Dear NRDC Supporter,

From melting Arctic ice to bushfires raging across Australia, we can no longer ignore the facts right in front of us: We're in the fight of our lives to stave off climate crisis.

But there's reason for hope. My friends and colleagues at NRDC have just unveiled a bold new initiative — the 2020 Climate Action Plan — to dramatically ramp up our transition to a clean energy future and avert a global climate catastrophe.

This fight is so important that a generous group of donors offered to match all gifts, up to $250,000. Now they are extending their matching gift offer until midnight tonight — and they've asked me, as a longtime NRDC trustee, to write to you with the news.

The consequences of this administration's assault on our climate and our environment are all too real, and they'll be felt for generations.

But NRDC's 2020 Climate Action Plan is the groundbreaking, comprehensive strategy we urgently need to jumpstart a new decade of climate action at this do-or-die moment:

• Transitioning to a clean energy economy and blocking the Trump administration's dirty power plan
• Halting fossil fuel expansion and blocking new fossil fuel infrastructure, like power plants, drilling rigs, and pipelines
• Defending our carbon-storing, climate-saving forests and protecting 30% of the world's land and 30% of its oceans by 2030

And so much more.

Want to help? Then I urge you to join the fight by making a donation today — it will immediately be doubled, going twice as far to power this important work.

I support NRDC because they know how to win. Their track record as the Earth's best defenders can't be beat — they have a victory rate of 92 percent in legal cases resolved against the Trump administration so far.

This is a fight we cannot afford to lose. That's why I'm reaching out in the final hours of this critical campaign. NRDC needs significant resources to make their 2020 Climate Action Plan a reality and continue their tenacious courtroom action to stop the Trump administration's environmental attacks. It's on us to help.

So please, join me in making history — make a special 2020 gift to NRDC and have twice the impact while you still can.

Thanks for standing with me and my friends at NRDC. I promise that your support will be felt for months, years, and generations to come.

Sincerely,

Robert Redford
Trustee, NRDC