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Världsnaturfonden WWF (WWF Sweden)

WWF’s mission is to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the world’s biological diversity; ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Pär Holmgren (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

19 Dec 2024 · Forest Monitoring Law

Meeting with Jonas Sjöstedt (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Oct 2024 · Climate/environment

Meeting with Karin Karlsbro (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Coalition Clean Baltic

15 Oct 2024 · Hearing om framtida strömmingsfiske

Meeting with Pär Holmgren (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Oct 2024 · Environmental priorities

Meeting with Emma Wiesner (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Oct 2024 · Prioriteringar för den nya mandatperioden.

Meeting with Pär Holmgren (Member of the European Parliament)

19 Feb 2024 · European election 2024

Meeting with Jessica Polfjärd (Member of the European Parliament)

9 Feb 2024 · EU:s klimatpolitik

Meeting with Jakop G. Dalunde (Member of the European Parliament) and Greenpeace European Unit and Swedish Society for Nature Conservation

31 Aug 2023 · Fit for 55 and the future of Swedish Climate politics

Meeting with Heléne Fritzon (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Jul 2023 · Möte med Världsnaturfonden (WWF Sverige) (APA-level)

Meeting with Karin Karlsbro (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Feb 2023 · Meeting on current topics relating to environment and climate

Meeting with Florika Fink-Hooijer (Director-General Environment)

8 Feb 2023 · WWF Sweden presented their position related to Nature Restoration Law

Meeting with Pascal Canfin (Member of the European Parliament) and Association Française des Entreprises Privées / French Association of Large Companies and Fundacja WWF Polska

8 Feb 2023 · Green Deal

Meeting with Karin Karlsbro (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Jan 2023 · Strategic lunch on environmental matters

Meeting with Pär Holmgren (Member of the European Parliament)

19 Jan 2023 · Food systems policy (staff level)

Meeting with Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner) and

19 Sept 2022 · To discuss the pollution incident that is currently ongoing along the Oder River

Meeting with Jakop G. Dalunde (Member of the European Parliament) and Swedish Society for Nature Conservation

1 Jun 2022 · Roundtable: Fit for 55

Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President) and Swedish Forest Industries Federation and

31 Mar 2022 · Forest policy and the EU Green Deal roundtable discussion

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen) and Fern

16 Jun 2021 · Discuss RED forest biomass sustainability criteria

Response to EU Forest Strategy

4 Dec 2020

WWF Sweden input to road map on the development of an EU forest strategy WWF Sweden appreciates the direction given in the road map towards a common EU forest strategy. A common results-oriented, cross-boundary forest strategy is needed to foster stronger coordination between national forest policies and the European Green Deal’s objectives. The climate and biodiversity crisis demands dedicated and collaborative efforts across Europe that can be monitored and evaluated. EU policy/competences related to forests such as climate, environment, rural development, agriculture need to be integrated. Important areas to be incorporated and developed in the forest strategy are: - The forest strategy needs to ensure consistency with international commitments, reinforcing EU’s international leadership. - The forest strategy needs to incorporate, clarify, and push for both EU normative compliance, e.g. directives, but also meaningful non-normative measures such as collaborative and multi stakeholder learning, to achieve European Green Deal. - The forest strategy needs to reinforce that the EU 2030 biodiversity strategy has precedence over and should guide the forest strategy to mitigate further habitat fragmentation/degradation, enhance forest protection and promote restoration to meet the EU biodiversity and climate objectives. Conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem functions is a prerequisite for sustainable economic development. - The forest strategy needs to promote movement towards sustainable forest management practices and give priority to close-to-nature forestry. - The forest strategy ambition to plant three billion trees within the EU should give priority to efforts to restore/enhance conservation and social values rather than to establish monoculture plantations. Where and how should follow best scientific advice. - The forest strategy should address economy as multi-dimensional. Focus should be on reduced consumption, innovation and added value in forest supply chains, rather than boosting unsustainable production and extraction of forest biomass. It should recognize ecosystem resilience as a prerequisite for sustainable production and economies. - The forest strategy should encourage the cascading use of forest biomass and discourage the use of primary forest biomass for energy at industrial scale, especially coarse wood such as stem wood and stumps. - A strong cooperation with foresters, farmers and local communities is appreciated. However, the forest strategy needs to acknowledge the role of non-government organizations as stakeholders to build legitimacy in MS societies. - The forest strategy should incorporate mapping and transparency of biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services to support knowledge-based decision making at landscape level in MS and EU. - We welcome the process to define the terms “primary forests”, “old-growth forests” and “strict protection”. However, terms such as “restoration”, “sustainable forest management”, “unsustainable practices” and “close-to-nature forestry” also need clarification. This to facilitate common understanding and desired results. - The forest strategy should incorporate tangible actions that support rural and equitable development to mitigate tensions and build acceptance for the protection and restoration of forest ecosystems. - It is of essence to improve monitoring of forest ecosystems in the EU. We suggest including the following in the forest strategy: o Clear indicators, base lines, and targets at EU level per forest strategy objective. o Bi-annual MS reports with relevant base lines, indicators, and targets and targets aligned with EU indicators and contributing to EU targets, but also including MS efforts made and implementation forward. o Bi-annual EU State of the forest assessment report based on MS reports Please find additional information in the attached file
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Response to 2030 Climate Target Plan

