Protecting forests and other ecosystems as a solution to climate change Current science indicates that at our present trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, the global climate is in jeopardy of catastrophic impacts and continued shifts affecting humans, animals, plants and ecosystems, meeting or surpassing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case scenarios1. The impacts of climate change threaten food and water security in some of the world’s poorest regions, and as these incidents escalate, they will tax global humanitarian efforts and our technological and financial capacity for recovery, as well as threaten global security and diplomatic re...