Climate Resources

Climate Displacement in Bangladesh

Publication date:
July 2, 2021
Bangladesh is at the epicenter of one of the world’s greatest environmental challenges: climate displacement. Nearly 2/3’s of the country is less than 5 meters above sea level, posing serious risks to millions of people as sea levels rise. Climate change is also increasing salinization, coastal and...Read more

Melting Glaciers Could Destabilize Asia

Publication date:
July 13, 2021
This opinion piece argues that climate-induced melting in the Himalayan glaciers will cause water management challenges in Asia. The piece cites the results of a study that shows that the melting of Himalayan glaciers has doubled in the last decade and highlights the already damaging dry seasons in...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Laos

ArcNet Brochure for Digital

Publication date:
July 16, 2021
ArcNet is a network of priority areas for marine conservation that spans the entire Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas. Conserving these ecosystems strengthens the resilience of Arctic biodiversity in the face of a rapidly changing climate. Learn what role we all can play in protecting the arctic in...Read more

Free Flowing Rivers Fact Sheet

Publication date:
July 16, 2021
To protect the world's most vital, free-flowing rivers, WWF is undertaking a four-part strategy that includes strategic energy and basin planning, policy protections for rivers and communities, advocacy and outreach, and science and thought leadership (WWF Description). This fact sheet...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Global

Connected & Flowing - A Renewable Future for Rivers, Climate, and People

Publication date:
July 16, 2021
The world faces multiple critical and intertwined challenges: expanding electricity generation to meet the needs of growing economies and to supply power to the more than one billion people who currently lack access while reducing greenhouse gas emissions to nearly zero by 2050 – all while...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Global

Climate Change & Water - Why Valuing Rivers is Critical to Adaptation

Publication date:
July 16, 2021
This report shows that freshwater conservation issues must be at the heart of the climate agenda and efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13. While freshwater is a major conduit through which climate impacts are felt, it can also play a central role in climate adaptation and...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Global

Royal Caribbean and WWF 2018 Partnership Report

Publication date:
July 16, 2021
In 2016, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., partnered to help ensure the long-term health of the oceans. To support this audacious goal, we took two approaches: improving Royal Caribbean's operations and supply chains and leveraging our influence more broadly among...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Global

Proceedings of Bhutan's National Water Symposium 2017

Publication date:
July 16, 2021
With support from the USAID-funded WWF Asia High Mountains Project, UWICER organized Bhutan's second National Water Symposium in May 2017. This symposium brought together water resources professionals and agencies to take stock of current water resource knowledge in Bhutan and to identify...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Bhutan

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