Solutions

Action is necessary, feasible and desirable

WWF has experts working around the world to save our climate:

Some of the ways we are working to ensure have a living planet include:

• Emission Reductions
  We urge industrialized countries to reduce their current levels of CO₂ emissions – the emissions should peak and start to reduce within the next 5 to 8 years. This is especially true for the power sector which is the largest polluting sector (40% of global climate damaging emissions).
• Business Action
  We form progressive partnerships with businesses and industries to identify ways how they can reduce their emissions, and how they can influence their sectors and markets to become super-energy efficient and carbon-neutral.
• Developing World
  With developing countries such as India, China and Brazil, we seek ways to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions while pursuing local development goals - providing clean energy to those without any energy services.
• Communities and Nature
  We help communities and conservation areas adapt to a changing climate. Actions such as restoring damaged forests, wetlands, and other habitats increase their resilience, help protect nature, and generate income for local people. Without such work, climate change could well be the final blow to already stressed ecosystems and the human populations that depend on them.

There's no shortage of solutions - we must act NOW, and we can!

In 2005, wind power was again the world's fastest growing energy source. This shows that the technologies to reduce Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) emissions and solve global warming are already available - and there is willingness to use these technologies. These renewable energy sources work and they're cost effective.

Renewable energy sources, like wind and solar power, produce no global warming pollution. And let us not forget, global warming inevitably affects people as well as the environment. Using renewable energy sources also cuts other air pollution that aggravates people's asthma and contributes to acid rain.