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Achieving a 30% domestic carbon reduction target (Dec 16)
CAN Europe, Greenpeace, and WWF engaged Öko-Institut and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) to explore in depth the different otions for the EU Member States to contribute to a 30 percent carbon target. The institutes were also asked to assess different EU financing mechanisms to leverage additional investments in the EU Member States, and help to equally share the costs and benefits of more climate ambition. The findings of the institutes and the policy recommendations of CAN Europe,  Greenpeace and WWF are summarised in this report.


Heart of Borneo Brief No 5 - Green Economy Conference Sabah Malaysia (Dec 15)
More than 500 hundred representatives of business, government, civil society and multilateral development organizations gathered in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Nov 15-16, for one of the largest conferences on the Green Economy ever held in the Asian region.

Heart of Borneo Initiative Brief No. 5 covers the highlights of this conference




Wild Mekong: New species in 2010 from the forests, wetlands and waters of the Greater Mekong, Asia’s land of rivers (Dec 12)
A new monkey, a self-cloning skink, five carnivorous plants, and a unique leaf warbler are among the 208 species newly described by science in the Greater Mekong region during 2010. In total 145 plants, 28 reptiles, 25 fish, 7 amphibians, 2 mammals and 1 bird have been discovered in the last year.

This rate of discovery marks Asia’s land of rivers as one of the last frontiers for new species discoveries on our planet.

The Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia through which the Mekong river flows comprises the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and China (including Yunnan province). The region is home to some of the planet’s most endangered and charismatic wild species including tiger, Asian elephant, Mekong dolphin and Mekong giant catfish, in addition to hundreds of newly discovered species.

Between 1997 and 2009 an incredible 1,376 species were discovered by science across this region alone.

However, while these discoveries highlight the unique biodi...


Inside the Himalayas Vol 6 (Dec 5)




Інформаційний вісник ПОТІК (Dec 5)
Інформаційний вісник «ПОТІК» підготовлений в рамках проекту Всесвітнього фонду природи WWF «Збереження та стале використання природних ресурсів Українських Карпат», що фінансується урядом Норвегії.

«ПОТІК» виник як наслідок розбудови промоційної діяльності у трьох природоохоронних територіях Карпат – Ужанському національному природному парку, Карпатському національному природному парку та природному заповіднику «Горгани» і саме тому вісник щомісячно знайомить широке коло читачів з діяльністю цих природоохоронних територій, а т...


Climate change in a living landscape: Conceptual and methodological aspects of a vulnerability assessment in the Eastern Cordillera Real of Colombia Ecuador and Peru (Dec 2)
This document is a translated summary of the original publication resulting from the initiative Cambio climático en un paisaje vivo: Vulnerabilidad y adaptación en la Cordillera Real Oriental de Colombia, Ecuador y Perú (WWF y Fundación Natura 2010). We have focused primarily on presenting the methodological aspects of the vulnerability analysis, providing information on Eastern Cordillera Real (ECR) to illustrate how we applied the Turner II et al. (2003) three-pronged framework for understanding vulnerability of a system to environmental change. The results of the combined vulnerability analyses (biological, hydrological and socioeconomic) for the ECR demonstrate the need for actions oriented at maintaining the continued provision of ecosystem services as well as the biological and cultural riches of the region.

This work was done thanks to the support of WWF-UK and DFID.



Más allá de una vía: Construcción de la variante San Francisco - Mocoa (Dec 2)
 Este documento es un esfuerzo para contar la historia del proceso de construcción de la variante, resaltando la información más relevante de la región, sus riquezas naturales y culturales y las oportunidades y desafíos que se abren hacia el futuro durante la fase de construcción y de implementación de los diferentes planes sociales y ambientales. Está escrita de manera sencilla y práctica, para que pueda ser comprendida y utilizada por los diferentes tipos de actores sociales que hacen parte la región.

Se adelantó con el apoyo técnico de la Fundación Equilibrio y fondos de MacArthur, DFID y WWF-UK

Esta publicación hace parte de la serie de cartillas: Una vía de aprendizajes. Su objetivo es facilitar el acceso a información precisa, clara y oportuna con respecto al proceso de la variante San Francisco – Mocoa, tanto a las comunidades indígenas como campesinas ubicadas en el área de influencia del proyecto.



WWF recommendations on the European Commission's Proposal for Horizon 2020 (Nov 30)
The 2014-2020 new research fund Horizon 2020 is of strategic importance for tackling the challenges facing Europe. Climate change, biodiversity loss, energy and resource inefficiency are part of these challenges and should be addressed by Horizon 2020 in a much more ambitious way that it has been done in the 2007-2013 research fund FP7.

The following areas need to be strengthened:
Research for the benefit of society and environment Tackle societal challenges Increase the role of civil society in research Move ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) out of the EU budget, including its likely overruns


Environment for Development in the new EU External Action funding instruments (Nov 30)
As the new financial instruments for external actions of the EU for 2014-2020 are currently being designed, WWF has specific recommendations to ensure there is specific and adequate funds for environmental priorities in the future.

