You searched for cop15 - Page 4 of 5

Search Results for: cop15

Posts Count: 60

‘We need to understand — we are nature:’ Indigenous leaders speak out at COP15

December 16, 2022

On the eve of the world’s environment ministers arriving in Montreal for COP15’s endgame negotiations, WWF-Canada hosted a press conference in the media room featuring speakers from three Indigenous nations. It was an opportunity... Read More

On the eve of the world’s environment ministers arriving in Montreal for COP15’s endgame negotiations, WWF-Canada hosted a press...
Read More

A projection on the side of the Palais de Justice building that reads: “Let them know that all eyes are on them”

COP15: The world is watching. The clock is ticking. Wildlife is waiting

December 12, 2022

Around 17,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries, as well as NGOs like WWF — there are staff here from 30 offices around the world — have descended on Montreal’s Palais des Congrès for the... Read More

Around 17,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries, as well as NGOs like WWF — there are staff here from...
Read More

WWF @ CBD COP15: What we’re up to during the UN biodiversity summit

December 6, 2022

WWF-Canada and our international WWF colleagues will be out in force at CBD COP15, aka the 15th Conference of the Parties for the UN Convention on Biological on Diversity, advocating for a Global Biodiversity... Read More

WWF-Canada and our international WWF colleagues will be out in force at CBD COP15, aka the 15th Conference of...
Read More

How IPCAs advance protection and reconciliation

December 1, 2022

If you’re a regular WWF visitor, you’re already fairly familiar with protected areas — geographical regions of land or water with restrictions on human activities to safeguard habitat. This conservation tool offers the promise... Read More

If you’re a regular WWF visitor, you’re already fairly familiar with protected areas — geographical regions of land or...
Read More

Killer whale jumping out of the water in BC

Q&A: The UN COP15 summit needs to be a leap forward for nature

November 29, 2022

Once a decade, signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) gather to negotiate the next ten years of nature protections. CBD COP15, the UN biodiversity summit in Montreal from Dec. 7 – 19,... Read More

Once a decade, signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) gather to negotiate the next ten years of...
Read More

Launch of Mapping Canada's Carbon Landscapes study at COP26

The need for climate ambition at COP27 is heating up

November 2, 2022

The last seven years have been the seven hottest in recorded history, marked by deadly heat waves, droughts, superstorms and flooding around the world. It has also been seven years since the 2015 UN climate... Read More

The last seven years have been the seven hottest in recorded history, marked by deadly heat waves, droughts, superstorms...
Read More

Downtown Montreal, Quebec, as seen from the top of Mount Royal

CBD COP15: Why the whole world will be watching Montreal this December

October 21, 2022

Two of the most important summits about the nature crisis are happening within the span of a few weeks this fall. The first is focused on climate, and the second is focused on biodiversity.... Read More

Two of the most important summits about the nature crisis are happening within the span of a few weeks...
Read More

Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)

Global wildlife populations plummeted by an average of 69% in the past 50 years

October 14, 2022

Wildlife have endured an average 69 per cent drop in monitored populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish since 1970, according to the latest Living Planet Report (LPR) from WWF International. Updated every... Read More

Wildlife have endured an average 69 per cent drop in monitored populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish...
Read More

3D rendering of planet Earth, elements from NASA.

No COP Out: Why we must escalate our fight against the climate and biodiversity crises

April 22, 2021

Earth Day 2020 was the global event’s 50th anniversary — a seemingly perfect opportunity to ramp up political pressure during what had been billed the “Super Year for Nature” due to a pair of... Read More

Earth Day 2020 was the global event’s 50th anniversary — a seemingly perfect opportunity to ramp up political pressure...
Read More

Équiterre and WWF use art to illustrate the urgency to take action against climate change

November 24, 2015

Montreal, Quebec, November 24, 2015 – To illustrate the impacts of climate disruption on our environment, Équiterre and WWF-Canada present: Polar Bears on Thin Ice. A few days before the opening of the 21st... Read More

Montreal, Quebec, November 24, 2015 – To illustrate the impacts of climate disruption on our environment, Équiterre and WWF-Canada...
Read More

Polar Bear on Thin Ice: Melting sculpture represents plight of people and polar bears in the North

November 18, 2015

As we approach the twenty-first United Nations Conference of the Parties on climate change (COP 21), Equiterre and WWF-Canada are teaming up to present an art project called Polar Bear on Thin Ice. The... Read More

As we approach the twenty-first United Nations Conference of the Parties on climate change (COP 21), Equiterre and WWF-Canada...
Read More

Copenhagen Accord: Too much unfinished business

December 19, 2009

“Well meant but half-hearted pledges to protect our planet from dangerous climate change are simply not sufficient to address a crisis that calls for completely new ways of collaboration across rich and poor countries,”... Read More

“Well meant but half-hearted pledges to protect our planet from dangerous climate change are simply not sufficient to address...
Read More