Climate Change
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Vanessa Nakate is a 23-year-old climate justice activist from Kampala, Uganda, and founder of the Rise Up Movement—which helps amplify the voices of African activists. As she hopes to educate young people about climate action by expanding her foundation and continuing her work installing institutional stoves and solar in schools, she is an inspiring voice that we will be following for years to come.
What Are Natural Climate Solutions?
While the Rainforest Alliance works primarily with forests and agriculture, we're inspired to learn about coastal and ocean-based climate action too. Conserving and restoring coastal wetlands and oceanic environments are vital to improving carbon mitigation and local resilience. Click to learn more! Photo by Maxwell Ridgeway.
5 Favorite Foods We Might Lose to Climate Change
Even if you haven’t experienced the dramatic weather events driven by climate change, chances are you’re seeing the effects at the supermarket, as certain foods become harder for farmers to grow. In fact, many popular food and drinks are severely threatened by the climate crisis, including avocados. This beloved superfood requires temperatures that are neither too not nor too cold. So definitely not the extreme temperatures driven by climate change. Click the image to learn more!
What's in Our 2020 Certification Program? Climate-Smart Agriculture
Climate change is disrupting all our lives—especially those who rely on the land for their livelihoods. That’s why climate-smart farming is at the heart of our 2020 Certification Program. These climate-smart growing methods help farmers adapt to and prepare for climate challenges, like droughts, floods, and outbreaks of pests and crop diseases. And the best part? Many of these approaches also increase on-farm vegetation and carbon storage—all while increasing productivity on existing farmland!
What Are Natural Climate Solutions?
The Rainforest Alliance works with millions of farmers globally to promote sustainable farming practices—allowing them to sustain businesses long-term, have improved livelihoods, AND do better for the planet. Want to learn more about sustainable agriculture as a natural climate solution? Click the image!
What Is Climate-Smart Agriculture?
Climate change is turning the lives of farmers upside down. Unpredictable weather patterns, shorter growing seasons, droughts, extreme temperatures, and increased exposure to pests and crop diseases pose daunting problems to smallholder farmers around the world—especially in the tropics, where people tend to be more reliant on natural resources. That's where climate-smart agriculture comes in. Click the image to learn more!
Climate Archives
Yesterday President Joe Biden signed an executive order recommitting the US to the Paris Climate Agreement, as well as another order for the reinstatement of 100+ environmental regulations that the previous administration weakened or rolled back. Our colleagues and partners around the world celebrated these developments, which have major implications for our global climate future. We’re doing our part by making forest conservation and sustainable agriculture central to responsible business.
Climate Archives
Forests are a powerful climate solution. They capture CO2 that would otherwise seep into the atmosphere. But when we clear forests, we’re not just knocking out a climate solution. Deforestation leads to increased exposure to infectious diseases as well. By working to stop deforestation, we're restoring the balance between people and nature.
What Are Natural Climate Solutions?
Forest communities and Indigenous people are a crucial natural climate solution. The Rainforest Alliance works hand-in-hand with communities to build thriving, sustainable rural economies that are essential to safeguarding forests, stabilizing our climate, and protecting wildlife. Click to learn more! Photo by Sergio Izquierdo.
Pioneer Works
Just as the health of the land is connected to the well-being of those who depend on it, we are inseparable from our communities. In an interview with our friends at Strange Foundation, author and researcher Britt Wray discusses how people can process their eco-anxiety and reassures us that first place we should look to is our own communities. It's a reminder that while all of us can and should contribute to making the world better, the responsibility for the whole is shared by us all.
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The power of forests to store CO2 is staggering: One tree alone can absorb an average of about 48 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air in one year. But when trees are felled, they release that CO2 back into the atmosphere. All told, deforestation causes about 10% of worldwide CO2 emissions. It's time to #StopDeforestation.
Why Investing in Women Helps Save the Planet
Women are more likely to live in poverty, be vulnerable to natural disasters, and experience the direct impacts of flooding and drought. But they also hold the keys to fighting the impact of climate change. Evidence shows investing in girls and women is a promising climate solution. Women can use strong ties to their communities to advocate and gain trust for renewable energy technologies, for example.
