(GLAND, Switzerland) 20 March 2024 – World leaders will gather in Brussels tomorrow for a Nuclear Energy Summit aimed at identifying a role for nuclear energy in the energy transition, addressing energy security and boosting economic development. The meeting is hosted by Belgium Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, and the International Atomic Energy Agency Director […]
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Vanuatu, an idyllic island paradise in the Pacific, is heaven to tourists, but, increasingly, not the same to the residents as the climate crisis ravages island life and livelihoods. The island nation is responsible for less than 1% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, but suffers from disproportionate impacts of rising emissions caused mainly by
This is an open letter sent by WWF to the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action ahead of their next meeting during the World Bank / International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings, taking place from 17-19 April 2024, in Washington DC. This year provides a great opportunity to restructure the financing of climate action in
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Our world is in the midst of a growing a climate crisis. To help solve it, we must rapidly transform our global energy system from one reliant on fossil fuels to one powered by renewable energy. Changing our energy system is crucial to reduce emissions and protect people and nature from the worst impacts of
(GLAND, Switzerland) 9 April 2024 – Today, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of a group of older women from Switzerland – the Klima Seniorinnen – who had brought the case arguing that their human rights were violated because their government had not done enough to tackle climate change. The Court agreed,
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Many frameworks have been suggested to assess transition plans’ ambition, credibility, and feasibility. However, the lack of one clear reference framework paves the way for inconsistencies in transition plans and the risk of greenwashing. This working paper, produced and published by the University of Zürich and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University
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Then join WWF and CDP’s public consultation for the updated open-source CDP-WWF Temperature Scoring Methodology (version 1.5) and contribute to the development and update of the method. What does the methodology do? The CDP-WWF Temperature Scoring method enables measurement of a financial portfolio’s, a company’s, or a company value chain’s contribution to global warming. It
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GLAND, Switzerland (16 July 2024): WWF has made a submission to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to contribute to the formation of their advisory opinion on climate change. WWF’s submission emphasizes that countries also have a legal duty to protect and restore biodiversity, in addition to the obligation to tackle the climate crisis, recognizing
With the launch of its SUSREG assessment 2024 today, WWF´s Greening Financial Regulation Initiative (GFRi) urges the financial regulatory sector to take faster, collective action in the face of increasing nature loss that may trigger irreversible “tipping points”. The WWF Living Planet Report 2024 indicates a catastrophic 73% decline in the average size of monitored
(24 October 2024) – Unprecedented levels of climate ambition and action are required over the next five years if the world is to limit global warming to 1.5oC, according to the UN Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report 2024. The report shows that current government plans and the pace of implementation are predictedto result in devastating
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