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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.

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.

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.

The move is part of a larger shift toward supporting Indigenous communities and safeguarding salmon streams and the forest’s natural carbon-storing ability.

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.

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.

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.

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.

—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.

No matter where we live or what we care about, we are all vulnerable to the devastating impacts of a warming planet.

produced twice as many emissions as the poorest 50% produced over that same period.

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.

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.

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.

The goals are necessarily ambitious: In the United States, for instance, TNC aims to drive adoption of field-tested regenerative soil practices on growing row crops like corn, soybeans and cotton by 2030.

Many longstanding practices harmful to the environment are due for change, and TNC is investing in new and innovative entrepreneurial fixes—in the form of software and other high-tech tools—to help facilitate this critical transition.

Transforming Farms to Fight Climate Change TNC partnerships are rethinking agriculture to help grow sustainable yields, protect nature, address climate change and renew soil health.

Seaweed has become a top export for Tanzania, thanks in large part to farmers in the waters around the coastal island of Zanzibar.

This coastal aquaculture employs 80% of whom are women.

Despite the national importance of seaweed aquaculture, in recent years seaweed farmers have faced setbacks caused by the declining quality of seed stocks and the local warming of water, resulting in smaller harvests.

Nearly are now working together with help from the program to improve harvests and care for the environment.

“As the world faces ecological challenges too big for any one nation to overcome alone, we must work together to ensure that nature and people can thrive everywhere,” says Lucy Magembe, TNC’s country director in Tanzania.

Warmer ocean waters are transforming hurricanes into ever-more-powerful forces in the Caribbean, where storms are already capable of overwhelming communities with torrential floods and devastating winds.

“We have all seen the visible impacts of climate change before our eyes, such as more extreme weather and natural disasters, chronic drought and economic instability,” says Eddy Silva, TNC’s climate adaptation program manager in the Caribbean.

This natural alliance with IFRC is building long-term strategies for coastal protection in the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Grenada and Jamaica, with the potential to scale across the Caribbean and beyond.

Mangrove forests and sea grass hold firm against the forces of coastal erosion.

Coral reefs reduce wave energy while nurturing marine life near communities where fishing is a way of life.

At its core, the Resilient Islands model restores nature and safeguards places where people live and work.

—DUSTIN SOLBERG A Partnership to Protect Caribbean Communities TNC and the Red Cross/Crescent join forces to protect people and nature from climate threats.

These waters support lush mangrove forests, vibrant reefs and extensive beds of sea grass, all of which provide critical habitat for threatened and endangered species, including West Indian manatees and hawksbill turtles.

To protect these natural wonders, the government of Belize signed an agreement with The Nature Conservancy in November that will generate an estimated $to protect 30% of its ocean waters.

The deal restructured approximately $financing for ocean conservation—as much as $180 million of new funding over the next 20 years.

With nearly half of all Belizeans living in coastal communities, the health of Belize’s marine ecosystems is of national importance.

Saving for Nature: TNC’s NatureVest provided technical assistance when Belize sought to restructure debt and generate major new investment to protect gems like the Belize Barrier Reef.

S E E M O R E Scan the code with your phone’s camera to learn more about Belize’s ocean future, or visit nature.org/ belizebluebonds.

Ocean Wealth: An innovative business partnership with the Republic of the Marshall Islands means new fisheries sustainability and better financial returns for local communities.

ER 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.

Following a devastating Missouri River flood in 2019, residents knew something had to change.

The river flooded evacuations and causing approximately $25 million in lost agricultural revenue.

At the community’s request, TNC brought together a large group of partners to rebuild the levee in its new location and led the effort to purchase the land for conservation.

Scan the code with your phone’s camera and read more about the Mississippi River, or visit nature.org/ mississippiriverfuture.

Welcome Return: When holding back rising waters has proven impossible along the Missouri River, the Mississippi River’s largest tributary, some landowners have agreed to move levees and let nature back in.

EC Caddo Lake is a natural treasure of lush bottomland forests and bald cypress swamps sustained by flowing waters along the border of Texas and Louisiana.

The dam also kept natural flows of rejuvenating water from reaching the lake and maintaining river habitats along the way.

It led to declines in native paddlefish and surrounding forests.

These new flow patterns sustain ecosystems while still averting downstream flooding.

“When these infrastructure projects were built, we had no idea how they would affect fish and wildlife and ecosystems,” says Jim Howe, director of TNC’s Sustainable Rivers Program.

As The Nature Conservancy builds a global strategy to help governments and communities protect rivers, lakes and wetlands, new efforts in the Balkan region of Eastern Europe are proving successful.

With hundreds, if not thousands, of new dams planned and under construction in this region of free-flowing rivers— sometimes known as the “blue heart” of Europe—TNC is also advocating for smart renewable energy and river protections.

Now, TNC is talking with officials in Gabon, the Amazon region and elsewhere to prevent declines in freshwater systems and protect the Earth’s fragile freshwater biodiversity.

Last Free-Flowing Rivers In the Balkans, new partnerships are saving freshwater biodiversity.

The water—roughly size of the river’s delta and beckons a migration of elephants, hippopotamuses, antelopes, cheetahs and more, numbering some 200,000.

This spectacle cannot happen without great quantities of water, yet more than dams, could divert water before it reaches the delta.

As the region draws more investment, TNC is working with the Angolan government and local communities to promote sustainable approaches to developing natural resources, ensuring that this breathtaking rhythm of water and life can continue.

The Conservancy is also partnering with communities in Angola to help advance local pilot projects, such as improving fisheries and managing forests to boost livelihoods and help ensure clean drinking water for the region’s wildlife habitat across the Okavango basin.

Scan the code with your phone’s camera to see an update on the blue heart of Europe, or visit nature.org/balkans.

To Save the Waters and Wildlife of the Okavango Delta, TNC Starts at the Source Development of Angola’s highlands threatens the water source for a critical wildlife migration to the Kalahari Desert.

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.

Scan the code with your phone’s camera to learn more about wildlife in the Maya Forest, or visit nature.org/ savingmayaforest.

Try the Maya Forest in Belize, where this past April, The Nature Conservancy and partners announced the closing of a $remaining tropical rainforest in the Americas north of the Amazon.

The new Belize Maya Forest preserve connects an of protected land across Belize, Mexico and Guatemala—an area roughly the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined.

The network now protects more than a quarter of the entire carbon-rich Selva Maya forest, which is home to Central America’s largest remaining populations of jaguars, pumas and other increasingly threatened native cat species.

Now, the expanded conservation network is creating economic opportunities such as ecotourism and the sale of carbon credits—incentives for protecting threatened habitats and extensive Maya cultural sites.

A coalition of more than a dozen groups worked for years to conserve the area, including the Programme for Belize, the University of Belize Environmental Research Institute, the Bobolink Foundation, the Rainforest Trust, The Wyss Foundation and TNC.

The newly formed Belize Maya Forest Trust, directed by Dr. Elma Kay, a Belizean scientist, is leading the preserve’s long-term management.

Because the forest likely would have been cleared for agriculture if it hadn’t been protected, the Belize government agreed to support the sale of carbon credits from the new preserve, which will fund half the land purchase and establish a $15 million stewardship endowment.

of Belize’s Maya Rainforest A saved forest sequesters carbon, keeps cultural sites safe and ensures a future for a diversity of birds and mammals.

01 9 In 2021, a bold partnership of The Nature Conservancy, The Pew Charitable Trusts, the World Wildlife Fund and ZOMALAB began taking aim at dramatically increasing the pace and scale of nature protection.

Called Enduring Earth, the partnership will work to help countries around the world conserve about lands, fresh water and oceans by 2030.