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CDP Water Security Questionnaire Preview and Reporting Guidance 2021 - Version Control

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Sector-specific questions

Companies in high-impact sectors, in addition to the general questions, will be presented with questions specific to that sector. The rationale for developing a refined questionnaire for each of these sectors is outlined in the relevant sector introduction.

The sector-specific questions allocated to companies are defined by CDP's Activity Classification System (CDP-ACS). This system categorizes companies by focusing on the activities from which they derive revenue and associating these with the impacts to their business from climate change, water security and deforestation.

Please note that since each questionnaire includes sector-specific questions throughout, as not all questions will be applicable to your organization, some question numbers may skip.

Full and Minimum versions of the questionnaire

All organizations completing the climate change, forests and water security questionnaires are eligible to complete the full questionnaire.

In some cases, organizations may be eligible to complete a minimum version which contains fewer questions, and no sector-specific questions or data points. Organizations are eligible to complete the minimum version in the following circumstances:

- They are disclosing to that questionnaire for the first time; OR
- They are not disclosing to that questionnaire for the first time, but have an annual revenue of less than EUR/US $250 million*

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* CDP reserves the right to remove the option of completing a minimum version questionnaire for previous responders to a questionnaire with an annual revenue of less than EUR/US$250 million, on the basis of the organization’s potential or existing environmental impact.

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CDP water security questionnaire

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Introduction to CDP’s water security questionnaire

CDP uses transparency and accountability to drive corporations, financial markets, and governments to decouple growth from depletion of freshwater resources and allocate capital towards a water secure economy to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

We do this by collecting information for investors, customers and policy makers on a company’s management, governance, use and stewardship of water resources.

The CDP water security questionnaire provides data users and the companies themselves with an insight on current and future water-related risks and opportunities. Along with CDP's water scoring methodology, the water security questionnaire helps companies to drive improvements in water management and enables benchmarking against leading practice.

The water security program has grown significantly since it was established in 2010, in terms of the numbers of companies disclosing, the value of associated assets and the number of investors and customers requesting the data. CDP now holds the world’s largest corporate water dataset, with more companies reporting than ever before.

General water security questionnaire structure

The structure and content of the water security questionnaire was revised in 2018 to reflect trends in corporate water reporting, the evolving needs of water data users, developments in public policy agendas, greater alignment with CDP’s climate change and forests questionnaires, and CDP’s introduction of sector questionnaires.

The modular structure broadly reflects the narrative of the CEO Water Mandate Guidelines, assisting companies on a water stewardship journey and providing relevant data to investors.

There are 10 water modules, including the Signoff, plus a module presented only to organizations that supply goods or services to the member companies of CDP’s supply chain program.

The journey through CDP’s general water questionnaire includes the following:

• Water dependence and water accounting metrics
• Value chain engagement activities
• Business impacts
• Risk assessment procedures
• Risks, opportunities and responses to them
• Facility water accounting
• Water governance and business strategy

Sector approach

• Companies in some sectors considered high-impact for water are presented with sector specific requests for information, either in addition to or instead of the general water data points.
• The rationale for developing a refined questionnaire for each of these sectors is outlined in each sector introduction.
• Questions that are unique to companies in a particular sector are labeled using a two-letter abbreviation within the question number (see below). Some general water questions, beginning with the letter W, may include sector-specific data requests. In the disclosure platform these will be presented only to companies in the relevant sector.

2021 water sectors:

• Agriculture: Food, beverage & tobacco (FB)
• Energy: Electric utilities (EU); Oil & gas (OG)
• Materials: Chemicals (CH); Metals & mining (MM)

Water security questionnaire changes for 2021

• The questionnaire is stabilized for 2021 so there are only minimal changes including minor revisions reflecting feedback or error correction.
• Key changes include:

- One new question: W1.2j on discharge by level(s) of treatment.

- One modified question: W-MM3.2a on tailings dam management procedures (for Metals & mining companies only).

• Revisions and changes are also indicated within the questionnaire as: no change, minor change, modified question, new question, modified guidance or additional guidance. 'Minor change' indicates wording edits and revisions to drop-down options or a simple clarification, while a modification indicates where the data requested has been revised.
• A detailed document on water security question changes from 2020 to 2021 can be found on the Guidance page of the website.

W0 Introduction

Introduction

(W0.1) Give a general description of and introduction to your organization.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

This is an open text question with a limit of 5,000 characters.

(W0.2) State the start and end date of the year for which you are reporting data.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W0.3) Select the countries/areas for which you will be supplying data.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W0.4) Select the currency used for all financial information disclosed throughout your response.

Question dependencies

• All disclosed financial figures throughout the questionnaire will be in the same currency. The currency reported in this question will apply to all reported figures throughout this request.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W0.5) Select the option that best describes the reporting boundary for companies, entities, or groups for which water impacts on your business are being reported.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Select one of the following options:

• Companies, entities or groups over which financial control is exercised
• Companies, entities or groups over which operational control is exercised
• Companies, entities or groups in which an equity share is held
• Other, please specify

(W0.6) Within this boundary, are there any geographies, facilities, water aspects, or other exclusions from your disclosure?

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• No

(W0.6a) Please report the exclusions.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W0.6.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

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W1 Current state

Dependence

(W1.1) Rate the importance (current and future) of water quality and water quantity to the success of your business.

