Strategic Conservation Planning in a Changing Climate Recording

The discipline of risk management can help land trusts in preparing for natural disasters. This publication is designed to help you plan for new and changing risks to your organization and operations.

Helping Your Woodland Adapt to a Changing Climate summarizes the drivers, impacts, and forest adaptation responses to climate change.

This report examines climate change impacts on coastal ecosystems and human economies and communities, as well as the kinds of scientific data, planning tools and resources that coastal communities and and resource managers need to help them adapt to these changes.

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

As climate change impacts intensify around the world, nature-based carbon sequestration and storage are essential tools to addressing the climate crisis. The question remains where to focus conservation in order to maximize climate benefits. The Conservation Carbon Map can help answer that and more.

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

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Climate Change website emphasizes adaptation, mitigation and engagement to address impacts to wildlife and natural habitat. This includes Rising to the Urgent Challenge: Strategic Plan for Responding to Accelerating Climate Change.

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.

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.

While the term natural climate solutions has lately gained currency, there’s nothing new about nature’s ability to renew and restore itself. And with a little help from humans, they can store far more carbon dioxide, methane and other gases than they do now.