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  • Amid rising climate extremes and mounting water crises, WWF‚'s Drop by Drop 2024 report offers a powerful glimpse into how collective action can transform water stewardship across the textile and apparel industry. Through on-the-ground programs in five key river basins‚ – spanning T√ºrkiye, Pakistan, Viet Nam, India, and China‚ – WWF and its partners have delivered measurable progress: saving millions of liters of water, piloting regenerative cotton farming, restoring freshwater habitats, advancing green financing, and scaling wastewater reuse. These efforts not only help safeguard biodiversity and bolster climate resilience but also offer a blueprint for sustainable industry transformation. Dive into the full report to discover how shared water challenges can be met with shared solutions.

  • Coastal communities have so many benefits to brag about. They‚'re great places to work, recreate, and raise families, and their beautiful ocean vistas have even been shown to reduce stress and stimulate dopamine. But did you know that your community also has another bragworthy hidden benefit that adds to those already great things? Let‚'s take a dive under the surface of your "blue front yard" to discover more about how kelp cultivation is benefiting your community and the planet. 

    Infographic Series

    1. The VIP Under the Sea
    2. Boast About Your Coast
    3. What to Know About the Grow
    4. Innovation That Helps Conservation

  • People often assume seaweed is only grown for food. But industries of all kinds are using this environmentally optimal, fast-growing, and low-resource crop in exciting ways to improve their business models, protect their supply chains, and ensure sustainable practices that protect the climate and the world.

    Infographic Series

    1. The VIP Under the Sea
    2. Boast About Your Coast
    3. What to Know About the Grow
    4. Innovation That Helps Conservation

  • Every step of the seaweed farming process is designed to have a minimal environmental footprint, making it far more climate friendly than many kinds of land-based farming. The process is also community friendly because it brings new enterprise to the area, provides extra opportunities for seasonal fishers, and protects fish stocks and coastlines.

    Infographic Series

    1. The VIP Under the Sea
    2. Boast About Your Coast
    3. What to Know About the Grow
    4. Innovation That Helps Conservation

  • WWF has established the following position on plastic crediting and plastic neutrality.

    Updated May 2025. Originally published January 2021.

  • Recognizing the need for a cross-sector approach, the Bioplastic Feedstock Alliance developed a vision for an integrated circular bioeconomy that communicates the role of biobased resources, responsible sourcing, and end of life. This vision recognizes the complexity of shared biobased feedstocks across sectors and applications, the need for a common set of sustainability criteria, and the potential benefits and consequences, and calls on several stakeholder groups to realize this potential.

  • Critical Minerals at a Critical Moment examines the intersection of energy transition minerals (ETM) mining with global biodiversity, presenting a comprehensive analysis of spatial overlap between ETM extraction sites and key biodiversity areas (KBAs). The study reveals significant findings about the comparative footprint of ETM versus fossil fuel mining and identifying active and planned ETM mines that intersect with KBAs.

    Through detailed spatial analysis, the report provides essential data on current impacts while outlining practical pathways for minimizing biodiversity loss through strategic planning, improved governance, and circular economy solutions. These findings offer critical insights for policymakers and industry leaders working to achieve both clean energy deployment and nature conservation goals.

  • The Seafood Exporter Toolkit equips stakeholders with the knowledge and resources to navigate seafood import regulations and advocate for stronger, more harmonized import control schemes. By fostering collaboration, transparency, and responsible trade, the seafood industry can move toward a more ethical, sustainable, and competitive future.

  • HOW TO USE THIS WORKSHEET

    This worksheet has been designed to supplement use of the Global Farm Loss Tool.

    This worksheet is intended as a convenient document to use for writing down your data. It may be simpler to print this out or download it as an Excel while in the field. It is not mandatory and does not run any calculations.

    This sheet is to be used for gathering data on the AMOUNT of crop unharvested. It can also be used to write down the AMOUNT of crop lost at further stages beyond the field.

    The information entered on this sheet can subsequently be used as the data inputs for the global online Farm Loss Tool.

    A few important notes:

    • This sheet does not include all the data inputs that are in the online Farm Loss Tool at www.globalfarmlosstool.org. The data inputs included are those that you'd be collecting 'in-field' and may not have stored in other farm records.
    • This sheet does not perform any of the calculations that are available in the Farm Loss Tool to extrapolate or otherwise evaluate the total amount of unharvested/unsold product.
    • If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]
    • You can print this to write down details from the in-field sampling (or further stage data collection), or download it as an Excel to a device and enter the information electronically. This may be valuable where it's awkward (e.g., rainy) or difficult (e.g., no cell signal) to capture data directly in the online beta Farm Loss Tool.
    • Further details, explanations, and definitions can all be found in Guidance document that accompanies the Farm Loss Tool

  • Since the release of the Forest, Land and Agriculture (FLAG) guidance and FLAG Target-Setting Tool by the Science Based Targets initiative, companies have moved quickly. This report, The First 100+ FLAG Targets: Forests, Land and Agriculture Under the Science Based Targets initiative, began as a review of the first 100‚ – but the number of FLAG targets surpassed that milestone well before publication, reflecting the growing recognition of the land sector‚'s importance for corporate climate leadership.

    From FLAG‚'s start in September 2022 to the end of 2024, more than 149 companies validated targets‚ – with that number recently surpassing 200. Also by the end of 2024, 27 FLAG companies were among those linked to the greatest tropical deforestation risk‚ – showing that even the highest-impact actors are engaging with land sector mitigation.

    The report documents what land sector mitigation levers companies are mentioning in their transition plans and public reporting, underscoring how integral companies consider land sector mitigation to their climate strategies. For some, this includes integrating land sector emissions into inventories for the first time, making first-time no-deforestation commitments, or accelerating timelines for action. Companies with FLAG targets span sectors and geographies and are acting across multiple points in the value chain‚ – from producers and traders to retailers.

    The First 100+ FLAG Targets captures a snapshot of this critical moment in the evolution of corporate climate action.