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With your help, we can reduce the impacts of climate change on our lives, on our environment and on future generations.

What's New

Proposed 2011 Budget is Step Forward for Conservation
Proposal recognizes that the health of our economy and the health of our environment are fundamentally linked.

Copenhagen Results in Small Step Forward
On December 18, 2009, countries at the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen committed to the "Copenhagen Accord" — an agreement that brings major emitters from both developed and developing countries together in an international framework for addressing climate change.

Committing to Adaptation for People and Nature
At the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, government leaders from around the world are committing to invest in nature conservation because it is a powerful solution to the impacts of climate change on the world’s most vulnerable communities.

Conservancy Strongly Supports Senate Bill
On September 30, the Senate introduced climate change legislation that will reduce our global warming pollution and protect our communities against the devastating impacts of climate change. Find out why we cannot let this opportunity pass.

See a data graph showing levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.

We Want to Hear from You

Tell us what you think about our climate change work. What do you think are the biggest impacts of climate change?

What’s Your Impact?

Get an estimate of your carbon footprint using the Conservancy’s carbon footprint calculator and see how you compare to U.S. and global averages.

Climate change is already affecting our lives and the places we live, and has the potential to dramatically impact the lives of future generations.

The Nature Conservancy is joining with policy makers, community members, businesses, scientists, industry leaders and others to slow the pace of climate change. We work to reduce the accumulation of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere and help natural areas adjust to the impacts of climate change.

If we don’t act now, we will leave a much larger problem to our children. The good news is that, if we all join in to stop climate change, we can reduce its impact on our lives, on our environment and on future generations.

What The Nature Conservancy is Doing

The Nature Conservancy is addressing climate change by:

What You Can Do To Help

You can make a difference! There are many simple things that you can do today to help stop climate change:

With your help, we can reduce the impacts of climate change.

Climate change picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © Corbis 2002 (melting ice); Photo © Mark Godfrey/TNC (smokestack); Graph © Patrick Gonzalez/TNC (atmospheric data); Photo © Mark Godfrey/TNC (deforestation).