AB 1757 (C. Garcia and R. Rivas) Requires the Natural Resources Agency to determine on or before January 1, 2024, an ambitious range of targets for natural carbon sequestration, and for nature-based climate solutions, that reduce greenhouse gas emissions for 2030, 2038, and 2045 to support state goals to achieve carbon neutrality and foster climate adaptation and resilience. STATUS: APPROVED in both houses August 31; SIGNED by the Governor on September 16.
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About AB 1757
Related state initiatives
- Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy, April 2022
- Pathways to 30×30: Accelerating Conservation of California’s Nature, April 2022
Research and references
- How a new law is bringing more attention to natural carbon sequestration, Feb 6 2023
- Soil’s Power as a Climate Solution Has Often Been Overlooked. Until Now, Oct 21, 2022
- Setting an Ambitious Sequestration Goal for California’s Working Lands, The Climate Center, Jan 2022
- Technological Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): The Climate Center’s policy guidance, Mar 2022
- More Ambition Needed in CA Air Resources Board NWL Modeling Scenarios, Carbon Cycle Institute, Mar 2022
- Scaling Carbon Farming in California through Regional Hubs, Carbon Cycle Institute, Mar 2022
- Recarbonizing global soils- a technical manual of recommended management practices, Food and Agriculture Organization, UN
- Carbon Neutral Agriculture in California by 2030: A Pathway to Economic, Ecological and Social Resilience, Dec 2019
- Soil Carbon Science for Policy and Practice, Bradford et al 2019
- Natural Climate Solutions for the United States, Fargione et al, Nov 2018, Science Advances
- Soil Carbon Introduction, Importance, Status, Threats and Mitigation, Trivedi et al 2018