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SACRAMENTO — The California Climate and Agriculture Network(CalCAN) has released Tools for Transformation: Cultivating Climate Resilience In 2030 and Beyond which identifies the most important actions needed to achieve the state’s 2030 climate and biodiversity goals in order to set California agriculture on a path to climate resilience.

CalCAN developed over 50 policy recommendations in the report centered around 4 key themes: whole-farm solutions, investment in people and knowledge, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and addressing systemic inequities. Tools for Transformation was developed in conjunction with over 60 issue area experts, a team of 16 reviewers, and numerous reports and peer-reviewed studies.

Notably, the report also calls for significant financial investments of approximately $1 billion annually for a total of $7 billion between now and 2030 to strengthen California’s farmers and ranchers in their climate-resilient agriculture efforts.

Webinar information and both reports can be found at CaAgricultureClimatePlatform.Org.

“Our farms and ranches have the potential to contribute powerful climate solutions but they are lacking the resources needed to rapidly scale up their efforts,” says Renata Brillinger, Executive Director at CalCAN. “This Platform lays out the investments needed for incentives, technical assistance, infrastructure and market development to curb climate change while also building a healthy, just and resilient food and farming system.”

Tools for Transformation builds off of the first installment of the Platform report, State of the State: Taking stock of a decade of climate progress in California agriculture, which summarized the progress made by the state and federal government over the past decade to support California farmers and farmworkers in their efforts to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change.

Together, the two sections create A Climate Platform for California Agriculture which serves as a call to action for moving rapidly toward a more climate resilient agriculture system.

CalCAN invites policymakers, journalists and stakeholders to engage in this evolving dialogue. A series of webinars will be held throughout November and December to highlight some of the solutions in the Platform.

Read CalCAN’s Tools for Transformation Report

–California Climate and Agriculture Network