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TNC's Conservation Plan to 2030
For 70 years, The Nature Conservancy has helped catalyze change around the world by working with diverse partners, embracing innovative collaborations and relentlessly pursuing solutions to the planet’s most pressing challenges.
The scale of the threats before us today are staggering. We are facing the interconnected crises of rapid climate change and biodiversity loss that threaten the future of life on our planet. During my 28 years of working for TNC, I have watched these crises rapidly materialize. Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are now 50% higher than they were in preindustrial times, and human emissions have already increased the average temperature of the planet by about 1.1 degrees C (2 degrees F). The world has seen a nearly 70% decline in average species population sizes for birds, amphibians, mammals, fish and reptiles since 1970.
As we consider these global-scale problems and our role in shared global commitments like the Paris Climate Agreement, the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, we know this calls for our biggest, most ambitious plans yet. That is why we recently launched our new 2030 Goals, a set of urgent targets aimed at helping us secure a thriving planet this decade—for people and nature.
Our 2030 Goals will:
Help 100 million people at severe risk of climate change become even more resilient through nature-based solutions
Support the leadership of 45 million people whose lives depend on nature every day
Save enough healthy land to cover India—twice
Protect more than 10% of the world’s ocean and enough river kilometers to stretch around the globe 25 times
Take 650 million cars’ worth of emissions out of the air every year
We know that these goals are ambitious—but we are also confident in our approach, which reflects decades of learning and partnership with communities and decision-makers around the world. This includes providing the science, tools and partnerships to help break through challenges; learning from and supporting Indigenous peoples and local communities as conservation leaders; working with governments, businesses and communities to scale solutions; and finding creative, innovative financial solutions to get results.
Our work is only possible thanks to my 4,000 colleagues, our more than 1 million members and supporters, and our partners around the globe. As we work toward our 2030 Goals, we walk confidently side by side knowing that together, we will find a way.
