How Your Nonprofit Can Meet the Risks of Climate Change

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

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.

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

If your organization is looking to integrate climate change into land protection and management decisions, this session will explain how your land trust can take advantage of Land and Climate Program Grant funding to create climate-informed land conservation, stewardship or communications plans.

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.

Join Megan Anderson, from the National Network for Climate Change Interpretation, in this webinar to increase your comfort level in communicating climate change. Using research and techniques developed in partnership with NOAA and the National Science Foundation, this webinar will help you have positive, solutions-focused conversation with your community.

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

The climate is changing and bringing more uncertainty to the future conditions of forests. As a landowner, you can make decisions to reduce the vulnerabilities and advance the resilience of your woods. Read these 12 steps to learn more about what you can do, today, to protect your woods.

Land conservation and efforts to combat climate change are closely linked, and one cannot succeed without the other. This guide offers case studies about how land trusts and conservancies are working to address climate change.