Conservation Strategy Group

What will it take for CA to be carbon neutral by 2045? Check out our newest blog post! Lawrence Livermore Releases Landmark Carbon Neutrality Report - https://mailchi.mp/d/llnl-releases-carbon-neutrality-report

Proposed 2020-21 State Budget Released by Governor Newsom - https://mailchi.mp//csg-noticeproposed-201920-budget-relea

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved California's very first Regional Conservation Investment Strategy! Read more about this new tool designed to guide significant infrastructure dollars towards #conservation and #climateresilience in our new blog post. - https://mailchi.mp/8e5576cec5fb/cdfw-approved-ca-first-rcis

Revised 2019-20 State Budget Released by Governor Newsom - https://mailchi.mp//csg-noticeproposed-201920-budget-relea

"Climate change matters for Democratic voters: A Monmouth University poll last month showed the issue as the second most important to Iowa caucus-goers after health care, and a CNN national poll found that 82 percent of Democratic respondents said it’s very important that their party’s nominee for president supports taking aggressive action to slow the effects of climate change, the highest support among several items on the progressive wish list.""

The report's 39-page summary highlighted five ways people are reducing biodiversity: -Turning forests, grasslands and other areas into farms, cities and other developments. The habitat loss leaves plants and animals homeless. About three-quarters of Earth's land, two-thirds of its oceans and 85% of crucial wetlands have been severely altered or lost, making it harder for species to survive, the report said. -Overfishing the world's oceans. A third of the world's fish stocks a...re overfished. -Permitting climate change from the burning of fossil fuels to make it too hot, wet or dry for some species to survive. Almost half of the world's land mammals not including bats and nearly a quarter of the birds have already had their habitats hit hard by global warming. -Polluting land and water. Every year, 300 million to 400 million tons of heavy metals, solvents and toxic sludge are dumped into the world's waters. -Allowing invasive species to crowd out native plants and animals. The number of invasive alien species per country has risen 70% since 1970, with one species of bacteria threatening nearly 400 amphibian species.

Proposed 2019-20 State Budget Released by Governor Newsom -

We're pleased to announce the newest addition to Team CSG! Matteo Crow joined us in December as an Associate of Policy & Public Funding. Read more:

Way to go, California!

NEW BLOG POST: California spends $2.7B on surface and groundwater storage through the Water Storage Investment Program (WSIP).

California is not backing down from the fight for #CleanCarStandards. via The Sacramento Bee

For Trump to now destroy a law first enacted at the request of Ronald Reagan five decades ago is a betrayal and an assault on the health of Americans everywhere. - Governor Jerry Brown #CleanCarStandards

Dr. Rebecca Shaw of World Wildlife Fund stopped by our office to discuss dynamic conservation and the challenges to conservation posed by climate change. Read more about her presentation in our newest blog post!

"...floodplain restoration is increasingly seen as a way of coping with the future one of human-induced climate change. The reclaimed lands will flood more readily, and that will help protect cities and towns from the more frequent and larger inundations that scientists say are likely as California continues to warm."