Recent successes
WWF has campaigned since 1961 to highlight threats to the natural world and to reduce the impact that our lifestyles have on it. Our online campaigners have lobbied government on a range of issues to demonstrate to political leaders that they really do care.
The following examples show that you can make a difference just by sparing a few minutes to send an e-mail or write a letter.
Campaign success - The Climate Change Act
Find out how WWF campaigning helped achieve the UK Climate Change Act, the first piece of legislation in the world to set binding reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions.
Export Credit Guarantee Department campaign
Every year, a little known government department called the Export Credits Guarantee Department – or ECGD – underwrites certain UK exports. The support is often for activities in the most dangerous and politically unstable parts of the world.
One Million Sustainable Homes (OMSH)
In 2002, WWF launched its groundbreaking One Million Sustainable Homes (OMSH) campaign to bring sustainable homes from the fringes to the mainstream of the UK housing sector.
Chemicals and Health campaign
Tens of thousands of man-made chemicals are manufactured, used and released into the environment every day. Many have never been properly safety tested and some have been linked to serious health problems in humans and wildlife.
Marine Act campaign
For over 10 years, WWF has been lobbying Government for new legislation to protect our seas and to improve the way they are managed. In December 2008, we celebrated the introduction of a Marine and Coastal Access Bill into Parliament. Find out more about what we are doing to strengthen this Bill and make sure that it delivers the protection that is so urgently needed in our seas.
