Climate Change
WWF Brief: Finance from Aviation and Maritime sectors - UN High Level Group (2010)
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ShareThis'Bunker finance' – revenues from the international aviation and maritime sectors – attracted considerable attention at COP 15 in Copenhagen as a potential new source of climate change finance.
WWF Recommendations for climate finance for the G20 Summit
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ShareThisThe still-unfolding oil spill disaster currently under way in the Gulf of Mexico is only the latest reminder of the urgent need to end our dependency on fossil fuels and make a rapid transition to a sustainable low carbon future.
WWF Recommendations and Asks for G8 and G20 Summits in 2010
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ShareThisThe United Nations climate change talks in Copenhagen brought together unprecedented participation of Heads of State and Government in an attempt to broker a global deal to address climate change.
WWF Recommendations to the Advisory Group on Climate Finance
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ShareThisBreaking the impasse over how to generate public funding for developing countries at a sufficient scale is essential if we want to create an equitable basis for global climate action, protect vulnerable countries and populations from climate impacts, and mobilize shifts in investment patterns needed to stimulate the rapid introduction of clean technologies.
What roads from Copenhagen to Cancún?
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ShareThisAdaptation to the (uncertain) adverse impacts of climate change increasingly becomes a necessity across the globe.
Recommendations for national communications process under UNFCCC
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ShareThisAt COP 16 governments need to agree to a fair, ambitious and balanced Cancun package. The Cancun package should secure consensus on key areas of substance, and identify a way forward on the negotiation process.
WWF Adaptation Policy Recommendations, COP16 Cancun
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ShareThisThe adaptation decision should be part of a package of decisions at COP16 in Cancun.
After COP 15 we are in fact close to agreeing a decision on establishing an Adaptation Framework for Implementation. This paper gives recommendations on effectively moving the adaptation process forward at COP16.
Plugging the gigatonne gap
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ShareThisBased on recent science, WWF’s Plugging The Gap paper outlines that global emissions in 2020 should not exceed emissions of greenhouse gases 40 Gigatonnes in order to stay clear of dangerous warming levels. However, current promises by the world’s governments will result in approximately 10 Gigatonnes more, up to 30% off the safety track.
Finance brief for Geneva Ministerial on climate finance, 2-3 Sept 2010
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ShareThisOn 2-3 September 2010, Ministers and officials from more than 40 countries met in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss climate finance and prepare for the climate negotiations later this year in Cancun, Mexico.
Agreeing a low-carbon future in Cancun
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ShareThisA briefing paper on zero carbon action plans-ZCAPs and low carbon action plans-LCAPs defining what they mean and what progress can be achieved on these at COP16 in Cancun.
