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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California Joins the White House America the Beautiful Freshwater Challenge

California joined the list of over 160 partners participating in the White House’s America the Beautiful Freshwater Challenge. The initiative sets new national goals for wetland, river, and stream reconnection, restoration, and conservation, and calls on states, territories, Tribes, local governments, businesses, and non-governmental organizations to advance their own actions in support of these shared goals.

Tribal Nature-Based Solutions Program

Developed with tribal input and backed with funding approved by Governor Newsom and the Legislature, the new Tribal Nature-Based Solutions Grant Program will support tribes to reacquire ancestral land, address impacts of climate change on their communities, and conserve and protect biodiversity. Funding can be used by tribes to purchase land, train workforce, expand and communicate traditional knowledge, build tribal capacity, and build projects and programs to protect culturally important natural resources and protect climate change.

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

Memorandum of Understanding Between California and Emilia-Romagna

On the one year anniversary of the worst floods in the region’s history, Governor Gavin Newsom launched a new partnership with the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed today by California and Emilia-Romagna outlines three years of collaboration to advance clean transportation, transition to clean energy, practice climate-smart agriculture, deploy nature based solutions, and protect air quality and biodiversity, among other efforts.

Memorandum of Understanding Between Norway and California

Governor Gavin Newsom welcomed a delegation from Norway led by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon. The California and Norway delegations signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to advance climate collaboration. The MOU outlines four years of cooperation between California and Norway on clean energy, zero-emission transportation and ports, carbon removal and climate-smart agriculture.

The Tribal Nature-Based Solutions Program was established to support the return of over 38,000 acres of ancestral land to tribal stewardship and advance nature-based solutions projects on tribal lands. The grant program will support tribal priorities, which may include ancestral land return, restoration, workforce development, implementation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and tribal expertise, habitat restoration, and climate and wildfire resilience projects.