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  • Climate-Smart Mangrove Support Tool Brochure

    Climate-Smart Mangrove Support Tool (pdf, 22.9 MB)

    April 25, 2024

    The Climate-Smart Mangrove Tool (CSMT) is designed to aid conservation practitioners in selecting appropriate “climate-smart” actions to reduce the current and future impacts of climate change on mangrove ecosystems.

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  • A Playbook for Nature Positive Infrastructure Development   Brochure

    A Playbook for Nature Positive Infrastructure Development (pdf, 5.51 MB)

    November 13, 2023

    The Playbook for Nature-Positive Infrastructure Development is a strategic guide jointly developed by WWF, the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC), and AECOM, a leading global consulting engineering firm. It addresses the critical role of infrastructure in sustainable growth and poverty reduction while highlighting the potential environmental harm caused by poorly planned projects.

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  • Cool, Blue Food: A Strategic Approach to Cold Chain Projects in Ocean Communities Brochure

    Cool, Blue Food: A Strategic Approach to Cold Chain Projects in Ocean Communities (pdf, 10.9 MB)

    November 07, 2023
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  • Building a Nature-Positive Energy Transformation Brochure

    Building a Nature-Positive Energy Transformation (pdf, 15.1 MB)

    November 03, 2023

    World Wildlife Fund and the Boston Consulting Group have completed an analysis to improve our understanding of the risks and impacts associated with the rapid transition to renewable energy and propose a framework for policymakers to achieve an energy transition that avoids and minimizes impacts on communities and nature and facilitates a nature-positive future.

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  • WWF Summary Report: Scaling Up Cold-Chain Solutions in the Southwest Indian Ocean Brochure

    WWF Summary Report: Scaling Up Cold-Chain Solutions in the Southwest Indian Ocean (pdf, 2.87 MB)

    October 30, 2023

    This report presents the findings of research conducted by WWF and Open Capital Advisors for scaling cold-chain solutions across the Southwest Indian Ocean region.

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  • Climate futures across generations and species Brochure

    Climate futures across generations and species (jpg, 3.96 MB)

    June 07, 2023

    The IPCC Sixth Assessment Synthesis report illustrated how the climate has already changed and will continue to change and impact multiple generations in a compelling infographic referred to as ‘climate generations.’ WWF adapted the figure to emphasize how climate change affects generations across all species on the planet by adding plants and animals with short and long life spans.

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  • WWF Calls for Prioritizing Climate Finance in FY23 Budget Agreement (pdf, 118 KB)

    December 06, 2022

    Achieving significant increases in US government climate finance programs is essential to meeting US international commitments, including President Biden’s pledge to provide $11.4 billion in such finance by 2024, and to unlocking the global ambition needed to halt runaway climate change and protect the future of both people and nature.

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  • Climate Crowd on the Ground Brochure

    Climate Crowd on the Ground (pdf, 3.99 MB)

    October 26, 2021

    Climate Crowd on the Ground is a compilation of 15 Climate Crowd projects implemented in 8 countries, helping to build the resilience of people and nature to a changing climate. 

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  • The Potential for Seaweed as Livestock Feed, Workshop Report 2020 Brochure

    The Potential for Seaweed as Livestock Feed, Workshop Report 2020 (pdf, 4.24 MB)

    February 01, 2021

    This summary report describes key findings and major takeaways from the 2020 workshop series. Suggested next steps will help guide researchers, funders, and policymakers–and shape the intersection that brings their respective work together–to advance our collective understanding of seaweed as a livestock feed ingredient.

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  • Rising to Resilience Brochure

    Rising to Resilience (pdf, 20.3 MB)

    November 17, 2020

    Climate change is amplifying and creating new risks for companies. WWF’s practical guide illustrates steps businesses can take to help maintain profitability and social license to operate in a climate-insecure future.

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  • Connected & Flowing - A Renewable Future for Rivers, Climate, and People Brochure

    Connected & Flowing - A Renewable Future for Rivers, Climate, and People (pdf, 9.75 MB)

    October 28, 2020

    With thousands of hydropower dams planned across the globe, a report from WWF and The Nature Conservancy demonstrates how we can solve the world’s climate and energy challenge without sacrificing our remaining free-flowing rivers and the diverse benefits they provide to people and nature.

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  • Living Planet Report 2020 Brochure

    Living Planet Report 2020 (pdf, 23.1 MB)

    September 10, 2020

    The global Living Planet Index continues to decline. It shows an average 68% decrease in population sizes of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish between 1970 and 2016. A 94% decline in the LPI for the tropical subregions of the Americas is the largest fall observed in any part of the world.

