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Toward a Resilient California

Building the Foundation for a Resilient Future

Complex and intersecting disasters, including climate change, megafires, and the COVID-19 pandemic, are radically disrupting the ways in which Californians live and work. Science and technology (S&T) are revolutionizing a range of sectors in ways that heighten opportunities for social progress, but also threaten to magnify existing social inequalities and present risks to privacy, public safety, and national security.

In recognition of this need, and the increasing scale of disasters in the Golden State, CCST redoubled our efforts on disaster resilience to increase the delivery and responsiveness of advisory services provided by independent S&T experts to State policymakers. We mobilize the S&T expertise across California’s extraordinary research and innovation enterprise to deliver science-driven recommendations for increasing resilience to complex, intersecting disasters.

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2020 Annual Report Cover, San Francisco orange from wildfire, Sept 2020

CCST Annual Report 2020

Toward a Resilient California

In our 2020 Annual Report, read a message from our Board Chair Peter Cowhey reflecting on the historic and challenging year that included a global pandemic, a movement for racial justice, historic wildfire and a continued climate crisis, and a Presidential election. See progress made on our disaster resilience initiative, Toward a Resilient California. Learn about these important developments on wildfire and COVID-19 exposure notification, meet the 2020 class of CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellows (the first class to be placed in Executive Branch offices), view photos from Science & Technology Week, and find more details about our Board of Directors and financials in the full report.

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January 28, 2021
CCST Annual Report 2020
2020 Annual Report Cover, San Francisco orange from wildfire, Sept 2020

This report provides an overview of CCST’s activities in 2020, including studies, Expert Briefings, the CCST Science Fellows, updates from S&T Week, and more.

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October 29, 2020
The Costs of Wildfire in California

Executive Summary Download CCST One Pager: The Costs of Wildfire in California Download Video: Public Briefing (10/29/20)…

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January 15, 2020
The Costs of Wildfire in California

CCST has received funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Moore Foundation) to produce a peer-reviewed report on the costs and losses of wildfires in California.

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We know science and technology must be essential components of our recovery from the pandemic and our preparation for future complex disasters.

Peter Cowhey
CCST Board Chair

 

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September 4, 2020
Update: Watch Now – Digital Contact Tracing (Exposure Notification) to Reduce Spread of COVID-19
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Download the one pager: CCST Digital Contact Tracing One Pager Digital Contact Tracing (Exposure Notification) to Reduce…

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August 14, 2020
CCST Seeking Wildfire Experts for Peer Review — Nominations Due Aug. 18th

  Following our earlier call for expertise regarding the CCST study now underway on costs and losses…

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June 23, 2020
Q&A: My Public Health Placement in the Time of COVID-19
Ken McCullough Blog Q&A

Ken McCullough is currently a 2020 CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellow, part of the first class…

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June 15, 2020
NEW DATE: Virtual CCST Expert Briefing on Carbon Sequestration
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  Update 6/25: Video and one pager now available. Natural Pathways for Carbon Sequestration in California Wed….

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