Solutions


Action is necessary, feasible and desirable

People placing WWF banner in snow
Swiss ski resort Andermatt wrapped its Gurschen glacier on 10 May 2005 with a special fleece to protect it from melting too fast in the summer. Activists of WWF's Climate Change Programme placing their banner on the fleece.
© Mario FARINATO
Business Week cover in August 2004
Business and climate change - view presentation from May 2006
© Business Week

WWF has experts working around the world to save our climate:

WWF's experience, global reach and partnership approach works because we  base our solutions in science and work  to make the biggest impact with our partners.

Because we are the world's global conservation organization, working locally on the ground with people, businesses and governments to develop solutions, WWF is already influencing change and offering solutions.

Together - with your support - we can develop a future in which we can ensure a future for our world.

Some of the ways we are working to ensure we have a living planet include:

  • Emission Reductions
    We work with governments in industrialized countries to develop plans to reduce their current levels of CO2 emissions – the emissions should peak and start to reduce within the next 5 to 8 years. This is especially true for the power sector which is the largest polluting sector (40% of global climate damaging emissions).

  • Business Action
    We form progressive partnerships with businesses and industries to identify ways how they can reduce their emissions, and how they can influence their sectors and markets to become super-energy efficient and carbon-neutral.

  • Developing World
    With developing countries such as India, China and Brazil, we seek ways to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions while pursuing local development goals - providing clean energy to those without any energy services.

  • Communities and Nature
    We help communities and conservation areas adapt to a changing climate. Actions such as restoring damaged forests, wetlands, and other habitats increase their resilience, help protect nature, and generate income for local people. Without such work, climate change could well be the final blow to already stressed ecosystems and the human populations that depend on them.

In 2005, wind power was again the world's fastest growing energy source. This shows that the technologies to reduce Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions and solve global warming are already available - and there is willingness to use these technologies. These renewable energy sources work and they're cost effective.

Renewable energy sources, like wind and solar power, produce no global warming pollution. And let us not forget, global warming inevitably affects people as well as the environment. Using renewable energy sources also cuts other air pollution that aggravates people's asthma and contributes to acid rain.

There's no shortage of solutions - we must act NOW, and we can!


Because our solutions are based in science, and WWF has more than 40 years of experience partnering with people, governments and industry, we are making a difference together.




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