Question dependencies

• Your response to W1.1 prompts subsequent questions. If your response to W1.1 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

Company-wide water accounting

(W1.2) Across all your operations, what proportion of the following water aspects are regularly measured and monitored?

Question dependencies

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Current state: Performance

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W-EU1.2a)

This question only applies to organizations with activities in the electric utilities sector - it will not be displayed here unless you opted to view these sector-specific questions.

(W1.2b) What are the total volumes of water withdrawn, discharged, and consumed across all your operations, and how do these volumes compare to the previous reporting year?

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Neutral” “Important,” or “Vital” as your “Direct use importance rating” in response to W1.1.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Current state: Performance

SDG

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W-OG1.2c)

This question only applies to organizations with activities in the oil & gas sector - it will not be displayed here unless you opted to view these sector-specific questions.

(W1.2d) Indicate whether water is withdrawn from areas with water stress and provide the proportion.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select "Neutral", "Important", or "Vital" as your "Direct use importance rating" in response to W1.1.

Change from 2020

Additional guidance

Connection to other frameworks

GRI

Standard 303-3: Water withdrawal

CEO Water Mandate

Current state: Performance

SDG

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W-FB1.2e)  (W-FB1.2f)  (W-FB1.2g)

Questions W-FB1.2e to W-FB1.2g apply only to organizations with activities in the food, beverage and tobacco sector - they will not be displayed here unless you opted to view these sector-specific questions.

(W1.2h) Provide total water withdrawal data by source.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you indicate in W1.2 that you monitor the following water aspect(s):
  • Water withdrawals – volume by source

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Current state: Performance

SDG

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W1.2i) Provide total water discharge data by destination.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you indicate in W1.2 that you monitor the following water aspect(s):
  • Water discharges - volumes by destination

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Current state: Performance

SDG

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W1.2j) Within your direct operations, indicate the highest level(s) to which you treat your discharge.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you indicate in W1.2 that you monitor the following water aspect(s):
  • Water discharges - volumes by treatment method

Change from 2020

New question

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Current state: Performance

GRI

Standard 303-4: Water discharge (clause 2.4.2)

SDG

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Response options

Please complete the following table:

Water intensity

The questions in this section are presented to high-impact sectors only and will not be displayed here unless you have opted to view sector-specific questions.

Value-chain engagement

(W1.4) Do you engage with your value chain on water-related issues?

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Neutral”, “Important”, or “Vital” as your “Indirect use importance rating” in response to W1.1.

• Your response to W1.4 prompts subsequent questions. If your response to W1.4 is amended, data already entered in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Response: Internal actions

Response options

Select all that apply from the following options:

• Yes, our suppliers
• Yes, our customers or other value chain partners
• No, not currently but we intend to within the next two years
• No, we do not engage with our value chain on water

(W1.4a) What proportion of suppliers do you request to report on their water use, risks and/or management information and what proportion of your procurement spend does this represent?

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes, our suppliers” in response to W1.4.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Response: Internal actions

SDG

Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W1.4b) Provide details of any other water-related supplier engagement activity.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes, our suppliers” in response to W1.4.

Change from 2020

Minor change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Response: Internal actions

Response options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows to this table using the "Add Row" button.

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Details of engagement (column 2)

(W1.4c) What is your organization’s rationale and strategy for prioritizing engagements with customers or other partners in its value chain?

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes, our customers or other value chain partners” in response to W1.4.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Response: Internal actions

Response options

This is an open text question with a limit of 2,000 characters.

(W1.4d) Why do you not engage with any stages of your value chain on water-related issues and what are your plans?

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select "No, not currently but we intend to within two years" or “No, we do not engage with our value chain on water” in response to W1.4.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

W2 Business impacts

Recent impacts on your business

(W2.1) Has your organization experienced any detrimental water-related impacts?

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Implications: External impacts

Response options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• No

(W2.1a) Describe the water-related detrimental impacts experienced by your organization, your response, and the total financial impact.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W2.1.

Change from 2020

Minor change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Implications: External impacts

Response options

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Primary impact driver (column 4)

Primary impact (column 5)

Primary response (column 7)

Compliance impacts

(W2.2) In the reporting year, was your organization subject to any fines, enforcement orders, and/or other penalties for water-related regulatory violations?

Question dependencies

• Your response to W2.2 will determine which subsequent questions are presented in this section. If your response to W2.2 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Current state: Compliance

Response options

Select all that apply from the following options:

• Yes, fines
• Yes, enforcement orders or other penalties
• Yes, fines, enforcement orders or other penalties but none that are considered as significant
• No
• Don’t know

(W2.2a) Provide the total number and financial value of all water-related fines.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes, fines” or “Yes, fines, enforcement orders or other penalties but none that are considered as significant” in response to W2.2.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Current state: Compliance

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W2.2b) Provide details for all significant fines, enforcement orders and/or other penalties for water-related regulatory violations in the reporting year, and your plans for resolving them.

Question Dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes, fines” or “Yes, enforcement orders or other penalties” in response to W2.2.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Current state: Compliance

Response options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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W3 Procedures

Pollutant management procedures

The questions in this section only apply to organizations with activities in certain sectors. Questions will not appear unless you have opted to view the following sector-specific questions:

• Food, beverage & tobacco
• Chemicals
• Oil & gas
• Electric utilities

Other management procedures

The questions in this section only apply to organizations with activities in certain sectors. Questions will not appear unless you have opted to view the following sector-specific questions:

• Metals & mining

Risk identification and assessment procedures

(W3.3) Does your organization undertake a water-related risk assessment?

