Tag: WWF

Majority of UK believe nature is in crisis and urgently needs help as charities invite public to join biggest ever conversation about nature

Stuart Mitchell

Eighty one per cent of UK adults believe nature is under threat and that more needs to be done urgently to protect and restore it, according to polling out today from the National Trust, the RSPB and WWF. Almost half (48%) are willing to take action themselves to reverse the damage but 42% don’t feel empowered to do so. The results come as three of the UK’s biggest conservation charities join forces with celebrity champions Maisie Williams and Cel Spellman to launch the People’s Plan for Nature, inviting the nation…

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DPD supports ground-breaking WWF seagrass restoration project

Stuart Mitchell

Parcel delivery firm DPD has donated to leading independent conservation organisation WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) to support the charity’s ground-breaking seagrass restoration project – Seagrass Ocean Rescue, a collaboration with Swansea University and Project Seagrass. The Project aims to help restore 15% of seagrass meadows across the UK by 2030, to capture and store hundreds of tonnes of carbon each year and help play a role in the UK reaching its net zero targets. Globally seagrass has been found to be more effective at absorbing and storing carbon…

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Global Businesses & NGOs Endorse a Common Vision for an Ambitious Global Plastics Treaty

Stuart Mitchell

Global businesses across the plastics value chain, financial institutions, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) came together today to announce a common vision for an effective and ambitious Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution. The vision will form the basis for future policy engagements with governments through a newly launched Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty which will be convened by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and WWF. Building on previous efforts to raise the business voice in favor of starting intergovernmental negotiations, the organizations standing behind the vision see the global…

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Central Banks and Financial Supervisors Urged to Step up Action on Nature and Climate

Stuart Mitchell

In a global Call to Action launched recently, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and more than 90 organizations, NGOs, think tanks and individual thought leaders call on central banks and financial supervisors to use all available tools to address the inter-related crises of biodiversity loss and climate change, recognizing the financial risks they create. The Call to Action, co-signed by organizations including NRDC, Sierra Club, E3G, UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative, the European Environment Bureau, Nature Finance (formerly Finance for Biodiversity), Finance for Biodiversity, and New Economics Foundation, sets out tangible…

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WWF and CI to Co-lead Launch of the Science Based Targets Network Ocean Hub

Stuart Mitchell

The Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) Ocean Hub officially launched its first workstream: Seafood Value Chains. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Conservation International (CI) will co-lead the workstream to help companies adopt a roadmap for integrated action on nature and climate. The announcement comes as world leaders meet in Lisbon, Portugal, for the United Nations Oceans Conference, focused on “Scaling up Ocean Action Based on Science and Innovation for the Implementation of Goal 14: Stocktaking, Partnerships, and Solutions.” “Our oceans today may be facing unprecedented challenges, but a nature-positive future…

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