Since 2009, Shell and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) have worked to find effective and innovative ways to address global and local environmental challenges. The collaboration with Shell seeks to advance conservation and sustainable management and use of natural resources through integrating TNC’s science and conservation expertise into Shell’s business practices.
Key highlights from Shell’s support to TNC and our efforts together include:
- Helping the company to reduce its impacts on nature by developing science and tools to apply the mitigation hierarchy in places where the company operates. Additionally, we have collaborated on work to understand the role that natural infrastructure could play in enhancing coastal resilience.
- Creating a migration information tool. TNC launched an online web portal that contains important information about migratory species in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Housing details on fish, sea turtles, mammals and birds, the tool quickly provides decision-makers with information on migration patterns and possible threats to the species.
- Improving best practices and norms within the voluntary carbon market. TNC is applying our research on and experience with natural climate solutions (NCS) and carbon markets to work across sectors to deliver, with integrity, on nature’s ability to mitigate climate change.