CAF14-122

Building Regional Collaboratives to Accelerate Adaptation Success

Speakers: Larry Greene, Air Pollution Control Officer, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District; Cody Hooven, Senior Environmental Specialist, Environmental and Land Use Management, Port of San Diego; Krista Kline, Managing Director, Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action & Sustainability; Bruce Riordan, Climate Strategist, Bay Area Joint Policy Council; Michael McCormick, Senior Planner, Governor’s Office of Planning and Research; MODERATOR: Jonathan Parfrey, Executive Director, Climate Resolve

Addressing climate change at the regional level is one way to minimize risk and maximize resilience opportunities. For an effective regional response, all interested stakeholders must work more closely together than ever before. However, there are significant barriers to coordinating across regions. One emerging approach is found in the formation of “regional adaptation collaboratives.” This session discusses the development, implementation, and lessons learned from the Alliance of Regional Collaboratives for Climate Adaptation (ARCCA), an organization consisting of four regional adaptation collaboratives in San Diego, Los Angeles, the Bay Area and Sacramento. This session discusses (1) a framework for forming a regional adaptation network, (2) guidance for structuring a regional collaborative, and (3) insights into effective mechanisms for engaging stakeholders in adoption of these new collaborative relationships.

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$10.00

$10.00

CAF14-126

Financing Climate Adaptation: Public-Private Cross-Pollination

Speakers: Shalini, Vajjhala, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, Re:Focus Partners; Cisco DeVries, CEO, Renewable Funding; Stephanie Rico, Vice President, Environmental Affairs, Wells Fargo, Government and Community Relations; Rebecca Foster, Advisor, San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation; MODERATOR: Aleka Seville, Director, Advisory Services, Four Twenty Seven, Inc.

Financing adaptation efforts – from local community outreach to major infrastructure improvements – calls for creative sources of funding to stretch local governments’ limited budgets. This roundtable discussion focuses on innovative ways to involve the private sector in solving public problems, building on existing initiatives in energy, climate and city planning. We hear from thought leaders whose efforts straddle the public and private sectors, and discuss whether and how these different forms of public-private partnerships (PPPs) could be repurposed to help fund climate adaptation efforts at the local level.

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$10.00

$10.00

CAF14-105

Building Community Resilience into Climate Change through Art: Stories from the Artists

Speakers: Kira Carrillo Corser, Team Leader, Artist and Education, Seachanges.org; Alison Joe, AICP, Commissioner, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission; Mallorie Marsh, Manager, School and Teacher Programs, Crocker Art Museum; Sabrina McCormick, Associate Professor, George Washington University: MODERATOR: Amber Pairis, Ph.D, Senior Environmental Scientist, California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Artists play a key role in communicating ideas to their local communities and beyond. Art in its varied forms can be used to educate and train, promote a sense of community, celebrate and support individuals, promote ideas and initiatives, and can play a pivotal role in supporting social change. Climate change offers a unique and important opportunity to bring art and science together to reach a wide array of people on a subject where time is of the essence. Art can touch people emotionally not just academically and create an experience that translates climate change research into something meaningful on a personal level. This session is a storytelling hour where California-based artists and those involved with the arts discuss their experiences on how art can translate climate science into something that is accessible and creates an interest and curiosity among people to become more engaged on the topic.

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$10.00

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CAF14-212

Jurisdiction, Governance and Land Use Planning as the Sea Rises

Speakers: Jennifer DeLeon, Statewide Planning and Renewable Energy Program Coordinator, California State Lands Commission; Lindy Lowe, Senior Planner, Project Lead, Adapting to Rising Tide Project, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission; Hilary Papendick, Statewide LCP Grant Manager/Coastal Program Analyst, California Coastal Commission; Cody Hooven, Senior Environmental Specialist, Port of San Diego; MODERATOR: Curtis Alling, AICP, Principal, Ascent Environmental, Inc.

Sea level is not only a geophysical and ecological interface, it also demarcates boundaries of governance that affect land use planning, resources management, and regulatory jurisdictions. It is important to advance the dialogue about implications of changing regulatory boundaries of the coastal zone, submerged land subject to the public trust, and land use planning jurisdictions of state and local government. State jurisdiction may become applicable to new areas. Planning, public safety, and resource management issues on affected lands may morph. Economic, social equity, and property concerns may weigh heavily on decision-makers. Current regulatory practices will necessarily change as boundaries of coastal zone, bay/estuary, and submerged lands evolve over time. What are the economic, social, and governance effects on communities? This session explores the planning, regulatory, and socioeconomic issues and trade-offs associated with the potential effects of sea-level rise on governance of coastal and estuarine waters and land.

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$10.00

$10.00

Subtotal

$40.00