THE OVERLOOKED PART OF THE CLIMATE SOLUTION.

THE FOREST, FOOD AND LAND CHALLENGE TEAM

We’re calling on businesses, states, city and local governments, and global citizens to take action for better forest and habitat conservation, food production and consumption, and land use, working together across all sectors of the economy to deliver up to 30% of the climate solutions needed by 2030.

Farmers and ranchers, businesses, states, cities and local governments, indigenous leaders, scientists, financial institutions, artists, religious groups, NGOs and global citizens all have a critical role to play in reducing forest, food and land-based emissions to help tackle climate change.

Ahead of September’s Global Climate Action Summit the land sector is coming together to define and commit to deliver on this challenge. At the Summit we will share and celebrate what has been achieved to date and create more ambitious worldwide commitments and coalitions to accelerate action and help national governments deliver on their climate goals.

We need to unite a sector. We need to define the science. We need to drive investment. We need to deliver ambitious and innovative solutions. We need everyone’s help.

Manuel Pulgar-Vidal—Leader of the Climate and Energy Practice at WWF International and former President of COP 20—is on the Advisory Committee of the Global Climate Action Summit and leading the convening of the food, forest, and land challenge coalition. We invite all stakeholders to join us by mailing [email protected].

 ACES  ADECIA  Agribusiness Global Allies  American College of Lifestyle Medicine  American Farmland Trust  American Forests  APG Asset Management  Avoided Deforestation Partners  Berkeley CA  Berkeley Climate Action Coalition Land Use Committee  Biodiversity for a Livable Climate  c40  California Air Resources Board  California Natural Resources Agency  Carbon Cycle Institute  CDP  Chatham House  City Forest Credits  City of San Francisco  CleanTech21  Climate Advisors

 Climate and Land Use Alliance (CLUA)  Climate Change Adaptation Project  Climate Focus  Climate Reality Project  Climate Smart Group  Cloverton Group  Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission Portland, OR  Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)  Conservation Alliance  Conservation International (CI)  Doris Duke Charitable Foundation  Earth Innovation Institute (EII)  Earthwatch Institute  East Bay Regional Park District  EAT Forum  Eco Strategies  EcoAdvisors  EcoAgriculture Partners  EcoTrustForests  Environmental Defense Fund  Enviva  European Climate Foundation  FAIRR  Fahr LLC  Flinders University, South Australia  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)  Food and Land Use Coalition  Food Commons Fresno  Forest Trends  Fundación Natura  Generation Blue  Global Alliances for Water and Climate  Global Green Growth Institute  Global Optimism  Global Resilience Partnership  Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation  Government of Catalonia  Governors’ Forest and Climate Task Force (GCF)  Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda  Hawkesbury Institute of the Environment  IDH the sustainable trade network  Indigenous Environmental Network  International Platform for Insetting  International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)  ISU Bioeconomy Institute  Land Trust Alliance  Meridian Institute  Misean Cara  Mission 2020  Molino Creek Farming Collective  Morris Grassfed  Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC)  NextGen Policy  Norway Ministry of Climate and Environment  Ocean Spray Cranberries

 Organic Consumers Association  Oxfam  PepsiCo, Inc  Peru Ministry of Environment (MINAM)  Planet Tracker  Point Blue Conservation Science  Project X Global  Projects For Good  ProVeg International  PWC  Rainforest Alliance  Rainforest Foundation US  ReGen18  Region of Lombardy (Italy)  Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)  Rizoma  SERNAP Peruvian National Park Service  Sierra Club  Solutions from the Land  Sustainable Agriculture Education (SAGE)  Sustainable Food Lab  Sustainable Food Trust  Sustainable Harvest International  SYSTEMIQ  Terra Global  The Climate Group  The Earth Institute at Columbia University  The Nature Conservancy (TNC)  Tomkat Ranch  Tropical Forest Alliance (TFA)  UC San Francisco  UK Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC)  UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network  Under2 Coalition  United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)  Unilever  United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)  United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)  United Nations Foundation  University of California – Berkeley  Vision 2050 FBR-PACE  WBCSD  Wild Heritage  Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)  Woods Hole Research Center  World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)  World Bank  World Economic Forum  World Resources Institute (WRI)  World Wildlife Fund (WWF)  Our actions will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land use directly and encourage national governments to accelerate their progress. We have no time nor land to lose.

CONTACT US To join the effort, make a commitment, or find out how to get involved with the Food, Forest and Land working group please contact [email protected] For media inquiries, please email [email protected]. Learn more about the Global Climate Action Summit and the other challenge areas.