Pricey mates:
As we finish 2022, I wish to specific gratitude to your assist of The Nature Conservancy in Washington and past.
Your assist sustains and strengthens us as we search to construct an everlasting legacy of conserving the lands and waters upon which all life relies upon. There’s a lot to have a good time. We’ve a proficient, various, and dedicated workforce and Board of Trustees, deep partnerships throughout the state, and a strong useful resource base. We’re making a optimistic distinction for individuals and nature right here at residence, throughout the area and world wide. I encourage you to spend time studying tales and updates from our workforce. Your assist makes all this doable. Thanks!
That is additionally a season for trying forward. I want to share a number of key themes that can form our work and influence in 2023.
Biodiversity
The Kunming-Montreal World Biodiversity Framework, negotiated in Montreal in early December, units a objective of defending 30% of the earth’s land and waters by 2030 and focuses on international fairness and the management of Indigenous peoples. The World Biodiversity Framework builds on many years of activism, science, and laborious work to set a guiding star for collective motion by humanity. The Framework will assist speed up our work right here at residence and compel us to deepen our commitments to defending and benefitting from nature.
Local weather Investments
One other 2022 milestone that can have a profound influence is the historic degree of funding in local weather motion that can start to movement on account of implementation of the Washington Local weather Dedication Act and the federal Infrastructure Funding and Jobs Act and Inflation Discount Act. These three items of laws will carry billions of {dollars} to the Pacific Northwest within the subsequent decade for the transition to scrub vitality and adaptation to local weather change. This can be a once-in-a-generation alternative to make game-changing investments for individuals and nature. With our expertise in driving non-public and public finance to conservation, we at The Nature Conservancy have a key function to play in guaranteeing these investments make a long-lasting distinction.
Fairness and inclusion
There’s a rising dedication to embedding fairness and inclusion in conservation and local weather motion on the native, nationwide, and international scales. Every of the three items of laws talked about above include commitments to equitable allocation of sources. World agreements on local weather and biodiversity explicitly emphasize the essential management function of Indigenous individuals and the crucial of elevated useful resource movement to communities most impacted by local weather change. Our work at The Nature Conservancy is more and more oriented in the direction of supporting Indigenous and local people management in local weather and conservation efforts. We’ve so much to be taught on this area and we’re grateful for the encouragement of many companions.
The Nature Conservancy’s 2030 objectives are deeply aligned with these themes and alternatives. In assist of these objectives, our Washington workforce and Board of Trustees are implementing a brand new strategic framework, sharpening our give attention to addressing the local weather and nature crises, and rising our influence for individuals and nature. We sit up for sharing updates on this framework within the coming months.
The final a number of years have introduced residence how essential it’s to look after ourselves and others whilst we try to look after our communities and the planet. As we begin 2023, I hope you will see that well-being and can have the ability to deepen your connections together with your group and your favourite locations. Thanks to your continued dedication and assist.
Mike Stevens
Washington State Director
