Environmental conservation work in Japan


Latest news and publications


 
Massive CO2 emissions: The power sector is the biggest climate polluter. Tough caps on CO2 under a strong ETS can trigger a switch from dirty coal power to clean and efficient alternatives.

07 Apr 2008
EU carbon market sets up another round of windfall profits for dirtiest power generators
Polluting electricity generators in Europe are set to reap another round of extraordinary windfall profits from the carbon trading scheme meant to curb their carbon emissions, a new report revealed today.
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Paper buyers are being asked to consider withholding support for industrial-scale assaults on Sumatra's lowland peat forests that are linked to industrial nation levels of carbon emissions

25 Mar 2008
APP irregularities threaten massive climate and tiger impact
Pekanbaru, INDONESIA – One of the world’s biggest carbon stores and a key tiger habitat are threatened by a new logging road in Riau Province, Sumatra, according to an investigative report published today.

An absence of permits and other irregularities suggest that the new road cutting into Kampar peninsula is likely to be illegal, says Riau’s Eyes on the Forest group, a coalition of local NGO network Jikalahari, Walhi Riau, and WWF-Indonesia. » Read more

 
Emissions of greenhouse gas from EU countries might soon be reduced drastically

13 Mar 2008
Emission trading can boost Japan’s economy and credibility as a global leader - WWF
A new WWF report shows how setting up a domestic emissions trading scheme (ETS) could turn Japan into a credible leader in the global fight against climate change and bring massive benefits for the country’s flagging economy. » Read more

New or updated projects

Modified: Nov 2007 - Started: Apr 2007

Corporate Partnership on Climate Change

To keep the global temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels, a significant reduction in global CO2 emissions is n... » Read more
 
Modified: Nov 2007 - Started: Apr 2007

Future Framework Negotiations

This project is a development of a previous project (JP0059, Kyoto Protocol). Now that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Ass... » Read more
 
Modified: Jul 2007 - Started: Apr 2005

Enhancing Domestic Climate Policy

There is now a widespread acknowledgement of the need to keep the global temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels... » Read more

Contact

Kazuo Koyanagi
(Communications Team Leader /Assistant to CEO)
WWF Japan,
Tokyo

T: +81 3 3769 1711

Website

Offices

WWF Coral Reef Conservation and Research Centre
118 Azashiraho Ishigaki-shi Okinawa 907-0242 Japan
Japan

T: 81 9808 4 4135
F: 81 9808 6 8865
 
WWF Japan,
Tokyo
Nihonseimei Akabanebashi Bldg. 3-1-14 Shiba Minato-ku Tokyo 105-0014
Japan

T: +81 3 3769 1711
F: +81 3 3769 1717

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