Quadrants
CONSERVATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Land conservation plays an important role in mitigating
global climate change. TPL seeks to reduce or moderate
the effects of climate change by:
Pursuing projects that prevent deforestation, a major
source of atmospheric CO
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Encouraging forest absorption of CO through TPL
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projects, including the sale of carbon credits for
reforested land
Protecting land that will become essential to wildlife, as
global warming impels animals to seek out new habitat
Using working-forest conservation easements to prevent
forest development and promote long-term sustainable
forestry
Protecting coastal lands to help buffer rising sea levels Creating close-to-home parks, so people don’t need to
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and extreme weather caused by global warming drive to experience nature or find outdoor recreation
Protecting watersheds to improve supplies of clean water, Building parks that reduce sprawl by creating denser,
as patterns of precipitation change over time greener communities
Conserving land for trails and greenways that support Monitoring TPL’s organizational carbon footprint and
nonmotorized transportation, reducing the release of shrinking it through energy conservation and behavior
CO from motor vehicles change
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