The Agriculture and Climate Coalition has come together to sponsor a bill introduced in February 2010 by Senator Lois Wolk (D-Yolo).
SB 1241, the Agriculture Climate Benefits Act, designates that a portion of funds generated from state or federal climate change programs support voluntary greenhouse gas emission reductions in California agriculture, while achieving environmental co-benefits. The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), with input from an advisory committee made up of producers, researchers and nonprofit leaders, will administer the funds for research and demonstration, technical assistance and financial incentives for California farmers and ranchers to use agricultural practices, technologies and farming systems that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or sequester atmospheric carbon.
California agriculture is not only uniquely vulnerable when it comes to climate change - with drier conditions, more extreme weather events and rising temperatures - but California agriculture can also provide climate change solutions. Agriculture can reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency, renewable energy production and on-farm management practices. But resources are needed to make it possible for California's diverse agricultural industry use climate-friendly practices.
SB 1241 invests in California agriculture, our environment and our future.
A complete copy of SB 1241 can be found at:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_1201-1250/sb_1241_bill_20100219_introduced.html
The members of the Agriculture and Climate Coalition, sponsors of SB 1241, are:
- California Certified Organic Farmers
- Community Alliance with Family Farmers
- Dixon Ridge Farms
- Earthbound Farm
- Ecological Farming Association
- Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
- Sustainable Agriculture Education
- The Center for Food Safety
- Wild Farm Alliance
- Hedgerow Farms
To get involved in supporting SB 1241, please click here.
To download a fact sheet on SB 1241 from Senator Wolk's office, please click here.
To download a Q&A on the Agriculture Climate Benefits Act, please click here.
To stay informed on the progress of the Agriculture Climate Benefits Act, please join our email list (see below).
Current supporters of SB 1241:
- Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association
- California Certified Organic Farmers
- California Farmers Union
- Californians Against Waste
- Center for Food Safety
- Center for Land-Based Learning
- Central Coast Rangeland Coalition
- Central Coast Vineyard Team
- Community Alliance With Family Farmers
- Earthbound Farm
- Ecological Farming Association
- Full Belly Farm
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- Hedgerow Farms
- Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
- Organic Farming Research Foundation
- Pesticide Action Network North America
- Rominger Brothers Farms, Inc.
- San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project
- Sierra Orchards
- Sustainable Agriculture Education
- Terry Harrison
- Visher Consulting
- Wild Farm Alliance
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