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The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation renewed its support for WRI’s Global Forest Watch Pro platform that offers the latest data, technology and tools to empower people everywhere to better protect forests.

This includes $from the governments of Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden — support that broadly undergirds our ability to deliver on our strategic plan and advance our common agenda on climate action, sustainable development and poverty alleviation.

It highlighted many things we are doing well and provided an evidence-based starting point to drive our strategic planning efforts over the next year. Individuals, family foundations, and members of our Global Board of Directors, Global Leadership Council and Corporate Consultative Group provided a combined $that allows us to explore nascent issues, move quickly to seize emerging opportunities and leverage additional revenue.

Our partnership is grounded in a shared commitment to urgent action to raise climate ambition and drive the systemic transformation we need to protect human well-being and the planet.

By combining HSBC’s financial expertise with the breadth and depth of WRI’s research and programs and a network of local partners, the partnership seeks to accelerate progress towards renewables and energy efficiency solutions in key sectors in Asia; provide technical, financial, and political support to Nature-Based Solutions projects worldwide; and collaborate with pioneering climate startups through mentorship and access to networks.

SALL FAMILY FOUNDATION Sall Family Foundation (SFF) was co-founded by John and Ginger Sall leaders and organizations tackling complex environmental, public health and poverty challenges.

Become an active part of WRI’s growing community to help protect the planet and improve people’s lives.

Global Leadership Council Members of this invitation-only group of business, scientific, philanthropic and civil leaders help enhance WRI’s profile and effectiveness.

Legacy Society The Legacy Society is a program for individuals who make planned gifts to WRI through a will, life insurance policy or estate plan.

, changed with access to safe water or sanitation.

This year we have increased access to safe water and sanitation for people in need and turned poverty into possibility, because of you.

Although our impact decreased for a period of time due to lockdowns and strains on the economies in the countries where we work, we have redoubled our efforts to accelerate access to those living in poverty and are now reaching more people than before the start of the pandemic.

Together we’re addressing the most urgent challenge of our time — inspiring health, hope, and possibility for all.

We will expand our work around the world, increasing our focus on infrastructure through partnerships with water utilities, and continue to break down the financial barriers between people and access to safe water.

With your loyal support, we can help those living in poverty build resilience that allows for health, progress and bright futures.

We empower people living in poverty with access to small, affordable loans for water and sanitation solutions at home — unlocking education, economic opportunity and improved health.

the world with lasting access to safe water or sanitation — in partnership with people like you.

In 2021, 9.2 million more people in eleven countries now have access to safe water or sanitation.

The environment Women's empowerment Climate change resiliency Water is the best investment the world can make to help solve major global challenges.

of the people we serve One of the major barriers to safe water and sanitation is access to affordable financing.

they become participants in solving their family’s water crisis.

lasting access to safe water or sanitation at home, empowering them to define their own future.

Access to safe water at home means health, hope and opportunity for Patricia and her family.

Stories of resilience and hope are made possible by affordable access to safe water, and people like you.

We work with 150 partners around the world In Indonesia, we work with various partners to increase affordable access to safe water and sanitation to families in their communities.

Through a program called PAMSIMAS, the government provides stimulants for villages to develop community-based water supply and sanitation systems in rural areas.

To ensure all households can access the water and sanitation systems, our partner financial institutions in Indonesia support the KPSPAMS by providing small loans for water and sanitation connections to the community.

Every repaid loan means another family can get safe water at home.

Together, we will see the day when everyone in the world has access to safe water and sanitation.

We must deepen our collaboration with our peers in the NGO community, with governments and other major policy drivers as well as with corporate entities across the globe.

As we begin another year of this pivotal decade for nature, the conservation community must build a bigger tent.

It also includes creating a more diverse workforce that is representative of the communities where we work.

That said, there is still a long way to go to close the enormous funding gap needed to protect nature.

Our work to drive greater participation, policy and innovative funding in pursuit of a world where nature and people thrive is only possible thanks to our incredible community of partners, supporters and volunteer leaders around the globe.

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are now higher than they were in preindustrial times, and human emissions have already increased the average temperature of the planet by about 1.1 degrees C (2 degrees F).

Protecting and restoring the health of natural habitats— from mangroves and reefs to floodplains and forests—that help protect communities from storm surge, extreme rainfall, severe wildfires and sea level rise.

“We are searching for economic and environmental balance that can come from a focus on collaboration, inclusive growth, social justice and Indigenous stewardship,” says Sealaska CEO Anthony Mallott.

The Seacoast Trust, with support from TNC and other partners, is continuing to work toward its $million goal to empower local people to keep their communities and environment alive and well.

