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Every repaid loan means another family can get safe water at home.
It’s a cycle that continues to reach more people, creating new opportunities for families around the world.
Together, we will see the day when everyone in the world has access to safe water and sanitation.
Find the latest news and press releases about our work in the water and sanitation sector here.
As the stories and examples in this report show, the year brought with it an undeniable shift in the way many people have come to view the importance of nature as we race to confront the climate crisis and global biodiversity loss.
As I met with leaders, experts and activists at November’s COPconference in Glasgow, Scotland, for example, the idea that nature can be a powerful force for climate solutions was at the center of the dialogue.
This recognition is a huge accomplishment, and one that we need to accelerate if we are to avoid the worst of the looming ecological threats that scientists warn us about.
This is why we have been compelled to launch the boldest goals ever for The Nature Conservancy.
Our strategies and enough resources, they are achievable.
For more than do critical conservation by working together with partners.
As we take stock of where we are and where we want to go, we know that we can’t do it alone.
We must deepen our collaboration with our peers in the NGO community, with governments and other major policy drivers as well as with corporate entities across the globe.
As we begin another year of this pivotal decade for nature, the conservation community must build a bigger tent.
At The Nature Conservancy, we know we cannot address the biodiversity and climate crises without also elevating the leadership of the people who are best positioned to take action.
This requires listening, learning and walking side by side with people from the communities where we work to understand their needs and to partner with local stakeholders.
It also includes creating a more diverse workforce that is representative of the communities where we work.
While we are early in our equity journey, we are committed to doing more and doing it better.
Next, we must do more to help drive smart, science- based policies.
The recent climate and biodiversity commitments we’ve seen from governments and corporations give me hope, but we know that these commitments are only the first step.
At TNC, we aren’t just pushing for our own conservation successes; we’re also working alongside governments, businesses and communities to turn policies and commitments into powerful action for nature.
Finally, we need to forge new paths to funding.
In Belize, for instance, we were able to help protect part from future carbon offsets, and we helped create a new financial mechanism that will reduce the country’s debt burden while generating significant funding for marine conservation.
we saw almost on carbon markets that could help generate new finance streams for forest and wetland protection, as well as transitions to clean energy.
That said, there is still a long way to go to close the enormous funding gap needed to protect nature.
Our work to drive greater participation, policy and innovative funding in pursuit of a world where nature and people thrive is only possible thanks to our incredible community of partners, supporters and volunteer leaders around the globe.
Every acre we protect, every river mile we restore, every tree we plant and ounce of carbon we help sequester from the atmosphere begins with you.
Thank you for being part of our efforts to build a brighter future for people and nature around the globe.
The urgency for action and outcomes on critical issues is palpable, and I know that together, we will find a way.
S E E M O R E Scan the code with your phone’s camera to see a video of the cover being created, or visit nature.org/arvideo.
Making sure the oceans thrive through new and better-managed protected areas, global-scale sustainable fishing, innovative financing and positive policy changes to how the world governs the seas.
F or Conservancy has helped catalyze change around the world by working with diverse partners, embracing innovative collaborations and relentlessly pursuing solutions to the planet’s most pressing challenges.
The scale of the threats before us today are staggering.
We are facing the interconnected crises of rapid climate change and biodiversity loss that threaten the future of life on our planet.
During my for TNC, I have watched these crises rapidly materialize.
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are now higher than they were in preindustrial times, and human emissions have already increased the average temperature of the planet by about 1.1 degrees C (2 degrees F).
The world has seen a nearly average species population sizes for birds, amphibians, mammals, fish and reptiles since 1970.
As we consider these global-scale problems and our role in shared global commitments like the Paris Climate Agreement, the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, we know this calls for our biggest, most ambitious plans yet.
That is why we recently launched our new Goals, a set of urgent targets aimed at helping us secure a thriving planet this decade—for people and nature.
Protect more than ocean and enough river kilometers to stretch around the globe 25 times Take 650 million cars’ worth of emissions out of the air every year We know that these goals are ambitious—but we are also confident in our approach, which reflects decades of learning and partnership with communities and decision-makers around the world.
This includes providing the science, tools and partnerships to help break through challenges; learning from and supporting Indigenous peoples and local communities as conservation leaders; working with governments, businesses and communities to scale solutions; and finding creative, innovative financial solutions to get results.
As we work toward our walk confidently side by side knowing that together, we will find a way.
other communities to learn from and support their leadership in stewarding the environment, securing rights to resources, improving economic opportunities and shaping their future.
hectares of land Partnering with communities across the globe to restore and improve management of working lands, support the leadership of Indigenous peoples as land stewards, and conserve critical forests, grasslands and other habitats rich in carbon and biodiversity.
Protecting and restoring the health of natural habitats— from mangroves and reefs to floodplains and forests—that help protect communities from storm surge, extreme rainfall, severe wildfires and sea level rise.
Engaging in collaborative partnerships and promoting innovative solutions and policies that improve the quality and amount of water available in freshwater ecosystems and to communities.
The lush Tongass temperate rainforest of Southeast Alaska brims with abundance, but that hasn’t led to a prosperous and enduring local economy.
This ancestral territory of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people, who continue to care for the region’s land and waters, has been embroiled in generations of conflict over oldgrowth timber cutting and polluted salmon streams.
Divisions between major logging companies, fishing groups, Indigenous communities, the Forest Service and environmentalists have delayed progress toward the long-held hopes and dreams of local people.
Yet this year, Sealaska—an Alaska Native corporation and the region’s largest owner of private timberlands—and the U.S. Department of Agriculture both announced an end to old-growth timber harvest.
The move is part of a larger shift toward supporting Indigenous communities and safeguarding salmon streams and the forest’s natural carbon-storing ability.
