Building Coastal Resilience to the Climate Crisis

EAC has been at the forefront of environmental advocacy for over 50 years. We seek to bring people together to explore our changing climate and find space for hope and action. By providing a platform for education and discussion, we aim to foster a deeper understanding of our ecological challenges, empowering individuals with the knowledge and motivation needed to take action.

Acción por el Clima

Find Hope and Take Action!

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**Safeguard Our**

**Coast & Oceans**

Oceans are deteriorating under the combined pressure of human activities, global warming, and acidification. Creating and expanding Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) helps to restore and create resilient ecosystems.

**Defend & Restore**
**Watersheds & Forests**

Healthy forests capture and store water, naturally regulate streamflows and water quality, reduce flood and storm damage, control erosion, and replenish ground water. Healthy, resilient watersheds are the best insurance policy for a changing climate.

**Support**
**Regenerative Agriculture**

Since 1850, industrial agriculture has created a legacy of water pollution, animal abuse, degraded land, and wildlife habitat destruction. It has been responsible for over a third of all human carbon dioxide emissions.
We must switch to regenerative agriculture, which is modeled on nature, sequesters carbon, heals land, and honors life.

**Get to**
**Net Zero**

Net zero means cutting greenhouse gas emissions to as close to zero as possible. Transitioning to a net-zero world is one of humankind's greatest challenges. It requires a total transformation of how we produce, consume, and move. Replacing polluting coal, gas, and oil-fired power generation with energy produced from renewable sources, such as wind or solar, would dramatically reduce carbon emissions.

Protect Estuaries,
Wetlands, and Tidal Marshes

California has lost more than 90% of its historical wetlands and today, many remaining wetlands are threatened. Protecting, restoring, and stopping development and encroachment safeguards one of some of the most important ecosystems on the planet. As a bonus, all three of these habitats provide co-benefits for climate resilience and mitigation for communities near shorelines.

**Protect**
**Biodiversity Corridors**

Biological diversity is the variety of life on Earth and the natural patterns it forms. The biodiversity seen today is the result of 4.5 billion years of evolution and, increasingly, of human influence as well. It forms the web of life, of which humans are integral and upon which people and the planet so fully depend.

**Create a**
**Circular Economy**

A circular economy is essential for fighting climate change. Material extraction and use account for 70 percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. By efficiently and circularly using just four key industrial materials (cement, steel, plastics, and aluminum), circular economy strategies can help reduce global GHG emissions by 40 percent by 2050. If we also include circular approaches within the food system, we could achieve as much as 49 percent reductions in global GHG emissions overall.

**Take**
**Civic Action**

To fix a broken system, we have to elect people who want to change it, ensure that our public agencies are meeting the expectations of their communities, and that our communities are working together towards equitable solutions to the crisis before all of us. This is especially important for local, regional, and state elections and policy decisions.

Thank you to our sponsors, partners, organizations, and agencies who are working collectively toward climate action.

We are grateful to the resources provided by the IPCC, United Nations Environment Programme, the State of California, the County of Marin, and the resources within the public domain shared by Regeneration. Regeneration is working to connect humanity to possibility, to the core idea that the climate crisis, the greatest problem civilization has ever faced, contains myriad solutions, actions and initiatives that can create a better world for all.

Banner Image Credit #ShowYourStripes
www.biodiversitystripes.info. Living Planet Index database. 2022.