Showing all stories: please use top left menu to filter results
When I joined WWF’s Global Partnerships team in 2010, my ambition was to make sustainability an integral part of doing good business. A decade ago, most companies were grappling with sustainability, and asking what it meant for business. Now it’s the other way around. Companies are asking what their business means for sustainability. It’s a fundamental shift.
Around the world, camels are disappearing, along with the cultures and traditions of the people who have kept them. Hindu pilgrims washing away their sins in the sacred lake, Ferris wheels on the horizon, the crackle of distant loudspeakers, hot air balloons in the dawn sky, and camels. Everywhere camels, as far as the eye could see—barking, stinking, munching, spitting, crapping, and snorting in all their glory.
This April, something extraordinary happened in the world of bird conservation. Over four days in Abu Dhabi, scientists, policymakers, businesses, NGOs and donors from 100 organisations and 70 different countries came together in the world’s first-ever global Flyways Summit.
From harnessing solar energy to mastering self-assembly and temperature regulation, nature beats human ingenuity and engineering hands down. Nature is amazing, beautiful, terrifying, nourishing, essential — and smart.
Captive breeding is a controversial strategy in the conservation community. From the unpredictable nature of capturing and relocating wild animals to the vagaries of advanced reproductive technology or unsuccessful coupling, it is a challenging and risky undertaking. Above all perhaps, it is a tacit admission of failure to protect and conserve an animal in the wild – seemingly an altogether more noble approach.
Vanquishing high mountain cols in the Tour de France. Going the distance in Sweden’s Vasaloppet cross country ski race. Conquering the icy face of the Eiger. Mastering the seas in the Volvo Ocean Race. All feats of daring, courage, skill and endurance. And all awe-inspiring examples of how we, as a species, are drawn to test our wit, will and strength in sporting endeavour in the natural environment.
As sporting men and women, it is in our nature to compete, to challenge, to win – but also to show respect, embody fair play and take responsibility. In and through our games, we should show nature and life on Earth the same regard we show each other, for that it is the essence of who we are and what we do. We are as dependent upon nature’s gifts as we are on our friends, family, fans and team-mates. And it is time that we truly started playing for our planet.
We’ve known for some time that our planet from space is more blue than green. Yet the global ocean still remains largely a mystery. Fishing activity in particular has long been hard to monitor, and the full extent of its global reach has remained mostly unknown, until now.
For Earth Hour 2018, at 8.30pm local time on March 24th, we are inviting the world to #Connect2Earth to spark a global conversation about our relationship with nature and how we can live more sustainably. For business, this means asking what your company or sector can do for nature and sustainability rather than what they can do for you, and how enterprise can serve purpose and responsibility.
Used in hundreds of everyday items, from clothes and bed linen to mattresses, towels and even bank notes, cotton is ever present in our lives. It is a key raw material for the textile industry and represents about 30% of all fibre used in the sector. Globally, around 30 million hectares are planted with cotton, accounting for more than 2% of total arable land3, and producing approximately 25 million metric tonnes (MT) of cotton annually. Grown in around 80 countries, more than 100 million households around the world are directly engaged in cotton cultivation, relying on it for their income. Full report and summary here: http://www.sustainablecottonranking.org/
We should embrace the revolution — but beyond radical transparency, automation, smart contracting and elimination of uncertainty and blind trust, only the vision and ingenuity of people and partnerships can realise the true potential of blockchain technology for our wellbeing, enterprise and future prosperity.
At the heart of all our work are 'heroes' - passionate people dedicated to delivering effective and lasting conservation. With the conservation community, these inspirational partners are our greatest asset. Without them, we could not achieve our mission. Read some of our heroes' stories here – find out more about their incredible work, what makes them unique partners, what challenges they face, and their hopes for the future.
During the race at Penrith Lakes, as our crew worked together for the 5 minutes and 47.91 seconds it took us to cover the 2000m course and cross the line utterly spent, I knew – and felt in my bones – that we were giving all that we possibly could. At the finish, there was nothing left in the tank. Securing silver was absolutely the best result we could have achieved. For me, there have never been any ‘what ifs’.
Investing in People and Nature. We support conservation that benefits people and nature – by funding and working closely with select partners in the Mediterranean, West Africa and Switzerland.
Nevertheless, recycling is only one part of the solution. And BTR can’t change the system or create a circular economy on its own. This is fantastic work of which Bristol...
Natural Connection and Universal Truth in Wild Places — in conversation with James Morgan James Morgan is an award-winning film director and photographer whose clients include Apple, the BBC, and National Geographic.
Benoa Harbour in Bali is one of Indonesia’s main tuna fishing ports. Every day of the year, hundreds of yellowfin and bigeye tuna are landed by longliner boats that have spent several weeks at sea. And its fishers are rightly proud of their catch.
History, partnership and calculated risk in times of change for the FSC Ideas shape the course of history. And as we approach the Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC) 25th anniversary, we should remind ourselves of the ideas and ambitions that have made forest and market history. A failure to tackle social exclusion, rampant deforestation and illegal logging in tropical forests in the 1980s, paired with a weak outcome on forests at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit gave birth to something extraordinary .
Towards a more sustainable cotton market The Sustainable Cotton Ranking 2017 gives you insight in how 75 companies from all continents score on their policy, traceability and actual uptake of sustainable cotton. The ranking highlights opportunities for improvement in order to accelerate transformation of the cotton market towards sustainability.
– how WWF and IKEA are marrying commerce and conservation in Maramureș, Romania, and helping protect some of Europe’s last remaining old growth forests. Photographs by iLCP Fellow James Morgan, words by Justin Woolford for WWF.
