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We're working with business in three critical
conservation areas:

CLIMATE AND ENERGY

Businesses were among the most enthusiastic supporters of
the Paris Agreement, and its success depends heavily on their
ambitious commitments. To support this, we are a partner in the
Science Based Targets initiative, which calls on businesses to
reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions in line with keeping the
global temperature rise to well below 2°C. In the last 18 months,
more than 200 leading companies from 33 countries have come
on board. We also manage Climate Savers, a corporate leadership
sustainability programme that seeks to transform businesses into
leaders of the low-carbon economy. WWF currently collaborates
with 20 companies, with HP announcing in 2016 a new target to
reduce emissions by 25 per cent by 2025.

627million

Companies who joined Science
Based Targets cause 627 million
metric tonnes of CO2 emissions

COMMODITIES

Commodity production has a huge impact on the natural
world - but there are better alternatives to 'business as usual'.
Innovative companies can lead the way in transforming their
industries and pushing for sustainable production to be the norm.
Our partnership with IKEA, for example, has helped promote
responsible forest management and support improved livelihoods
for communities - contributing to the Forest Stewardship
Council (FSC) certification of around 35 million hectares of
forest since 2002. During 2016 alone, 1.7 million hectares of
forests were FSC-certified in Russia. The partnership is also
supporting the transformation of global cotton production -
securing a sustainable future for the industry while creating
benefits for communities and the environment. Collaborating
with other partners, WWF and IKEA helped set up the Better
Cotton Initiative (BCI), which now accounts for 12 per cent of
global supply.

FRESHWATER

Water issues are some of the biggest risks facing businesses and
the environment. WWF initiates collective action with local
stakeholders in key river systems to conserve and better manage
shared freshwater resources to benefit people, the planet and
businesses. Our five-year partnership with HSBC, for example,
has helped fund conservation in five key river basins (the Ganges,
Mara, Mekong, Pantanal and Yangtze) - home to more than a
billion people and with some of the planet's most biodiverse
areas. In 2016, restoration of 62 freshwater springs began across
15 of the 25 municipalities we targeted in the Pantanal, the
world's largest freshwater wetland. This is a vital step in securing
its future, amid threats from deforestation, habitat degradation
and poorly-planned development.

1.7million

In 2016, our IKEA partnership led
to FSC certification of 1.7 million
hectares of Russian forests

5

Our partnership with HSBC
supports conservation in
five key river basins

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