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Environmental
2022
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From Our CEO
Environmental
Social
Governance
Partnering for Progress
CSAA remains committed to action
outside our walls supporting a wide
array of initiatives that leverage the
combined strength of many private
and public organizations to achieve
aspirational environmental goals.
{ California Resilience Challenge }
awards funding for climate adaption planning
in under-resourced communities
We again supported the California
Resilience Challenge, which awards
funding for climate adaptation
planning in under-resourced
communities. The challenge is a
statewide effort, led by businesses,
with support from the Governor’s
Office of Planning and Research,
and a diverse array of environmental
and community leaders, to develop
a pipeline of climate adaptation
projects across the state to
strengthen local and regional
resilience to heat, drought, floods
and wildfire.
We also sponsored the first-ever
San Francisco Business Times’
Bay Area Climate Leadership
Solutions Summit, which looks at the
Bay Area ecosystem of stakeholders,
innovators, investors, institutions,
and researchers at work on solving
climate issues. The program
spotlights how climate leaders in the
Bay Area are creating solutions in the
areas of energy, carbon reduction
(including food/agriculture), buildings,
transportation, drought, and wildfires.
CSAA is also an active member of the
Business Council for Climate Change
(BC3), a San Francisco-based
multi-sector partnership dedicated
to incubating, scaling, and sharing
world-leading solutions to address
climate change. In 2022, BC3 focused
on peer-to-peer learning on carbon
removals, supply chain resources, and
increasing employee engagement
around sustainability.
Additionally, as a sponsor of the
Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research
Center (WIRC) at San Jose State
University, CSAA supports exciting
new research focused on both
physical and social aspects of
wildfire science. WIRC’s high-impact
wildfire research identifies improved
tools and policies that can be provided
to the community and industry
stakeholders around the world.
CSAA also is a proud member
of the Insurance Institute for
Business & Home Safety (IBHS),
which conducts objective, scientific
research to identify and promote
effective actions that strengthen
homes, businesses and communities
against natural disasters and other
causes of loss. The IBHS Wildfire
Prepared Home is the first-ever
wildfire mitigation program to
allow homeowners to achieve a
designation showing they have taken
the science-based actions required
to meaningfully reduce their home’s
wildfire risk. CSAA offers discounts
