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Natural climate solutions can help reduce carbon emissions and store more carbon in the landscape. These solutions are often complex and interconnected, and they can deliver significant adaptation and mitigation benefits.
Learn more about how resource management efforts can help mitigate climate change here.
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Targeted communication can help effectively deliver messages and promote positive resource management outcomes. Learn more about advocacy and action to support climate responsive community engagement as well as recommendations for communicating about climate change.
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Renewable energy can yield numerous benefits to people and the environment. As with all energy options, the social and ecological impacts of development must be assessed through science-based planning processes with opportunities for robust public involvement. Land trusts can play important roles in these planning and deployment dialogues.
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This website is designed to support on-the-ground conservation efforts of land trusts in the United States. The resources and learning categories are intended to provide basic to intermediate information and to lead to additional resources and tools that can support more advanced levels of understanding about climate change and its implications for the conservation community.
Together we can address these management challenges to save the places people love.
Conserving Nature in a Changing Climate offers land conservation practitioners practical steps to strategically increase the chances that plants and animals can adapt as the climate changes.
(TRENTON, NJ) September 29, 2020 — A diverse group of environmental, outdoor recreation, planning and business organizations calling for investments in programs to advance clean energy, create parks and trails, improve water infrastructure and make communities more resilient to climate change generally applauded the budget signed by the governor today, ...
By Michele S. Byers, executive director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation If there’s any doubt that New Jersey is the Garden State, visit a local farm stand or farmers’ market. This time of year, you’ll find some of the world’s most delicious produce: fresh Jersey tomatoes, peaches, sweet corn, peppers, blueberries, ...
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Climate Central examined flood risks facing NASA's active space launch complexes at the John F. Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Using our proprietary Portfolio Analysis Tool (PAT).
We found that the launch pads most vulnerable to ...
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals denied PennEast pipeline’s request for a rehearing on its ruling that PennEast lacks legal authority to seize or condemn state-owned lands for its proposed pipeline. The Third Circuit decision means PennEast no longer has authority to condemn more than 40 properties preserved by the ...
The series was produced in collaboration with WWNO New Orleans Public Radio and Climate Central, and is part of the Pulitzer Center’s Connected Coastlines reporting initiative exploring how the Netherlands’ climate change adaptation strategies could be a model for the Louisiana coast.
With less than two weeks before PennEast’s requested in-service date, the pipeline company requested a two-year extension. New Jersey Conservation Foundation, The Watershed Institute, and the Delaware Riverkeeper Network submitted a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to oppose PennEast’s baseless request for an extension of time. On ...Environmental Groups Oppose PennEast’s Baseless Request for Extension
By Ayurella Horn-Muller (Climate Central) and Christopher Gloninger (NBC Boston) and Ale Zimmermann (NBC Boston) contributed reporting In East Boston, affordable housing units are at risk of flooding as the sea level rises. This video and text story was produced through a collaboration with NBC Boston. Roxanne De Jesus remembers seeing the waves spill out of the ...
Statement of Tom Gilbert, Campaign Director for New Jersey Conservation Foundation & ReThink Energy NJ The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) yesterday told PennEast that it hadn’t met the minimum legal requirements for the agency to be able to begin application review. “It is not surprising that NJDEP ...
PennEast has been dealt a serious setback in its attempt to build an unsafe and unneeded pipeline through Mercer and Hunterdon Counties. Today, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the lower federal court decision that had allowed PennEast to seize state lands. The Third Circuit ruled that PennEast, as ...
FAR HILLS, NJ, June 2, 2020 — New Jersey Conservation Foundation today joined the state in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to deny PennEast’s petition to have the Court hear an appeal of a federal court decision barring the company from seizing state-owned land to build a gas pipeline. A ...
March 12, 2020
Climate Central today announced the release of its global Coastal Risk Screening Tool to generate customizable, localized maps of projected sea level rise and coastal flood risks by year, water level, and elevation.
Climate Central’s new ...