Publications
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WWF‚'S Rapid Assessment of Circus-Arctic Ecosystem Resilience (RACER) presents a new tool for identifying and mapping places of conservation importance throughout the Arctic. This introductory handbook is intended as a general roadmap to the RACER method. It describes the approach and its use of the best available data to create maps of arctic key features as targets for future conservation efforts.
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Codex Planetarius is a proposal for global system of minimum environmental performance levels to produce food traded internationally. This would help to monitor the health of renewable environmental resources impacted by food production and provide incentives to farmers and countries to enter global markets. The idea is loosely based on the existing Codex Alimentarius, the only internationally recognized set of standards to ensure food is safe and can be traded.
This concept was developed through The Markets Institute @ WWF.
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Monarch butterflies are highly sensitive to weather and climate, however, they also have a high capacity to adapt to longer term changes in climate. Explore this and other traits which make monarch butterflies vulnerable to climate change, as well as recommended climate-adaptive management strategies.
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Polar bears rely almost entirely on the sea ice environment for traveling, hunting, mating and resting. Global warming and subsequent ice loss has been most pronounced in the Arctic, and this trend is projected to continue. Explore this and other traits which make polar bears vulnerable to climate change, as well as recommended climate-adaptive management strategies.
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New analysis by WWF finds that over 85 percent of global fish stocks can be considered at significant risk of Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. This evaluation is based on the most recent comprehensive estimates of IUU fishing and includes the world's major commercial stocks or species groups, such as all those that are regularly assessed by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
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This briefing paper provides and overview on how the private sector can‚ – and already is‚ – helping deliver on global goals, particularly the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #6 on ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.