Seeing Is Believing: Earth's Climate Crisis

WCS Strategies for the Climate Crisis

NATURE-POSITIVE SOLUTIONS

KEY WCS CLIMATE CRISIS STRATEGIES

At WCS, we are working to address the climate crisis, the pandemic crisis, and the biodiversity crisis simultaneously. In many ways, conserving wildlife and the world's wild places will mean facing and adapting to a changing climate and planet. Because of this, WCS is actively working to implement solutions that will allow wildlife and human communities to persist.

• The WCS Climate Adaptation Fund, which provides support to nonprofits across the United States to catalyze innovative, science-driven adaptation projects responding to the impacts of climate change on wildlife and people;
• Preserving our planet’s intact forests, which is one of the most powerful and cost-effective solutions we have to combat the global challenge of climate change;
• Conducting the science needed to understand the impacts of climate change on wildlife and natural resources, plan conservation for a rapidly changing world, and implement on-the-ground solutions to protect ecosystems;
• Implement nature-based climate adaptation strategies help people and protect biodiversity in our land and seascapes;
• Advancing national and international policies that address the climate and biodiversity crises;
• Creating and managing REDD+ projects, carbon emission reduction programs to conserve high biodiversity value landscapes;
• And working with partners to protect our ocean and corals from warming waters.

Underpinning all of the above strategies is our close collaboration with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities across different ecosystems to secure their rights and territories and to find collective solutions that slow down the climate change and biodiversity crises.