Sacramento Valley Region Report
This report summarizes current and future climate change impacts and risks in California’s Sacramento Valley Region and highlights a set of promising climate-solutions for stakeholders, with the potential to promote resiliency, protect the environment, improve public health, create jobs, and grow the economy. Climate change is already affecting agriculture, infrastructure, transportation, energy, recreation, industry, households, human health, and natural ecosystems in the Sacramento Valley; extreme weather and natural hazards will continue to impact these and other sectors in the 21st century.
Houlton, Benjamin Z., Jay Lund, Steven Greco, Jonathan London, Helene Margolis, Debbie Niemeier, Joan Ogden, Steven Ostoja, Paul Ullrich, and Stephen Wheeler. 2018. “Sacramento Valley Region Report.” SUM-CCCA4-2018-002. California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment. Sacramento, CA: California Governer’s Office of Planning and Research, California Natural Resources Agency, and the California Energy Commission. http://climateassessment.ca.gov/regions/docs/20180827-SacramentoValley.pdf.