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Transitioning to a Clean Energy Future

Driving Ambitious Climate Policy

Strong, durable policies enable us to simultaneously tackle climate change and protect nature in North America.

Solar panels.
Solar panels Solar panels at TNC's demo site outside of Boulder. TNC is using the learnings gleaned from Jack’s Solar Farm and planting vegetation with hopes to create a wildlife-friendly solar site. This site is still in early stages and not fully developed. © Joanna Kulesza

We need government policies that will incentivize and accelerate the speed at which we can scale climate solutions.

TNC has decades of experience creating, implementing and defending policies that make it possible to scale effective conservation solutions. We’ve translated that experience to do the same for ambitious climate and clean energy policies. We have the knowledge, science and technology required to slash carbon emissions and expand clean energy in ways that will create new jobs, diversify our energy sources and reinvigorate local economies.

We are working on federal, regional and state-level policies to reduce emissions and speed up the deployment of climate solutions and clean energy technologies. These policies aim to drive new investments, remove barriers or create better conditions for climate action and scale up new and emerging technologies across a range of clean energy technologies—such as solar, onshore and offshore wind, batteries, nuclear energy, engineered carbon management, sustainable aviation fuel, geothermal energy and more.

We are also developing new strategies and exploring opportunities that center the input of people so we can better support local needs.

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© Courtney Baxter/TNC

“We need to find pragmatic solutions to climate change that work with people and nature to lower barriers and create economy-wide change.” —Laura Brannen, Federal Climate Policy Lead, The Nature Conservancy

Our focus is on creating, implementing and defending policies with the greatest climate impact.

Our Priorities

Create:

  • Facilitating the creation and adoption of new policies that will reduce emissions and make it easier for good energy projects to come online.
  • Making sure that new clean energy projects and development incorporate the input of communities and considerations for nature.

Implement:

  • Removing any roadblocks that stand in the way of effectively implementing existing climate and clean energy policies.

  • Helping communities, tribes and states access the money made available by existing legislation.

Defend:

  • Defending existing policies from repeal and rollbacks.

Policy Makes Conservation Possible (2:13) Policy helps shape the natural world we depend on for, well, everything. The more the planet heats up and the more plants and animals disappear, the more nature needs an advocate. TNC helps create, implement and defend policies that protect nature and encourage conservation and climate action.
Transmission lines.
Transmission Infrastructure Wooden pole power line and high-voltage 525 kV One Nevada Line run side by side in Lincoln County, Nevada on June 27, 2023. © Bridget Bennett

Recent Climate Policy Wins