There are four key issues to be addressed in this regard: Promoting environmental sustainability and climate objectives through EU external actions Meeting international commitments on the Millennium Development Goals and Multilateral Environmental Agreements Meeting international climate finance commitments and ensuring additionality of climate finance Ensuring and supporting civil society participation in development policy dialogue and programmes


Industries extractives et développement durable (Nov 24)
Ce livre présente une vue d’ensemble des aspects positifs et négatifs des activités d’exploitation pétrolière et gazière dans le monde entier, notamment en se concentrant sur la situation régionale ouest
africaine ainsi que les projets d’énergie nationale et de développement durable. Ce livre vise à aider les gouvernements et les sociétés civiles de la WAMER à mettre en harmonie les questions afférentes aux
activités pétrolières et gazières et les priorités nationales de développement. 


MANUEL DE FORMATION DES OBSERVATEURS DES PÊCHES (Nov 24)
 Dans l’optique d’une préservation des ressources halieutiques, chaque pays peut s’il le désire développer un programme « observateurs » pour obtenir en temps réel des informations sur l’état de la ressource. En effet, seule la présence d’un observateur à bord permet d’obtenir des données fi ables sur les captures, sur les rejets et sur la régularité des opérations à bord d’un navire de pêche. Cet aspect est particulièrement mis en exergue par la Convention relative aux mesures du ressort de l’Etat du port visant à prévenir, contrecarrer et éliminer la pêche illicite, non déclarée et non réglementée» adopté en 2009 par la FAO.

Ainsi, la formation et le renforcement des capacités des agents de surveillance est une étape cruciale dans la mise en oeuvre des outils de suivi contrôle et surveillance.


METHODE D’EVALUATION DES IMPACTS DES ACCORDS DE PECHE (Nov 24)
 Face à cette situation d’urgence, les partenaires du PRCM (WWF, UICN) en étroite collaboration avec la CSRP ont conduit cette étude visant à élaborer une méthodologie simple et peu coûteuse d’évaluation des accords de pêche.

L’objectif de l’étude est de développer une méthodologie d’évaluation des accords de pêche dans l’espace CSRP.

Relativement à la problématique des accords de pêche, les questions centrales traitées ont porté sur le surplus de production et la gouvernance des pêcheries. D’autres questions soulevées par les accords de pêche ont fait aussi l’objet d’une analyse approfondie. Elles ont porté sur la subvention de la flotte étrangère, la compétition entre flottilles nationale et étrangère et les nombreux avantages comparatifs de cette dernière en termes d’efficacité technologique, de possibilités d’accès aux marchés internationaux et de barrières non tarifaires en sa faveur.

Une analyse historique des accords ...


Resources Unlimited? Conference Report (Nov 17)
On Tuesday 11 October, WWF’s European Policy Office and the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment, together with the EU Commission and the OECD, organised a one-day discussion in Brussels about one of the key topics of the moment: how to move to a new economic model that guarantees growth and wellbeing for us and future generations whilst respecting the limited resources of our one planet. 
 
About 170 guests, including key stakeholders from EU institutions, governments and business engaged in discussions with an outstanding panel of speakers, from the EU Environment Commissioner Potočnik to OECD Director Simon Upton and Avrim Lazar President and CEO of the Forest Products Association of Canada.
 
This report captures the overall themes of the day’s discussions and summarises the 10 key messages delivered by you, our speakers.


WWF call for EC leadership on Integrated Sea Use Management (Nov 17)
WWF is calling for a legally binding framework at the European level to facilitate the integrated planning  and  management  of  the  human  activities  affecting  our  seas. In order to meet the aims of ecosystem protection and sustainable use, WWF believes that we need a more integrated approach to the planning and management of human activities affecting our seas. Integrated sea use management (ISUM) should be implemented across all sea areas to secure coordination across sectors, countries and levels of government in order to minimize environmental impacts from resource use and to maximize benefits to society. A key tool to help achieve this is maritime spatial planning which aims to allocate space and resources in the most appropriate way to minimize conflicts and find synergies between sectors. Whilst helping to more clearly identify the most efficient way to plan and manage the use of our sea and coasts, MSP has an important function to sup...


Fishes of the Xe Kong drainage in Laos (Nov 16)
The Xe Kaman is one of the main tributaries of the Xe Kong. There is no information about the fish fauna of the Xe Kaman in the scientific literature, except that some of the new species described by Kottelat (2000a) and Roberts (1995, 1997, 1998a-b) have their type locality in that drainage.

The fishes of the Xe Kaman drainage in Laos have been surveyed between 15 and 24 May 2011.

Fourty-five fish species were observed, bringing to 175 the number of species recorded from the Xe Kong drainage in Laos, 9 of them new records for the drainage. Twenty-five species (14 %) have been observed from no other drainage and are potentially endemic to the Xe Kong drainage.

