Public Workshop Announcement
The California Natural
Resources Agency, California Department of Food and Agriculture, California
Environmental Protection Agency, California Air Resources Board, and Strategic
Growth Council are jointly hosting a public workshop to discuss and solicit
input on the development of the Natural and Working Lands Implementation Plan (Implementation
Plan) and associated 2030 intervention-based goal for carbon sequestration.
DATE: May 18, 2018
TIME: 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
LOCATION: California Energy Commission Building
First Floor | Rosenfeld Hearing Room
1516 9th Street
Sacramento, California 95814
Background
Land-based strategies are critical in order to meet
the State’s long-term climate goal. The Implementation Plan will set a pathway
for California’s working lands, including forests, farmlands, ranchlands,
grasslands, wetlands, and urban land, that emphasizes the role of California’s
land base in achieving net zero or negative total emissions. The Plan will
identify and specify the scope and scale of activities the State can undertake
to enhance the resilience of natural and working lands while increasing their
ability to sequester carbon and provide multiple other benefits.
The Implementation Plan and 2030 intervention-based
goal are an important step toward connecting our efforts on natural and working
lands with the broader State climate strategy. Information collected through
implementation of the Plan will be used to inform the next California Climate
Change Scoping Plan Update, which will include activities on natural and working lands and identify relationships between land-based strategies and other activities,
including energy-based strategies.
The
workshop will include a presentation and moderated discussion to gather
stakeholder input on the proposed outline and approach for development of the Implementation Plan and process for determining the
2030 intervention-based carbon sequestration goal for natural and working lands. A Concept Paper for the Implementation Plan
will be released in advanced of the workshop and will outline a proposal for information
presented at the workshop. The Concept Paper will also detail how the plan will
be used, in relation to other tools such as the California Air Resources Board
Natural and Working Lands Inventory and the California Natural and Working
Lands Carbon Model.
The Concept Paper will provide an overview of:
- The directive to create an Implementation Plan as outlined in the 2017 Scoping Plan Update: The Strategy for Achieving California's 2030 GHG Goal;
- The sector’s scope of conservation, restoration, and management activities that will be employed to sequester carbon on natural and working lands;
- The inputs to be used in setting a 2030 goal for natural and working lands;
- The process and proposed framework for developing, implementing, and tracking the Implementation Plan; and
- The proposed conservation, restoration, and management activities that will be employed through State-funded investments to sequester carbon on natural and working lands, and the California Natural Resources Agency , California Department of Food and Agriculture , and California Environmental Protection Agency programs that may contribute to these activities by 2030.
The California 2030 Natural and
Working Lands Climate Change Implementation Plan Concept Paper and a detailed
agenda will be made available prior to the workshop in a subsequent listserv broadcast and at the Scoping Plan webpage.
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