Updates - Climate and Land Use Alliance

CLUA Position Opening: Executive Assistant

The Executive Assistant plays a key administrative role on the CLUA team, leading schedule coordination, arranging travel, retreats, meeting logistics, preparing meeting materials, Board packets and agendas, and generally coordinating with the CLUA Board of Directors on behalf of the Executive Director. LEARN MORE »

Climate & Forests 2030 – Resources for Funders

Climate & Forests 2030 is a set of resources aimed at mobilizing finance to help realize the potential of forests to mitigate climate change, benefit people, and protect nature. The materials include a list of 10 priorities for funders and information on what’s needed to meet them. LEARN MORE »

Welcoming CLUA’s new Executive Director Lindsey Allen

Lindsey Allen is starting as CLUA’s new Executive Director. Lindsey comes to CLUA with a deep commitment to forests, climate, and rights, including leadership roles at Rainforest Action Network and Greenpeace USA. LEARN MORE »

Afforestation & Reforestation: Restoring trees to ecologically suitable landscapes

Afforestation, reforestation and other practices that restore trees to landscapes offer relatively low-cost carbon removal opportunities that are ready to implement. But these practices must be done in socially and environmentally responsible ways with project oversight and policy safeguards. LEARN MORE »

Peatland Rewetting: Reversing the environmental impacts of peatland drainage

Peatlands hold a disproportionate share of the world’s soil carbon stocks, but commercial interests are turning these environmental assets into long-term sources of emissions by draining soil and degrading ecosystems. Restoring natural water flow and saturating peatland through a process commonly referred to as “rewetting” can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, slow subsidence and reduce the risk of wildfire. LEARN MORE »

Urgent investments in carbon dioxide removal offer big returns for climate, jobs and post-COVID-19 recovery, says Economist Intelligence Unit research synthesis

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Global Forest Carbon

Forests naturally remove about 11.7 billion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year – roughly a third of total fossil fuel emissions.[1] This basic fact means that, if the world’s forests didn’t exist, there would be a lot more CO2 in the atmosphere, and the oceans would be considerably more acidified. LEARN MORE »

Investing in Carbon Removal: Demystifying Existing Approaches

According to a new research synthesis by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and ClimateWorks Foundation, investments are urgently needed to rapidly develop and scale up the carbon dioxide (CO₂) removal solutions critical to reaching net zero emissions globally by 2050. The findings were released in a new online hub, “Investing in Carbon Removal: Demystifying Existing Approaches” available at carbonremoval.economist.com LEARN MORE »

ClimateWorks Foundation: Solidarity in the fight for racial justice

"Over the past days, we have witnessed with anguish and heartbreak the brutal murder of George Floyd and the explosion of pain and anger that has swept across the United States and other parts of the world... At this historic moment, we are committed to listening, learning, and acting to help end hate and injustice." LEARN MORE »

Ford Foundation: George Floyd and America’s Long History of Racial Injustice

"It’s long past time to address the deep, systemic, and structural inequalities faced by black and brown people... My Ford Foundation colleagues and I are united with those calling for safety, dignity, opportunity, reform, and justice... You are the valiant firefighters quenching the flames of oppression and inequality." LEARN MORE »