Five species observed during the survey are new to science (unnamed); they belong to the genera Scaphiodonichthys, Annamia, Sewellia and Schistura (2 species). Three of them have been discovered during the survey, the others although still unnamed were already known for some time, under an erroneous name. In the Xekong drai...


Брошура «Бернська конвенція та оселищна концепція збереження біорізноманіття: майбутнє для України» (Nov 9)
на підтримку Директиви Європейського Союзу про збереження природних оселищ та видів природної фауни і флори в Україні
В ілюстрованому виданні подано інформацію про потребу розвитку концепції оселищного (екосистемного) підходу до збереження біорізноманіття в Україні. Метою брошури є ознайомлення широких верств громадськості з сучасними європейськими підходами до охорони живої природи, перспективами й проблемами їх застосування в Україні. Брошура буде корисною для екологів, працівників освітніх і наукових закладів, громадських орга...


Coastal East Africa threatened spaces and disappearing species cause for worry (Nov 7)
WWF’s Coastal East Africa Initiative has launched a report that seeks to draw attention to the global importance of East African coastal forests as centres of biodiversity and home to species specifically found only in this region.

Coastal East Africa which runs from the border between Kenya and Somalia, through to Tanzania and onwards to Mozambique contains various threatened spaces and disappearing species that have continually been a cause of great concern for scientists and biologists the world over.

The report which was launched today by Tanzania’s Minister for Environment, Dr. Terezya Huvisa, details shocking statistics indicating that a mere 10% of the original coastal forests of Eastern Africa remain, fragmented into 400 patches that cover over 6000 square kilometres in Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique.

One of the world's most biologically diverse regions
Coastal forests and landscapes in Eastern Africa are home to thousands of species of plants and animals. In the la...


Selvas, comunidades y cambio climático (Nov 3)
El contenido de esta cartilla surge como respuesta a la necesidad que las comunidades indígenas y afrodescendientes expresaron, en diversos espacios de diálogo, de tener información real y segura sobre lo que está sucediendo con el cambio climático y los proyectos de carbono forestal, y de cómo estos proyectos afectan o se relacionan con los procesos de manejo territorial que actualmente están realizando las comunidades.

Por estas razones, el Fondo Patrimonio Natural, a través del Proyecto Incentivos a la Conservación, financiado por la Embajada del Reino de los Países Bajos; WWF Colombia, en el marco de la Iniciativa Amazonía Viva de WWF; y ACT, con el apoyo de la Fundación Goldman, ha querido producir y divulgar la presente cartilla básica, que permitirá a las comunidades y a sus organizaciones informarse, aclarar conceptos y tener una mejor comprensión de los problemas asociados al cambio climático y, en este contexto, identificar c...


Announcement of Tender for Supply of Three 4-Wheel Drive Pick-up Motor Vehicles under the EU financed Project (Tender Dossier) (Nov 2)
Announcement of Tender for Supply of Three 4-Wheel Drive Pick-up Motor Vehicles under the EU financed Project “EU ENRTP Caucasus - Increasing the resilience of forest ecosystems against climate change in the South Caucasus Countries through forest transformation” (Tender Dossier) 

Publication reference : WWF-Deu - 01SP2011/ENRTP

WWF DEUTSCHLAND (WWF GERMANY) intends to award a supply contract in Germany for Three (3) 4x4 Double-cab Pick-up Motor Vehicles with financial assistance from the ENRTP programme of the European Union to be delivered:


• one vehicle to Armenia/Yerevan (Customs Port: AMEVN) - addressed to WWF-Armenia
• one vehicle to Azerbaijan/Baku (Customs Port: AZBAK)- addressed to WWF-Azerbaijan
• one vehicle to Georgia/Tbilisi (Customs Port: GETBS) - addressed to WWF-Caucasus

The tender dossier is available from WWF Germany, Reinhardtstraße 14, 10117 Berlin, Germany, Fax: +49 (0)30311777199 and on this web-page for download in PDF and Microsoft Word ver...


Baltic Sea Farmer of the Year Award 2011 (Oct 31)
Eutrophication or nutrient overload is the single largest environmental problem in the Baltic Sea. Agricultural runoff is the main cause. A major solution to the problem is to be found in the promotion of more sustainable farming and land management practices. The WWF Baltic Sea Farmer of the Year Award competition highlights the important role that farmers play in protecting the Baltic Sea and illustrates impressive examples of how farmers are taking innovative approaches and moving towards a more Baltic-friendly farming.

The award-winning farmers in this year’s brochure have applied a wide spectrum of solutions to achieve sustainable farming practices. These farmers are making a positive impact in the Baltic Sea region and their good examples can be used by other farmers who also aim to stop eutrophication and contribute to a healthy Baltic Sea.

This year the competition has been held in 8 countries; Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden. A ...