Campaigning
We sometimes run high-profile campaigns to make sure urgent issues get the attention they deserve.
Campaigning is particularly effective when lots of people get involved. Your help, whether vocal or financial, is always appreciated.
It's a crucial time – the choices we all make in the next few years will have a huge influence on our world. By acting together, we can achieve much more.
- Take part in one (or more) of our current campaigns below
- See the success your campaigning with WWF has achieved
- Find out what's happening now, in Campaign news
Take action!
Push for new climate finance
Last year’s Copenhagen climate summit didn’t achieve all we hoped – but world leaders acknowledged that climate change is a serious global threat, and that less-wealthy countries will need financial support to cope with the impacts. There was a commitment to providing $100 billion a year by 2020. But there was no decision about how this money will be found.
We need to tell world governments to agree to deliver new money to protect natural resources and help developing countries cope with climate change. You can help by asking Chris Huhne, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary to make sure he pushes the UN advisory group to find fair and realistic ways to raise funds for tackling climate change impacts.
Help keep the new Energy Bill green
The new UK Energy Bill is a real opportunity to make sure we hit the carbon reduction targets set in the UK and Scottish Climate Change Acts. It could drive down emissions by improving home energy efficiency and supporting the transition to cleaner, greener electricity.
The government will decide exactly what's in the Bill at the end of July, so we need your help right now to make sure the most important measures are included.
Help protect the western gray whale!
We need you to help stop a serious threat to the critically endangered western gray whale.
Russian oil and gas company Rosneft is planning a potentially harmful underwater survey within the next few weeks, centred in the whales' most important feeding and nursing area.
A major seismic survey – blasts of noise to find oil and gas deposits under the sea floor – could significantly disturb nursing whales. Scientists believe this important area – off Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East – is where the mother gray whales teach their calves to feed just before they become independent.
We need your help to tell Rosneft to postpone this survey!
What Wood You Choose?
Where does your toilet paper come from? And how about that wooden flooring you bought? Did you know you could be supporting the illegal timber trade, which costs billions to developing economies?
Our What Wood You Choose campaign looks at the impacts of your choices on people in Indonesia and central Africa, and helps you choose wood and paper from responsibly-managed forests.
Grand Designs Great British Refurb
Find out how we're working to make every home in the UK greener
- Find out more about our housing campaign…
- Take action now: change really does begin at home.
- Read the Great British Refurb blog
Protecting our seas - Campaign success!
After a decade of campaigning by WWF and others the Marine and Coastal Access Bill gained royal assent on the 12th November and is now an Act. This means that for the first time in over 20 years the UK Government has a duty to protect our seas.
Find out more…
Climate change campaigning
Almost 27,000 of you signed our call for a global climate deal at Copenhagen in December 2009 - Thank You!
Although the outcome of the summit was disappointing, you were part of an unprecedented show of public support for action on climate change, and we'll be building on the momentum in 2010 to keep the pressure on world leaders to ensure a safer, cleaner future for people and the planet. Watch this space!
Cut business flights
Find out how our One in Five Challenge is encouraging business to fly 20% less – helping to combat the growing greenhouse gas emissions from plane travel.
Measure your footprint
Find out how many planets would be needed to support your own current lifestyle – then challenge yourself to live more sustainably.
Follow Colin, our Head of Campaigns, on Twitter
- 02/09/10 Colin_WWF: #economist- turning Cerrado, home to 5% of world biodiversity, to soy plantations is ok as it isn't the Amazon! http://bit.ly/d2IwDc
- 02/09/10 Colin_WWF: vote for the best and worst kept rivers in the UK as part of Our Rivers campaign http://bit.ly/caMErZ
- 02/09/10 Colin_WWF: our latest campaign blog- climate campaigner, Bronwen, asks 'where can we find $100bn?' http://bit.ly/9eF3vN
Our Blog: Inside WWF Campaigns
- Where to find $100 billion…
- What Wood You Choose?
- Pensions, carbon and (oil) pipe dreams…
- The Green Deal: making home refurb cheaper and easier
- Europe climate ministers want ambitious targets
Latest campaign news
UK government’s energy vision: our response
We’ve been busy looking at the government’s new vision for the UK energy system in 2050, published yesterday. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) report, 2050 Pathways Analysis, outlines a number of ways to meet the country’s binding 2050 target for reducing greenhouse gases.
Our sincere apologies for UN climate meeting incident
WWF has apologised unreservedly for the unofficial actions of an employee who was involved in an incident at the June meeting of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This is one of a series of meetings where a global agreement on tackling climate change is being negotiated.
New oil drilling off Greenland poses unacceptable risk
An Edinburgh-based oil firm, Cairn Energy, has begun drilling in the Arctic waters off Greenland, despite huge risks of environmental damage, as highlighted by the Gulf of Mexico spill. We want all new oil drilling to be halted while the causes and impacts of the BP disaster are investigated.
EU officially says no to illegal timber
Huge areas of the world’s forests could be saved thanks to a vote in the European Parliament today. The EU has now officially approved a new law that will keep illegal wood and wood products out of the European market.
