Zaynab Sadan, WWF’s Global Plastics Policy Lead and Head of Delegation at INC-5.2, said: “The failure of states to find agreement in Geneva is bitterly disappointing. This outcome is neither what ...

GENEVA, Switzerland (15 August 2025) - The INC-5.2 Chair released a revised draft text in the early hours of Friday following a long and suspenseful delay. The day prior, the Chair stunned a packed ...

Despite a glut of commitments in recent years, finance for conserving the world’s forests for people and nature remains woefully inadequate. An estimated US$460 billion a year will be needed to ...

Targets on forests in the NDCs are insufficient despite the crucial role of forests in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Forests play a crucial role in climate change mitigation and adaptation ...

Governments of 196 countries have been meeting at the UN COP16 biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia, for two weeks. This is the first time they have come together to evaluate whether enough ...

Steepest declines in monitored wildlife populations recorded in Latin America and the Caribbean (-95%), Africa (-76%) and Asia–Pacific (-60%) WWF: What happens over the next five years will be crucial ...

New WWF report offers a framework to identify and redirect forest-harming subsidies. Governments annually spend an estimated US$470 billion on agricultural subsidies that harm forests and other ...

The Freshwater Challenge aims to ensure 300,000km of degraded rivers and 350 million hectares of degraded wetlands are committed to restoration by 2030, and to protect freshwater ecosystems. In a ...

The world is off track to protect and restore forests by 2030, according to the new Forest Pathways 2023 report from WWF and the Forest Declaration Assessment.

Researchers from the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Institute (IDSM) and other organisations are racing against time to mitigate the impacts of the environmental emergency in and around Lake Tefé in ...

WWF is launching a new report today supported and co-written by Deloitte Switzerland that offers a first comprehensive insight into the impact of insurance companies´ underwriting business on climate ...

After decades of seemingly irreversible decline, results from the latest census conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs show that the population of critically endangered ...