How can your Land Trust respond to Connecticut’s changing climate? Climate change is now a primary lens through which land trusts, community members, philanthropists, government agencies, elected officials, and others are viewing a variety of environmental and societal challenges.

Land trusts have a significant opportunity and many options for how they can contribute to “natural climate solutions” as they plan for the future of the forests, wetlands, farmlands, and other lands they steward. Several natural climate solutions that land trusts and community organizations can help implement are highlighted in the 2020-2021 recommendations of the Connecticut Governor’s Council on Climate Change (CG3).

In this roundtable, we will:

• Discuss current opportunities for land trusts to sequester and store carbon as well as improve resiliency through various actions they can take.
• Consider the gaps in tools, information, and funding that must be filled to continue this important work in perpetuity.