The Climate Initiative is proud to announce that in partnership with CORE and as a result of grant funding from the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, we have been able to create materials for Californians to help boost climate resiliency within the state. These materials are designed to help Californians prepare their homes, families, and communities to become more climate resilient against increasing natural disasters, both in frequency and intensity. 

An example of Climate Mitigation is protecting forests from being cut down!

Climate action can look like Climate Mitigation and/or Climate Adaptation – and both are needed! Climate Mitigation is implementing solutions that help stop the root causes of climate change. These solutions have the goal of reducing how bad climate change will get.

Climate Adaption is implementing solutions to help us adapt to the changes and challenges that we are already facing today as a result of climate change.

These definitions are important to state because sometimes people will read a solution that falls under one category and say “Why aren’t we working to solve the problem at the root?” or “Why aren’t we solving for right now?” This grant, and the type of work that TCI will be engaging in falls under Climate Adaptation work!  

Examples of Climate Mitigation include:

  • Protecting forests from being cut down.
  • Practicing controlled burns to prevent larger wildfires from happening in the future.
  • Restoring ecosystems by removing invasive species and replacing them with native species.
  • Implementing policies that prevent businesses from being able to dump waste, release toxins, or limit emissions.
  • Creating end-of-life cycle plans for objects so they do not end up in landfills.
  • Re-introducing animal species into an area.

Examples of Climate Adaptation include:

  • Creating alert systems on mobile devices to notify people to evacuate an area due to a natural disaster.
  • Having backup power in the event of an emergency where power outages happen.
  • Implementing common practices, but you haven’t done yet, such as collecting rainwater to have water during increasing droughts.
  • Investing in additions to your home to stay cool during heat waves.
  • Creating go-bags so you can leave quickly in an emergency.
  • Learning how to change what you cook to deal with food shortages that come as a result of heat waves, droughts, or flooding.

The biggest threats Californians face because of climate change are:

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