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We Want to Hear from You
Tell us what you think about our climate change work.
You can also submit a climate change question to The Nature Conservancy’s “Ask the Conservationist" column.
Because deforestation produces as much as 20 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, forest conservation and restoration must play a meaningful role in any successful effort to avoid dangerous climate change.
While direct conservation efforts make a substantial contribution, much more needs to be done to curb the impact that deforestation has on climate change.
Currently, countries have few incentives for preserving their forests. With no price put on the value of the carbon stored, forests are considered more valuable for timber, cropland, or pasture.
And while governments, businesses and organizations receive over $10 billion in payments each year through the global carbon market for other efforts to reduce carbon emissions, almost none of these payments reward countries for keeping their forests intact.
The Conservancy works to mobilize governments to enact legislation that addresses the threat of climate change to the lands and waters on which we all depend.
The Conservancy is looking at national-level approaches to reduce emissions from deforestation, measure avoided emissions, and develop credible mechanisms with which to compensate governments and communities for their forest emission reductions.
Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © Scott Warren (deforestation in Brazil's Cantareira system); Photo © mark Godfrey/TMC (Conservancy staff in a sustainably managed forest).
