About Climate Witness
Climate Witness works with people who have takenan interest in and observed climate change relatedimpacts in their local environment and communities.
We ask Climate Witnesses to share their experienceswith WWF and other members of the public, and engagethem in WWF’s climate solutions.By working with
local people to nd
out what is chang-ing and how it isaffecting their com-munities — andsharing these sto-ries with the world— WWF is moreable to achieve theclimate change goals it has set, such as helping reducegreenhouse gases to keep the world below 2 degreesCelsius and on track to avoiding dangerous climatechange.
WWF Climate Witness works with individuals and com-munities around the world to document their stories of climate change impacts and share them widely as apowerful way to illustrate to decision makers the realimpact that climate change is having on people’s lives
here and now
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climate
WITNESS
Jalaluddin Saha points out the location of his previous home before it was washed away in theSundarbans Delta. India.
Credit: WWF-India
In 1992, the earthen embankment gave way and about 100 of uslost our homes and land.
Dongjun Roongruang, Thailand
C r e d i t : P h u r b a S h e r p a
Ruth Hartwig-Kruse, Germany
C r e d i t : W W F - G e r m a n y
Penina Moce, Fiji
C r e d i t : W W F - S o u t h P a c i f c
Vladilen Kavry, Russia
C r e d i t : W W F - R u s s i a
Achieving conservation success
Climate Witness is also regarded as the frst step
towards engaging WWF’s global network to assistcommunities to adapt to climate change.
Climate Witness projects can provide guidance on the
type of work that WWF eld staff or other agencies can
undertake to help communities adapt to climate change.It is an effective approach for engaging all stakeholdersand incorporating climate change adaptation into a longterm conservation approach.
WWF’s climate change work
Climate change threatens to jeopardise the world’sbiological diversity and adversely affect the lives of millions of people.
In addition, there is a general lack of political leader-ship on climate change issues at the international level.WWF will exert greater pressure on governments bydrastically increasing the sense of urgency among thepublic in key countries and engage them in climate andenergy issues. To do this, WWF will focus its communi-cations on the impacts to people using Climate Witness.More about WWF’s climate change work:www.panda.org/climate
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