Question Dependencies

• Your response to W3.3 prompts subsequent questions to be presented. If your organization does not currently incorporate a water risk assessment into its core business procedures you will be presented with question W3.3e. If your response to W3.3 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Implications: Business risks

Response options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes, water-related risks are assessed
• No, water-related risks are not assessed

(W3.3a) Select the options that best describe your procedures for identifying and assessing water-related risks.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes, water-related risks are assessed” in response to W3.3.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Implications: Business risks

Response options

Please complete the following table:

Risk assessment procedure (column 3)

Tools and methods used (column 7)

(W3.3b) Which of the following contextual issues are considered in your organization’s water-related risk assessments?

Question Dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes, water-related risks are assessed” in response to W3.3.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W3.3c) Which of the following stakeholders are considered in your organization’s water-related risk assessments?

Question Dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes, water-related risks are assessed” in response to W3.3.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W3.3d) Describe your organization’s process for identifying, assessing, and responding to water-related risks within your direct operations and other stages of your value chain.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes, water-related risks are assessed” in response to W3.3.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Implications: Business risks

Response options

This is an open text question with a limit of 5,000 characters.

(W3.3e) Why does your organization not undertake a water-related risk assessment?

Question Dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “No, water-related risks are not assessed” in response to W3.3.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

W4 Risks and opportunities

Risk exposure

(W4.1) Have you identified any inherent water-related risks with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business?

Question dependencies

• Your response to W4.1 will determine which subsequent questions are presented. If your response to W4.1 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Implications: Business risks

Response options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes, both in direct operations and the rest of our value chain
• Yes, only within our direct operations
• Yes, only in our value chain beyond our direct operations
• No

(W4.1a) How does your organization define substantive financial or strategic impact on your business?

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

This is an open text question with a limit of 5,000 characters.

(W4.1b) What is the total number of facilities exposed to water risks with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business, and what proportion of your company-wide facilities does this represent?

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select any of the following options in response to W4.1:
  • Yes, both in direct operations and the rest of value chain
  • Yes, only within our direct operations
  • Yes, only in our value chain beyond our direct operations

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Implications: Business risks

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W4.1c) By river basin, what is the number and proportion of facilities exposed to water risks that could have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business, and what is the potential business impact associated with those facilities?

Question Dependencies

• This question only appears if you select any of the following options in response to W4.1:
  • Yes, both in direct operations and the rest of our value chain
  • Yes, only within our direct operations
  • Yes, only in our value chain beyond our direct operations

• Note that W5 will request water accounting data for facilities located in the basins reported here.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Implications: Business risks

Response options

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Water-related risks and response

(W4.2) Provide details of identified risks in your direct operations with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business, and your response to those risks.

Question Dependencies

• This question only appears if you select one of the following options in response to W4.1:
  • Yes, both in direct operations and the rest of our value chain
  • Yes, only within our direct operations

Change from 2020

Minor change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Implications: Business risks

Response options

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Primary risk driver (column 4)

Primary potential impact (column 5)

Primary response to risk (column 15)

(W4.2a) Provide details of risks identified within your value chain (beyond direct operations) with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business, and your response to those risks.

Question Dependencies

• This question only appears if you select one of the following options in response to W4.1:
  • Yes, both in direct operations and the rest of our value chain
  • Yes, only in our value chain beyond our direct operations

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Implications: Business risks

Response options

Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You are able to add rows to this table using the "Add row" button at the bottom of the table.

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Primary risk driver (column 5)

Primary potential impact (column 6)

Primary response to risk (column 16)

(W4.2b) Why does your organization not consider itself exposed to water risks in its direct operations with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact?

Question Dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “No” or “Yes, only in our value chain beyond our direct operations” in response to W4.1.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W4.2c) Why does your organization not consider itself exposed to water risks in its value chain (beyond direct operations) with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact?

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “No” or “Yes, only within our direct operations” in response to W4.1.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

Water-related opportunities

(W4.3) Have you identified any water-related opportunities with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business?

Question dependencies

• Your response to W4.3 will determine which subsequent questions are presented. If your response to W4.3 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Implications: Business risks

Implications: Business opportunities

Response options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes, we have identified opportunities, and some/all are being realized
• Yes, we have identified opportunities but are unable to realize them
• No

(W4.3a) Provide details of opportunities currently being realized that could have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes, we have identified opportunities, and some/all are being realized” in response to question W4.3.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Implications: Business risks

SDG

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Response options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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Primary water-related opportunity (column 2)

(W4.3b) Why does your organization not consider itself to have water-related opportunities?

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “No” or “Yes, we have identified opportunities but are unable to realize them” in response to W4.3.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

W5 Facility-level water accounting

Facility-level water accounting

(W5.1) For each facility referenced in W4.1c, provide coordinates, water accounting data, and a comparison with the previous reporting year.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you report that you have facilities exposed to water risk in W4.1c.
• Your response to W5.1 prompts W5.1a.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

GRI

Standard 303-3: Water withdrawal

SDG

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Goal 7: Affordable clean energy

Response options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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(W5.1a) For the facilities referenced in W5.1, what proportion of water accounting data has been externally verified?

