The California Climate and Agriculture Network (CalCAN) developed this Blueprint, with input from agriculture and climate change experts, to offer recommendations for the design of a state-funded California Program on Agriculture and Climate (CPAC). The Blueprint is intended to:

• Provide an overview of the ways agriculture can play a constructive role in achieving the state’s Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32) goals and meeting the state’s related policy objectives found in Senate Bill 535 (SB 535) and AB 1532
• Inform the implementation of a California-wide agricultural program to catalyze farm and ranch practices that mitigate climate change in diverse regions, crops, livestock, and scales and provide co-benefits to our economy, environment and public health
• Highlight “shovel-ready” climate solutions already being practiced by some of California’s most innovative farmers and ranchers