Beyond Pesticides
Will Your State Adopt a Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy?

California state agencies, led by the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA), released a Draft Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy to guide and accelerate near- and long-term climate action across key California landscapes. All states need such strategies, and to be effective, they must be backed by ambitious targets focused on reduction of pesticides and support for organic agriculture.

>>Tell your state legislators and governor to adopt a Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy that supports organic agriculture and land management. (CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS: Please use this form.)

A Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy will identify our natural and working lands as a critical yet currently underutilized sector in the fight against climate change. These lands can sequester and store carbon emissions, limit future carbon emissions into the atmosphere, protect people and nature from the impacts of climate change, and build resilience to future climate risks. Climate smart management of our natural and working lands also improves public health and safety, secures our food and water supplies, and increases equity.

The strategy should:

  • define the state's natural and working landscapes; describe how these lands can deliver on climate change goals; 
  • highlight priority nature-based climate solutions to address the climate crisis; explore opportunities for regional climate smart land management; 
  • identify options to track nature-based climate action and measure progress; and outline opportunities to scale climate smart land management across regions and sectors in the state.  

To be effective, the strategy must include ambitious targets focused on reduction of agricultural chemicals and support for organic agriculture. These measures also address other crises, including microbial support for ecosystem health and biodiversity.

>>Tell your state legislators and governor to adopt a Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy that supports organic agriculture and land management. (CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS: Please use this form.)

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