Tag: WWF

Scaling investment into nature is critical to achieving government’s growth ambitions

Stuart Mitchell

The GFI and WWF have published a new report, the “Business Investment in Nature: Supporting UK Economic Resilience and Growth”, demonstrating how a degraded natural environment is negatively impacting businesses across the UK, and therefore hindering economic growth. At the same time, the report shows how swift and coordinated action can secure the UK’s future growth trajectory by building resilience, improving productivity, and leading in the technologies, materials and financial products that are needed to reduce business impacts on nature and support its restoration. Should action not be taken, there…

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Four Million Hectares of Forest Benefit Under WWF’s Forests Forward Program

Stuart Mitchell

WWF’s new Forests Forward Impact Report reveals that 26 leading companies, including US-based businesses, from nine sectors are improving forest management or going beyond responsible sourcing to support forest conservation projects around the world. Through Forests Forward, WWF’s flagship program for corporate leadership on forests, WWF projects financed by private sector partners are helping conserve a total forest area of 1.3 million hectares in some of the most vital and vulnerable landscapes through actions such as forest restoration. An additional 2.7 million hectares of tropical forest are benefiting from improved…

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WWF-led research highlights ‘invisible’ wildlife benefits people receive but could lose if biodiversity crisis ignored

Stuart Mitchell

New WWF-led research reveals that the vital benefits wildlife provides to people’s everyday lives are vastly underrepresented across science and policy discussions. This oversight could have detrimental consequences for achieving global conservation targets, explain the researchers. The study, published today in the first ever issue of Nature Reviews Biodiversity, shows that while the concept of Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) is well-established in science, business, and policy, it often assumes that protecting a habitat or ecosystem will automatically preserve the benefits people rely on. This assumption overlooks the importance of…

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New WWF data shows UK supermarkets off track to meet critical environmental targets

Stuart Mitchell

UK supermarkets are not on track to meet crucial environmental targets, according to WWF’s latest report, What’s in Store for the Planet 2024.   Published today, the annual report reveals piecemeal progress since last year and clear areas of concern – with supermarkets a long way off meeting the goal of halving the environmental impact of the average UK weekly shop by 2030.    Despite a welcome increase in data voluntarily submitted by the supermarkets, the report – an in-depth review of the UK grocery market’s impact across seven key areas –…

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WWF calls on countries to unite around necessary binding upstream measures and urgently adopt the treaty that people and nature need

Stuart Mitchell

WWF is disappointed that countries failed to reach an agreement despite a vast majority of governments demanding ambitious measures that science has shown can stop plastic pollution.  Almost all countries stood up and applauded Rwanda’s lead negotiator Juliet Kabera’s call on countries during the final INC-5 plenary to symbolically show their support for a globally binding and ambitious plastic pollution treaty that extends over plastics’ entire lifecycle. In addition, during the plenary session, Mexico together with a majority group of 95 countries from various regions, stated that they will not…

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