UN Sec General’s Climate Speech – Response from UNDP, TNC, CI, WRICoalition

In response to today’s landmark speech on climate change by the United Nations Secretary General, Louis Blumberg, Director of the California Climate Change Program of the Nature Conservancy’s California Chapter, said on behalf of the Nature4Climate initiative:

“This intervention by the Secretary General is hugely significant. It reflects growing concern in the climate community that the land sector is overlooked despite the fact that natural climate solutions offer a third of the solution necessary to avoid dangerous climate change. The climate summit in San Francisco this week focuses on the land sector. So it is finally getting the attention it deserves. But we now need to hear real commitments from governments and companies to deliver economic greenhouse gas reductions on a large enough scale to win this fight.”

Representatives of the UN organizations and NGOs involved in the Nature4Climate initiative are available to talk about how changing the way forests and farms are managed can help defeat climate change – including at this week’s Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.

About Nature4Climate:

Nature4Climate (N4C) is an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and five world-leading not-for-profits (Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, Woods Hole Research Center, World Business Council for Sustainable Development and World Resources Institute) that aims to increase investment and action on natural climate solutions in support of the 2015 Paris climate agreement. The N4C partners work together to catalyse partnerships between governments, civil society, business and investors to cut and remove greenhouse gas emissions across the land sector. To learn more, please visit www.nature4climate.org or follow @nature4climate on Twitter.