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
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…
Read MoreCentral Banks and Financial Supervisors Urged to Step up Action on Nature and Climate
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…
Read MoreWWF and CI to Co-lead Launch of the Science Based Targets Network Ocean Hub
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…
Read MoreProcter & Gamble and Sylvamo Join Forests Forward, WWF’s Program Engaging Businesses to Help Forests Thrive
The World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Forests Forward program recently welcomed two new participants: Procter & Gamble and Sylvamo. Forests Forward, launched in 2021, engages companies and other stakeholders around the world to deliver effective nature-based strategies for forests that help achieve their business and sustainability goals. Working together, WWF and participating businesses aim to realize meaningful, long-term benefits for nature, climate and people. Companies in Forests Forward also gain a better understanding of how to mitigate sourcing, climate and social risks while demonstrating leadership and building resilient supply chains for…
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