TO: Napa County Climate Action Committee
FROM: Brian D. Bordona, Director of Planning, Building, and Environmental Services
REPORT BY: Ryan Melendez, Planner II - Sustainability
SUBJECT: Climate Education Video - How Climate Affects Community Health
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PRESENTATION (VIDEO): Staff requests that the Climate Action Committee (CAC) begin the regular meeting on June 28, 2024, with a brief video on the careful considerations of planting trees as an action to reduce climate change impacts. The goal of this video and future videos is to help educate CAC members on a variety of climate and environmental topics.
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BACKGROUND
Short, educational videos at the beginning of CAC meetings can help educate members on important climate topics and keep climate change and climate action topics a priority in our daily lives and CAC monthly meetings.
From improving air quality, reducing urban noise, absorbing stormwater runoff and purifying water, protecting landscapes from erosion, and more, trees play a vital role in the health of urban and suburban ecosystems. And in recent years, we often hear about the importance of trees as a solution to climate change and lowering greenhouse gas emissions. While trees can be a great strategy for capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing that carbon, if trees are going to help fight climate change long term, there are careful considerations of where and how to plant them and which kinds of trees to plant. This video highlights these considerations.
What if there were 1 trillion more trees? - Jean-François Bastin (youtube.com) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hxE7Af98AI&list=PLBoopqPhzJXwVbmvx59ZldgKrqzAHsS9t&index=20>
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: The proposed action is not a project as defined by 14 California
Code of Regulations 15378 (State CEQA Guidelines) and therefore CEQA is not applicable.