WORDS OF INSPIRATION, STORIES OF ACTION

Local Climate Action is Making a Difference

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Words of Inspiration, Stories of Action

Signed into Washington state law in 2021, the Climate Commitment Act distributes crucial funding for community-led climate action, protecting the communities you know and love.

Click to learn more. Quote that reads: “Climate change touches every community—labor, transportation, youth, rural, urban, migrant communities, and more. We need a campaign that paints all of us into the picture.”

Click to learn more. Quote reads: “To get there we must work to build coalitions and partnerships across race, issue and sector to ensure multigenerational investments in nature and human well- being.” - Mike Stevens, TNC Washington State Director

Click to learn more. Quote reads: “Fifty-one years later, we have our own historic opportunity to rebuild the bedrock environmental laws protecting clean air and clean water, and to build intersectional climate and environmental solutions..."

Click to learn more. Quote that reads: “...the very definition of natural infrastructure”

Click to learn more. Quote reads: "For communities like South Tacoma, improving tree canopy is critical to their ability to adapt to rising temperatures under climate change and filter street pollution."

Click to learn more. Quote reads: “The law also provides major funding for agricultural education and technical and financial assistance for beginning and historically under-served farmers, ranchers and forest landowners.”

Equitable Climate Commitments at TNC

Click to learn more. Quote reads: “The momentum and severity of climate change requires all of us to work together. To do this equitably, we must confront common methods of work that are rooted in Western culture, such as exceptionalism, quantity..."

Click to learn more. Quote reads: "The good news is that we know what we need to do to support both nature and communities through the changing climate."

Click to learn more. Quote reads: "We're making progress. There are reasons for hope. And, there's still much work to be done to ensure we can all live healthy lives on this planet we call home."

Click to learn more. Quote reads: “Confronted with the realities of climate change and the scale of the challenge, we are often presented with false dichotomies and choices—common narratives suggest that investing in climate adaptation means..."

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