Posts Tagged: environmental impact

Twenty-three trillion dollars. That’s a lot of money. It’s also the amount that is invested globally in fossil fuels, including everything from large institutional money to our own individual pensions. Investing in fossil fuels shares (like shares of oil companies) is often considered a safe choice with minimal risk. But is it really that safe [...]

Last year I was at a Shell-sponsored debate on shale gas when I was startled to be accused by a member of the public of being responsible, along with Greenpeace and the BBC, for rumours that hydraulic fracturing, the ‘fracking’ process used to extract shale gas from deep underground, could trigger a volcano in the [...]

Indonesia has the second largest natural tropical forests on the planet and these have endured continual threats from illegal logging and unsustainable practices for decades.  WWF and many other local and international groups are working to turn these problems around to ensure ‘High Conservation Value Forests’ are left standing. It would be great to think [...]

The wisdom of the crowd was particularly evident at our pivotal Net Positive conference. The attendees – 200 sustainability experts – offered many great insights for firms stepping up a gear. Their guide to going net positive is available via Green Mondays. For a company to reach a net positive result, it’ll need to make [...]

‘Even doubling our current rate of decarbonisation, would still lead to emissions consistent with 6 degrees of warming by the end of the century’.  PwC. ‘The world has failed to meet its target to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss’.  Convention on Biological Diversity. Optimisation is clearly failing.  We need to [...]

As a follow-up to my recent blog post about the great work being done in ‘coral nurseries’ in the Mesoamerican reef region around Belize, here’s a fascinating short video made by our colleague Rhys Gerholdt from WWF’s US office.

Jane Davidson was Minister for Environment and Sustainability in Wales from 2007 to 2011. She is also a President of Ramblers Cymru and Director of the INSPIRE sustainability institute. “Four years ago this week the UK Parliament passed the Climate Change Act and I felt immensely proud that the UK was leading the way in [...]

Playing a part in a safe, secure and affordable energy system will give an energy company a social licence to operate. But what does such an energy system look like? Well, first let’s look at what it doesn’t look like. Many energy scenarios paint a bleak picture of climate change – with carbon emissions reaching [...]

Reflections on my recent visit to China: on politics, rivers and royal cranes… China, day 1 Grey cloud clings to Beijing as our flight descends. I get first sight of the city moments before wheels and tarmac meet. Is this fog, smog or low autumn rain? Stumbling, sleep-deprived, through customs, security seems tight. Then I [...]

One of the projects WWF-Belize has been supporting in Placencia is the work of Lisa Carne, a marine biologist whose been working on speeding up the recovery of damaged coral reefs in Belize. We met up with Lisa at a dive shop on the seafront for a fascinating trip to see her coral nurseries – [...]