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you list facilities exposed to water risk in W5.1.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

W6 Governance

Water policy

(W6.1) Does your organization have a water policy?

Question dependencies

• Your response to W6.1 will determine if subsequent questions are presented in this section. If your response to W6.1 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Response: Policies, governance and targets

Response options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes, we have a documented water policy that is publicly available
• Yes, we have a documented water policy but it is not publicly available
• No, but we plan to develop one within the next 2 years
• No

(W6.1a) Select the options that best describe the scope and content of your water policy.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes, we have a documented water policy that is publicly available” or “Yes, we have a documented water policy, but it is not publicly available” in response to W6.1.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Response: Policies, governance and targets

Response options

Please complete the following table.

Board oversight

(W6.2) Is there board level oversight of water-related issues within your organization?

Question dependencies

• Your response to W6.2 will determine if subsequent questions are presented in this section. If your response to W6.2 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Response: Policies, governance and targets

Response options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• No

(W6.2a) Identify the position(s) (do not include any names) of the individual(s) on the board with responsibility for water-related issues.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W6.2.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Response: Policies, governance and targets

Response options

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(W6.2b) Provide further details on the board’s oversight of water-related issues.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select "Yes" in response to W6.2.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W6.2c) Why is there no board-level oversight of water-related issues and what are your plans to change this in the future?

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “No” in response to W6.2.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

Management responsibility

(W6.3) Provide the highest management-level position(s) or committee(s) with responsibility for water-related issues (do not include the names of individuals).

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

SDG

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Response options

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Employee incentives

(W6.4) Do you provide incentives to C-suite employees or board members for the management of water-related issues?

Question dependencies

• Your response to this question will determine whether the next question is presented. If your response to this question is amended, data in the next question may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for the next question.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W6.4a) What incentives are provided to C-suite employees or board members for the management of water-related issues (do not include the names of individuals)?

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if “Yes” is selected for W6.4.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

Public policy engagement

(W6.5) Do you engage in activities that could either directly or indirectly influence public policy on water through any of the following?

Question dependencies

• Your response to W6.5 will determine whether W6.5a is presented. If your response to W6.5 is amended, data in W6.5a may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for W6.5a.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Select all that apply from the following options:

• Yes, direct engagement with policy makers
• Yes, trade associations
• Yes, funding research organizations
• Yes, other
• No

(W6.5a) What processes do you have in place to ensure that all of your direct and indirect activities seeking to influence policy are consistent with your water policy/water commitments?

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select any of the “Yes” options in response to W6.5.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

This is an open text question with a limit of 1,500 characters.

Reporting

(W6.6) Did your organization include information about its response to water-related risks in its most recent mainstream financial report?

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

• Yes (you may attach the report – this is optional)
• No, but we plan to do so in the next two years
• No, and we have no plans to do so

W7 Business strategy

Strategic plan

(W7.1) Are water-related issues integrated into any aspects of your long-term strategic business plan, and if so how?

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Response: Policies, governance and targets

SDG

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Response options

Please complete the following table:

CAPEX/OPEX

(W7.2) What is the trend in your organization’s water-related capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operating expenditure (OPEX) for the reporting year, and the anticipated trend for the next reporting year?

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

W7.3 Scenario analysis

(W7.3) Does your organization use climate-related scenario analysis to inform its business strategy?

Question dependencies

• Your response to W7.3 will determine whether W7.3a is presented in this section. If your response to W7.3 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.

Change from 2020

Additional guidance

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W7.3a) Has your organization identified any water-related outcomes from your climate-related scenario analysis?

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W7.3.

• Your response to W7.3a will determine whether W7.3b is presented in this section. If your response to W7.3a is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• No

(W7.3b) What water-related outcomes were identified from the use of climate-related scenario analysis, and what was your organization’s response?

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W7.3a.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

Water pricing

(W7.4) Does your company use an internal price on water?

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

W8 Targets

Targets and goals

(W8.1) Describe your approach to setting and monitoring water-related targets and/or goals.

Question dependencies

• Your response to W8 will prompt which subsequent questions in this section are presented. If your response to W8.1 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.
  • If you select “Our company sets no targets and/or goals” in column 1, you will be presented with W8.1c.
  • If you select "Targets are monitored at the corporate level" in column 2, you will be presented with W8.1a.
  • If you select “Goals are monitored at the corporate level’ in column 2, you will be presented with W8.1b.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Response: Policies, governance and targets

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(W8.1a) Provide details of your water targets that are monitored at the corporate level, and the progress made.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Targets are monitored at the corporate level" in response to column 2 of W8.1.

Change from 2020

Minor change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Response: Policies, governance and targets

SDG

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Response options

Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. If you have multiple targets, you are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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Category of target (column 2)

Primary motivation (column 4)

Quantitative metric (column 6)

(W8.1b) Provide details of your water goal(s) that are monitored at the corporate level and the progress made.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select "Goals are monitored at the corporate level" in response to column 2 of W8.1.

Change from 2020

No change

Connection to other frameworks

CEO Water Mandate

Response: Policies, governance and targets

SDG

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Response options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

[Add Row]

Goal (column 1)

Motivation (column 3)

(W8.1c) Why do you not have water target(s) or goal(s) and what are your plans to develop these in the future?

