Climate change and biodiversity loss are interlinked. Rising temperatures on land and in waters make habitats unsuitable for the wildlife that evolved to live there.
Climate change and biodiversity loss are interlinked. Rising temperatures on land and in waters make habitats unsuitable for the wildlife that evolved to live there.
Rising temperatures disrupt seasonal activity like breeding and hibernation, and causes extreme weather, floods, and wildfires that destroy places of importance for nature.
Loss of habitat like woodlands and peatlands reduces the ability of the natural world to ‘lock’ away carbon, releases it back into the atmosphere, and makes landscapes less resilient to the impacts of climate change.
Solutions to these twin crises are nature-based. Creating a nature recovery network of new woodlands, functioning peatlands and wetlands, and healthy grasslands lock away carbon and make landscapes more adaptable and resilient to climate change.
Rising temperatures disrupt seasonal activity like breeding and hibernation, and causes extreme weather, floods, and wildfires that destroy places of importance for nature.
Loss of habitat like woodlands and peatlands reduces the ability of the natural world to ‘lock’ away carbon, releases it back into the atmosphere, and makes landscapes less resilient to the impacts of climate change.
Solutions to these twin crises are nature-based. Creating a nature recovery network of new woodlands, functioning peatlands and wetlands, and healthy grasslands lock away carbon and make landscapes more adaptable and resilient to climate change.
Activity in this area includes:
- Working with Zero Carbon Cumbria to co-ordinate nature-based solutions to climate change reduction and mitigation that also benefits biodiversity
- Communicating the impacts that climate change has on nature, and opportunities to take action that helps both climate and biodiversity
- Supporting partners to develop collaborative projects that deliver nature based solutions and address climate change and biodiversity loss
- Working with Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre to promote the importance of biodiversity recording for monitoring impacts
Activity in this area includes:
- Working with Zero Carbon Cumbria to co-ordinate nature-based solutions to climate change reduction and mitigation that also benefits biodiversity
- Communicating the impacts that climate change has on nature, and opportunities to take action that helps both climate and biodiversity
- Supporting partners to develop collaborative projects that deliver nature based solutions and address climate change and biodiversity loss
- Working with Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre to promote the importance of biodiversity recording for monitoring impacts
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