Sunday, December 20, 2009

The Nature Conservancy Reacts to End of Debate on Climate Security Act

President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy issues account on Climate Security Act.

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 6, 2008 -- The afterward account was issued today by Stephanie Meeks, acting admiral and CEO of The Nature Conservancy:

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"Our country is ambitious collaborative, avant-garde solutions to the botheration of accelerated climate change. Today's vote, while abbreviate of the 60 votes needed, shows cogent advance back antecedent votes on altitude change. Nine Senators who accept not accurate altitude change legislation in the accomplished voted today to abide to appoint in this important debate.

It is aswell bright from the agitation and statements issued by Senators that the Senate is acceptable added acquainted that altitude change is an approaching and aberrant blackmail both to accustomed systems and to the hundreds of millions of humans who depend aloft those systems for their livelihoods, bloom and welfare.

Whether in the Western states adverse drought and backwoods loss, amidst the melting chunk of Alaska, in bank states adverse sea akin rise, or in the centermost of the country that could lose prime wildlife habitat and face a added brusque climate, all-around abating promises to affect us all. We feel this blackmail abnormally acutely at The Nature Conservancy because as admiral of admired places, our mission involves us in actual attention projects in communities in every accompaniment and in 34 added countries.

Senators Boxer, Lieberman, and Warner put alternating thoughtful legislation that reflects the aggravation of this crisis, and recognizes the important links amid altitude action, conservation, and animal well-being. They, and others who accept formed to advanced and advance this legislation, should be acclaimed for their plan to acquisition accepted arena on this analytical issue. Businesses, faith-based organizations, attention groups, hunters, anglers, activity unions, alone mayors and big-state governors accept all accepted the alarm to action represented by this bill.

Today's vote brings us allegedly afterpiece to a bill that can accomplish 60 votes on the Senate attic and be allowable into law. We accept that this is a circuitous matter. We animate Senators to abide plan to clarify important accoutrement in this bill. The Nature Conservancy stands accessible to accommodate accurate and action advice aggregate from our acquaintance in the acreage that will advanced the agitation and advance the next abundance of this legislation. With added progress, we accept a adventitious to achieve a law that America can crop to the talks in Copenhagen 18 months from now, sending a arresting to the blow of the apple that we are accessible to appoint in this analytical issue.

With anniversary footfall in this process, we move added advanced in the adventure -- added votes, added support, and a added absolute access to affair the claiming of a alteration climate. No amount which affair takes over in the Oval Office next year, we apperceive that altitude change will be on the agenda. It should be a analytical allotment of the next President's action for the aboriginal 100 canicule so that we can act in time to abstain the even added austere impacts that will appear from delay."

For added advice on the Conservancy's altitude change efforts, appointment http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/.

About The Nature Conservancy:
The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 15 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 102 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

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