Thanks to more than 12,000 e-actions taken in the UK, and 35,000 in the whole of Europe, WWF has worked tirelessly with our supporters to campaign for tighter controls on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the power sector and other heavy industry across Europe.
WWF-UK has campaigned to ensure that the UK's National Allocation Plan for the second phase of the European Emissions Trading Scheme (2008 to 20012) is actually going to deliver significant emissions savings.
WWF, in collaboration with a number of other NGOs, supports the Climate Change Bill that contains:
We are also working to ensure the UK government continues to play a leading role in ensuring that a robust agreement on targets to significantly reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases beyond 2012 is put in place as quickly as possible.
On 6 July 2005, the leaders of the world's richest nations gathered in Gleneagles, Scotland for the annual G8 Summit. As the chair of the event, Mr Blair had promised to put climate change and Africa at the top of the international agenda.
The rich countries of the G8 are responsible for nearly half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions - but it is the poor in the developing world who will suffer the most from the effects.
The final G8 Communiqué fell well short of the commitments WWF was hoping for on climate change. It did not move forward on either mandatory reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, nor on making funds available for clean energy technology.
The Prime Minister said, however, that agreement had been reached that climate change was a problem, that human activity contributed to it and it had to be tackled with urgency. In his press conference, he stressed the need to slow down, stop, and then reverse the rise in greenhouse gas emissions.
WWF attended the G8 summit to put pressure on Tony Blair to keep to his promises.