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Our company sets no targets or goals" in response to column 1 of W8.1.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

W9 Verification

Verification of water information

(W9.1) Do you verify any other water information reported in your CDP disclosure (not already covered by W5.1a)?

Question dependencies

• Your response to W9.1 will determine whether W9.1a is presented. If your response to W9.1 is amended, data in W9.1a may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for W9.1a.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• In progress
• No, but we are actively considering verifying within the next two years
• No, we are waiting for more mature verification standards and/or processes
• No, we do not currently verify any other water information reported in our CDP disclosure

(W9.1a) Which data points within your CDP disclosure have been verified, and which standards were used?

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W9.1.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows to this table using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

[Add Row]

W10 Signoff

Further information

(W-FI) Use this field to provide any additional information or context that you feel is relevant to your organization's response. Please note that this field is optional and is not scored.

Response options

This is an open text question with a limit of 9,999 characters.

When copying from another document into the disclosure platform, formatting is not retained.

Note

• You may attach a file. This is optional.

Signoff

(W10.1) Provide details for the person that has signed off (approved) your CDP water response.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

Water Action Hub

(W10.2) Please indicate whether your organization agrees for CDP to transfer your publicly disclosed data on your impact and risk response strategies to the CEO Water Mandate’s Water Action Hub [applies only to W2.1a (response to impacts), W4.2 and W4.2a (response to risks)].

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• No

SW Supply chain

Supply chain introduction

(SW0.1) What is your organization’s annual revenue for the reporting period?

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(SW0.2) Do you have an ISIN for your organization that you are willing to share with CDP?

Question dependencies

• Your response to SW0.2 will determine if subsequent questions are presented in this section. If your response to SW0.2 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• No

(SW0.2a) Please share your ISIN in the table below.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to SW0.2.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

Facility details

(SW1.1) Could any of your facilities reported in W5.1 have an impact on a requesting CDP supply chain member?

Question dependencies

• Your response to SW1.1 will determine if subsequent questions are presented in this section. If your response to SW1.1 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes, CDP supply chain members buy goods or services from facilities listed in W5.1
• No, CDP supply chain members do not buy goods or services from facilities listed in W5.1
• No facilities were reported in W5.1
• We do not have this data but we intend to collect it within two years
• We do not have this data and have no intentions to collect it
• This is confidential

(SW1.1a) Indicate which of the facilities referenced in W5.1 could impact a requesting CDP supply chain member.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes, CDP supply chain members buy goods or services from facilities listed in W5.1” in response to SW1.1.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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(SW1.2) Are you able to provide geolocation data for your facilities?

Question dependencies

• Your response to SW1.2 will determine if subsequent questions are presented in this section. If your response to SW1.2 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table:

(SW1.2a) Please provide all available geolocation data for your facilities.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes, for all facilities” or “Yes, for some facilities” in response to SW1.2.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows to this table using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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Collaborative opportunities

(SW2.1) Please propose any mutually beneficial water-related projects you could collaborate on with specific CDP supply chain members.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows to this table using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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Type of project (column 3)

(SW2.2) Have any water projects been implemented due to CDP supply chain member engagement?

Question dependencies

• Your response to SW2.2 will determine if subsequent questions are presented in this section. If your response to SW2.2 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Select one of the following options:

• Yes
• No

(SW2.2a) Please select the CDP supply chain member(s) that have driven collaborative water projects.

Question dependencies

• This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to SW2.2.

Change from 2020

No change

Response options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows to this table using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

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Type of project (column 3)

Water intensity (SW)

(SW3.1) Provide any available water intensity values for your organization’s products or services.

Change from 2020

No change

Response Options

Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows to this table using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.

[Add Row]

Terms for responding to Investors (2021 Water Security)

These terms apply if you are submitting a response to the CDP Water Security Questionnaire 2021 to Investors. If you are also submitting a response to Supply Chain Members the Terms for responding to Supply Chain Members (2021 Water Security), below, will also apply.

1.DEFINITIONS

Billing Company: means the organization determined in accordance with the table at the end of these terms.

CDP: means CDP Worldwide, a charitable company registered with the Charity Commission of England and Wales (registered charity no. 1122330 and a company number 05013650). References to “we”, “our” and “us” in these terms are references to CDP and the Billing Company.

Deadline: means 28 July 2021.

Fee: means the fee set out in the table at the end of these terms, which is exclusive of any applicable taxes.

Full Version: means the version of the Questionnaire which contains all questions that are applicable to you.

Minimum Version: means the version of the Questionnaire which contains a subset of the questions included in the Full Version.

Personal Data: means data which relates to an individual who can be identified from the data, such as a person’s name and job title.

Questionnaire: means the Full Version and the Minimum Version of the CDP Water Security Questionnaire 2021.

Responding Company: means the company responding to the Questionnaire. References to “you” and “your” in these terms are references to the Responding Company.

2.PARTIES

The parties to these terms shall be CDP, the Billing Company (where the Billing Company is not CDP) and the Responding Company.

3.THESE TERMS

These are the terms that apply when you submit a response to our Questionnaire to Investors. If you do not agree to these terms, please contact us at [email protected] to discuss them with us.

4.RESPONDING TO OUR QUESTIONNAIRE

General. When responding to our Questionnaire, you will be given a choice as to whether your response can be made public or whether your response is non-public. We strongly encourage you to make your response public.

