1. CI’s Climate Change Strategy January, 2008

2. 2007 A 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

3. Implications for CI  Need to advocate deep reductions in CO 2 Emissions to protect biodiversity

4. Implications for CI  Forest conservation must be part of the solution

5. Implications for CI  Biodiversity will still be vulnerable—need to focus on adaptation

6. Implications for CI  Some energy alternatives threaten biodiversity— need strategy to mitigate

7. Impact to Date

8. 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

9. Forest Carbon - Feet in the Mud  Carbon projects underway or 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. CI Niche and Strategic Goals

13. CI’s Niche and Purpose  Maintain and restore biodiverse ecosystems to mitigate climate change and adapt to its impacts

14. 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

15. 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)

16. 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)

17. 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?

18. CI’s Overall Climate Team Glenn Prickett Marc SteiningerNiels Crone Laura Ledwith Radhika DaveRussell A. Mittermeier Michael Totten Will TurnerJames MacKinnon Toby Janson-Smith Olivier LangrandAlexandre Prado Christine Dragisic Lisa HandyIwan Wijayanto Joanna DurbinSusan Stone Frank Hawkins Sonal Pandya Yasushi HibiRicardo Hernandez Claude Gascon Rebecca Chacko Alex Peal Fred BoltzJorgen ThomsenYi He Celia HarveyJennifer MorrisFabio Arjona Ben CampbellChristopher StoneLeon Rajaobelina Emily PidgeonKaren A. ZifferChris Margules Olaf ZerbockLiz SiddleJatna Supriatna Grace WongLaura BowlingCarlos Manuel Rodriguez Mohamed BakarrTom CohenBenjamin Vitale Tom Brooks Christian Heltne Lee Hannah