WWF Macroeconomics Programme Office


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Escaping Poverty's Grasp: The Environmental Foundations of Poverty Reduction

"WWF's groundbreaking book and its 3xM Approach reflects Sida's development philosophy in many ways: it empowers the poor, links poverty reduction and the environment, and promotes change across the local, sub-national and national levels of societies.  For these reasons, the book sets standards that I believe all development projects should strive to meet.'

-Maria Norrfalk, Director General, Swedish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Sida)

Read more about Escaping Poverty's Grasp and the 3xM Approach.



Latest News & Publications


 
Fishing subsidies are contributing to an unprecedented crisis that is affecting the health of our oceans. It is estimated that more than three-quarters of the world’s fisheries are fished to their biological limits or beyond.

26 May 2008
Vast bounty at risk from under protected oceans
Bonn, May 26, 2008 –Oceans offer a vast bounty to mankind – in food, climate and coastal protection, medicine and new technologies – a new WWF Germany study of the ocean's value has found.  But the ocean's bounty is at risk from very low levels of protection from over-exploitation. » Read more

 
12 May 2008
Payment for Environmental Services Newsletter 28
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The WWF Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Programme Office seeks to promote the integration of environmental sustainability and social equity into economic development strategies at national and international levels.

Key Contacts

Brent Nordstrom
(Senior Program Officer)
WWF Macroeconomics Programme Office,
Washington DC

T: +1 202 778 9698
 
David Reed
(Program Representative/ Director)
WWF Macroeconomics Programme Office,
Washington DC

T: +1 202 778 9602

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