Deadline for responding. You must submit your response to us using our online response system by the Deadline for your response to be eligible for scoring. If you submit your response after the Deadline but on or before 30 September 2021 (the date our online response system will close in 2021) it will not be scored and may not be included in any report, data product or other analysis.

Public responses. If you agree that your response can be made public, we may use and make it available as soon as it is received by CDP for all purposes that we decide (whether for a fee or otherwise), including, for example, making your responses available on our website, to our investor signatories and other third parties and scoring your response.

Non-public responses. If your response is non-public, we may use it only as follows:

(a) make it available as soon as it is received by CDP to our investor signatories from time to time (as listed on our website) either directly or through Bloomberg terminals, for any use within their organizations but not for publication unless any data from your response has been anonymized or aggregated in such manner that it has the effect of being anonymized;

(b) make it available as soon as it is received by CDP to our group companies, companies we license to operate using the CDP name and brand (for example, CDP North America, Inc and CDP Europe AISBL), our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners (each from time to time):

(i) to score your response; and

(ii) for any other use within their organizations but not for publication unless any data from your response has been anonymized or aggregated in such manner that it has the effect of being anonymized.

(c) as soon as your response is received by CDP, list your company on our website or otherwise make it known that your company has responded to our Questionnaire.

Sharing responses with the CEO Water Mandate. If, by ticking ‘Yes’ in response to question W10.2 of the Questionnaire, you agree to us sharing your response to questions W2.1a (response to impacts), W4.2 and W4.2a (response to risks) with the CEO Water Mandate for publication of suitable projects on its Water Action Hub website, you agree that we may also share the e-mail address of the person within your company registered in our online response system as the 'Main User' with the CEO Water Mandate. This is so that the Hub administrator can alert your company that its data includes a project of potential interest to other parties sharing water resources in the geographies in which you operate. The Hub will publish the project and the associated contact details after providing your company with secure log-in information which enables amendments to the project profile and contact details.

Amending your response. You may reopen a response you have submitted before the Deadline (28 July 2021). To do so you must notify us that you wish to reopen your response by 14 July 2021 and you must resubmit it by the Deadline for it to be eligible for scoring. If you choose not to submit your reopened response before the ORS closes for submissions (on 30 September 2021), your original submission will be stored within the disclosure system but no further processing will be undertaken, meaning that we will not use it and it will no longer be made available to our investor signatories or other third parties.

From 15 July 2021, amendments to submitted responses can only be made by our staff and at our discretion and we may charge a fee for making them. Most such amendments to your response will be made from 4 October 2021 at the earliest. Please note that the final date for requesting an amendment is 30 November 2021 and any changes you request to your submitted response from 15 July 2021 may not be reflected in any score, report, data product or other analysis or use of your response. Please email [email protected] for more information about amending your response.

Scoring of responses to the Full Version (of the Questionnaire). If you submit your response to the Full Version in English using our online response system:

(a) by the Deadline, your response will be scored;

(b) after the Deadline but on or before 11 August 2021 you can request an 'On-Demand' score for a fee. Only a limited number of On-Demand scores are available in 2021 so your request may not be granted. Please contact your local CDP office for more information about On-Demand scoring.

Please contact your local CDP office for information about scoring if you intend to submit your response in a language other than English.

Scoring of responses to the Minimum Version (of the Questionnaire). Responses to the Minimum Version will only be scored in certain circumstances. Please contact your local CDP office for further information.

Publication and use of scores. If you are responding to a CDP Water Security Questionnaire for the first time you may choose for your score to be “private” but in all other cases CDP may publish your score, and use and make it available for all purposes that we decide (whether for a fee or otherwise), regardless of whether your response is public or non-public. If you choose for your score to be “private”, unless you achieve an A grade in which case we may make your score public, we may only make it available to our group companies, companies we license to operate using the CDP name and brand, our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners (each from time to time), in each case for any use within their organizations but not for publication. Note that if you also submit your response to Supply Chain Members it will also be available to any Supply Chain Member that has asked you to respond to the Questionnaire. For further details please see the Terms for responding to Supply Chain Members (2021 Water Security).

5.FEE

Fee. We are a not-for-profit organization and charge certain companies an annual administrative fee to enable us to maintain the disclosure system. Unless you are exempt from paying the Fee, as set out below, if you are listed, incorporated or headquartered in a country/region that is listed in the next paragraph, you are required to pay the Fee plus any applicable taxes. The Fee is payable once regardless of how many responses (climate change, forests and water security) you submit in 2021. Please note that we may charge an additional fee if you want to amend your response after the Deadline or if you submit your response after the Deadline and you would like it to be scored.

Countries/regions where the Fee applies. A Responding Company will be required to pay the Fee if it is listed, incorporated or headquartered in any one of the following countries/regions:

Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, France, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Grenada, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Tuvalu, United Arab Emirates, the UK, the USA, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam or Yemen.

Exemptions from the Fee. A Responding Company is exempt from paying the Fee if:

(a) it falls within one of CDP’s investor samples and it has not submitted a response to CDP in the last three years; or

(b) it is responding only to CDP’s supply chain request.

Please note we will decide in our absolute discretion as to whether the Fee is payable or not and we will notify you before you submit your response. A full list of companies in our investor samples is available on our website.

