Working with government and parliament
The decisions of governments have lasting and important impacts on the environment. Acts of Parliament in the 20th century gave us the National Parks, Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and controls on river pollution.
In recent years WWF-UK has been in the forefront of campaigning in the UK and the EU to change legislation and policy to protect our environment and biodiversity. Major UK campaigns have focussed on climate change, energy, housing and the protection of our marine environment. The UK government also cooperates internationally, whether through the EU, the UN, the G8 or other fora, and we use our UK and international connections to lobby on key global issues:
- Protecting rainforests
- Combating illegal logging
- Moratoriums on commercial whaling
- River, lake and wetland conservation
- Climate change and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
- Aviation and transport
- Biofuels
- Renewable energy and the EU Energy Package
- Sustainable fishing
- Unsustainable oil and gas extraction and the reform of the Export Credit Guarantee Department.
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Latest news
Committee on Climate Change proposes world leading emissions cuts
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC), an independent body set up to advise the Government on climate change, today announced its recommendations for the UK’s first three carbon budgets.
Ministers announce collaboration on Marine Bill
1 December 2008
WWF has welcomed a commitment by the UK government and devolved administrations to a joined-up approach to marine planning in UK waters.
Tuna decision a ‘disgrace’
25 November 2008
WWF has branded the commission tasked with preventing a collapse of the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery a “disgrace” after it voted today to allow unsustainable fishing to continue.