Nicholas Institute: Enhancing Conservation Benefits for People and Nature in North Carolina

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Conservation organizations and land trusts in North Carolina are increasingly focused on how their work can 1) contribute to humans’ and ecosystems’ resilience and adaptation to climate change and 2) directly mitigate climate change through carbon storage and sequestration.

In response, the Conservation Trust for North Carolina and the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability at Duke University have developed two online tools to help organizations to consider a broad suite of conservation benefits in their work in North Carolina.

The Conservation Prioritization Tool helps identify the places within North Carolina that best match a suite of user-selected conservation benefits, ranging from forest carbon sequestration to climate resilience and more. The Benefits Calculator estimates conservation benefits for specific properties. Both tools will be released in late January.

Join this webinar to get a demonstration of these tools from the project team and learn more about how they can help your organization incorporate a range of conservation benefits into your planning and reporting.

Speakers

• Chris Canfield, Executive Director, Conservation Trust for North Carolina
• Lydia Olander, Director of the Ecosystem Services Program, Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability
• Katie Warnell, Senior Policy Associate, Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability