From the Ground Up: How Land Trusts and Conservancies Are Providing Solutions to Climate Change

This document reviews the basics of climate change, including impacts of climate change and the future impacts of climate change.

This report from the Land Trust Alliance and the Open Space Institute aims to provide helpful guidance on how to connect on climate change and information to help land trusts respond to the greatest challenge of our time.

This report aims to provide land trusts and other land conservation practitioners with a guide to integrating climate change projections and climate adaptation approaches into the process of private land conservation.

Whether they take credit for it or not, land trusts already plan for climate change. This document outlines tools and approaches land trusts can use to plan for climate change in the short-term and long-term.

Land trusts can use this online guide to help create a climate change communication strategy as your organization’s human and financial resources allow.

This policy perspective assesses the adaptive potential of conservation easements to address climate change impacts, and offers drafting and implementation guidance.

This is a sample conservation easement stewardship and climate change policy from the accredited Land Trust of Napa County.

Local Strategies for Climate change Volume 2 presents additional information on how communities can plan for and adapt to climate change through stories describing resources that some communities are using to address this pressing management challenge.

The Climate Change Education Partnership supports climate change communication tools and resources across the country.

By advancing natural climate solutions, land trusts can provide a wealth of ecological and economic benefits that extend beyond cost-effective climate mitigation.