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CDP Water Security Questionnaire Preview and Reporting Guidance 2022 - Version Control
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Release / Revision date
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Revision summary
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1.0
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Released: January 10, 2022
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Publication of the 2022 questionnaire preview and reporting guidance.
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1.1
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Revised: January 17, 2022
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- W0.7 ‘Requested content’ section added.
- W6.2d ‘Requested content’ section added.
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1.2
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Revised: May 13, 2022
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- W1.3 Revenue column - the maximum allowable value increased to 999,999,999,999,999.
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1.3
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Revised: May 30, 2022
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- Pathway diagram Module 1 - updated to correct W1.3 dependency.
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1.4
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Revised: July 22, 2022
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- Japanese version of W8.1 - response options corrected in the column ‘Levels for targets and/or goals’. This error will not impact company scores. [Note that the error remains in the Online Response System]
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CDP disclosure cycle 2022
Accessing questionnaire previews, reporting guidance, and scoring methodologies
CDP’s corporate questionnaire previews, reporting guidance, and scoring methodologies for climate change, forests and water security can be accessed from the guidance for companies page of CDP's website.
Submitting a response to the questionnaire(s)
Responses to questionnaires must be submitted via CDP's Online Response System (ORS), which is part of CDP's online disclosure platform. Please refer to Using CDP's Online Disclosure Platform for more details. Please note that while the questions themselves are the same in the questionnaire preview as they are in the ORS, the display format of some questions may differ, particularly for drop-down options and tables.
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*
Organizations opting to complete a minimum version will only be eligible for scoring if they are submitting a response to customers (CDP Supply chain members). For more information on scoring eligibility and implications, please see our Scoring Introduction.
* 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.
Timeline:
Jan 2022
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- Preview of 2022 questionnaires and reporting guidance released on CDP website (English versions).
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March 2022 |
- Preview of 2022 questionnaires and reporting guidance released on CDP website (translated versions).
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April 2022 |
- Online Response System (ORS) opens.
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July 2022 |
- Companies must submit their responses to investors and/or customers using the ORS to be eligible for scoring and inclusion in reports (where applicable).
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For any disclosure-related enquiries, please contact your regional CDP contact.
CDP water security questionnaire
This questionnaire is the property of CDP Worldwide, reproduction of all or part (including within software platforms) without permission of CDP Worldwide is prohibited. Please contact [email protected] for more information on this.
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 security questionnaire includes the following:
- Corporate water accounting metrics
- Value chain engagement activities
- Business impacts
- Risk assessment procedures
- Risks, opportunities and responses to them
- Facility water accounting metrics
- Water governance and business strategy
- Targets
- Verification
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.
2022 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 2022
For 2022, more than 85% of the 2021 questions are unchanged or just have a minor revision. Some questions have been modified, some have been removed and some new ones added.
The total number of questions has risen by 1 to 71 (not including sector specific questions or the supply chain module). Note that each company has a unique pathway through the questionnaires determined by, for example, its sector and its responses as it moves through each module. No company is presented with all questions.
Key changes include:
- Five removed questions:
- W3.3b (2021) and W3.3c (2021) - risk procedures merged into W3.3a.
- W7.3a (2021) - climate scenario analysis.
- SW0.2 (2021) and SW0.2a (2021) - company’s ISIN number merged into W0.7.
- Four new questions:
- W0.7 requests your company's unique identifier (e.g. ISIN number).
- W1.3 requests your company’s water withdrawal efficiency figure.
- W6.2d requests information on board member competency on water-related issues.
- W7.5 requests information on low water impact products and/or services.
- Six modified questions:
- W0.3 question text has been revised to ask for the countries in which you operate rather than the countries for which you are supplying data.
- W3.3a question structure has been modified to allow risk procedures for various stages of the supply chain to be reported together rather than separately. W3.3b-c have been merged into W3.3a.
- W5.1a question text has been revised to specify verification by a 'third party', a 'Please explain' column has been added, and the definition of ‘Verification’ has been modified.
- W6.3 has a new response option that allows companies to indicate management responsibility for assessing future trends in water demand.
- W7.3 question text has been revised to remove the 'climate-related' specification of scenario analysis.
- W7.3a has been revised for companies to report the types of scenario analysis they have used, further details of the scenario analysis, and how water related outcomes have influenced their business strategy.
- Six questions with modified guidance:
- W4.2, W4.2a, W4.3a include a new point of guidance requesting companies to state the influence of risks or opportunities on strategic and/or financial planning.
- W3.3b includes a new point of guidance requesting companies to explain the relevance of stakeholders and issues considered in risk assessment procedures.
- W8.1a includes a new point of guidance requesting companies to state if targets align with any external frameworks or initiatives.
- W9.1 includes a modified definition of 'Verification'.
- Seven questions with additional guidance (Example responses, Explanation of terms, Additional information):
- W1.2, W1.2j, W3.3a, W4.1c, W4.2, W5.1a, W6.3.
- Four questions with a minor change:
- W2.1a, W4.2, W4.2a, W8.1a.
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 2021 to 2022 can be found on the Guidance page of the website.
Sector introduction: Chemicals (CH)
Chemical production is frequently water-intensive and feedstocks, wastes, or products in this sector may pose particular water pollution risks. Water is used primarily for cooling purposes, but also as a raw material in cleaning and transport, as a solvent, and as part of final products. Hazardous chemicals pose a significant threat to water ecosystems.
The activities which define this sector for the CDP water security chemical questionnaire are the production, processing and trading of chemical products.
Two sector-specific topics are included:
- Water intensity metrics; and
- Management approach and procedures for potential water pollutants at different stages of the value chain.
Sector introduction: Electric utilities (EU)
Activities in the electric utilities sector include electricity generation, transmission, distribution and retailing. However, most significant for water risks and impacts is power generation, and this is the focus of the CDP water security questionnaire for this sector. Only organizations with generation activities will be presented with these sector-specific questions.
This sector is heavily dependent on water for cooling; and for electricity generation itself in the case of hydropower. For this reason, plants are often located near bodies of water and organizations rely on access to these resources for the success of their business. The most pressing issues for the sector relate to the impacts of business activities on the hydrological cycle and thermal pollution. Specific forms of water pollution for some fuel types also expose organizations to risks, such as radiation or hydrocarbon contamination. Robust water risk assessment procedures are critical given the long-term nature of investments in the sector.
These data points enable the disclosure of information that is more specific to water-related issues, water efficiency, and pollution management in this sector. Four sector-specific topics are included in the CDP water security questionnaire:
- Organizations are asked to disclose their nameplate capacity by primary power generation source;
- Questions specific for hydropower operations on whether they monitor, the fulfillment of environmental flows and the sediment loadings;
- Water intensity metrics; and
- Management approach and procedures for potential water pollutants.
Sector introduction: Food, beverage & tobacco (FB)
This sector can include a broad range of activities from the production of agricultural products to food retail, and, amongst others, the processing of raw commodities into ingredients, the manufacturing of packaged consumer or industrial food, beverage, or tobacco products (including packaging processes), and the trade and distribution of food products.
Agricultural production and food processing are the most significant activities in terms of water impacts, risks, and opportunities. Water availability, water quality and water pollution due to chemical use and management of animal wastes are issues that can affect an organization’s performance. In addition, the agricultural and manufacturing supply chains for this sector are considered high impact for water.
The CDP water security FB questionnaire is currently targeted at organizations with processing and manufacturing activities, but it also requests information related to any agricultural production activities engaged in directly or within their supply chain. The questions provide information to data users about an organization’s awareness and management of its water dependency related to its direct production and processing activities as well as the commodities it sources.
The sector-specific topics include:
- Production or sourcing of agricultural products in areas of high water stress;
- Water intensity of agricultural products; and
- Management approach and procedures for potential water pollutants at different stages of the value chain.
Note that the manufacturing of personal care and household goods using agricultural commodities is excluded from CDP’s framing of this sector.
Sector introduction: Metals & mining (MM)
Water is used by metals and mining organizations during the in-situ extraction process from the ground, mineral processing, transport of minerals and tailings, storage of tailings, and for other processes such as dust suppression, cooling, and employee requirements on site. Tailings dams are a key environmental risk for this sector requiring strong management procedures.
The CDP water security metals & mining questionnaire focuses on the impacts and risks associated with the principal business activities of the sector, which include the mining and processing of chemical elements and compounds from minerals.
Two sector-specific topics are included:
- Details on water intensity metric; and
- Location and management procedures for tailings dams.
