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OUR G L O B A L WOR K
GOOD GOVERNANCE IS CRITICAL FOR SECURING CONSERVATION THAT IS JUST,
EQUITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE. OUR WORK FOCUSES ON TACKLING CORRUPTION, EXCLUSION,
POOR PLANNING, WEAK ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS AND THE SHRINKING OF CIVIC SPACE.
SPEAKING UP FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Campaigning by a coalition of hundreds of
civil society groups, including WWF, finally
paid off last year when 193 UN member states
recognized the universal right to a clean,
healthy and sustainable environment. The
prestigious 2023 United Nations Human Rights
Prize has since been awarded to the coalition
in recognition of their efforts. The right fills a
long-standing gap in the international human
rights framework. It also has potentially
wide-ranging positive impacts on nature as it
includes rights to clean air, a safe and stable
climate, healthy and sustainable food, safe
water and adequate sanitation, non-toxic
environments and healthy ecosystems.
The resolution is not legally binding on UN
member states. But it does provide a powerful
tool for citizens across the globe to hold
their governments accountable, as witnessed
by recent action from young people across
several countries who successfully took their
governments to court over the failure to protect
their right to a healthy environment.
COUNTERING CORRUPTION
We launched the Countering Environmental
Corruption Practitioners Forum - a
partnership with Transparency International,
TRAFFIC and the Basel Institute - to bring
together conservationists and anti-corruption
specialists. The forum has over 500 members,
and meets quarterly to identify ways to
address corruption linked to environmental
degradation, biodiversity loss and
climate change.
UKRAINE'S GREEN RECOVERY
A report from WWF-Ukraine brought
attention to the risk of corruption in
reconstruction finance in the agriculture,
forestry and energy sectors, and how this
could affect nature in the country.
Following on from this, we co-hosted events
at the London Ukraine Reconstruction
Conference and have been working with
international donors, Ukrainian government
departments and other partners to support
a green recovery.
SUSTAINABLE DECISION MAKING
WWF-Pakistan worked with the wildlife
department of Gilgit-Baltistan to carry
out the first ever road ecology study in the
Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalaya landscape,
a key habitat for snow leopards. Building on
this work, the Gilgit-Baltistan government
asked for our help to identify and design
wildlife corridors and crossings for snow
leopards and their prey species.
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