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Climate

Climate change is reshaping the places, species, and livelihoods that WWF works to protect. Addressing global warming is essential to conserving biodiversity and building a more resilient future for people and nature.

Why climate change matters

Climate change sits alongside nature loss as defining challenges of our time. The rising temperatures and extreme weather caused by global warming are placing growing pressure on the natural systems that sustain life and the communities and economies that depend on them.

Our approach to climate change

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Corporate climate action

We partner with companies to accelerate the transition to a clean economy, reducing emissions across operations and supply chains, advancing renewable energy, and driving change at the systemic level. By working collectively with leading businesses, we help scale climate action at the speed and ambition required.

Learn more about corporate climate action

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Adaptation and resilience

We work with communities, governments, companies, and partners to prepare for and respond to the impacts of climate change. By reducing risk and strengthening resilience to cascading climate threats, we help people and ecosystems adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world.

Learn more about adaptation and resilience

How climate change is affecting the places most essential for all life on Earth

The Amazon

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The Arctic

The Eastern Himalayas

Four sea turtles swim around a coral reef in the Galapagos

The Eastern Pacific Ocean

A man with a backpack stands in silhouette on a vast grassland

The Great Plains

The Greater Mekong

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Southern Africa

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The Southwest Indian Ocean

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The Southwest Pacific

Projects

Brickell Key, Downtown Miami, which sits only a few feet above sea level

Climate Business Network

Accelerating corporate climate action through collaboration, supporting companies with reducing emissions across and beyond value chains through expert guidance, peer learning, and collaborative mobilization.

Mangroves in Marismas Nacionales Biosphere Reserve, Nayarit.

ManglarIA

Using artificial intelligence to protect mangroves and strengthen coastal resilience, improve carbon storage, and advance climate-smart conservation.

Smoke emits from a pipe at a hydrogen production plant with mountains in the background

Renewable Thermal Collaborative

A global coalition co-convened by WWF to decarbonize industrial energy use by helping companies scale renewable heating and cooling.

Aerial view of Agats Capital city of Asmat Regency South Papua Indonesia

Project PLAN

Advancing large-scale adaptation through nature by developing tools, finance, and partnerships that help integrate nature-based solutions into climate planning.