Sector introduction: Oil & gas (OG)
Water is critical to the oil & gas industry. The extraction of hydrocarbons produces large volumes of water. Smart, safe management of this produced water is both a business opportunity and a regulatory necessity (in that water contaminated with hydrocarbons must be properly treated).
In newer exploration and production such as hydraulic fracturing and oil sands, water is often an essential input for the recovery of the resource. Downstream operations such as refining and petrochemicals require water for cooling.
The CDP water security OG questionnaire covers the main activities of the sector: exploration and development, production, refining and the manufacturing and distribution of petro-chemicals; and some data is requested by business division (upstream, downstream and chemicals). Notably, transportation and marketing are not covered as these are not considered water-intensive activities.
Three sector-specific topics are included:
- Total water withdrawals, discharges and consumption by business division (upstream, downstream and chemicals);
- Water intensity metrics; and
- Management approach and procedures for potential water pollutants.
W0 Introduction
Introduction
(W0.1) Give a general description of and introduction to your organization.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
This is an open text question with a limit of 5,000 characters.
(W-CH0.1a) Which activities in the chemical sector does your organization engage in?
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Select all that apply from the following options:
- Bulk organic chemicals
- Bulk inorganic chemicals
- Specialty organic chemicals
- Specialty inorganic chemicals
- Other, please specify
(W-EU0.1a) Which
activities in the electric utilities sector does your organization engage in?
Question dependencies
- Your response to W-EU0.1a prompts subsequent questions. If your response to W-EU0.1a 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 last year
No change
Response options
Select all that apply from the following options:
- Electricity generation
- Transmission
- Distribution
- Other, please specify
(W-EU0.1b) For your electricity generation activities, provide details of your nameplate capacity and the generation for each technology.
Question dependencies
- This question is only presented if you select “Electricity generation” in W-EU0.1a.
- W-EU0.1b prompts linked questions to be presented depending on the response given. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 7: Affordable clean energy
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Power generation technology |
Nameplate capacity (MW)
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% of total nameplate capacity
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Gross electricity generation (GWh)
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Coal – hard
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Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Percentage field [enter
a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter
a number from 0- 999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Lignite
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Oil
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Gas
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Biomass
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Waste (non-biomass)
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Nuclear
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Fossil-fuel plants fitted with carbon capture and storage |
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Geothermal
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Hydropower
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Wind
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Solar
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Other renewable
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(W-FB0.1a) Which activities in the food, beverage, and tobacco sector does your organization engage in?
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Select all that apply from the following options:
- Agriculture
- Processing/Manufacturing
- Distribution
- Other, please specify
(W-MM0.1a) Which activities in the metals and mining sector does your organization engage in?
Change from last year
No change
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.
Activity
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Details of activity
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Select from:
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down options below table
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[Add
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Details of activity (column 2)
Mining
- Bauxite
- Copper
- Gold
- Platinum group metals
- Silver
- Iron ore
- Nickel
- Zinc
- Lead
- Diamonds
- Other non-ferrous metal mining, please specify
- Other mining, please specify
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Processing
- Aluminum
- Alumina
- Copper
- Gold
- Platinum group metals
- Silver
- Nickel
- Zinc
- Lead
- Other ferrous metals processing, please specify
- Other non-ferrous materials processing, please specify
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(W-OG0.1a) Which business divisions in the oil & gas sector apply to your organization?
Question dependencies
- Your response to W-OG0.1a prompts subsequent questions. If your response to W-OG0.1a 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 last year
No change
Response options
Select all that apply from the following options:
- Upstream
- Midstream/Downstream
- Chemicals
- Other, please specify
(W0.2) State the start and end date of the year for which you are reporting data.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Start date
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End date
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From: [MM/DD/YYYY]
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To: [MM/DD/YYYY]
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(W0.3) Select the countries/areas in which you operate.
Change from last year
Modified question
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Country/Area
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Select all that apply:
- Country/area drop-down list
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(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 last year
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 last year
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 last year
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(W0.6a) Please report the exclusions.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W0.6.
Change from last year
No change
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.
Exclusion
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Please explain
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Text field [maximum of 2,500 characters]
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Text field [maximum of 2,500 characters]
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[Add Row]
(W0.7) Does your organization have an ISIN code or another unique identifier (e.g., Ticker, CUSIP, etc.)?
