Our Solutions
WWF on climate change
Adapting for the storm
WWF recommends three key climate change adaptation strategies to reduce vulnerability across the region. These include:
- the protection of regional ecosystems.
- a reduction in non-climate stresses such as unsustainable infrastructure and over extraction of natural resources.
- the implementation of a regional climate change adaptation agreement.
WWF on hydropower
WWF makes these recommendations to the governments of the Greater Mekong region as sustainable way forward on hydropower development.
- The 1995 agreement of the Mekong River Commission should be fully recognized and endorsed.
- A 10-year delay in the approval of the mainstream dams should be agreed upon to fully consider the costs and benefits of their construction and operation.
- Greater Mekong region governments can meet their immediate energy needs from multiple hydropower projects on selected Mekong tributaries. These too need to be assessed for their overall costs and benefits.
For the people of Greater Mekong region to conserve the region’s natural heritage and move on a more sustainable development path.
WWF's goal in the Greater Mekong
Get more
- WWF Greater Mekong Programme Brochure OCT 09 1.43 MB pdf
Conservation across borders
WWF is implementing a comprehensive, large-scale conservation programme that spans 600,000 km2 of the world's most biologically diverse, economically valuable and seriously threatened forests and rivers of the Greater Mekong region.
In the Greater Mekong we have:- More than 3 decades of local experience
- Presence in 4 countries and Yunnan Province in China
- 350 staff
- Invited by 5 out of the 6 Greater Mekong region governments to work in the region
Our work is focused within four priority ecoregions:
These ecoregions are transboundary in design, the Mekong River, for example, is a resource shared by all the countries within the Greater Mekong.
Across the region, WWF works with communities, governments and industry to:
- Promote sustainable hydropower in the lower Mekong River basin
- Support protected area managers and communities to help maintain and protect forest and freshwater habitats
- Develop responses to threats posed by climate change
- Ensure conservation of viable populations of flagship species
- Capacity-building to create the next generation of environmental leaders