This sweeping, once-in-a-generation bill includes billions of dollars for advancing clean-energy technology and transportation, boosting climate resilience in communities across the country, investing in natural infrastructure projects, improving the health of forests, and more.

T hroughout most of the history of human civilization, the average temperature of the Earth has varied by no more than a few tenths of a degree.

The Earth is now running a fever, with global temperature rising faster than any time in human history.

Scientists agree: This global temperature increase is entirely human caused.

affecting our food production, our water quality and supply, the safety of our homes, and even our health.

The World Bank estimates that by an additional 132 million people into extreme poverty, living on less than $1.90 a day.

This makes climate change not only a scientific, an environmental and a human issue, but also an urgent moral one.

Transforming Farms to Fight Climate Change TNC partnerships are rethinking agriculture to help grow sustainable yields, protect nature, address climate change and renew soil health.

This coastal aquaculture employs 80% of whom are women.

It begins with geospatial mapping to help community leaders and researchers key in on problems like eroding coastlines, sea level rise and storm surges.

With nearly half of all Belizeans living in coastal communities, the health of Belize’s marine ecosystems is of national importance.

Even as the community recovered, residents knew floodwaters would return someday.

At the community’s request, TNC brought together a large group of partners to rebuild the levee in its new location and led the effort to purchase the land for conservation.

“We’re thrilled to be a part of the first dam-removal projects in the Balkans–even small dams like these can have a profoundly negative impact on river health,” says Dragana Mileusnic, TNC’s Southeastern Europe program manager.

The Conservancy is also helping governments create similar permanent legal and community-led protections for rivers, lakes and wetlands.

Enduring Earth TNC joins a new collaboration to protect nature, work with local communities and sustain human well-being at a large scale.

“In a way, I see this island as a family member that was taken away and didn’t return but now is returned,” says Donald Soctomah, the historic preservation officer for the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township.

—DUSTIN SOLBERG A Tribe in Maine Welcomes an Island’s Rightful Return An Indigenous community reclaims a piece of its native land. People and Place: Darrel Newell, vice-chief of Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township, visits Pine Island after its return to the tribe.

Kenya, where we’re working with partners from the northern grasslands to the coast to create community-initiated and private conservancies.

People Ensuring women and girls have equal access to the knowledge and insight they need to uplift their communities is a critical steppingstone to finding lasting solutions for people and the planet.

In both Kenya and Papua New Guinea, The Nature Conservancy can share examples of how women’s groups are learning about the value of mangrove forests surrounding their coastal towns and villages and then coming together to safeguard them.

In Papua New Guinea, TNC and Mangoro Market Meri, or “Mangroves, Women and Markets,” have built support for sustainable harvests of shellfish, new local businesses and exploring new opportunities in climate mitigation.

Across the world in Kenya, the members of the Mtangawanda Women’s Association plant and restore mangrove forests with technical support from TNC and partners in Kenya.

But if the rains are late or fail altogether, drought compounds the pressures of the dry season, diminishing harvests and milk production on family dairy farms.

Supertrees: Women in coastal communities in Kenya are successfully protecting and restoring mangrove forests.

This year, thanks to more than $RESTORE Council, which directs funds from oil spill civil penalties, GulfCorps is recruiting another 400 crew members over the next four years to work on projects in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.

A critical priority was tending to the safety and well-being of our staff to ensure that we could continue to advance our mission.

put science into action to build a healthier planet, a safer world, and a more equitable society.

Despite growing awareness of injustices, too many systems that prop up the status quo seemed to grind on.

We’ve made the urgency of the multiple crises we face clear and certain, and pushed hard—whether by bringing our analyses to community meetings or testifying before Congress—for the science-based solutions we know can address these crises.

The admin- istration had sought to gut public health and safety protections by establishing rules at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of the Interior forcing such protections to be based only on studies whose authors are willing to hand over their raw data—knowing full well this would exclude studies that keep participants’ personal details private.

UCS fought back, explaining the threat this posed to public health and earning coverage in The Hill, NPR, Politico, Science, and the Washington Post.

The past year also included encouraging signs that our accountability work is making headway in forcing fossil fuel companies to change their business models: a shareholder revolt against ExxonMobil ousted three directors and demanded improved disclosure of the company’s climate-related lobbying, Chevron and ConocoPhillips shareholders called for emissions reductions consistent with the Paris climate agreement, and a court in the Netherlands (informed by UCS analysis) ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions—the first time ever a company has been required to do so.

Moreover, it could take at least of dollars in additional costs—to fully develop these reactors and their associated infrastructure if federal regulators require the necessary safety demonstrations.

