The WWF UK office seeks to promote and raise awareness around the key environmental issues faces our planet today. Together with the WWF Network, it looks for solutions to these issues, engaging with governments, businesses and communities both in the UK and around the world.
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M&S partner with WWF-UK to make waves in seafood sustainability
Seafood is a growing market in the UK, and in the next decade the nation’s appetite for fish and shellfish is unlikely to diminish. But whilst an increasing number of people are aware of the health benefits of seafood, there are still concerns that UK consumers are failing to make the right choices when it comes to the sustainability of their seafood. M&S, one of the UK’s leading retailers is now helping to solve that problem by joining forces with the conservation organisation, WWF-UK to ensure its entire range of seafood products come from sustainable sources.
Neglected UK seas catch break with new legislation
The UK Government has today introduced new legislation that will make the region’s neglected seas much healthier, reversing years of overfishing and habitat loss.
Tuna commission urged to add fishing halt to trade ban to save bluefin
Countries meeting in Brazil this week need to agree urgently to temporarily halt bluefin tuna fishings bluefin tuna stocks collapse, warned WWF. The warning follows findings by the fishery's own scientists that a fishing suspension is the only measure able to ensure bluefin are not still eligible for the highest level of international trade restrictions in 2019.
G20 finance ministers fail to reach green on climate financing
Finance ministers of the world’s dominant economies failed to reach agreement on the financing required for a global agreement to stave off catastrophic climate change, WWF said today as the G20 finance ministers meeting here broke up with no resolution to issues dividing developed and emerging economies.
Fishing for funds to be placed off limits for rule breakers
European governments and enterprises continuing to flout fisheries regulations are to be denied access to EU public funds, according to measures agreed by the EU Fisheries Council this week. WWF has welcomed the initiative, which at one stage seemed likely to be derailed by last minute objections from a group of nations fishing the Mediterranean.
TV/E and WWF hook up with young filmmakers to highlight climate change one million times #BAD09
tve will launch ‘A million views on Copenhagen’, a series of short, quirky, irreverent climate change videos from the YouTube generation, on Tuesday October 13th at 18.00 BST.
Time for stalling past as climate predictions dramatically worsen
Climate negotiators received a new hurry up call today as scientists released new predictions that climate change was happening significantly faster than previous estimates. The new scenario sees warming of double the unacceptable risk levels for runaway catastrophic climate change as "not implausible" if effective action is not taken on emissions and deforestation.
Water Footprinting : Identifying & addressing water risks in the value chain
Anyone enduring this year’s British summer might be forgiven for questioning the fact that freshwater is becoming one of the most precious commodities on the planet – but it’s true. It’s also a reason why WWF’s partnership with SABMiller, one of the world’s largest brewers, has a particular importance.
Match or better Brown, WWF urges wealthy world
WWF has welcomed fresh financial commitments on climate change from UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown as “having the potential to get some movement back into the negotiations”.
Match or better Brown, WWF urges wealthy world
WWF has welcomed fresh financial commitments on climate change from UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown as “having the potential to get some movement back into the negotiations”.
