IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land

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

Climate change is a complex topic and there is a need to work from a common set of terms. The following terms have been gathered from numerous sources including NOAA, IPCC and others. Included are the most commonly referred to terms in climate change literature and news media.

This report details challenges of changing climatic conditions primarily in terms of rural forests, but urban forests ecosystems are also mentioned. Climate variability, its impacts, and risk management strategies are discussed by region.

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.

The State Department's 2014 U.S. Climate Action Report details actions that the U.S. is taking domestically and internationally to address climate change.

With this project, the Land Trust Alliance and the Open Space Institute engaged Water Words That Work, LLC to seek answers on how land trusts can best integrate climate change into their outreach.

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

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.

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