: Consideration of Significant Effects and Hazards in the CEQA Guidelines Section 15126.2(a)
57.2. SFO Environmental Review example
57.2.1. Wetlands : convert, restore, compensatory mitgation
57.2.2. Proposed shoreline protection Project
58. 2018
59. EO B-52-18: Improve forest and community resilience to wildfire and other climate impacts (2018)
59.1. Forest Management Task Force convened to help implement
59.2. Must accompany Forest Carbon Plan
60. AB 1668: Water Management Planning (2018)
60.1. Response to EO B-37-16 "Making Water Conservation a California Way of Life
60.2. State Water Resources Board & Department of Water Resources (DWR)
61. SB 606: Water Management Planning (2018)
61.1. State Water Resources Board & Department of Water Resources (DWR)
61.2. Response to EO B-37-16 "Making water conservation a CA way of life"
62. EO B-54-18: Safeguarding California plants wildlife, and ecosystems from climate change (2018)
62.1. Dpt. Food and Agriculture & Dpt. Fish and Wildlife
63. AB 3012: State Coastal Conservancy: grants: climate chnage projects (2018)
63.1. Coastal Conservancy
63.2. Continuation of SB 1066
64. SB 901: Wildfire Preparedness and Response (2018)
64.1. CalFire, CARB & PUC
64.2. CalFire will create a Wildfire Resilience Program to support non-industrial timberland owners with wildfire resilience (tech. assitance in fuel rediction, forest health, reforestation +
64.3. CARB will develop a standardized approach to quantify direct carbon emissions, wildfire events, and decay from fuel reduction activities,
64.4. PUC creates a process for electrical utilities, after aproval, to recup cots from ratepayers in addition to utility shareholders for 2017 and future fires PUC will determinwether a utility company behaved responsibly, complied with new plans for fire prevention. Electrical utilities are requried to create and implement wildfire mitigation plans as well
65. AB 1956: Fire prevention activities: local assistance grant program (2018)
65.1. CalFire
66. SB 30: Insurance: climate change (2018)
66.1. Insurance Commissioner
66.2. nature-based solutions
67. SB 901: WIldfires (2018)
68. SB 961: Enhanced infrastructure financing districts
69. SB 1035: General Plans - update schedule for SB 379 (2018)
69.1. ICARP Adaptation Planning Guide
69.2. Safety element reviewed to incorporate climate adaptation and resilience
70. Bureau of Environmental Justice
71. SB 1072:Regional Climate Collaborative Program: technical assistance (2018)
71.1. Strategic Growth Council
71.2. equity, climate justice (under ressourced communities)
72. 2019
73. EO CalFire to provide recommendations on wildfire prevention and mitigation, including at-risk population (2019)
73.1. Environmental justice concept
73.2. Maximize GHG Reduction Fund over the next 5 years to 1 bi$ - significant investment in proactive forest health management
73.3. CalFire & other agencies
74. AB 38: Fire Safety: low-cost retrofits: regional capacity review: wildfire mitigation (2019)
74.1. CNRA & State Fire Marshal & Forest Management Task Force
74.2. CalOES & CalFire
74.3. real property disclosure on wildfire hardening improvements
75. AB 65 Coastal Protection: climate adaptation: project prioitization: natural infrastructure: local general plans (2019)
75.1. Coastal Conservancy
75.2. Projects to be inlcuded in ResilientCA.org
75.3. Applies to Prop. 68 funding 40m of bonds
75.4. natural infrastructure
76. AB-661: Wildfire Smoke Air Pollution Emergency Plan: Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District (2019)
