Together with our conservation partners, The Nature Conservancy is developing achievable solutions to slow the rate of climate change and finding viable options for the Earth’s natural diversity, human communities and economic investments to survive its inevitable impacts.

Learn more about our most recent successes, developments and news on climate change.

Climate Change News and Developments

• Green Infrastructure, Restoration Will Stimulate Growth (December 10, 2008)
  The Conservancy recently presented recently presented President-elect Obama’s transition team, government agency staff and Capitol Hill staff with proposals for building green infrastructure, initiating environmental restoration and creating new green jobs for American workers. 
• Protect Forests to Fight Climate Change and Poverty
  (September 26, 2008)
  The Conservancy joined others to call for policies that make forest protection a key tool in fighting climate change and global poverty.
• Working Globally to Reduce Deforestation
  (September 22, 2008)
  Deforestation accounts for more carbon emissions than all the planes, trains and cars on Earth. See what we're doing to curb it.
• Annual Report 2007: The Climate Connection
  (March 25, 2008)
  Climate change is one of the most serious issues facing the world today, find out how Conservancy experts are tackling the issue locally and globally.
• Voluntary Carbon Offset Program
  (March 10, 2008)
  Help reduce the impacts of climate change and restore critical wildlife habitat by participating in The Nature Conservancy’s voluntary carbon offset program. The program will produce measurable reductions in greenhouse gases and meet or exceed the highest standards available today for voluntary carbon markets.
• The Nature Conservancy Applauds Adoption of Bali Roadmap.
  (December 17, 2007)
  The Bali Roadmap opens the door to a tougher agreement on climate change in 2009, but does not go far enough to address the most dangerous consequences of climate change.
• The Nature Conservancy Joins The World Bank to Launch The Forest Carbon Partnership.
  (December 11, 2007)
  As a founding member of the partnership, the Conservancy will work to ensure the partnership addresses the largest overlooked contributor to climate change — the destruction of forests.
• Palau, GEF, and NGOs Issue Report on Island Nations Facing Climate Change.
  (December 11, 2007)
  "Micronesia Challenge" is key to conservation efforts.
• The Nature Conservancy Acts on Indonesia’s Call to Save Orangutans and Address Climate Change.
  (December 10, 2007)
  The Nature Conservancy pledges $1 Million for strategy and action plan for the national conservation of orangutans.
• Major Steps Taken to Protect Coral Triangle.
  (December 10, 2007)
  The region is critical to the livelihoods of more than 120 million people.
• Bali Blog: Life of the Parties.
  (December 4-17, 2007)
  Re-live the most important climate change meeting since Kyoto through the Conservancy’s Bali Blog.
• A Sacred Glacier in China Recedes.
  Conservancy scientists have been studying a sacred glacier in northwest Yunnan, China, and have found it is receding at a rapid rate.
• Nature Conservancy Commends Advance of the Lieberman-Warner Bill.
  (November 1, 2007)
  The bill is seen as an important next step on the road to passing critically needed legislation to reduce the emissions that are causing climate change.
• Biking Through Climate Change's Effects in Montana. (July 2, 2007)
  Bill Stanley, direct of The Nature Conservancy's Global Climate Change Initiative, talks about his bike trip through Montana's Big Sky Country to look at the effects of climate change first-hand.
• Forest Carbon Partnership. (June 8, 2007)
  World leaders have agreed to form a Forest Carbon Partnership in response to climate change. Learn why teh Conservancy was a key player in this effort.
• Confronting a Global Crisis: A Conversation with Bill Stanley. (June 8, 2007)
  Bill Stanley, director of The Nature Conservancy’s Global Climate Change Initiative, discusses how climate change is affecting global ecology and people. How the Conservancy is confronting the challenge of climate change and how can the average person can make a difference.
• The Nature Conservancy joins the U.S. Climate Action Partnership.  (May 8, 2007)
  USCAP is a group of leading businesses and environmental organizations that support significantly curbing carbon emissions.
• Adapting to Climate Change (April 6, 2007)
  Find out how the Conservancy is working to help ecosystems cope with present and future warming, as well as the other impacts of climate change.
• Why Reducing Deforestation is Crucial (April 2, 2007)
  Deforestation causes 25 percent of all carbon emissions. See how we're fighting climate change by making forests healthier.
• IPCC Report Confirms Urgency of Climate Change (February 2, 2007)
   The United Nation’s IPCC Fourth Assessment Report confirms the urgency of addressing climate change. Learn how Conservancy scientists are using this data to track vegetation shifts due to climate change and frame conservation plans across the country.
• Climate Change is Causing a Sacred Glacier in China to Disappear (December, 2006)
  Read how Conservancy scientists discovered that climate change is causing a sacred Chinese glacier to retreat — and how we're teaching land managers there how to adjust to the advancing alpine treeline nearby.
• Deforestation takes the stage at climate change convention (November 6, 2006)
  At the recent United Nations Convention on Climate Change in Nairobi, Kenya, the Conservancy joined more than 6,000 scientific experts, officials and lobbyists from 189 nations to discuss long-term cooperative action to address the threats of climate change, including progress on the Kyoto Protocol.
• Conservancy protects Papua New Guinea’s coral reefs from climate change (October 23, 2006)
  The Conservancy designed a marine protected area network in Kimbe Bay that is one of the first in the world that incorporates both human needs and principles of coral reef resilience to withstand impacts from climate change.
• Nature Conservancy responds to “Design Elements of Mandatory Market-Based Greenhouse Gas Regulatory System” by Sen. Domenici and Sen. Bingaman (March 2006)
  The Conservancy comments on a paper (PDF, 217 KB, new window) written by Sens. Domenici and Bingaman about a mandatory greenhouse gas reduction program in the United States.
• 2005 the warmest year on record (January 2006)
  The year 2005 now appears to be the warmest year on record, beating out 1998 as the former record holder, according to NASA.
• Seven Northeast states sign the historic Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (December 2005)
  The Nature Conservancy applauds the decision by seven Northeast governors to sign the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a historic multi-state agreement that takes great strides toward reducing carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming.
• Bolivia’s Noel Kempff Climate Action Project certified for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (December 2005)
  Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project is the first conservation-based initiative in the world to be fully certified for reducing greenhouse gas emissions using internationally accepted standards.
• The Nature Conservancy’s statement on the enactment of the Kyoto Protocol (February 16, 2005)
  The Kyoto Protocol is a key first step to help slow the onslaught of global warming and benefit conservation efforts, but the Protocol alone is not the final answer.

Climate change picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © Chris Zganjar/TNC (Albemarle Peninsula); Photo © Mark Godfrey/TNC (deforestation).