What Lies Beneath

Nature is already working to mitigate climate change, so protecting it is one of our best defenses. That was the message from Canada's minister of environment and climate change, Jonathan Wilkinson at the Leaders Summit on Climate's Ministerial Session on Nature-Based Solutions this past Earth Day. "We are in a somewhat unique position: Canada is a G-7 country that is both an industrial emitter and has some of the world's largest carbon stocks in nature," he said, adding that safeguarding carbon-rich ecosystems will be one of the most effective and lowest-cost nature-based solutions to climate change.