Change from last year
New question
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
Indicate whether you are able to provide a unique identifier for your organization
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Provide your unique identifier*
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Select from:
- Yes, an ISIN code
- Yes, a CUSIP number
- Yes, a Ticker symbol
- Yes, a SEDOL code
- Yes, another unique identifier, please specify
- No
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Text field [Maximum 50 characters]
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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 last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Water quality and quantity
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Direct use importance rating
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Indirect use importance rating
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Please explain
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Sufficient amounts of good quality freshwater available for use
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Select from:
- Not important at all
- Not very important
- Neutral
- Important
- Vital
- Have not evaluated
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Select from:
- Not important at all
- Not very important
- Neutral
- Important
- Vital
- Have not evaluated
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Text field [maximum 2,000 characters]
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Sufficient amounts of recycled, brackish and/or produced water available for use
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(W-FB1.1a) Which water-intensive agricultural commodities that your organization produces and/or sources are the most significant to your business by revenue? Select up to five.
Change from last year
No change
Question dependencies
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Your response to W-FB1.1a prompts subsequent questions. If your response to W-FB1.1a 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.
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.
Agricultural commodities
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% of revenue dependent on these agricultural commodities
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Produced and/or sourced
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Cattle products
- Maize
- Palm oil
- Rice
- Soy
- Sugar
- Tobacco
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Don't know
- Less than 10%
- 10-20
- 21-40
- 41-60
- 61-80
- More than 80%
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Select from:
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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Company-wide water accounting
(W1.2) Across all your operations, what proportion of the following water aspects are regularly measured and monitored?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Neutral” “Important” or “Vital” as your “Direct use importance rating” in response to W1.1.
- Your response to W1.2 will determine which subsequent questions are presented. If your response to W1.2 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions.
- If you select “Not monitored” or “Not relevant” in response to W1.2, you will not be able to disclose associated volumetric data in this section. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.
Change from last year
Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Current state: Performance
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Water aspect
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% of sites/facilities/operations
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Please explain
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Water withdrawals – total volume
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Select from:
- Not monitored
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Not relevant
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Water withdrawals – volumes by source
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[METALS & MINING SECTOR ONLY] Entrained water associated with your metals & mining sector activities - total volume
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[OIL & GAS SECTOR ONLY] Produced water associated with your oil & gas sector activities - total volume
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Water withdrawals quality
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Water discharges – total volume
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Water discharges – volumes by destination
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Water discharges – volumes by treatment method
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Water discharge quality – by standard effluent parameters
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Water discharge quality – temperature
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Water consumption – total volume
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Water recycled/reused
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The provision of fully-functioning, safely managed WASH services to all workers
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(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.
(W-EU1.2a) For your hydropower operations, what proportion of the following water aspects are regularly measured and monitored?
Question Dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Neutral”, “Important”, or Vital” as your “Direct use importance rating” in response to W1.1 and if you have any hydropower operations disclosed in W-EU0.1b.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Water aspect
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% of sites/facilities/operations measured and monitored
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Please explain
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Fulfilment of downstream environmental flows
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Select
from:
- Not monitored
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Not relevant
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Sediment loading
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Other, please specify
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(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 last year
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:
Water aspect
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Volume (megaliters/year)
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Comparison with previous reporting year
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Please explain
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Total withdrawals
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Numerical field [enter
a range of 0 to +/- 999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
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Select from:
- Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- This is our first year of measurement
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Text field [maximum 2,000 characters]
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Total discharges
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Total consumption
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(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.
(W-OG1.2c) In your oil & gas sector operations, what are the total volumes of water withdrawn, discharged, and consumed – by business division – and what are the trends compared 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.
- Rows in this question will be presented according to the business divisions reported in W-OG0.1a.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Water aspect by business division
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Volume (megaliters / year)
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Comparison with previous reporting year %
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Please explain
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Total withdrawals - upstream
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0 to +/- 999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Select from:
- Much Lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much Higher
- This is our first year of measurement
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Total discharges - upstream
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Total consumption - upstream
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Total withdrawals - midstream/downstream
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Total discharges - midstream/downstream
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Total consumption - midstream/downstream
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Total withdrawals - chemicals
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Total discharges - chemicals
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Total consumption - chemicals
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Total withdrawals - other business division
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Total discharges - other business division
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Total consumption - other business division
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(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 last year
No change
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:
Withdrawals are from areas with water stress
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% withdrawn from areas with water stress
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Comparison with previous reporting year
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Identification tool
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Please explain
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Select from:
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Select from:
- Less than 1%
- 1-10
- 11-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Unknown
|
Select from:
- Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- This is our first year of measurement
|
Select from:
- WRI Aqueduct
- WWF Water Risk Filter
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 5,000 characters]
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(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.
