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4 Regional Reports and Engaging California's Regional Climate Collaboratives
4 Regional Reports and Engaging California's Regional Climate Collaboratives
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Each of the regional reports were co-authored by technical researchers and representatives from the local community and government, often with representation from California's Regional Climate Collaboratives.1 The collaboratives help convene and coordinate local activities to build strong networks and support regional adaptation activities and have been critical in galvanizing local actions. Susanne Moser (Susanne Moser Research and Consulting)
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Examples include the San Diego Regional Collaborative,2 which is mostly composed of local government organizations, as well as the Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation3 and the Climate Science Alliance,4 among many others. Engeman also presented an external contribution to the Fourth Assessment focused on San Diego County Ecosystems, which grew from collaboration between climate scientists, ecologists, and wildlife and habitat specialists who worked together to understand how downscaled climate projections could inform local adaptation efforts (Jennings et al., 2018)
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,7 which coordinates the activities of the local academic researchers, the City and County of Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Southern California Association of Governments, and many other organizations active in regional climate change mitigation and adaptation. LARC spans many sectors, including nongovernmental organizations such as Climate Resolve that help facilitate engagement with policy makers and can catalyze local action, as well as local utility partners at the Los Angeles Department of 6 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Engineering, "RISER SF Bay," http://riser.berkeley.edu/.
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, where modeling shows that climate change impacts such as flooding of a low-lying roadway can impact traffic patterns and congestion many miles away. Thus, regional coordination of climate adaptation actions is critical going forward.
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LARC is a member of the Alliance for Regional Collaboratives for Climate Adaptation9 (ARCCA) , which is a state-wide effort to support growth and development of new collaboratives, knowledge exchange, and peer-to-peer networking for existing climate collaboratives and to provide a unified interface with state policy makers.
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Sierra CAMP is composed of more than 70 members across multiple sectors, and their primary service is to translate climate science from the local assessment and state guidance documents such as Safeguarding California (California National Resources Agency, 2018) for local decision makers and to aggregate and communicate local goals and values to state and sometimes federal policy makers.
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Frisch identified several specific research needs, including empirical research into the direct impacts of watershed forest management on available water supply; economic and technical analysis on the costs and benefits of mitigation and adaptation strategies, and how the two categories impact one another; and data that can allow evaluation of equity and social justice on the block and neighborhood scale as opposed to discussing equity as an abstract concept. Amanda Stevens, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, asked how the various regional collaboratives are funded and how the activities can be sustained.
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2018. "San Diego County Ecosystems: Ecological Impacts of Climate Change on a Biodiversity Hotspot." California's Fourth Climate Change Assessment.
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