Burning off gas at an oil field Prudhoe Bay, Alaska © WWF-Canon / P Prokosch Some oil companies have more than 30 per cent of their mineral reserves in WWF priority regions, according to World Resource Institute analysis.
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WWF works on a number of issues to improve the governance of the oil and gas sector. WWF is particularly concerned with the impact of oil and gas extraction on biodiversity, and the contribution of carbon-intensive fuels to climate change.

  • Biodiversity
  • Strategic Environmental Assessment
  • Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Governance and Transparency
  • Finance
  • Liability
  • Climate Change

WWF has been following the flagship projects of the UK oil majors to assess the gap between rhetoric and reality on BP's Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline and Shell's Sakhalin II development.
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Read about oil sands, the fastest growing contributor to Canada's greenhouse gas emissions.
 
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