76.1. SMAQMD
76.2. CARB
77. AB 747: Planning and zoning: general plan: safety element (2019)
78. SB 99: General Plans: safety element: evacuation routes (2019)
79. City or County
80. AB 836: Wildfire Smoke Clean Air Centers for Vulnerable Populations Incentive Program
80.1. CARB
81. SB 70: Electricity: undergrounding of electrical infrastructure
81.1. Electric Co.
82. SB 160: Emergency Services: cultural competence
82.1. County
82.2. Bringing space to stakeholder identification
83. SB 167: Electrical corporations: wildfire mitigation plans
83.1. Electric Co.
84. SB 209: OES: Wildfire Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center
84.1. CalOES & CalFire
85. SB 560: Wildfire mitigation plans: deenergizing of electrical lines: notifications: mobile telephony services providers
85.1. Electric Co.
85.2. Telecom and public safety offices
86. SB 576: CCC: coastal climate chnage adaptation, infrastructure and readiness program
86.1. State Coastal Conservancy & Ocean Protection Council
87. SB 632: Cal Env. Quality Act: injunction: vegetation treatment projects
87.1. CalFire
88. EO N-19-19: Transportation Action Act
88.1. Strengthening commitment to social and racial equity by reducing public health and economic harms and maximizing community benefits
88.1.1. Lift up and mainstream community engagement best practices
88.1.2. Develop and utilize equity index to assist in evaluation or prioritization Caltrans Projects
88.1.3. Prioritize sustainable multimodal investment in key corridors of statewide and regional significance
88.2. Assessing physical climate risk and standard practice for transportation infrastructure projects to enable informed decision-making, especially in communities that are most vulnerable to climate-related health and safety risk
88.3. Protecting natural and working lands from conversion to more intesified uses and enahce biodiversity by supporting local and regional concervation planning that focses development where it already exists.
88.3.1. Develop climate risk assessment planning and implementation guidance
88.3.2. Update SB 1 Competitive Program Guidelines to incentivzoe climate adapatation and risk assessment/strategies
88.4. Monitor Implementation and Report Progress
88.4.1. Devlop and coordinate metrcis to track progrss
88.4.2. Deply tools to analyze CAPTI Progrss
88.4.3. Lead CAPTI Interagency Implementation WOrking Group
89. AB 1644: Coastal Act amendment: includes sea level rise
90. 2020
91. EO N-82-20: Addressing the Biodiversity Crisis (2020)
92. AB 78: Bergeson Peace Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (2020)
92.1. State Treasury & Cal Infrastructure Development Bank
92.2. SGC & Labor Workforce Development Agency
92.3. I-Bank
93. AB 913: Electrical corporations: wildfire and undercollection (2020)
94. Electric Co. & CPUC
95. AB 2386: OES: disaster council plans
95.1. OES
96. AB 3074: Fire prevention: wildfire risk: defensible space: ember-resistant zones
97. CalFire & State Board of Forestry and Fire Prevention
98. AB 3267:OES: State Emergency plan
98.1. CalOES
99. SB 1044: Firefighting equipment and foam: PFAS chemicals
99.1. Firefighting equipment manufacturer
99.2. Attorney General, State Fire Marshal
100. SB 1320: Climate Change: California Climate Change Assessment (2020)
100.1. OPR
100.2. CNRA, State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, SGC, in consultation with partner public agencies
101. 2021
102. AB 9: Fire safety: wildfires: fire adapted communities
103. CNRA
104. Collaborative regional governance incentive
105. Organizational target: establish Deputy Director of Community Wildfire Preparedness and Mitigation
106. AB 66: Coastal resources: research; landslides: early warning systems: County of San Diego
106.1. Scripps Institution of Oceanography UCSD
107. AB 72: Environmental Protection: CNRA: coastal adaptation projects: SLR: regulatory review and permitting
107.1. Natural infrastructure
107.2. CNRA
108. AB 118: Emergency services: community response: grant program
108.1. CalOES
108.2. Participative, community engagement
109. AB 284: California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: climate goal: natural and working lands
109.1. CARB & CNRA
109.2. By Jan 2024 develop standards to track GHG emissions reductions and carbon sequestration and additional benefits from natural and working lands over time
110. AB 585: Climate chnage: Extreme heat and community resilience program
110.1. OPR
111. AB 642: Wildfires
111.1. CalFire
112. AB 897: OPR: regional climate networks: climate adaptation action plans
112.1. OPR
113. AB 1384: Resiliency through Adaptation, Economic Vitality, and Equity Act of 2022
113.1. CNRA & OPR
113.2. Equity, vulnerable communities, policy process reinforcement monitoring, with metrics
114. SB 1: Coastal resources: sea level rise
114.1. CCC & OPC
114.1.1. CalEPA