EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner.

Responding to Climate Change

Climate change has been a priority for WWF for over 20 years, a period in which scientists, policy experts and conservationists have increasingly worked together to understand the causes and impacts of climate change and determine how to steer a path to both climate stability and protection of the world’s natural resources. These have been perhaps the most important decades in what is now more than 100 years of the scientific community’s study of the world’s climate.