A State Action Plan to Build Community Resilience
California’s best climate science projects that every corner of our state will be impacted in years and decades to come by higher average temperatures and more frequent and severe heat waves. Extreme heat threatens public health and safety; economic prosperity; and communities and natural systems. It also poses profoundly disproportionate consequences for the most vulnerable among us.
This plan outlines a strategic and comprehensive set of state actions to address extreme heat, and serves as an update to the “Preparing California for Extreme Heat Guidance and Recommendations” report released in 2013.
The substance and organization of this plan was guided by extensive public input, collected over the course of 2021 and 2022, including through five public listening sessions, ten regional workshops, and numerous consultations with California Native American tribes.