(W-FB1.2e) For each commodity reported in question W-FB1.1a, do you know the proportion that is produced/sourced from areas with water stress?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Neutral” “Important” or “Vital” as your “Direct use importance rating” or your “Indirect use importance rating” in response to W1.1.
- Your response to this question will determine whether W-FB1.2f and W-FB1.2g are presented. If your response to W-FB1.2e is amended, data in those dependent
questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for W-FB1.2f and W-FB1.2g.
Change from last year
No change
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.
Agricultural commodities
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The proportion of this commodity produced in areas with water stress is known
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The proportion of this commodity sourced from areas with water stress is known
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Drop-down options from the selection in W-FB1.1a
- Other commodities from W-FB1.1a, please specify
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Select from:
- Yes
- No, not currently but we intend to obtain this data within the next two years
- No, we do not have this data and have no plans to obtain it
- Not
applicable
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Select from:
- Yes
No, not currently but we intend to collect this data within the next two years
- No, we do not have this data and have no plans to obtain it
- Not
applicable
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Text field [maximum 2,500
characters]
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[Add Row]
(W-FB1.2f) What proportion of the produced agricultural commodities reported in W-FB1.1a originate from areas with water stress?
Question dependencies
- This question is presented if you select the option “Yes” in column 2 of W-FB1.2e for any commodity.
Change from last year
No change
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.
Agricultural commodities
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% of total agricultural commodity produced in areas with water stress
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Please explain
|
Select from:
- Drop-down options for the produced commodities
selected in W-FB1.2e
- Other produced commodities from W-FB1.2e, please specify
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Select from: - 0%
- Less than 1%
- 1-10
- 11-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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[Add Row]
(W-FB1.2g) What proportion of the sourced agricultural commodities
reported in W-FB1.1a originate from
areas with water stress?
Question dependencies
- This question is presented if you select the option “Yes” in column 3 of W-FB1.2e for any commodity.
Change from last year
No change
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.
Agricultural commodities
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% of total agricultural commodity sourced from areas with water stress |
Please explain
|
Select from:
- Drop-down options for the sourced commodities
selected in W-FB1.2e
- Other sourced commodities from W-FB1.2e, please specify
|
Select from: - 0%
- Less than 1%
- 1-10
- 11-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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[Add Row]
(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 last year
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:
Source
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Relevance
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Volume (megaliters/year)
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Comparison with previous reporting year
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Please explain
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Fresh surface water, including rainwater, water from wetlands, rivers, and lakes
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Select from:
- Relevant
- Relevant but volume unknown
- Not relevant
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Select from:
- Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- This is our first year of measurement
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Brackish surface water/Seawater
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Groundwater – renewable
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Groundwater – non-renewable
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Produced/Entrained water
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Third party sources
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(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 last year
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:
Destination |
Relevance |
Volume (megaliters/year) |
Comparison with previous reporting year |
Please explain |
Fresh surface water
|
Select from:
- Not relevant
- Relevant
- Relevant but volume unknown
|
Numerical field [enter
a range of 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Select from:
- Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- This is our first year of measurement
|
Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Brackish surface water/seawater
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Groundwater
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Third-party destinations
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(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 last year
Additional guidance
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:
Highest level of treatment within direct operations
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Relevance of treatment level to discharge
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Volume (megaliters/year)
|
Comparison of treated volume with previous reporting year
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% of your sites/facilities/operations this volume applies to
|
Please explain
|
Tertiary treatment
|
Select from:
- Relevant
- Relevant but volume unknown
- Not relevant
|
Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Select from:
- Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- This is our first year of measurement
|
Select from: - Not monitored
- Less than 1%
- 1-10
- 11-20
- 21-30
- 31-40
- 41-50
- 51-60
- 61-70
- 71-80
- 81-90
- 91-99
- 100%
- Unknown
|
Text field [maximum 2,000 characters]
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Secondary treatment
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Primary treatment only
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Discharge to the natural environment without treatment
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Discharge to a third party without treatment
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Other
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Water intensity
(W1.3) Provide a figure for your organization's total water withdrawal efficiency.