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  • What makes a high-quality carbon credit? Brochure

    What makes a high-quality carbon credit? (pdf, 187 KB)

    June 04, 2020

    This paper helps prospective buyers of carbon credits better distinguish between those of high quality and those that could undermine their credibility and broader efforts to address the climate crisis.

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  • Enhancing NDCs through Nature-Based Solutions Brochure

    Enhancing NDCs through Nature-Based Solutions (pdf, 4.03 MB)

    March 25, 2020

    Nature-based Solutions are varied approaches to address a wide range of challenges for society, while also benefiting people and nature. Recently, Nature-based Solutions have emerged as essential tools to support broader efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

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  • WWF position and guidance on voluntary purchases of carbon credits (pdf, 327 KB)

    March 09, 2020

    With global attention increasingly focused on meaningful responses to the climate crisis, one of the most asked questions is about the role carbon markets can play in achieving "net-zero" emissions. This document details WWF's position on voluntary carbon markets and provides recommendations for businesses interested in purchasing carbon credits.

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  • Visioning Futures: Improving Infrastructure Planning to Harness Nature’s Benefits in a Warming World (hi-res) Brochure

    Visioning Futures: Improving Infrastructure Planning to Harness Nature’s Benefits in a Warming World (hi-res) (pdf, 16.9 MB)

    December 31, 2019

    This report (hi-res version), with support from GIZ, outlines a new planning approach integrating considerations of natural capital and ecosystem services, climate risks and resilience, and sustainable development needs to support social-ecological system scale planning.

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  • Visioning Futures: Improving Infrastructure Planning to Harness Nature’s Benefits in a Warming World (lo-res) Brochure

    Visioning Futures: Improving Infrastructure Planning to Harness Nature’s Benefits in a Warming World (lo-res) (pdf, 11.4 MB)

    December 31, 2019

    This report (lo-res version), with support from GIZ, outlines a new planning approach integrating considerations of natural capital and ecosystem services, climate risks and resilience, and sustainable development needs to support social-ecological system scale planning.

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  • Case Studies on Integrating Ecosystem Services and Climate Resilience in Infrastructure Development: Lessons for Advocacy Brochure

    Case Studies on Integrating Ecosystem Services and Climate Resilience in Infrastructure Development: Lessons for Advocacy (PDF, 2.91 MB)

    October 01, 2019

    With support from GIZ, WWF and Arup conducted a review of innovative practices across several regions of the world that integrate both ecosystem services and climate change projections in planning and design.

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  • Enhancing Nationally Determined Contributions through Protected Areas Brochure

    Enhancing Nationally Determined Contributions through Protected Areas (pdf, 8.7 MB)

    May 23, 2019

    Nationally Determined Commitments (NDCs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 2015 Paris Agreement underscore the role protected areas and other conserved areas play in reaching global mitigation and adaptation targets. 

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  • Living Planet Report 2018 Brochure

    Living Planet Report 2018 (pdf, 14.5 MB)

    October 29, 2018

    The Living Planet Report documents the state of the planet—including biodiversity, ecosystems, and demand for natural resources—and what it means for humans and wildlife. Published by WWF every two years, the report brings together a variety of research to provide a comprehensive view of the health of the Earth.

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  • Wildlife in a Warming World: The Effects of Climate Change on Biodiversity Brochure

    Wildlife in a Warming World: The Effects of Climate Change on Biodiversity (pdf, 2.25 MB)

    March 13, 2018

    Up to half of plant and animal species in the world’s most naturally rich areas, such as the Amazon and the Galapagos, could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.

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  • Power Forward 3.0: How the Largest US Companies Are Capturing Business Value While Addressing Climate Change Brochure

    Power Forward 3.0: How the Largest US Companies Are Capturing Business Value While Addressing Climate Change (pdf, 10.1 MB)

    April 25, 2017

    A new report from WWF, Calvert Investments, CDP and Ceres finds nearly half of Fortune 500 companies—48%—have at least one climate or clean energy target, up 5% from an earlier 2014 report.

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  • Assessing Climate Risk in Myanmar: Technical Report Brochure

    Assessing Climate Risk in Myanmar: Technical Report (pdf, 10.9 MB)

    April 03, 2017

    This report presents climate risk information including observed climate and future projections of temperature, rainfall, sea level rise and various extreme events, and outlines how this information can be used in decision-making.

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  • Giant Panda: WWF Wildlife and Climate Change Series Brochure

    Giant Panda: WWF Wildlife and Climate Change Series (pdf, 595 KB)

    February 27, 2017

    Giant pandas have a small population size, long generation time, low reproductive rate, and feed almost exclusively on bamboo, all of which make them less able to adapt to a changing climate. Explore these and other traits which make giant pandas vulnerable to climate change, as well as recommended climate-adaptive management strategies.

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