Copenhagen, Denmark – Ministers arriving for the high level segment of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen are being urged to not get distracted from a goal of preserving the world from climate catastrophe.

Europe can choose a path to prosperity on a new economic footing or continue to fumble along the dead end track of propping up fading industries, WWF said today in advance of tomorrow’s key European Council meeting which is expected to largely shape the EU position heading into the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in December

On 28 March 2009 millions of people around the globe will unite for one hour and switch off their lights to show that they care about our living planet.

The world is heading for an ecological credit crunch as human demands on the world's natural capital reach nearly a third more than earth can sustain.

An Article of Olivier van Bogaert, a Senior Press Officer at WWF International

Pasaules Dabas fonds has a mission: to concerve biodiversity and ecological processes. Today, biodiversity is being lost and ecological processes are being degraded at increasing speed because of the pressure that, directly or indirectly, human economies are imposing on nature. Ecological footprint is a measure of human pressure on nature.