Change from last year
New question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Revenue
|
Total water withdrawal volume (megaliters)
|
Total water withdrawal efficiency
|
Anticipated forward trend
|
Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
|
Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
|
[Auto-calculated]
|
Text field [maximum of 500 characters]
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(W-CH1.3) Do you calculate water intensity for your activities in the chemical sector?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Neutral” “Important” or “Vital” as your “Direct use importance rating” or your “Indirect use importance rating” in response to W1.1.
- Your response to W-CH1.3 will determine whether W-CH1.3a is presented. If your response to W-CH1.3 is amended, data in W-CH1.3a may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for W-CH1.3a.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes
- No, but we intend to do so within the next two years
- No, and we have no plans to do so in the next two years
(W-CH1.3a) For your top five products by production weight/volume, provide the following water intensity information associated with your activities in the chemical sector.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select "Yes" to question W-CH1.3.
- Note that your selection in W-CH0.1a will determine the product type that appears in column 1.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
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.
Product type
|
Product name
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Water intensity value (m3)
|
Numerator: Water aspect
|
Denominator |
Comparison with previous reporting year
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
- Bulk organic chemicals
- Bulk inorganic chemicals
- Specialty organic chemicals
- Specialty inorganic chemicals
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum
500 characters]
|
Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Select from:
- Freshwater withdrawals
- Freshwater consumption
- Total water withdrawals
- Total water consumption
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- m3
- Ton
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- This is our first year of measurement
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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(W-EU1.3) Do you calculate water intensity for your electricity generation activities?
Question Dependencies
- This
question only appears if you select “Neutral,” “Important” or “Vital” as your “Direct use importance rating” or your “Indirect use importance rating” in response to W1.1.
- This question appears only if “Electricity generation” is selected in response to W-EU0.1a.
- Your response to W-EU1.3 will determine whether W-EU1.3a is presented. If your response to W-EU1.3 is amended, data in W-EU1.3a may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for W-EU1.3a.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes
- No, but we intend to do so within the next two years
- No, and we have no plans to do so in the next two years
(W-EU1.3a) Provide the following intensity information associated with your electricity generation activities.
Question Dependencies
- This question only appears if you select "Yes" to question W-EU1.3.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
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:
Water intensity value (m3)
|
Numerator: water aspect
|
Denominator |
Comparison with previous reporting year
|
Please explain
|
Numerical field [enter a number from
0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Select from:
- Freshwater withdrawals
- Freshwater consumption
- Total water withdrawals
- Total water consumption
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- MWh
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- This is our first year of measurement
|
Text field
[maximum 2,500 characters]
|
[Add Row]
(W-FB1.3) Do you collect/calculate water intensity for each commodity reported in question W-FB1.1a?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Neutral” “Important” or “Vital” as your “Direct use importance rating” or your “Indirect use importance rating” in response to W1.1.
- Your response to W-FB1.3 will determine whether W-FB1.3a and W-FB1.3b are presented. If your response to W-FB1.3 is amended, data in those dependent
questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for W-FB1.3a and W-FB1.3b.
Change from last year
No change
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.
Agricultural commodities
|
Water intensity information for this produced commodity is collected/calculated
|
Water intensity information for this sourced commodity is collected/calculated
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
- Drop-down options from the selection in W-FB1.1a
- Other commodities from W-FB1.1a, please specify
|
Select from:
- Yes
- No, not currently but we intend to collect/calculate this data within the next two years
- No, not currently and we have no plans to collect/calculate this data within the next two years
- Not applicable
|
Select from:
- Yes
- No, not currently but we intend to collect/calculate this data within the next two years
- No, not currently and we have no plans to collect/calculate this data within the next two years
- Not applicable
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
|
[Add Row]
(W-FB1.3a) Provide water intensity information for each of the agricultural commodities identified in W-FB1.3 that you produce.
Question dependencies
- This question is presented if you select the option "Yes" in column 2 of W-FB1.3 for any commodity.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
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.
