Understanding Climate Change: A Tools and Resources Round-Up

In this webinar we will discuss questions of vulnerability and equity as it relates to the impacts of climate change and explore new tools available to help land trusts better understand the dynamics of their own communities. 

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.

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

​​Join Open Space Institute and Land Trust Alliance for a virtual Land and Climate Program Project Showcase! The session will feature short presentations from three land trusts that completed climate planning or communications projects with support from the Land and Climate Grant Program.

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.

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

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 United States Forest Service's Climate Change Resource Center is a collection of forest management resources. It includes an extensive library, climate change and carbon tools, webinars and short courses by topic area and ecosystem, as well as an introductory webinar for new users.

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.