California has long served as a leading edge laboratory for innovative endeavors across many sectors. Building on the state’s history of leading the nation by implementing visionary environmental policies, California has enacted a suite of legislation in recent years that firmly put conservation and Nature-based Solutions at the center of the effort to mitigate and adapt to a rapidly changing climate. Given the situation at the federal level today, these bold efforts from the fifth largest economy on earth are even more essential as a model moving forward. Learn how the state is attempting to put nature first, about the challenges inherent in this work, and the incredible progress already being made. With: Clesi Bennett, Senior Environmental Scientist at the California Natural Resources Agency; Torri Estrada, Executive Director and Director of Policy at the Carbon Cycle Institute; and Juan Altamirano, Director of Government Affairs at The Trust for Public Land. Moderated by Ellie Cohen, CEO of the Climate Center.