Zaynab Sadan, WWF’s Global Plastics Policy Lead and Head of Delegation at INC-5.2, said: “The failure of states to find agreement in Geneva is bitterly disappointing. This outcome is neither what ...

GENEVA, Switzerland (15 August 2025) - The INC-5.2 Chair released a revised draft text in the early hours of Friday following a long and suspenseful delay. The day prior, the Chair stunned a packed ...

Geneva, Switzerland (8 August 2025): Civil society organisations at INC-5.2 have come together to demand greater action as talks at an ongoing global plastic pollution summit, known as INC-5.2, teeter ...

BEIJING (February 28, 2015) -- The worldwide population of wild giant pandas increased by 268 over the last decade according to a new survey conducted by the government of China. The increase in ...

The temptation to skip to steps lower in the hierarchy that are easier or cheaper will at best provide a temporary bandaid to these complex global challenges and at worst, cannibalize efforts for ...

Why companies striving for a credible climate change strategy need to follow a robust mitigation hierarchy – focused on real and Paris-aligned reductions first – and invest for climate and nature ...

Wetlands, the most economically valuable and among the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world, are disappearing three times faster than forests with severe consequences for our future unless urgent ...

The world is off track to protect and restore forests by 2030, according to the new Forest Pathways 2023 report from WWF and the Forest Declaration Assessment.

We know that plastic is devastating wildlife and plaguing our oceans, but until now we have known very little about the impact the broken plastic system is having on people. In this first-ever global ...

Notes to the Editor For more information, please contact: [email protected] A summary of the report “ Impacts of plastic pollution in the ocean on marine species, biodiversity and ecosystems ” is ...

A hot June day in the Pantanal, Brazil. It's the dry season. Although this is the world’s largest tropical wetland, the grass is now yellow, and there’s hardly any water to be seen. The few ponds that ...

WHERE DID THE IDEA OF THE INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMISSION COME FROM AND WHY? Whaling as an industry began around the 11th Century when the Basques started hunting and trading the products from the ...