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As we approach Earth Day, the April 19 Earth Matters, by Kari Blood takes a look at how land conservation can play an important role in stemming climate change and mitigating some of the effects that we’re already experiencing. She points out that "nature-based solutions [like land conservation] increase carbon storage and avoid greenhouse gas emissions so effectively that they could provide more than 30 percent of the emissions reductions we need in the next 10 years to stabilize warming below 2 degrees Celsius.”

We need to bring all available means to bear on the challenge of climate change; land conservation is and will continue to be an important part of the solution.

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