The Boise City of Trees Challenge, a community-led initiative, is making significant strides in tackling climate change by planting one tree for every household in the city and restoring the Boise National Forest. This effort, backed by federal funding from the REPLANT Act, is a testament to the power of collaboration between federal agencies, municipal governments, and non-profit organizations. The project not only jump-starts carbon sequestration, serving as a natural climate solution, but also brings numerous co-benefits to the local community. These include enhanced wildlife habitats, improved water quality, reduced risk of landslides, and recreational areas for residents. The initiative underscores the importance of tree planting in mitigating climate change and enhancing the quality of life for local communities.
California Conservation Corps
“Hard work, low pay, miserable conditions, and more!”
On its face, the California Conservation Corps’ motto might seem like more of a warning than a recruiting tool, but for thousands, it represents a promise: new skills, entry to a career, even a bit of an adventure.
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Salt marshes are an important nature-based solution in the fight against climate change, with far-reaching benefits for communities, wildlife, and coastal economies.
As net-zero commitments become the new standard for investors and companies, Ceres and the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) released a new first-of-its-kind engagement tool for investors to spur meaningful dialogue with companies on the role and use of natural climate solutions in delivering on those commitments.
To unlock the potential of our soils to help the U.S. achieve a net-zero economy, farmers and ranchers need transformative investment.
American Farmland Trust
Many farmers believe the scientific evidence that soil health practices improve soil and water quality. However, they are reluctant to change management techniques without knowing how much the soil health practices will cost or benefit them. So, American Farmland Trust found “soil health successful farmers,” and conducted benefit-cost analyses.
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Soil health practices like cover crops can be profitable over time, but scaling the adoption of these practices beyond the early adopters will require financial support across the first few years of adoption.
U.S. Farmers & Ranchers in Action
Farmers are striving to be both sustainable and profitable with practices that have the potential to improve the land and their bottom line.
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The Trust for Public Land is working with government and community partners to address climate and park equity in Cleveland through a people and data-driven approach.
Eboni Hall
One obstacle to building an urban forestry workforce is that many young people don’t know how to access the field, or that it even exists. American Forests is working with partners to raise awareness of, and build bridges to, the field.