Alliance members are working to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius by reducing emissions, accelerating action, centering equity, and tracking progress. 

Explore California's policies and actions across the Alliance's 10 key policy areas. Numbers presented below only reflect the number of policies in this database and thus may not reflect all climate policies pursued.

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AB 2722 Transformative Climate Communities Program

This bill would create the Transformative Climate Communities Program, to be administered by the Strategic Growth Council. The bill would require the council to award competitive grants to specified eligible entities for the development and implementation of neighborhood-level transformative climate community plans that include greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects that provide local economic, environmental, and health benefits to disadvantaged communities, as defined. The bill would require the council to develop guidelines and selection criteria for the implementation of the program. The bill would require the California Environmental Protection Agency to provide assistance in performing outreach to disadvantaged communities and assessing the environmental justice benefits of project awards.

AB1757 Expert Advisory Committee Recommendations for Implementation Targets for Natural and Working Lands Sector Climate Actions

AB 1757 directs the California Natural Resources Agency and the California Air Resources Board to establish an expert advisory committee to inform and review modeling and analyses for natural and working lands, to advise state agencies on implementation strategies and standardized accounting, and to provide recommendations on addressing barriers to efficient implementation of climate action in natural and working lands. The advisory committee's final recommendations on natural and working lands targets were released in November 2023.

AB 1757 Ch 341, California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: climate goal: natural and working lands

Requires the State of California to determine an ambitious range of targets for natural carbon sequestration, and for nature-based climate solutions, that reduce greenhouse gas emissions for 2030, 2038, and 2045 to support state goals to achieve carbon neutrality and foster climate adaptation and resilience.

The California Education and the Environment Initiative is a program of CalRecycle's Office of Education and the Environment (OEE), whose mission is to foster environmental literacy among all California students as part of a high-quality K-12 education. Environmental literacy builds critical thinking and analytic skills that prepare students to make informed decisions about issues affecting our world, and readies them for college and career success.

California Education and the Environment Initiative

As called for in Assembly Bill 1757 (2022), the California Natural Resources Agency, the California Air Resources Board, the California Environmental Protection Agency, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, and more than 40 State agency partners collaborated to develop 81 nature-based solutions (NBS) climate targets for 2030, 2038, and 2045 that contribute to California’s goals of achieving carbon neutrality no later than 2045 and protecting Californians from the climate crisis.

What the targets call for by 2045: 

- 33.5 million acres managed to reduce wildfire risk, mostly through beneficial fire
- 11.9 million acres of forest managed for biodiversity protection, carbon storage, and water supply protection
- 7.6 million acres conserved with protections
- 3.4 million acres of croplands managed to boost healthy soils, drought resilience, and below-ground biodiversity
- 4.2 million trees planted to protect California communities from the climate crisis, remove carbon and increase access to nature where it’s needed most
- 2.7 million acres of shrublands and chaparral managed for carbon storage, resilience, and habitat connectivity
- 1.6 million acres of grasslands managed to restore native grasslands and protect biodiversity
- 1.5 million acres of sparsely vegetated lands (deserts, beaches, etc.) to protect fragile ecosystems

California's Nature-Based Solutions Climate Targets

Putting California on the High Road: A Jobs and Climate Action Plan for 2030

Prepared by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, this report offers the State of California a vision for integrating economic and workforce development into major climate policies and programs in order to help achieve California’s major climate goals: achieving 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and transitioning to a carbon neutral economy by 2045. With chapters corresponding to each of the six sectors of the 2017 Climate Scoping Plan, the report responds to the direction in AB 398, focusing on job quality and social equity concerns in assessing the impacts of climate measures on employment and training. It also emphasizes strategies to ensure disadvantaged communities and workers are involved in creating, and benefitting from, the economic gains generated by the work required to stabilize the climate.