Tools & Resources

To advance Initiatives 1 & 2 of the BARC Shared Work Plan, BARC contracted a consultant team of AECOM Technical Services, Non-linear Ventures, and the Bay Area Climate Adaptation Network (BayCAN) to create systems maps and a rereport of the BARC member agencies individual roles and responsibilities in the climate adaptation space and how they relate to each other, federal and state agency partners, and  sub-regional users. The report also includes a high-level characterization of climate adaptation technical services provided and needed for advancing action. 

Published by Rebuild by Design and One Architecture & Urbanism, Toward a Rainproof NYC, outlines a comprehensive plan for how New York City can leverage nature-based solutions to address predicted flooding due to the climate crisis. The report takes cues from experts and successful programs in other cities around the world, such as Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Singapore, and Hoboken.

The Bay Area Regional Collaborative (BARC) Shared Work Plan outlines several initiatives to better understand and optimize the roles of specific regional agencies — and state agencies with Bay Area districts — in meeting the climate emergency. Building off work in which the seven participating agencies are already engaged, the Shared Work Plan aims to foster greater collaboration and an inclusive environment in which the agencies’ work can be continually informed, enriched, and improved.

The Public Comment period is from March 18, 2022 to April 6, 2022. 

Public comment will be accepted via e-mail to abrooks@bayareametro.gov. Please include "Draft Shared Work Plan" in the subject line.

Public comment will also be accepted by mail:

Attn: Draft Shared Work Plan

375 Beale Street, Suite 800, San Francisco, CA, 94105

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and its transportation agency partners in Marin, Napa, Solano, and
Sonoma counties, along with the regional Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), are preparing a Planning and
Environmental Linkages (PEL) Study for State Route 37 and would like your input!

The intensifying effects of climate change pose a clear threat to the health and well-being of Bay Area residents. That’s particularly true for communities that experience health inequities—systemic and unjust disparities in health outcomes that exist by race, income, and other factors. 

Farther Together lays out a path for transforming how public agencies engage communities in climate resilience planning and disaster response to foster a healthy, resilient future for everyone who calls the Bay Area home. 

On September 17th, 2021, the BARC Governing Board unanimously approved a Joint Resolution to Address Climate Change, through which its member agencies committed to working with BARC staff to develop a Shared Work Plan that will advance coordinated implementation of some of the highest-priority actions identified in the key regional agency plans and platforms over the next one to five years. Through this Shared Work Plan, BARC will help to advance the visions and goals that its member agencies have formed to address the escalating impacts of climate change affecting the Bay Area, including sea level rise, flooding, drought, extreme heat, and wildfires. 

"Not merely a symbolic commitment to coordination, or a repackaging of existing agency plans, the Joint Resolution to Address Climate Change will serve as a catalyst for more aligned and efficient regional action," wrote BARC Executive Director Allison Brooks in a memo accompanying the Joint Resolution. "In this way, the resolution advances the key guiding principles included in the strategic plan developed and approved by the BARC Governing Board in 2015."

This newly-released report from the Resources Legacy Fund and OnClimate explores new or expanded funding sources and financial tools that state and local governments in California can use to prepare for and respond to the effects of climate change in a fiscally responsible and equitable manner. This report identifies four proposed funding pathways to address pressing climate resilience needs in California, with a corresponding equity analysis and implementation strategy for each. The proposals serve as a starting point for further discussion of potential funding sources and financial tools to enable state and local governments to prepare for and respond to the effects of climate change in a fiscally responsible and equitable manner. The four pathways focus on funding for regional transportation planning, extreme heat policy reform, resilience finance districts, and wildfire risk reduction.

This report was developed with input from a wide range of stakeholders, including BARC. 

BARC is a contributor to the Bay Area Region Report of California's Fourth Climate Change Assessment. The report summarizes ongoing efforts in the Bay Area to understand how these potential impacts to our economy, utilities, and natural lands will affect the region, and how to prepare for them at the regional scale.