Tetra Pak and WWF: Working Together

Tetra Pak and WWF have a long-standing partnership in many countries across the world. We are both committed to making sure that we all reduce our impact on climate change by promoting and driving the uptake and use of responsibly managed renewable forest resources.

Tetra Pak is a member of WWF’s Climate Savers Programme, and has an overall goal of reducing its total carbon emissions by 10% by the end of 2010. Tetra Pak is also a member of the WWF Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN) in the UK and Sweden. The GFTN is WWF's initiative to eliminate illegal logging and transform the global marketplace into a force for saving the world's valuable and threatened forests. By facilitating trade links between companies committed to achieving and supporting responsible forestry, the GFTN creates market conditions that help conserve the world’s forests while providing economic and social benefits for the businesses and people that depend on them. The GFTN considers independent, multi-stakeholder-based forest certification a vital tool in this progression and helps infuse the principles of responsible forest management and trade practices throughout the supply chain.

Help protect our world

Every one of your ideas and votes, means more money to help change the future for forests in the Russian Caucasus, and the people and biodiversity that depend on them. Each idea is worth £1 and every vote is worth 10pence which will go towards WWF’s work in the Russian Caucasus.

The Russian Caucasus forest ecosystems are famous because of their extremely important environmental role as well as their richness in terms of biodiversity. The forests contain a unique mixture of species, including the last remaining chestnut, wild pear, endemic oak and maple forests. Mountain forests play a critical role in preventing soil erosion and regulating water flow and forests harbour many exotic species of woody plants and herbs, and are important habitat to rare and endangered species of birds and animals. Large predators such as the Persian leopard, wolf, and brown bear depend on forest ecosystems, as well as red deer, roe deer, bezoar goat, and wild boar.

The role of forests in the economic and social life of the region is also very important. Economic growth in the region depends on the forest sector, yet at the same time, these forests are facing serious problems of biodiversity and economic losses caused by imperfect forest management.

The only way you change this is to make sure that the forests are looked after properly and that systems are put in place to make sure that this happens. All the money we raise will go towards making sure just this happens, so that we can protect these amazing places and everything within them for centuries to come.

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Treefrog (Hyla arborea schelkownikowi) © Hartmut Jungius / WWF-Canon
Siberian columbine (Aquilegia sibirica © Hartmut Jungius / WWF-Canon
Leopard Persian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolour) © David Lawson / WWF-UK
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