Latest Reports
How low can we go?
An assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from the UK food system and the scope for reduction by 2050
Achieving our potential
An analysis of area-based approaches to improving energy efficiency in Scotland’s homes
Major tipping points in the Earth's climate system
The world is dangerously close to reaching temperature thresholds – or “tipping points” – that can unleash devastating environmental, social and economic changes, according to a new report released by WWF and Allianz. Carried out by the Tyndall Centre, ‘Major Tipping Points in the Earth’s Climate System and Consequences for the Insurance Sector’ shows that, without immediate action, sea level rise on the East Coast of the USA, the shift to an arid climate in California, disturbances of the Indian Summer Monsoon in India and Nepal or the dieback of the Amazon rainforest due to increasing drought, are likely to affect hundreds millions of people and cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
Sharing the effort under a global carbon budget
Globally, greenhouse gas emissions need to decline by at least 80% below 1990 levels by 2050 in order for the world to stay below 2°C of warming. To inform the international debate, WWF asked the leading energy research consultancy ECOFYS to elaborate on the practicalities and implications of some suggested methodologies for sharing out this global carbon budget.
Climate Solutions 2 - Full report
The world must initiate a low carbon industrial revolution by 2014 or runaway climate change will become almost inevitable, according to this new report.
Climate Solutions 2 - Executive summary
The world must initiate a low carbon industrial revolution by 2014 or runaway climate change will become almost inevitable, according to this new report.
Reduction of carbon emissions associated with deforestation in Brazil
Approximately half of the remaining Amazon forests are protected areas.
80% challenge - delivering a low carbon UK
Delivering a low carbon UK - report