Payment of the Fee. You must pay the Fee by credit or debit card or request an invoice via CDP’s online corporate dashboard, which must be paid within such time as set out in the invoice. Please note that you will not be able to submit your response unless you have paid the Fee, you have requested an invoice or you are exempt from paying the Fee.

6.RIGHTS IN THE RESPONSES

Ownership. All intellectual property rights in your response will be owned by you or your licensors.

License. You grant to us, or shall procure for us, a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, assignable, sub-licensable, royalty-free and global license to use your response and any copyright and data base rights in your response for the uses set out in these terms.

7.IMPORTANT REPRESENTATIONS

You confirm that:

(a) the person submitting the response to us is authorized by you to submit the response;

(b) you have obtained all necessary consents and permissions to submit the response to us; and

(c) the response that you submit:

(i) does not infringe the rights of any third party (including privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights);

(ii) does not defame any third party; and

(iii) does not include any Personal Data.

8.LIABILITY

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors; for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

We are not liable for business losses. Subject to these terms, CDP and the Billing Company have no liability to you in any circumstances for any loss of revenue, loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, loss of business opportunity, loss of goodwill, loss of reputation, loss of, damage to or corruption of data or software or any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

Exclusion of liability. Subject to these terms, CDP and the Billing Company have no liability to you in any circumstances arising from the content or submission of your response to us, our use of your response or your score and/or the use of your response or your score by any third parties.

Limitation of liability. Subject to these terms, CDP and the Billing Company’s total liability to you in all circumstances shall be limited to an amount equivalent to the Fee or to £785 if you are not required to pay the Fee.

9.GENERAL

We may transfer our rights to someone else. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organization.

Nobody else has any rights under these terms. These terms are between you and us. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms.

Entire agreement. These terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us unless you also choose to share your response with supply chain members, in which case you will also be subject to our Terms for responding to Supply Chain Members (2021 Water Security).

Variation. CDP (acting on its own behalf and the Billing Company’s behalf, if applicable) reserves the right to change these terms at any time. Such changes shall be effective immediately or such other time as CDP elects. In the event of any materially adverse changes, you may request to withdraw your response within 30 days of us notifying you of the change.

If a court finds part of these terms illegal, the rest will continue in force. Each of the paragraphs of these terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.

Governing law and jurisdiction. These terms are governed by English law and you and us both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts to resolve any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these terms or their subject matter or formation.

Language. If these terms are translated into any language other than English, the English language version will prevail.

10.AMOUNT OF FEE

11.BILLING COMPANY

If the Responding Company is located in a territory that is not listed in the table above, the Billing Company shall be CDP Worldwide.

Terms for responding to Supply Chain Members (2021 Water Security)

These terms apply if you are submitting a response to the CDP Water Security Questionnaire 2021 to Supply Chain Members. If you are also submitting a response to Investors the Terms for responding to Investors (2021 Water Security), above, will also apply.

1.DEFINITIONS

CDP: means CDP Worldwide, a charitable company registered with the Charity Commission of England and Wales (registered charity no. 1122330 and a company number 05013650). References to “we”, “our” and “us” in these terms are references to CDP.

Deadline: means 28 July 2021.

Full Version: means the version of the Questionnaire which contains all questions that are applicable to you.

Minimum Version: means the version of the Questionnaire which contains a subset of the questions included in the Full Version.

Personal Data: means data which relates to an individual who can be identified by such data, such as a person’s name and job title.

Questionnaire: means the Full Version and the Minimum Version CDP Water Security Questionnaire 2021.

Responding Company: means the company responding to the Questionnaire. References to “you” and “your” in these terms are references to the Responding Company.

Supply Chain Member: means an organization that is requesting data from its suppliers.

2.PARTIES

The parties to these terms shall be CDP and the Responding Company.

3.THESE TERMS

These are the terms that apply when you submit a response to our Questionnaire to Supply Chain Members. If you do not agree to these terms, please contact us at [email protected] to discuss them with us.

4.RESPONDING TO OUR QUESTIONNAIRE

General. When responding to our Questionnaire, you will be given a choice as to whether your response can be made public or whether your response is non-public. We strongly encourage you to make your response public, but in either case, we will not divulge the relationship between you and any Supply Chain Member that has asked you to respond other than to our group companies, companies we license to operate using the CDP name and brand (for example, CDP North America, Inc and CDP Europe AISBL), our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners (each from time to time), all of which are obliged to keep such relationship confidential.

Deadline for responding. You must submit your response to us using our online response system by the Deadline for your response to be eligible for scoring. If you submit your response after the Deadline but on or before 30 September 2021 (the date our online response system will close in 2021) it will not be scored and may not be included in any report, data product or other analysis.

Public responses. If you agree that your response can be made public, we may use and make it available as soon as it is received by CDP for all purposes that we decide (whether for a fee or otherwise), including, for example, making your response available on our website, to our investor signatories and other third parties and scoring your response. Note that information you submit within the Supply Chain module (2021 Water Security) will be treated as non-public (see below for details).

Non-public responses. If your response is non-public, we may use it only as follows:

(a) make it available as soon as it is received by CDP to any Supply Chain Member that has asked you to respond to the Questionnaire for any use within their organization but not for publication unless any data from your response has been anonymized or aggregated in such manner that it has the effect of being anonymized;

(b) make it available as soon as it is received by CDP to our group companies, companies we license to operate using the CDP name and brand, our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners (each from time to time):

(i) to score your response; and

(ii) for any other use within their organizations but not for publication unless any data from your response has been anonymized or aggregated in such manner that it has the effect of being anonymized.

