Climate change is the greatest environmental challenge of the 21st century. And the consequences are quickly mounting: chronic droughts, rising seas, record high temperatures, extreme storms and significant economic losses—all which threaten to undo decades of conservation work and fundamentally alter our future.
Across the globe, TNC is tackling the climate challenge using natural solutions, such as the conservation and restoration of forests, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and help communities adapt. In Asia Pacific, our climate change efforts are focused on two broad areas of work:
Securing Asia’s forests:
TNC is protecting, restoring and sustainably managing millions of hectares of forest across Indonesia and China, which store vast amounts of carbon and slow global warming. We’re planting millions of trees across China and helping communities in Indonesia prevent the loss of their communal forests from unsustainable logging and agricultural expansion.
Protecting coastal communities:
Recognizing that many communities are significantly threatened by the impacts of climate change, TNC is working in Indonesia and Pacific Island nations to safeguard and restore reefs and mangroves that protect cities and villages from typhoons and provide habitat for food sources.
Nature-based Solutions:
The world is facing unprecedented challenges in addressing issues such as climate change, biodiversity conservation, pollution management, and supporting family and community development. To comprehensively address these multiple risks, nature-based solutions (NbS) have gradually become an important approach. Science has confirmed the interconnectedness of different ecosystems, and the international community has called for ambitious, inclusive, and holistic actions, such as the Sustainable Development Goals. Within these actions, protecting nature is a necessary measure to achieve carbon neutrality, manage water resources and other pollutants, enhance climate resilience, and support community and human development goals.
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Finding Solutions in Nature
New research by TNC and 15 other institutions demonstrates that Natural Climate Solutions can provide up to 37 percent of the emissions reductions needed by 2030 to keep global temperature rise under 2 degrees Celsius.
Growing Trees and Economies in Indonesia
TNC believes that there is economic opportunity in protecting the environment and addressing climate change.
Australia Indigenous Lands
Indigenous Australians are returning to their lands to revive age-old traditional land management. TNC is supporting this movement by helping long-term, sustainable, land management and the well-being of people who depend on their in the Northern Australian savannas and remote outback arid lands (e.g., the Ten Deserts Alliance).
