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