About the Climate Resilience Roundtables
CEC is organizing a series of roundtables in 2019-2020 to address issues related to climate resilience and adaptation for Santa Barbara County. The roundtables will be organized around the identified threats from the Fourth California Climate Change Assessment: sea level rise, heavy precipitation events, temperature increase, increased wildfire, drought, and decreasing snow pack and water supply. We will examine these threats through the lens of public and mental health, social justice, economic impacts, infrastructure vulnerabilities, and natural systems and working landscapes.
Goals of the Roundtables
Through this roundtable series, we’ll begin framing a community vision for climate resilience and adaptation for Santa Barbara County by identifying potential actions and strategies.
Our goals are to:
- Build trust, strengthen networks, catalyze partnerships and align climate planning and resilience efforts
- Engage important underrepresented voices and perspectives for a more cohesive community-wide approach to climate adaptation
- Identify opportunities, gaps, critical issues and tensions in need of resolution or focus
- Frame a collaborative vision for climate and disaster resilience with actionable next steps
Steering committee members have included
Mimi Audelo
City of Carpinteria Emergency Services
Rachel Couch
California Coastal Conservancy
Aeron Arlin Genet
Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District
Jennifer Hernández
Community Environmental Council
Iris Kelly
Community Environmental Council
Sharyn Main
Community Environmental Council
Monique Myers
California Sea Grant
Abe Powell
Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade
Christopher Ragland
Healing Justice: BLM SB
Michelle Sevilla
Office of Assemblymember Monique Limón
Ashley Watkins
Santa Barbara County Sustainability Division
Sigrid Wright
Community Environmental Council
Lucas Zucker
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE)
FUNDING SUPPORT FROM
IN-KIND SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Dune Coffee Roasters
Snoitcudorp / Joe Mahany
Mercury Press International
ROUNDTABLE 1: Wildfire & Smoke - November 1, 2019
- Agenda & Program (PDF)
- Participant List (PDF)
- Presenter Slides (PDF)
- Press Release
- Photos from the event
Additional Resources
- CalAdapt
Cal-Adapt provides a view of how climate change might affect California. Find tools, data, and resources to conduct research, develop adaptation plans and build applications.
https://cal-adapt.org/ - CalFire Resilience funding opportunities (DOCX)
- Clean Coalition’s Community Microgrid Initiative
https://clean-coalition.org/community-microgrid-initiative/ - Health, Wildfires & Climate Change in California white paper – Climate Readiness Institute
This white paper makes recommendations for action to reduce the serious health impacts of wildfires in California’s increasingly hot climate.
ROUNDTABLE 2: Sea Level Rise & Flooding - March 4, 2020
- Agenda & Program (PDF)
- Participant List (PDF)
- Presenter Slides (PDF)
- Press Release
- Photos from the event
Additional Resources
- Sea Level Rise Virtual Reality Video Explore hyper realistic climate models and explore coastal adaptation scenarios in virtual reality.
- Santa Barbara Area Coastal Ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment (SBA CEVA) – https://caseagrant.ucsd.edu/project/santa-barbara-area-coastal-ecosystem-vulnerability-assessment-sba-ceva
- Coastal Conservancy Climate Ready Program – https://scc.ca.gov/climate-change/
- Santa Barbara County Regional Climate Collaborative – http://countyofsb.org/collaborative
- Central Coast Climate Collaborative – https://centralcoastclimate.org
ROUNDTABLE 3: Vulnerability, Health, and Equity - August 13, 2020
Resources and more will be available here after the event.