Beyond Volumes: Exploring the Societal Value of Corporate Water Stewardship Projects.
In response to emerging water challenges, a growing number of companies are engaging in corporate water stewardship and working with others to achieve more sustainable water management. Many of these …
A Recipe for Impact: Key Ingredients for Companies to Drive Measurable Impact in Watershed Health
The global water crisis is not only impacting communities and ecosystems, it is also creating reputational, physical, and regulatory business risks and causing financial impacts across the private sec…
Financial Implications of Addressing Water-Related Externalities in the Apparel Sector
Ceres, with insights from the Valuing Water Finance Task Force and Investor Working Group, collaborated with water risk consultant Bluerisk, sustainability intelligence provider S&P Global Sustain…
Financial Implications of Addressing Water-Related Externalities in the Meat Sector
Ceres, with insights from the Valuing Water Finance Task Force and Investor Working Group, collaborated with water risk consultant Bluerisk, sustainability intelligence provider S&P Global Sustain…
Setting Enterprise Water Targets: A Guide For Companies
Setting water targets at the enterprise level that respond to local contexts has proved challenging because water is not an equally material issue across corporate value chains. Environmental, social,…
A Practical Guide to Implement Water Replenishment Targets
Building on information required to apply the AWS Standard framework, this guide helps practitioners apply the steps outlined in the VWBA method to identify and implement activities, measure progress,…
Drained by data
The explosion of data centers across the U.S. is one of the economic hallmarks of the 2020s. And with data in demand, so too is the demand for water these centers need to operate.
Volumetric Water Benefit Accounting (VWBA): A Method For Implementing and Valuing Water Stewardship Activities
WRI and partners at Quantis, LimnoTech and Valuing Nature have developed a new approach for implementing and valuing water stewardship activities. The Volumetric Water Benefit Accounting (VWBA) meets …
Setting Site Water Targets Informed By Catchment Context
A Guide For Companies The purpose of this guide is to support companies in setting effective site water targets that are informed by catchment context. This guide introduces three critical elements fo…
5 Things Companies Can Do to Grow in a Water-Stressed World
IN A WATER-STRESSED world, there’s a powerful business case for companies to manage this essential resource sustainably, engage in water stewardship and drive collective action. As a shared resource, …