San Mateo County is updating its Climate Action Plan. This plan will incorporate agriculture, more specifically, the ability of agricultural lands to draw down carbon and store it in soils and plants (carbon sequestration). This document explains how carbon is sequestered in agricultural landscapes so that you can provide input on the Climate Action Plan.
http://bit.ly/SMCCAPAGPlease note that this plan is not a regulatory document, but a path for the County to meet its climate goals, and provides an important opportunity for the development of policies that support the agricultural community.
The County has partnered with the Resource Conservation District to conduct outreach with the agricultural community on this effort. The purpose of this outreach is to get important input from the agricultural community on the potential of agricultural management practices that sequester carbon that could be used in San Mateo County, and to understand what would be needed to scale those practices, like funding, technical assistance, access to supplies and equipment, etc.
The “actions” in the Climate Action Plan will be developed based on the feedback of San Mateo County agricultural producers and will be about how to support the agricultural community.