In addition, Sealaska launched a bold new idea.
With a $Conservancy to join it in establishing the Seacoast Trust—and TNC and partners met the challenge with a matching $10 million.
Seacoast Trust is a permanent fund supporting an approach to conservation and economics that understands communities are inseparable components of a healthy environment.
The trust will finance ongoing efforts to manage forests and restore salmon streams, launch new entrepreneurial ventures, invest in youth and strengthen tribal authority.
“We are searching for economic and environmental balance that can come from a focus on collaboration, inclusive growth, social justice and Indigenous stewardship,” says Sealaska CEO Anthony Mallott.
The Seacoast Trust, with support from TNC and other partners, is continuing to work toward its $million goal to empower local people to keep their communities and environment alive and well.
Protecting Nature and Building Livelihoods in Alaska’s Tongass A $create new, sustainable alternatives to logging.
While agreements emerging from negotiations to decarbonize the global economy and accelerate the clean-energy transition ultimately fell short, nations did agree on major initiatives to rein in methane emissions, halt deforestation and make new climate finance pledges.
In addition, the world’s two leading carbon polluters, China and the United States, pledged to work together to reduce emissions.
scaling up of climate finance from public and private sectors and for nature-based solutions, as more than a third of the urgent emissions reductions needed by could be provided by nature through protecting and restoring lands and waters.
In the United States, TNC helped advocate for bipartisan congressional action on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which was signed into law on November 15.
This sweeping, once-in-a-generation bill includes billions of dollars for advancing clean-energy technology and transportation, boosting climate resilience in communities across the country, investing in natural infrastructure projects, improving the health of forests, and more.
successfully push for some of the nation’s boldest state climate legislation while also creating an Environmental Justice Council to guide implementation and steer climate investments to communities facing the most severe challenges— hard-fought policy breakthroughs.
—DUSTIN SOLBERG Building Momentum on Climate Commitments From the support for climate action is helping to make inroads and drive progress.
S E E M O R E Scan the code with your phone’s camera to view TNC’s vision for climate policy, or visit nature.org/ smartclimatepolicy.
Greenhouse gas emissions in China have risen fourfold over the last three decades, making that country the world’s largest current emitter.
Achieving this climate goal requires sharp emissions reductions as well as cost-effective “natural climate solutions”—like protecting forests and adopting climate-smart agriculture techniques.
“Nature-based solutions can deliver climate mitigation and adaptation benefits and a wide range of vital infrastructure services, such as improved water quality, flood control and disaster-risk reduction while also benefiting biodiversity,” says Andrew Deutz, TNC’s director of global policy, institutions and conservation finance.
For more than two decades, The Nature Conservancy has been working with Chinese universities, government agencies, NGOs and others to advance forest restoration, soil-renewing agricultural practices and sustainable grazing.
For example, TNC is helping partners restore Sichuan provinces and Inner Mongolia.
Over the next expected to avoid and absorb the equivalent of 250 million tons of CO2.
Indeed, TNC staff literally wrote the book on nature-based climate solutions in China.
Nature-Based Solutions: Research and Practice is the first Chineselanguage book on the subject.
It features lessons and best practices from climate goals in China.
—DUSTIN SOLBERG Nature Helps Meet China’s Climate Goals TNC is helping to deploy natural climate solutions—such as forest protection and restoration—to store carbon and fight climate change.
T hroughout most of the history of human civilization, the average temperature of the Earth has varied by no more than a few tenths of a degree.
The Earth is now running a fever, with global temperature rising faster than any time in human history.
Scientists agree: This global temperature increase is entirely human caused.
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are now and methane levels have more than doubled.
As these gases have built up in the atmosphere, they have essentially wrapped an extra blanket around the planet, causing it to warm.
increased the average temperature of the planet by about rise is accelerating.
affecting our food production, our water quality and supply, the safety of our homes, and even our health.
That’s why climate change is a global threat, perhaps the greatest we have ever faced as a species.
No matter where we live or what we care about, we are all vulnerable to the devastating impacts of a warming planet.
Climate change doesn’t affect all of us equally, though.
No matter where we live, it’s the poor and marginalized who are most vulnerable to extreme weather events, even though they’ve contributed least to the problem.
produced twice as many emissions as the poorest 50% produced over that same period.
What’s more, people with the fewest resources—migrants, refugees and residents of low-income communities—are suffering the greatest consequences.
The World Bank estimates that by an additional 132 million people into extreme poverty, living on less than $1.90 a day.
This makes climate change not only a scientific, an environmental and a human issue, but also an urgent moral one.
Just as climate impacts disproportionately fall on those who have the least, many climate solutions benefit those same communities.
These include efforts to develop clean energy, to restore ecosystems, and to build climate resilience and adaptation in urban centers.
These are TNC’s goals, and they’re mine, too.
A Climate for All of Us Climate change is disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable among us, warns TNC Chief Scientist Katharine Hayhoe.
Healthy Harvest: A shift to a regenerative food system secures more farm productivity while ushering in positive changes that protect clean water and reduce carbon emissions.
Today’s agriculture may produce the food we eat, but it also accounts for nearly a quarter of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Many TNC scientists and other experts report that it doesn’t have to be this way.
If the right steps are taken, they say, our food system can actually protect habitat and absorb and store climate-disrupting emissions instead of producing them.
The shift to a regenerative food system—producing food while restoring and helping nature—has begun in certain locales around the world, but if it’s to accelerate, as it must, the time for collaborative solutions is now.
Through new partnerships with scientists, industry leaders and tech firms, TNC is finding ways to stem biodiversity loss and offer natural solutions to the climate crisis.