Campaigning
We sometimes run high-profile campaigns to make sure urgent issues get the attention they deserve.
Campaigning is particularly effective when lots of people get involved. Your help, whether vocal or financial, is always appreciated.
It's a crucial time – the choices we all make in the next few years will have a huge influence on our world. By acting together, we can achieve much more.
- Take part in one (or more) of our current campaigns below
- See the success your campaigning with WWF has achieved
- Find out what's happening now, in Campaign news
Take action!
Help keep the new Energy Bill green
The new UK Energy Bill is a real opportunity to make sure we hit the carbon reduction targets set in the UK and Scottish Climate Change Acts. It could drive down emissions by improving home energy efficiency and supporting the transition to cleaner, greener electricity.
The government will decide exactly what's in the Bill at the end of July, so we need your help right now to make sure the most important measures are included.
New coal power station threat
A huge new coal-fired power station is being planned for the west coast of Scotland. Just like the now-shelved coal plant proposed for Kingsnorth in Kent, this kind of heavily polluting power station would be a big mistake at a time when climate change and energy security are so crucial.
- Take action now: We need as many people as possible to write to the Scottish Government and ask them to reject this plan because cleaner, greener alternatives exist. It doesn't matter where you live – this proposal affects everyone.
Help protect the western gray whale!
We need you to help stop a serious threat to the critically endangered western gray whale.
Russian oil and gas company Rosneft is planning a potentially harmful underwater survey within the next few weeks, centred in the whales' most important feeding and nursing area.
A major seismic survey – blasts of noise to find oil and gas deposits under the sea floor – could significantly disturb nursing whales. Scientists believe this important area – off Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East – is where the mother gray whales teach their calves to feed just before they become independent.
We need your help to tell Rosneft to postpone this survey!
Come out and ask for a brighter, greener future
The new government has finally emerged - and David Cameron said he would like this to be the “greenest government ever”.
Hopes are high that the coalition can deliver, but we need your help to keep the government focused and remind MPs what their priorities should be.
Stop toxic fuels
Billions are being invested in destructive and polluting energy projects that drive climate change – like the vast ‘oil from tar sands’ extraction in Canada.
- Take action now: use the power of your pension to force a review of this damaging and risky activity
- Find out more about our toxic fuels campaign…
Grand Designs Great British Refurb
Find out how we're working to make every home in the UK greener
- Find out more about our housing campaign…
- Take action now: change really does begin at home.
- Read the Great British Refurb blog
Protecting our seas - Campaign success!
After a decade of campaigning by WWF and others the Marine and Coastal Access Bill gained royal assent on the 12th November and is now an Act. This means that for the first time in over 20 years the UK Government has a duty to protect our seas.
Find out more…
Climate change campaigning
Almost 27,000 of you signed our call for a global climate deal at Copenhagen in December 2009 - Thank You!
Although the outcome of the summit was disappointing, you were part of an unprecedented show of public support for action on climate change, and we'll be building on the momentum in 2010 to keep the pressure on world leaders to ensure a safer, cleaner future for people and the planet. Watch this space!
Cut business flights
Find out how our One in Five Challenge is encouraging business to fly 20% less – helping to combat the growing greenhouse gas emissions from plane travel.
Measure your footprint
Find out how many planets would be needed to support your own current lifestyle – then challenge yourself to live more sustainably.
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Our Blog: Inside WWF Campaigns
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Latest campaign news
UK government’s energy vision: our response
We’ve been busy looking at the government’s new vision for the UK energy system in 2050, published yesterday. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) report, 2050 Pathways Analysis, outlines a number of ways to meet the country’s binding 2050 target for reducing greenhouse gases.
Our sincere apologies for UN climate meeting incident
WWF has apologised unreservedly for the unofficial actions of an employee who was involved in an incident at the June meeting of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This is one of a series of meetings where a global agreement on tackling climate change is being negotiated.
New oil drilling off Greenland poses unacceptable risk
An Edinburgh-based oil firm, Cairn Energy, has begun drilling in the Arctic waters off Greenland, despite huge risks of environmental damage, as highlighted by the Gulf of Mexico spill. We want all new oil drilling to be halted while the causes and impacts of the BP disaster are investigated.
EU officially says no to illegal timber
Huge areas of the world’s forests could be saved thanks to a vote in the European Parliament today. The EU has now officially approved a new law that will keep illegal wood and wood products out of the European market.
