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WWF calls on the European Union's member states to fully re-endorse their commitments to ratification and implementation of the Kyoto treaty.
WWF today launched a three-year EU Accession Initiative aiming to raise awareness on the threats and opportunities for nature conservation and sustainable development that are linked to European Union enlargement.
The WTO Ministerial Meeting in Doha delivered two important advances on critical environmental issues, while also delivering a significant loss, according to WWF.
Unless European Commissioners headed by Romano Prodi overcome internal differences and approve key measures for implementing the Kyoto Protocol tomorrow, the EU risks severe embarrassment at next week's Marrakech global climate conference, according to WWF, the conservation organization.
The European Union's capital, Brussels, is a jungle of bureaucracy. Yet every day it makes vital decisions affecting the future of the planet
Belgium is leading the European Union towards the implementation of a new European law with enormous potential for nature conservation through the Water Framework Directive, with WWF-Belgium showing the way by bringing new life to local rivers.
For centuries, people have made a living in the forests, valleys and plains of the Carpathian mountains. Now deforestation, overlogging, inappropriate development and poachers threaten to destroy a natural habitat that also contains the biggest population of large carnivores in Europe
On Sunday, thousands of demonstrators will participate in a protest in Brussels demanding that the European Union refuse to finance a hydrological plan of the Spanish government.
This month Belgium takes over the Presidency of the European Union for the next half-year. It does so at a time when Europe needs to show leadership on big environmental issues such as tackling climate change and reforming the EU's own disastrous agricultural and fisheries policies.
Europe risks losing the race to protect Europe's threatened species and habitats unless member states speed up warned WWF, the conservation organisation.