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New bill to slash Amazon protection passes crucial vote
Brasilia, Brazil - Amendments to Brazil's Forest Code that could sanction dramatic increases in deforestation passed a crucial vote in the Congress's Special Committee on Forest Law Changes last night, an outcome lamented by scientists, environmental and social NGOs and indigenous groups.
A setback in Brazil's environmental legislation
WWF-Brazil described the approval of an alternate bill for the Forest Law submitted by Representative Aldo Rebelo as a setback. In WWF-Brazil's opinion, the changes were hardly debated and, if the bill is passed by the Lower House as is, it will nullify all the efforts that the Brazilian Government has been making to conserve
Russia to create new national parks and reserves almost size of Switzerland
Moscow – Polar bears, walruses, sea otters, and other endangered species are all set to benefit from a Russian decision to boost its national protected areas to nearly 3 percent of its territory by 2020, a move which helps the country to meet its international obligations to protect biodiversity.
Spotlight on planned double subsidies for Spanish coal
Brussels, Belgium – WWF has today lodged a formal complaint with the European Commission concerning a new regulation passed by the Spanish government to provide state aid to power stations that burn domestically produced coal. The organisation says that the scheme, if approved, would be additional to existing subsidies already given to Spanish coal mines for the same coal.
New threat to Amazon as Brazilian legislators lay siege to forest law
Brasilia, Brazil: The Amazon is facing an urgent new threat as legislators allied to agribusiness interests and landowners seek to drastically weaken conservation requirements of the country’s Forest Law, the foundation of several decades of sometimes impressive progress in reducing deforestation.
G20: long on platitudes, short on delivery
Toronto, Canada - Sustainable economic recovery will need more than brief platitudes about green recovery, WWF warned today as the G20 concluded without significant commitments on climate change, climate finance or even the G20-nominated issue of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.
Whaling meeting ends in failure after shutting out NGOs, media
Agadir, Morocco: – The 62nd annual International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting ended today with governments failing to reach an agreement on a proposed package on whaling.
Politics of climate change transformed as leader dumped for not acting
Gland, Switzerland: In what may come to be seen as a pivotal moment in the global politics of climate change, members of Australia’s ruling Labor Party today dumped Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in favour of his deputy, Julia Gillard.
WWF statement on panda loans
WWF statement on panda loans, and the proposal for two Giant Pandas to come to New Zealand.
Russia puts oil and gas development before whales
Agadir, Morocco, June 23 (WWF) – Russia today at the 62nd annual International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting refused to comply with repeated calls to postpone a planned seismic survey in the feeding grounds of the critically endangered Western North Pacific Gray Whale.
