Governments and businesses around the world have recognized the urgent need to act on climate shifts, and scientists have identified powerful tools to mitigate and adapt to the effects. Now, the challenge is finding the funding necessary to translate political will and technical know-how into effective climate action. Bolstering our planet’s first line of defense […]
Healthy ecosystems not only reduce greenhouse gas pollution storing carbon; they also help us adapt to the intensifying effects of a changing climate. This holistic strategy for mitigation and adaptation requires a coordinated approach at multiple levels: international, national, and subnational (e.g., states and cities), as well as the private sector. Strong public policy is […]
30 October 2017 | Environmental NGOs, major banks, and strategic consulting groups rarely agree on anything, but almost all agree that our governments haven’t allocated nearly enough money to meeting the climate and conservation challenge – certainly not enough to slow or reverse the trends, and definitely not enough to roll with the calamitous changes that […]
New Video Nestled deep in the Brazilian Amazon along the Peruvian border, the state of Acre contains about 15 million hectares of land – most of which remains pristine virgin rainforest. It’s also home to thousands of indigenous people, who serve an invaluable role as stewards of the Amazonian rainforest. Supporting these communities is essential if […]
10 October 2017 | US Environmental Protection Agency boss Scott Pruitt is set to withdraw from the Obama era’s Clean Power Plan today, and he says it’s because the plan is an expensive, unfair, and unprecedented intrusion by government into energy markets. He’s wrong, of course. The Power Plan, which slashes greenhouse-gas emission from the […]
13 September 2017 | US Environmental Protection Agency boss Scott Pruitt says that anyone who mentions climate change in these times of imminent crisis and danger is putting the people of Florida at risk. Seriously. He said it after leading climate scientists wrote that higher temperatures and higher water levels certainly ratcheted up the intensity […]
11 September 2017 | After Hurricane Sandy decimated Hoboken, NJ, the city started restoring marshes and turning vacant land into a “resiliency park” that will mop up at least one million gallons of floodwater. In so doing, it became part of a $25 billion “restoration economy” that directly employs 126,000 people and supports 95,000 other jobs – mostly in […]
Since it was founded, Forest Trends’ mission has been to put markets and finance to work for conservation, rather than at its expense. As carbon-absorbing ecosystems like forests become more and more instrumental in the fight against climate shifts, Forest Trends has set out to promote market-based incentives that give value to the climate benefits […]
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Hurricane Harvey reminded us just how vulnerable low-lying cities like Houston are in a climate-changed world – especially when we degrade the living ecosystems that regulate floods and absorb greenhouse gasses. Fortunately, we have plenty of tools we can use to develop the “green infrastructure” needed to help us navigate the new reality of life in the Anthropocene.