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Collecting cork, Coruche, Portugal

04 Dec 2008
Makeover on the cards for Portugal’s cork forests
The future of many cork oak forests, identified by WWF as an international conservation priority, has been freshened up by the launch of a new partnership in Portugal between WWF and one of the world’s leading health and beauty specialists.
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Forest clearing for pasture for cattle, Juruena National Park, Brazil.

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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The power sector is the biggest climate polluter. A strong European ETS could significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

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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Feature Stories


 
The resignation of Marina Silva, Brazilian Minister of the Environment, was a surprise for the conservationist community.

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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