Climate Resilience Roundtables

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 resilience in the face of climate, public health, social justice and other crises

How You Can Take Action

• Watch the recordings and review the materials from CEC’s Climate Resilience Roundtables:
  • Historias de resiliencia desde las primeras líneas del cambio climático / Stories of Resilience From the Frontlines of Climate Change
  • Vulnerability, Health, and Equity
  • Sea Level Rise & Flooding
  • Wildfire & Smoke
• Review the Opportunity Matrices with ideas and solutions generated from each roundtable:
  • Historias de resiliencia desde las primeras líneas del cambio climático / Stories of Resilience From the Frontlines of Climate Change (coming soon)
  • Vulnerability, Health, and Equity (coming soon)
  • Sea Level Rise & Flooding
  • Wildfire & Smoke
• Follow and engage in local climate action plans and vulnerability assessments.
  • Comments for the City of Santa Barbara’s Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Plan are due September 30, 2020. Learn more and submit comments.

This free roundtable was designed to deepen the understanding of the compounding impacts of climate change and socio-economic vulnerabilities on our frontline and essential workers and indigenous cultures. Community members on the frontlines of climate and public health crises  shared their lived experiences in their native language and helped connect the dots between climate change, health, justice and indigenous knowledge. Through their stories we heard what resilience means and what is needed for a fair and equitable community response to ongoing threats.

Presented in Spanish with English interpretation.

FACILITATOR

Ana Rosa Rizo-Centino
co-creator/co-hostess of “¡Que Madre!” on KZAA 96.5FM

A former mayor of Maywood, CA and UCSB alum, Ana Rosa Rizo-Centino is a Senior Organizer with the Central Coast’s Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action. She currently serves as President on the boards of La Casa de La Raza and the Central Coast League of Conservation Voters (CCLCV), Secretary on the board of SB Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), and as a Boardmember for Santa Barbara County Action Network. She is also part of the Healing Justice collective, serves on the City of Santa Barbara Creeks Commission.

• Presenter Slides (Google slides)
• Webinar transcript

Additional Resources

• I’m going to die out here. Brutal heat is even more dangerous with coronavirus
  LA Times | July 22, 2020
• The Great Climate Migration
  New York Times | July 23, 2020
• A Climate Plan in Texas Focuses on Minorities. Not Everyone Likes It.
  New York Times | July 24, 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

Presenter Videos

• 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.