Tag: WWF

Lovejoy Prize Awarded at Climate Week NYC

Stuart Mitchell

The second Thomas E. Lovejoy Prize was awarded last night to an exceptional leader who has led innovative approaches to advance the conservation of the Amazon rainforest. The recipient of this year’s prize is Martín von Hildebrand, an ethnologist and anthropologist with 50 years of experience defending Indigenous peoples’ rights and advancing the conservation of the rainforest. He was celebrated during a ceremony held at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Central Park Zoo during New York City’s annual Climate Week. The Thomas E. Lovejoy Prize was created to honor the legacy…

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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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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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