News & Facts on the Environment

03 Dec 2008
Brazil falls short with forest emission reduction ambitions
Brazil's revised National Climate Change Plan, which for the first time defines goals for reducing massive emissions from deforestation in the Amazon, is commendable but still short on ambition and detail, WWF-Brazil said today.
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03 Dec 2008
Evidence smacks down scaremongering on climate policies
Fears that companies will simply relocate to “pollution havens” in the face of tougher climate policies and damage the international competitiveness of countries have little support from the evidence, a WWF survey presented this morning to the Poznan climate conference has shown.
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02 Dec 2008
Cement can cut 90% of emissions
The global cement industry can avoid up to 90% of emissions projected according to a new WWF report. A blueprint for a climate friendly cement industry says that the highly energy intensive industry, responsible for 8 per cent of global emissions, has the tools available to reduce its carbon footprint while continuing its forecast growth. » Read more

28 Oct 2008
Marina Silva: philosophy in practice
Interview with Marina Silva, winner of the 2008 WWF Duke of Edinburgh Medal

Common people, in their majority, envisage philosophers as persons who have lost contact with the real world and live somewhere between heaven and earth, in some kind of ideal realm, far from the ungracefulness of every day life. Maybe they are like that, or at least partly so, since their occupation is to understand and explain the human soul and the meaning of things.
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