The book provides the first scientifically rigorous investigation of partisan redistricting at the state level and reveals its destructive consequences, from underrepresentation of voters of color to state legislatures that face no political consequences for ignoring threats to their constituents’ health and well-being.

This devastating collision of social, economic, and environmental injustices, which has always existed but was made more evident by COVIDsolutions.

In response, UCS collaborated with community partners and experts to conduct a first-of-its-kind study designed to help decisionmakers see clean energy policies through a social justice lens.

In another effort to support communities, UCS and several of our environmental justice partners launched a resource-sharing platform called the Science and Community Action Network (SciCAN).

After more than two years of UCS work with community leaders and state lawmakers, Massachusetts passed legislation with strong emissions reduction targets and complementary clean energy policies.

The new law also focuses on workforce development programs and policies that will ensure workers and communities are not left behind when their coal mines and nuclear or fossil fuel–fired power plants close as a result of the transition to clean energy.

The UCS report Too Hot to Work showed how outdoor workers not only face risks to their health, but also the potential of losing a collective $earnings each year by midcentury if we take no action on climate change.

The analysis also exposes the fact that many farmworkers have little or no recourse from working in dangerous conditions because their health and safety is routinely discounted by both employers and the legal system.

UCS combined this science with action, actively pushing for protections from extreme heat such as an occupational safety standard that includes contributions from UCS scientists and reflects the positions of the Good Food for All coalition that UCS coordinates.

In September, the Biden administration responded, announcing a “coordinated, interagency effort” to counter the threat of extreme heat, including a Department of Labor initiative to protect workers. Big Ag’s practices lead to soil erosion, water pollution, unsafe working conditions, and a lack of opportunity in rural communities.

Acting Chief Executive Officer Elizabeth Gray was named Acting Chief Executive Officer of the National Audubon Society in April.

Fund to the tune of $funds to address deferred maintenance projects at the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Bureau of Indian Education schools.

In partnership with the Forest Preserves of Cook County, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Great Lakes Commission, Audubon Great Lakes has launched a three-year initiative to restore more than wetlands in southeast Chicago, a historically underserved community that has been vulnerable to flooding.

We are delighted to welcome Elizabeth Gray, Audubon’s first female Acting Chief Executive Officer; Marshall Johnson, the first Black Acting Chief Conservation Officer in our history; and Jamaal Nelson, our new Chief Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Officer, who are sure to bring critical perspectives, informed by their lived experiences, to our conservation work.

Together with Marin City Climate Resilience and Health Justice (formerly Shore Up Marin City), Audubon is partnering with a marginalized community to revitalize a wetland in a flood-prone lower-income part of otherwise affluent Marin County, California.

stations, transforming a stormwater basin into a functioning wetland, community park, and gathering place.

Through our WildLife Guards program, young people from Bridgeport and West Haven, Connecticut, work with field biologists to steward habitat and raise awareness about the needs of birds that share our shores.

Audubon Great Lakes Audubon on Campus is another critical touchpoint where we can spark a love for conservation and empower young people to enter the green workforce.

We’re continuing to prioritize these institutions, as well as community colleges, which typically serve more diverse student populations.

wetland health in the Central Valley, and in the Colorado River Delta to make sure water policies take the needs of the Whimbrel—and many other birds—into account.

The initiative focuses on three key areas: increasing awareness of and support for boreal conservation; developing science that highlights the conservation values and priorities for the boreal forest; and collaborating with Indigenous governments and communities to advance their conservation and land stewardship goals.

Hansjörg Wyss is deeply troubled by the gap between how little of our natural world is currently protected and how much should be.

South America to secure community lands and Indige nous rights.

By protecting the web of life that represents America’s richest veins of biodiversity, Audubon is safeguarding our great natural heritage for future generations, preserving our shared quality of life, and fostering a healthier environment.

2021 Annual Report 2 Earth Island Institute is a nonprofit environmental organization and fiscal sponsor to more than seventy-five projects working in the areas of conservation, energy and climate, women?s environmental leadership, international and Indigenous communities, sustainability and community resilience, and more.

he Cit y continues to facilitate access to the outdoors in San Francisco, while also participating in the city?s Climate Action Plan, creating a Climate Career Corps program, organizing eight educational nature walks, servicing 38 garden clients, and planting 500 native plants.

Although the pandemic severely curtailed their ability to gather for tree-planting events, Richm ond Trees maintained a group of dedicated volunteers to care for the trees already planted, contributing to climate solutions in their community.

Cast anea Fellowship supported and developed programming for its working at the intersections of food, health, environment, agriculture, regional economies, and community development.