16 July 2008
Severn power: WWF calls for alternatives
WWF has welcomed the government's publication of the list of proposals for generating power from the Severn estuary. |
15 July 2008
2008 - Year of the Marine Bill
After campaigning for eight years the inclusion of a Marine bill in the draft Queens Speech was a landmark day for WWF. Our seas are among the most heavily exploited in the world. To date legislation and planning has developed in an ad-hoc manner on a sector by sector basis. |
15 July 2008
Welcome to the Spring Newsletter from WWF Cymru!
Spring 2008 got off to a great start for WWF Cymru, marking a landmark success as we saw 8 years worth of hard work come to fruition with the inclusion of a Marine Bill in the draft Queens Speech. But that is far from being the only success story you will read about in the following pages. |
15 July 2008
Eco debt days
The residents of Welsh cities plunged into ecological debt in May this year having already exceeded their fair share of the Earth's natural resources for 2008, new research from WWF shows. |
15 July 2008
Turn the tide to Save Scottish Seas
Scotland's environment charities call for tough measures to protect the marine environment in the Scottish Marine Bill... |
15 July 2008
UK leads G8 dawdlers in race against climate change
But Scotland can up the pace... |
15 July 2008
Scientists rebut minister's climate claims
Two top experts strongly challenge the claims of Northern Ireland's Minister of the Environment, Sammy Wilson, that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had covered up evidence regarding climate change. |
15 July 2008
G8 leaders fail on climate goals
WWF has criticised the Group of Eight (G8) leaders on their failure to boost international climate negotiations at their summit in the city of Toyako in Japan. |
15 July 2008
No justice for cod
The Council of the European Union can ignore scientific advice and set fishing quotas that put fragile cod stocks at risk. |
15 July 2008
Scientists find whales innocent of global decline in fisheries
Great whales are not responsible for the degraded state of the world's fisheries. |
15 July 2008
WWF-UK's chairman retires
Christopher Ward has retired as chairman of WWF-UK after a long association with the charity. |
15 July 2008
World Bank has yet to prove it's an environment bank
The World Bank needs to fundamentally change its current funding priorities and set ambitious and measurable targets to 'decarbonise' its energy investment portfolio, if it is to live up to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown's vision of it as ''the environment bank''. |
15 July 2008
WWF-UK welcomes Cameron's move on coal
WWF-UK welcomed the announcement on environmental policy by the Leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron on 16 June as a big step forward for controlling climate change. |
16 June 2008
Government spin oils the wheels of airport expansion
The impact of soaring oil prices on the UK economy will significantly reduce future air passenger numbers, bringing into question the need for airport expansion, according to new independent research released by WWF-UK today. |
12 June 2008
Progress at Bonn Climate Talks is not good enough
Scotland urged to take international lead... |
11 June 2008
Climate Update - May 2008
May 2008 was the warmest, the 4th driest and the 8th sunniest May ever recorded in Scotland. |
10 June 2008
Children's climate change project
Children from across Scotland got the chance to contribute to the debate about climate change through a unique new project. |
4 June 2008
Students board WWF's climate change voyage
On Monday 9 June, two UK students will set off to the Arctic to join WWF's 'Voyage for the Future' – an initiative that aims to boost our efforts to tackle climate change. |
3 June 2008
Housing alliance calls for incentives to cut home carbon emissions
A new coalition of housing and environmental organisations, businesses and government agencies is calling for concerted action to reduce the environmental impact of the UK's existing homes. |
30 May 2008
Biodiversity loss recognised as key global issue
WWF welcomed the long overdue recognition of global species and biological (biodiversity) loss as a key development issue, in a major economic report released on Thursday at the annual, UN-organised Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Bonn in Germany. |
30 May 2008
Safeguarding the Amazon is vital for global climate
Protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon have the potential to reduce total carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation by 1.1 billion tonnes by 2050, a new report from WWF-Brazil has revealed. |
29 May 2008
World's rarest rhinos make dramatic video appearance
WWF-designed video camera traps, installed to capture wildlife footage in the jungles of South-east Asia, have twice recorded remarkable images of the world's rarest rhino accompanied by a calf. |
22 May 2008
Peruvian Amazon campaigner wins top conservation award
The Whitley Award for conservation, donated by WWF-UK, was awarded on 21 May to a Peruvian ecologist for his community-based approach to saving a region of the Amazon in south-western Peru, from over-development. |
22 May 2008
Evading Capture - is the UK ready for carbon capture and storage?
WWF Scotland called on the Scottish government to refuse planning permission for any new coal-fired plants that do not meet the emissions standard. |
21 May 2008
Carbon capture and storage: is the UK ready?
The government must act to ensure that no new coal-fired power stations are built in the UK until carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has been proven to work on a large scale and can be installed from the outset, a new report by WWF warned today. |
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