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CI’sClimate Change Strategy
January, 2008
2007A Watershed Year for Climate Change Unprecedented global awareness and action Global consensus rapidly taking shape
on need to limit warming Policy processes underway for global treaty and U.S.
legislation Corporations and consumers taking voluntary action to
reduce emissions
Implications for CI
Need to advocate deep reductions in CO2
Emissions to protect biodiversity
Implications for CI
Forest conservation must be part of the solution
Implications for CI
Biodiversity will still be vulnerable—need to focuson adaptation
Implications for CI
Some energy alternatives threaten biodiversity—need strategy to mitigate
Impact to Date
Adaptation—Helping People and Biodiversity Survive
Research to integrate climate change into conservation outcomes
Regional centers of excellence to assess vulnerability and ensure ecological and social resilience in priority landscapes and seascapes
Working to ensure that global adaptation initiatives address both impacts on biodiversity and valuable adaptive services ecosystems provide
Forest Carbon - Feet in the Mud
Carbon projects underwayor in development in 11 countries
Protecting and restoring forests creates multiple benefits: Biodiversity conservation
Carbon sequestration
Sustainable livelihoods
Resilience to climate change
Field projects build confidence to shape policies and markets
Forest Carbon - Head in the Sky
Setting the market standards for forest carbon Forming coalitions to include forest carbon in global
treaty and U.S. legislation Partnering with corporate leaders to reduce emissions and
invest in conservation carbon Launching Conservation & Community Carbon Fund to
invest in key biodiversity areas
Making Biofuels Safe for Biodiversity
Applying CI’s scientific expertise to help key countries create spatial plans for biofuel expansion
Partnering with global agribusiness leaders to make conservation investments in agricultural landscapes
Working with coalitions of industry leaders, governments, and NGOs to set industry standards for sustainability in biofuel production
CI Niche and Strategic Goals
CI’s Niche and Purpose
Maintain and restore biodiverse ecosystems to mitigate climate change and adapt to its impacts
Strategic Goals
Science: integrating adaptation and mitigation to optimize biodiversity, carbon, and economic benefits Analyze vulnerability of outcomes to climate change Link between human and ecosystem adaptation Method for relating biodiversity value to carbon – “Biodiversity
bonus points” Model ocean impacts Protected areas – what’s needed to adapt? REDD methodology – resolve stock/flow problem and
indigenous peoples; test accounting and other methodologies to inform
Strategic Goals
Policy: International and Domestic level Ensure forests and land use are incorporated in mitigation
actions Ensure that biodiversity/ecosystems are incorporated in
adaptation actions Support governments to mitigate biodiversity impacts of
biofuels expansion (and other climate mitigation options that could harm biodiversity)
Field/Implementation Strategic set of regional projects to demonstrate and test
methodologies for multiple benefit mitigation and adaptation activities
Ensure that we incorporate climate (adaptation + mitigation) throughout all we do – long term
Build local capacity (RAP-like team)
Strategic Goals
Markets and finance Help mobilize major investments for land-based mitigation
activities – project start-up, demonstration, and/or crediting (Community
Continue shaping rules of the game through standards setting (CCBS, VCS, etc.)
Influence where the private/public $$ flows – prioritizing highest value multiple-benefit projects/activities
Biofuels/taxation schemes
Communications Bridge the conservation and development divide Connect our agenda to individual lives (US, other audiences)
Key Challenges
Revenue source for CI core costs Stronger focus across the board on people/communities What’s the need for CI core capacity and how will we scale
up? Can we re-purpose existing capacity? Can we prioritize our strategic goals? Identify key gaps and
levers, and prioritize based on CI’s ability to influence?
CI’s Overall Climate Team
Glenn Prickett Marc Steininger Niels Crone
Laura Ledwith Radhika Dave Russell A. Mittermeier
Michael Totten Will Turner James MacKinnon
Toby Janson-Smith Olivier Langrand Alexandre Prado
Christine Dragisic Lisa Handy Iwan Wijayanto
Joanna Durbin Susan Stone Frank Hawkins
Sonal Pandya Yasushi Hibi Ricardo Hernandez
Claude Gascon Rebecca Chacko Alex Peal
Fred Boltz Jorgen Thomsen Yi He
Celia Harvey Jennifer Morris Fabio Arjona
Ben Campbell Christopher Stone Leon Rajaobelina
Emily Pidgeon Karen A. Ziffer Chris Margules
Olaf Zerbock Liz Siddle Jatna Supriatna
Grace Wong Laura Bowling Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
Mohamed Bakarr Tom Cohen Benjamin Vitale
Tom Brooks Christian Heltne Lee Hannah