Russia is the 3rd largest emitter of greenhouse gases after the United States and China. Greenhouse gases are the main reason and root cause of human-induced climate change, which results in global warming and weather chaos worldwide and a sharp increase in number and scale of natural disasters. The Arctic tundrapermafrost area, which occupies about 60% of the total area of Russia, will become the region most affected by global warming.

WWF-Russia Climate Programme is aimed at curbing global CO₂ emissions and helping ecosystems adapt to new climate patterns.

Thanks to efforts of progressive forces, including WWF and other non-government organizations Russia has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, which is a major agreement on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, raising energy efficiency and cutting energy consumption.

About 80% of the total number of Russian publications on human-induced climate change are produced in collaboration with WWF-Russia. The number of Russians aware of the problem is growing considerably every year thanks to these publications.

By issuing special ecoregional «climate passports» WWF contributes to making expert decisions on nature conservation, sustainable use of natural resources and stable economic growth in the regions. WWF has already provided the Altai-Sayan and Chukotka ecoregions, the Kola and Taiymyr ecoregions peninsulas with «climate passports».

WWF leads an active information campaign on adoption of global target of climate change limitation at the level of 2 degrees Celsius of global warming above pre-industrial level. This is request to global and Russian energy development to reduce emissions properly to keep climate safely for ecosystems and human being. new technologies of power production and transmission and energy consumption, conducts ecological and economic researches aimed at implementation of these technologies in Russia.