Environmental stories tagged with: WWF

The target of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 agreed by G8 leaders at their Toyako summit in Japan has been described as "pathetic" and "dangerously short of what is needed" by Kim Carstensen, Director of WWF Global Climate Initiative.

England's regions are not getting to grips with environmental problems such as climate change, a new study commissioned by the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Friends of the Earth England and WWF-UK has revealed.

A new WWF comissioned report, 'Allocation of Allowances for Aviation in the EU ETS',shows that the European Commission's proposals to hand out free Emissions Trading Scheme allowances to passenger flights could have a perverse effect.

One of the world's most important mechanisms to tackle climate change is set to be undermined because of short-sighted plans to allow European companies to buy their way out of making reductions in their greenhouse gas emissions, a new WWF report shows.

Intel and Google join more than a dozen organisations announcing their intent to form the Climate Savers Computing Initiative.

HSBC has created a five-year, $100 million (£50m) partnership to respond to the urgent threat of climate change worldwide with the support of The Climate Group, Earthwatch Institute, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and WWF.

Green groups have reacted angrily after the Government announced that Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) - which were due to come in with Home Information Packs (HIPs) on 1 June - will be delayed.

Today, environmental organisations include Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, RSPB and WWF launched an advertising campaign warning of the ecological dangers behind biofuels.