Footprint | WWF

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Zimbabwe

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Introduction

WWF’s second meta-goal is to reduce humankind’s Ecological Footprint so that we live within the renewable resource limits of our planet. This builds on strong foundations and targets humanity’s carbon, commodity and water footprints which have the greatest impact on biodiversity.

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Forests

In June , the Indonesian Government extended the moratorium on deforestation by two years, in a move that will prohibit new logging permits for primary forest and peatlands in high conservation value forests and plantations, covering an area of 43 million hectares.

WWF has renewed calls for zero-burn policies to be enacted as satellites show that almost 90 per cent of the fire hotspots that blanketed Singapore and parts of Malaysia with the worst haze since 1997 were in Indonesia’s Riau Province on the island of Sumatra.

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Freshwater

Thirty countries have acceded to the UN global convention on transboundary river use – only five countries are now needed for the bedrock agreement to come into force. WWF has worked for a decade to realise this convention, as it establishes the rights and duties of states sharing freshwater systems and fosters interstate cooperation.

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Marine

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Climate

The climate change plan announced in June by US President Barack Obama will place limits on carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants – the largest source of carbon emissions in the US – and eliminate public funding for such plants overseas.

Mexico launched a 2050 Climate Change Vision which charts the path to a low carbon future, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50 per cent against 2000 levels.

Climate change is happening faster, more intensely and often at unprecedented rates of change according to the Fifth Assessment Working Group 1 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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