Items Tagged with '30X30 biodiversity goals'

An advisory committee has issued its final recommendations on bolstering natural and working lands to pull more carbon from the atmosphere.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon unveil a revised budget proposal that adds more details to a new $22 billion climate package. Yet some agricultural counties and farm groups say a decades-old farmland conservation program could be revived and accomplish some of the same goals.

A draft plan released shows that many sustainability practices would not fall within the 30x30 framework. But farm and environmental advocates are hoping for many changes to come in the next version.

State lawmakers are straining for details on how agencies will implement a series of climate and conservation plans.

The California Natural Resources Agency has been gathering feedback over plans to conserve 30% of the state’s land and coastal waters by 2030.

A series of climate plans are raising conversations about reducing conventional pesticides to lower emissions and ramping up organic farming to capture carbon.

Newsom administration officials are heading to the UN Climate Change Conference with a plan to highlight their nature-based solutions.

The Newsom administration is proposing to create a reference library for California insects based on DNA barcodes.