Woodland Trust Reg charity no: 294344

Climate change presents a severe threat to the future well-being of all life on earth including substantial short and long term risks to the conservation of forests, woodlands and trees.

As the UK's leading woodland conservation organisation we own over 1100 woodland sites.
We are committed to a three-pronged approach
to tackle climate change:

1. Public engagement in understanding and addressing climate change
   Everyone needs to take action in response to the scale and urgency of the threat and its implications. Individual actions do make a difference.
   
2. Mitigation of the forces driving climate change
   Controlling and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to slow down the rate of climate change. Everyone should be encouraged to tackle the causes of climate change at personal, community, business and governmental levels. Governments need to take leadership to ensure that global temperature increases stay below 2 degrees C.
   
3. Adaptation to the effects of climate change
   Developing resilient natural systems that can absorb and respond to change. Climate change is already affecting people's lives and the natural world so we need to develop strategies to cope with these changes; maintaining healthy fully functioning ecosystems, including woods and forests, will benefit people and wildlife alike.

The Woodland Trust believes that action on climate change is urgent. We are a member of the I Count campaign which encourages people to take action on the issue.

For more detail on our approach see:

http://www.woodland-trust.org.uk/campaigns/briefingsmore/climatechange.htm

http://www.icount.org.uk

Tree for All campaign, Woodland Trust video.

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