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New threat to Amazon as Brazilian legislators lay siege to forest law
Brasilia, Brazil: The Amazon is facing an urgent new threat as legislators allied to agribusiness interests and landowners seek to drastically weaken conservation requirements of the country’s Forest Law, the foundation of several decades of sometimes impressive progress in reducing deforestation.
G20: long on platitudes, short on delivery
Toronto, Canada - Sustainable economic recovery will need more than brief platitudes about green recovery, WWF warned today as the G20 concluded without significant commitments on climate change, climate finance or even the G20-nominated issue of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.
Whaling meeting ends in failure after shutting out NGOs, media
Agadir, Morocco: – The 62nd annual International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting ended today with governments failing to reach an agreement on a proposed package on whaling.
Politics of climate change transformed as leader dumped for not acting
Gland, Switzerland: In what may come to be seen as a pivotal moment in the global politics of climate change, members of Australia’s ruling Labor Party today dumped Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in favour of his deputy, Julia Gillard.
WWF statement on panda loans
WWF statement on panda loans, and the proposal for two Giant Pandas to come to New Zealand.
Russia puts oil and gas development before whales
Agadir, Morocco, June 23 (WWF) – Russia today at the 62nd annual International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting refused to comply with repeated calls to postpone a planned seismic survey in the feeding grounds of the critically endangered Western North Pacific Gray Whale.
Progress of IWC 62 is a disappointment: WWF
Agadir, Morocco, June 23 (WWF) – WWF is extremely disappointed at the breakdown in negotiations among governments at the 62nd annual International Whaling Commission.
Think first, oil later
The Government is encouraging oil exploration in New Zealand waters. But do we have enough safeguards in place to prevent a catastrophic spill? Not yet, says WWF-New Zealand Marine Advocate Bob Zuur.
‘Amazongate’ evaporates as newspaper apologises over story
London, UK: A key element of the concerted attack on climate science earlier this year collapsed yesterday, with The Sunday Times apologizing for and withdrawing an article alleging that estimates of climate change risks to the Amazon were based on an “unsubstantiated claim” in a WWF report.
“Closed doors” policy at IWC meeting is unacceptable
WWF statement concerning the decision to start negotiations of the International Whaling Commission behind closed doors, excluding members of the civil society and media:
