Public Private Partnership. Restaurant Surcharge to Fund State Agriculture & Fight Climate Change

Where is this complicated sounding program happening? California

What entities are in the private-public partnership?

• California Department of Food and Agriculture, the California Air Resources Board, and farms, ranches and restaurant
• Perennial Farming Initiative, a Bay Area nonprofit organization created by veterans of San Francisco restaurant
• Caliornia Air Resources Board
  Check please!’ Californians can fight global warming with restaurant surcharge

How does this program work?

• particiapting restaurants implement a 1% surcharge
• the surcharge will:
  • go into a fund
  • the fund will help farmers remove carbon from the atmosphere & adopt climate-friendly practices

Sacramento Bee | Check please!’ Californians can fight global warming with restaurant surcharge