Supply Chain module (2021 Water Security). Information you submit in response to the Supply Chain module (2021 Water Security) (questions SW0, SW1, SW2, and SW3 of the Questionnaire) will be treated as non-public even if you choose to make your response public. Questions SW1.1, SW2.1, and SW2.2a ask you to select a Supply Chain Member using a drop-down menu in our online response system, and only the Supply Chain Member you select for each row will have access to the information in it. For all other questions in the Supply Chain module (2021 Water Security) the information you submit will be accessible to any Supply Chain Member that has asked you to respond to the Questionnaire. All information you submit in the Supply Chain module (2021 Water Security) will be accessible to CDP and to our group companies, companies we license to use the CDP name and brand, our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners (each from time to time), all of which are obliged to keep such information confidential.

Sharing responses with the CEO Water Mandate. If, by ticking ‘Yes’ in response to question W10.2 of the Questionnaire, you agree to us sharing your response to questions W2.1a (response to impacts), W4.2 and W4.2a (response to risks) with the CEO Water Mandate for publication of suitable projects on its Water Action Hub website, you agree that we may also share the e-mail address of your registered CDP user with the CEO Water Mandate. This is so that the Hub administrator can alert your company that its data includes a project of potential interest to other parties sharing water resources in the geographies in which you operate. The Hub will publish the project and the associated contact details after providing your company with secure log-in information which enables amendments to the project profile and contact details.

Amending your response. You may reopen a response you have submitted before the Deadline (28 July 2021). To do so you must notify us that you wish to reopen your response by 14 July 2021 and you must resubmit it by the Deadline for it to be eligible for scoring. If you choose not to submit your reopened response before the ORS closes for submissions (on 30 September 2021), your original submission will be stored within the disclosure system but no further processing will be undertaken, meaning that we will not use it and it will no longer be made available to our investor signatories or other third parties.

From 15 July 2021, amendments to submitted responses can only be made by our staff and at our discretion and we may charge a fee for making them. Most such amendments to your response will be made from 4 October 2021 at the earliest. Please note that the final date for requesting an amendment is 30 November 2021 and any changes you request to your submitted response from 15 July 2021 may not be reflected in any score, report, data product or other analysis or use of your response. Please email [email protected] for more information about amending your response.

Scoring of responses to the Full Version (of the Questionnaire). If you submit your response to the Full Version in English using our online response system:

(a) by the Deadline, your response will be scored;

(b) after the Deadline but on or before 11 August 2021 you can request an 'On-Demand' score for a fee. Only a limited number of On-Demand scores are available in 2021 so your request may not be granted. Please contact your local CDP office for more information about On-Demand scoring.

Please contact your local CDP office for information about scoring if you intend to submit your response in a language other than English.

Scoring of responses to the Minimum Version (of the Questionnaire). Responses to the Minimum Version will only be scored in certain circumstances. Please contact your local CDP office for further information.

Publication of scores. Unless you achieve an A grade, in which case we may make your score public, we may only make your score available to any Supply Chain Member that has asked you to respond to the Questionnaire, our group companies, companies we license to operate using the CDP name and brand, our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners (each from time to time), in each case for any use within their organizations but not for publication.

5.RIGHTS IN THE RESPONSES

Ownership. All intellectual property rights in your response will be owned by you or your licensors.

License. You grant to us, or shall procure for us, a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, assignable, sub-licensable, royalty-free and global license to use your response and any copyright and data base rights in your response for the uses set out in these terms.

6.IMPORTANT REPRESENTATIONS

You confirm that:

(a) the person submitting the response to us is authorized by you to submit the response;

(b) you have obtained all necessary consents and permissions to submit the response to us; and

(c) the response that you submit:

(i) does not infringe the rights of any third party (including privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights);

(ii) does not defame any third party; and

(iii) does not include any Personal Data.

7.LIABILITY

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors; for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

We are not liable for business losses. Subject to these terms, CDP has no liability to you in any circumstances for any loss of revenue, loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, loss of business opportunity, loss of goodwill, loss of reputation, loss of, damage to or corruption of data or software or any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

Exclusion of liability. Subject to these terms, CDP has no liability to you in any circumstances arising from the content or submission of your response to us, our use of your response and/or the use of your response by any third parties.

Limitation of liability. Subject to these terms, CDP’s total liability to you in all circumstances shall be limited to £785.

8.GENERAL

We may transfer our rights to someone else. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organization.

Nobody else has any rights under these terms. These terms are between you and us. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms.

Entire agreement. These terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us, unless you also choose to share your response with investors in which case you will also be subject to our Terms for responding to Investors (2021 Water Security).

Variation. CDP reserves the right to change these terms at any time. Such changes shall be effective immediately or such other time as CDP elects. In the event of any materially adverse changes, you may request to withdraw your response within 30 days of us notifying you of the change.

If a court finds part of these terms illegal, the rest will continue in force. Each of the paragraphs of these terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.

Governing law and jurisdiction. These terms are governed by English law and you and us both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts to resolve any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these terms or their subject matter or formation.

Language. If these terms are translated into any language other than English, the English language version will prevail.

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