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 02/10/25 - Introduced

 AB-491 California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: climate goals: natural and working lands.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 03/26/2025 09:00 PM

AB491:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 26, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 491

Introduced by Assembly Member Connolly
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Pellerin and Rogers)

February 10, 2025

 An act to amend Section 38561.5 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 491, as amended, Connolly.
 California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: climate goals: natural and working lands.

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases and requires the state board to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. The act declares the policy of the state to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, but no later than 2045, and to achieve and maintain net negative greenhouse gas emissions thereafter. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years.

The act also requires the Natural Resources Agency, in collaboration with
 specified entities, including the state board, to determine an ambitious range of targets for natural carbon sequestration, and for nature-based climate solutions, that reduce greenhouse gas emissions for 2030, 2038, and 2045 to support state goals to achieve carbon neutrality and foster climate adaptation and resilience. The act requires these targets to be integrated into the above-described scoping plan and other state policies.

This bill would specify that it is the goal of the state to achieve each of the targets established by the Natural Resources Agency by the applicable date for the target, with priority given to activities that most rapidly, significantly, and cost effectively increase carbon stocks and net sequestration, protect and support ecosystem function, and reduce emissionns
 emissions of greenhouse gases. The bill would also revise the definition of “natural carbon sequestration” for purposes of the above-described provisions.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) California’s natural and working lands are essential to mitigating emissions and adapting to climate change. Restoring, maintaining, and conserving these as well-managed lands is a necessary complement to other direct emissions reductions. Climate-smart land management offers near-term, rapid, cost-effective, and large-scale opportunities for enduring reductions in emissions of carbon and other potent greenhouse gases, such as methane.

(b) When lands are degraded, they release more greenhouse gases, increase climate
 risks to people and nature, and are more vulnerable to future climate change impacts. Lands stressed by climate change threaten food and water security, economic prosperity, and globally significant biodiversity.

(c) In April 2024, the Natural Resources Agency established targets for natural carbon sequestration, and for nature-based climate solutions, as required by Section 38561.5 of the Health and Safety Code, in a document titled California’s Nature-Based Solutions Climate Targets. The targets establish annual goals for nonregulatory climate action across various land types for 2025 through 2045, inclusive.

(d) Improving the health, function, and resilience of our natural and working landscapes will help reduce risks from wildfire, floods, and extreme weather events due to
 global warming that has already occurred.

SEC. 2.

 Section 38561.5 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

38561.5.

 (a) For purposes of this section, the following