HP and WWF Announce Bold Partnership Expansion to Conserve and Restore Forests
26 Outubro 2021 - 9:30AM
Today, in advance of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the
Parties (COP26), HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) announced an $80 million
partnership expansion with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to further its
commitment to forest conservation as part of HP’s comprehensive
climate action strategy. By doing so, HP raises the bar for
corporate leadership on nature-based solutions as the first company
to pilot science-based targets for forests with WWF and becomes
WWF’s largest U.S. corporate partner to-date.
While HP already maintains zero-deforestation status for its HP
paper and paper-based packaging, this collaboration will support
HP’s growing series of commitments to forest conservation around
the world. It will also enable HP to make progress on its goal to
counterbalance forest resources attributable to non-HP paper used
in its products and print services by 2030.¹
Nearly half of all global forests are under threat of
deforestation and forest degradation. This represents a major risk
to biodiversity, water, people and businesses that depend on
healthy forests. Research shows that nature-based solutions, such
as sustainable land management and forest protection and
restoration, can contribute up to 30 percent of the climate
mitigation needed by 2050 to meet the Paris Agreement’s objective
of limiting climate change to 1.5oC. Conserving forests is one of
the ways HP is combating climate change.
“At HP, we understand this decade is critical for addressing
climate change. Given the impact forests have on the air we
breathe, habitats for wildlife, and the livelihoods of communities
around the world, they are critical for human survival as well as
material to our business,” said James McCall, chief sustainability
officer, HP Inc. “This partnership is designed to help
counterbalance every page printed on an HP printer by regenerating
critical forest ecosystems globally. Forest positive printing
has the potential to ensure a better future for everyone,
everywhere.”
HP first announced its Forest Positive vision for print in
2019,3 pledging to “give back to the forest more than it takes.” To
realize its Forest Positive vision, HP and its partners are working
together to conserve vital forest ecosystems.
“To truly solve the dual climate and nature crises, we need
companies to go even further than their immediate supply chains,”
said Carter Roberts, president & CEO of WWF. “Solving these
problems means taking responsibility for emissions and
environmental impacts from the entire life cycle of a company’s
products. By pledging to address forest resources used for paper
outside its supply chain, HP is accelerating ambition for corporate
climate and nature commitments. And by helping us pioneer the
development of science-based targets for forests, HP is building a
road map for others to follow.”
A First-of-Its-Kind Partnership This expanded
$80 million partnership with WWF will address 17 million metric
tons of paper used in both consumer and commercial HP printers over
10 years. That is equivalent to sustainably managing, restoring and
protecting nearly 1 million acres (384,000 hectares) of forest. By
regenerating forest health at a scale that considers not just HP
brand paper but the total amount of paper run through its printers,
HP is making a bold commitment to protect nature as one of the
first technology companies to consider its broader downstream
environmental impact in addition to its carbon emissions from its
own operations and value chain.
This announcement also builds on HP’s support of WWF’s
development of science-based targets for forests. HP is the first
company to pilot science-based targets for forests by applying a
new methodology developed by WWF to estimate the impacts more
comprehensively on forestlands from printing. Based on those
estimated impacts, HP will protect, restore and improve
the management of a requisite area of forests.
Models developed with funding from HP will help identify key
regions of the world for forest conservation and better estimate
the carbon and nature benefits of forest actions. HP is helping
advance this new movement to ensure nature-based solutions are
informed by the best available science and protecting co-benefits
forest ecosystems provide for people, plants and animals.
Accelerating Our ImpactPrior to this expansion,
HP and WWF began working together in September 2019 to harness
nature-based solutions to deliver on biodiversity conservation,
clean water and air, and climate resilience in Brazil’s threatened
Atlantic Forest and China’s Fujian, Guangxi and Guangdong
provinces. Over the past two years, WWF and HP engaged over 50
local institutions in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest in native forest
restoration and 54 community members in China to ensure the
responsible management of their bamboo and forest lands. In support
of the Raízes do Mogi Guaçu project in Brazil, 158 acres of land
are under restoration. In China, over 35,257 acres of bamboo and
mixed forests are now under Forest Stewardship Council® smallholder
certification. HP and WWF have also been working together for over
a decade on responsible sourcing, and HP is now part of Forests
Forward, WWF’s new program to engage business, communities and
other key forest stakeholders to help transform the way we value,
manage, protect and restore forests to sustain business, people and
nature.
As part of this partnership expansion, WWF is also joining HP’s
Sustainable Forest Collaborative, a cross-industry collaboration to
demonstrate scientific and commercially viable approaches to keep
working forest ecosystems healthy.
Learn More
Visit the following links for more details:
- HP’s Sustainable Impact Website
- WWF
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1 Fiber by weight will be 1) certified to rigorous
third-party standards, 2) recycled or 3) balanced by forest
restoration, protection, and other initiatives through HP’s Forest
Positive Framework. Paper does not include fiber-based substrates
for HP industrial presses not listed in HP Media Solutions Locator
catalogues. HP 2020 Sustainable Impact Report.2 Pursuant to
agreement between WWF and HP dated January 1, 2022.3 HP Forest
Positive Framework is a strategic foundation for delivering on HP
forest ambitions.
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