15 Apr 2020

The Inception Impact Assessment on the 2030 Climate Pact must align the EU’s climate efforts to a pathway compatible to limiting global temperatures to 1.5°C and to a just transition which leaves no one behind. The Commission’s impact assessment proposes to assess the impact of increasing the 2030 climate target from 40% to at least 50% and towards 55% in a responsible way. But the latest scientific evidence shows that this target range is clearly inadequate to limit global temperatures to 1.5°C as agreed by the European Union under the Paris Agreement. As the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2019 makes clear, global emissions need to be cut by 7.6% per year, starting now, in order to limit global warming to 1.5°C. For the EU – even without taking into account equity-related issues such as per capita emissions or responsibility for historical emissions – this means a cut of 68% by 2030 relative to 1990 levels. WWF’s position is that the EU should be aiming to cut emissions by 2030 by at least 65%, and to review this target following the global stocktake under the Paris Agreement in 2023. WWF therefore calls for the Inception Impact Assessment to assess the impacts of increasing the 2030 EU GHG reductions target to 65%. Increasing the pace of decarbonisation in light of the Paris Agreement’s objective to limit global temperatures to 1.5°C is also in line with the principle of a just transition which leaves no one behind. Ensuring a just transition does not equate to slowing the transition nor reducing its ambition. Indeed, in many cases, higher ambition accompanied by a managed, supported and planned transition can bring more benefits to communities and the most vulnerable than by taking a slower route to climate neutrality. This is for 2 principle reasons: first, climate change most negatively impacts the most vulnerable and least able to adapt in society and second, it locks communities into a longer transition. So-called bridging technologies such as fossil gas require significant investments which can take up to 30 years to be recuperated and the infrastructure is of little to no use in a fully-climate neutral system. The burden of the climate impacts and the costs of potentially stranded assets are paid by taxpayers rather than the polluters. When setting ambition, it is therefore essential to consider the need for decisive, substantial and consistent financing of investments to enable a faster and more direct transition. Investments in energy efficiency accelerate the transition and represent no regret solutions generating many jobs and simultaneously addressing energy poverty. Likewise, significant, early and direct support to renewables heating systems including notably by subsidising a direct switch from coal to heat pumps or other renewable heat sources will assist vulnerable and poorer communities and reduce the overall cost of the transition. A just transition means that the transition to climate neutrality leaves no one behind. Costs are equitably shared and benefits spread equally. Put another way, it means that inequalities do no increase, or may even be decreased by the transition. The costs of the transition should be considered over the long term and any public support should be targeted at no regret options in the transition that place the wellbeing and empowerment of people first.
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Response to EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy

20 Jan 2020

WWF welcomes the ambition of the Commission to curtail biodiversity loss and to present a Biodiversity Strategy, outlining the EU’s ambition for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework and EU commitments to address the main causes of biodiversity loss. For the 2030 Biodiversity Strategy to be effective, the following is needed: - The biodiversity strategy must set out legally binding targets for the EU and its Member States, on how the EU and Member States intend to halt the loss of biodiversity and help restore nature, both in the EU and globally, by 2030. - The strategy should make full use of the existing EU environmental acquis and ensure Member States fully implement environmental and nature legislation (Birds and Habitat Directive, Marine Strategy Framework Directive, Maritime Spatial Planning Directive and Water Framework Directive). - The strategy should contain tools for mobilising investment to ensure sufficient additional financing for nature conservation and restoration. The EU needs to fully phase out all environmentally harmful subsidies like those fueling overfishing, intensification of agriculture and small hydropower development. Regarding the elements proposed in the roadmap, WWF’ main comments are: - Merely “promoting” the sustainable use of forest, agriculture, marine, freshwater and urban ecosystems is not ambitious given that land and sea use and direct exploitation of natural resources, are the two most impactful drivers of biodiversity loss. - The biodiversity strategy needs to contain SMART and enforceable targets to effectively address the main drivers of biodiversity loss. - It is particularly important to identify interventions and funding needed from the CAP to minimise negative impacts of intensive agriculture (including safeguards to prevent perverse subsidies) and incentivise agro-ecological and high nature value farming practices. - The elements proposed are very EU focused but EU consumption is leading to destruction of biodiversity in other regions. In its recent Communication, the EC recognised that EU consumption represents 10% of the global share of deforestation embodied in total final consumption of commodities like palm oil, beef, soy, cocoa, maize, timber and rubber. This must be reflected by concrete actions in the roadmap. - Focus on the implementation and enforcement of existing environmental and nature legislation (BHD, MSFD, MSPD, WFD) is missing. The following objectives and commitments should be included in the 2030 Biodiversity Strategy: - Ensuring that by 2030 all species protected under the Habitats Directive are in a favourable or improved conservation status, and that all species protected under the Birds Directive show a secure or improved status. - Ensuring that by 2030, well managed and connected PA’s cover at least 30% of the EU’s land and sea, including 10% non-intervention areas/no-take zones. - A new EU law to restore nature for biodiversity and climate. This law should focus on the restoration of natural forests, peatlands, floodplains, wetlands, biodiversity rich grasslands, coastal zones, degraded seafloor and marine areas to help mitigate and adapt to climate change, and provide a home for European species. - Bringing EU surface and ground waters back to good health by 2027 at the very latest, as set out by the WFD and in line with the zero pollution commitment in the EU Green Deal. This implies not revising the WFD and strengthening its implementation, including by removing barriers (such as obsolete dams) from European rivers. - Urgently achieving Good Environmental Status in EU marine waters committed for 2020 and protecting the resource base upon which marine economic and social activities depend, as set out by the MSFD. - New legislation, as part of broader EU action, stopping products that lead to deforestation, ecosystem destruction and human violations from being placed on the EU market.
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