Press Releases

Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program’s Second Round of Funding through Adaptation Planning Grant Offers Tailored Technical Assistance with Applications and Promotes Equity Through Other Key Improvements.

State to Invest $70 Million in Community-Based Organizations to support the Trusted Messenger program to ensure under-resourced communities have access to high priority information.

Funded through the Governor’s 2022-23 climate budget, the new grant will fund projects helping communities, especially California’s most vulnerable, adapt to extreme heat.

Through regionally coordinated investments in physical infrastructure, education, planning, and outreach, Regional Resilience Grants will protect California communities from climate impacts like wildfire, drought, sea level rise, and extreme heat.

Governor Newsom’s certification of the Sites Reservoir project is part of a new CEQA streamlining program administered by the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research

Today Governor Newsom appointed leaders to California’s first Racial Equity Commission, established through Executive Order 16-22 and housed within the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research.

OPR announced today the first round of funding for the Regional Resilience Grant, which will fund planning and implementation projects that enhance climate change resilience on a regional scale.

The Governor’s Office of Planning and Research announced today $8 million in project awards through Round I of the Adaptation Planning Grant.

Today, OPR in partnership with the Governor’s Office, announced $39 million in state funding going to economic development projects across the state that support California’s transition to a low-carbon, green growth future.

Today, the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR), Labor & Workforce Development Agency (Labor Agency), and Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) – announced $1 million in state assistance to support workers and communities impacted by the closure of the California Correctional Center (CCC) in Susanville.

First round of Community Economic Resilience Fund (CERF) awards provides $5 million each to regional economic planning entities to chart equitable, resilient future for California’s economy.

On October 18, the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research and California Natural Resources Agency will host the first-ever California Extreme Heat Symposium for a forward-looking conversation about extreme heat trends and challenges as well as innovative solutions to address its wide-reaching impacts.

Today, OPR, in partnership with GO-Biz and LWDA, opened applications for $65 million in Community Economic Resilience Fund (CERF) Planning Grants to Create Sustainable, Climate-Resilient Jobs in California.

The California Climate Adaptation Strategy connects the state’s existing and planned climate adaptation efforts, showing how they fit together to achieve California’s six climate resilience priorities.

As part of the 2022-23 proposed budget, Governor Newsom has proposed to create, within OPR, the new Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications to take on the critical role of managing priority public education and community engagement efforts and provide ongoing support to community-based organizations.

The draft action plan outlines a strategic and comprehensive set of State actions to adapt and build resilience to extreme heat. The public is invited to provide input on the draft during the January 24 public comment workshop.

Week two of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference – The Office of Planning and Research and the European Institute of Innovation & Technology Climate-KIC announced a new peer learning partnership to catalyze California and Europe’s ambitious climate agendas. The agreement, signed this morning in Glasgow, Scotland, outlines a commitment to peer learning and project collaboration opportunities between California’s state agencies and Climate-KIC and the climate innovation and implementation partners in its network.

The draft California Climate Adaptation Strategy is designed to accelerate climate adaptation action across regions and sectors in California; identify how key state agency actions fit together to achieve these priorities; and build on the successes and lessons learned since the first climate adaptation strategy in 2009.

Critical investments are part of Governor Newsom's broad-based California Comeback Plan to transform California’s behavioral health system for children and youth

As part of his $100 billion California Comeback Plan, Governor Newsom has proposed a $750 million investment in a Community Economic Resilience Fund, to provide direct support to regions across the state as they build strategies not only to recover from the economic hit of the COVID-19 pandemic but also lean into the transition to a carbon neutral economy.

OPR is thrilled to launch the Climate-Related Risk Disclosure Advisory Group as part of California’s cross-government framework for urgently addressing the impacts of climate change.