While climate change is altering, and in some cases diminishing, life on Earth, biological diversity is central to addressing and adapting to climate change.
To avoid extreme negative impacts, temperature increase must be limited to a degree that can only be achieved by protecting existing ecosystems and their diversity of life while also conducting an ambitious ecological restoration program.
CEPF’s grantees in the biodiversity hotspots are working now to secure the most biodiverse, and threatened, ecosystems. This strategic conservation action offers many benefits to people, including, in many instances, carbon storage, protection of fresh water supplies, buffer against extreme weather such as flooding and drought, sustainable land management and sustainable livelihoods.