A nature and climate crisis?

Introduction

Climate change is having an increasing impact on nature in the UK. Since the 1970s, more species have seen their populations decrease than increase. Land managed by the National Trust is home to 44% of UK species including 737 threatened with extinction.

The National Trust has made a number of ambitious decisions regarding climate change:

• Climate change is one of the organisation’s top five priorities
• We are going to be net zero carbon as an organisation by 2030
• We will refocus on our energy strategy to reduce use and convert to renewables
• Our land will be for nature, carbon and people. To capture and store more carbon, we will repurpose farmland to create 20,000ha of new woodland and maintain our focus on creating 25,000ha of new priority habitat
• We will co-ordinate and prioritise action through a national Climate Change Programme

Click the icon below to download Ben McCarthy's (NT Head of Conservation and Restoration Ecology) engaging and lavishly illustrated presentation to the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) Summer Conference (2020).