WWF in 2025: A year of ambitious action

WWF’s Annual Review 2025 highlights the strong progress we made in the past year against the nature loss and climate crises – and the many challenges still to come.

2025 saw WWF, alongside partners and supporters, continue our critically important efforts to build a sustainable future for life on Earth.

The pressures on people and nature remain immense. Global temperatures continue to rise, nature loss persists and communities everywhere grapple with the daily realities of environmental change.

Yet, 2025 offered something vital – proof that progress is possible.

From breakthroughs in global finance to community-led conservation, the past months have shown what happens when ambition and action combine. Here are some examples of what has been achieved:

• The launch of the new Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), set to be the biggest fund ever to support tropical forest conservation. Backed by WWF, the TFFF aims to raise US$125 billion from governments and private investors to create an investment fund that will channel an anticipated US$4 billion each year into keeping forests standing.
• The ratification of the WWF-backed high seas treaty by the 60 countries needed to ensure it came into force. Finally, there will be a legally binding mechanism for creating protected areas and acting against harmful activities in areas of the ocean beyond national control.
• The landmark advisory opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice, following submissions from WWF and others. It recognized that states have obligations to avoid harmful impacts from greenhouse gas emissions to the climate system and to nature.
• WWF’s new People Powering Biodiversity project, which is helping to accelerate efforts to halt and reverse nature loss through community-led conservation in Papua New Guinea, Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Tunisia and Viet Nam.
• The incredible support for WWF’s Earth Hour by individuals, communities and organizations in almost 120 countries and territories during the symbolic switch-off. People also committed a record-breaking three million hours of their time to take action for the planet.

2025 marked the midpoint in a decade that will determine the future of life on Earth.

The science is clear: without more urgent action now, the impacts of nature loss and climate change will lead to irreversible, potentially catastrophic consequences.

The path we now take toward 2030 must therefore be driven by ambition, urgency and action at scale.

We took a giant leap forward in meeting that challenge in 2025 through an important new alignment of our global network, active in more than 100 countries, around efforts to reverse nature loss and stabilize the climate.

Kirsten Schuijt, WWF International Director General, said: “The next steps in our long journey toward a sustainable future for people and nature are clear: accelerating proven solutions, embedding nature in the decisions that shape economies and keeping people at the centre of every action we take.

“I believe deeply that the world can, and will, rise to this moment.”

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Turtle monitoring around Dravuni Island, Fiji. WWF has long backed the efforts of the local community to increase local sea turtle populations, which have been hard hit by threats such as fishing bycatch, poaching and climate change. © WWF-Pacific / Tom Vierus