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Donate now to help stop climate change and global warming

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

Climate change and global warming

 

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What's New


2007 Annual Report: The Climate Connection. 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. Help reduce the impacts of climate change and restore critical wildlife habitat by participating in The Nature Conservancy’s voluntary carbon offset program. 

The Nature Conservancy Applauds Adoption of Bali Roadmap. The Bali Roadmap opens the door to a tougher agreement on climate change, but does not go far enough to address the most dangerous consequences of climate change.


Climate change and global warming: See a climate change data graph

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?

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 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:

What The Nature Conservancy is Doing

The Nature Conservancy is addressing climate change by:

What is Climate Change? How Does It Differ from Global Warming?

Climate change is caused by the emission of heat-trapping gases – mostly carbon dioxide (CO2) – from vehicles, industry, power plants and deforestation. As these gases build up, they act like a thick blanket, overheating the planet, changing our climate, and threatening our health, economy and natural environment.

The terms global warming and climate change are often used interchangeably, but the two phenomena are different. Global warming is the rise in global temperatures due to an increase of heat-trapping carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

Climate change, on the other hand, is a more general term that refers to changes in many climatic factors (such as temperature and precipitation) around the world. These changes are happening at different rates and in different ways.

For example, the United States has become wetter over the 20th century, while the Sahel region of central Africa has become drier.

Donate now to help stop climate change and global warming

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).