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Oregon Governor Tina Kotek issued an Executive Order titled:
DIRECTING STATE AGENCIES TO TAKE URGENT ACTION TO PROMOTE THE RESILIENCE OF OUR COMMUNITIES AND NATURAL AND WORKING LANDS AND WATERS (“EO”).
See Executive Order No. 25-26.
In announcing the EO, the Governor indicated her intent is to:
… prioritize and increase the pace and scale of adoption of climate resilient strategies into existing state programs to deliver benefits for communities and ecosystems.
Actions that Oregon’s agencies are directed to take include:
- Foster resilient lands, waters, and communities.
- Define resilient attributes for land and waters.
- Keep Oregon’s working lands and waters working.
- Conserve natural lands and waters to act as resilience anchors in the face of climate change impacts.
- 10% in 10 years.
- Prioritize key lands and waters.
- Develop innovative mitigation solutions.
- Lead by example: state-owned and managed lands and waters.
- Ensure a livable Oregon.
- Support and enhance local resilience efforts through planning and action and collaboration with communities.
- Protect Oregon from catastrophic wildfire.
- Implement Oregon’s 20-year landscape resiliency plan.
- Create fire-adapted communities.
- Accountability, coordination, and implementation.
- Executive branch is subject to the Order.
- Reporting and accountability.
- Develop biennial plans.
- Coordination and oversight of implementation.
- Board and Commission oversight team.
- Legislative and public engagement.
A copy of the EO can be found here.