Agricultural commodity
|
Water intensity value (m3)
|
Numerator: Water aspect
|
Denominator |
Comparison with previous reporting year
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
- Drop-down options for the produced commodities
selected in W-FB1.3
- Other produced commodities from W-FB1.3, please specify
|
Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Select from:
- Freshwater withdrawals
- Freshwater consumption
- Total water withdrawals
- Total water consumption
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Dozens
- Kilograms
- Tons
- Liters
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- This is our first year of measurement
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
|
[Add Row]
(W-FB1.3b) Provide water intensity information for each of the agricultural commodities identified in W-FB1.3 that you source.
Question dependencies
- This question is presented if you select the option "Yes" in column 3 of W-FB1.3 for any commodity.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
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.
Agricultural Commodities
|
Water intensity value (m3)
|
Numerator: Water aspect
|
Denominator |
Comparison with previous reporting year
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
- Drop-down options for the sourced commodities selected in W-FB1.3
- Other sourced commodities from W-FB1.3, please specify
|
Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Select from:
- Freshwater withdrawals
- Freshwater consumption
- Total water withdrawals
- Total water consumption
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Dozens
- Kilograms
- Liters
- Tons
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- This is our first year of measurement
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
|
[Add Row]
(W-MM1.3) Do you calculate water intensity information for your metals and mining activities?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Neutral” “Important” or “Vital” as your “Direct use importance rating” or your “Indirect use importance rating” in response to W1.1.
- Your response to W-MM1.3 will determine whether W-MM1.3a is presented. If your response to W-MM1.3 is amended, data in W-MM1.3a may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for W-MM1.3a.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes
- No, but we intend to do so within the next two years
- No, and we have no plans to do so in the next two years
(W-MM1.3a) For your top five products by revenue, provide the following intensity information associated with your metals and mining activities.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes” to question W-MM1.3.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
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.
Product
|
Numerator: Water aspect
|
Denominator |
Comparison with previous reporting year
|
Please explain
|
Text field [maximum 100 characters]
|
Select from:
- Freshwater withdrawals
- Freshwater consumption
- Total water withdrawals
- Total water consumption
- Freshwater use
- Total water use
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Ton of material moved
- Ton of ore mined
- Ton of ore processed
- Ton of final product
- Ounce of final product
- Thousand carats of final product
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- This is our first year of measurement
|
Text field [maximum 2,000 characters]
|
[Add Row]
(W-OG1.3) Do you calculate water intensity for your activities associated with the oil & gas sector?
Question dependencies
- This
question only appears if you select “Neutral” “Important” or “Vital” as your
“Direct use importance rating” or your “Indirect use
importance rating” in response to W1.1.
- Your response to W-OG1.3 will determine whether W-OG1.3a is presented. If your response to W-OG1.3 is amended, data in W-OG1.3a may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for W-OG1.3a.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes
- No, but we intend to do so within the next two years
- No, and we have no plans to do so in the next two years
(W-OG1.3a) Provide water intensity information associated with your activities in the oil & gas sector.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select "Yes" to question W-OG1.3.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
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.
Business division
|
Water intensity value (m3)
|
Numerator: water aspect
|
Denominator |
Comparison with previous reporting year
|
Please explain
|
Select all that apply:
- Upstream
- Midstream/Downstream
- Chemicals
- Other, please specify
|
Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Select from:
- Freshwater withdrawals
- Total withdrawals
- Freshwater consumption
- Total water consumption
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Barrel of oil equivalent
- Barrel of crude oil throughput
- Barrel of petrochemical product
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- This is our first year of measurement
|
Text field [maximum
2,500 characters]
|
[Add Row]
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 last year
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 last year
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:
% of suppliers by number
|
% of total procurement spend
|
Rationale for this coverage
|
Impact of the engagement and measures of success
|
Comment
|
Select from:
- None and we do not plan to request this from suppliers
- None currently, but we plan to request this within the next two years
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-100
- Unknown
|
Select from:
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-100
- Unknown
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
|
Text field [maximum 500 characters]
|
(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 last year
No 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.
Type of engagement
|
Details of engagement
|
% of suppliers by number
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% of total procurement spend
|
Rationale for the coverage of your engagement
|
Impact of the engagement and measures of success
|
Comment
|
Select from:
- No other supplier engagements
- Onboarding & compliance
- Incentivizing for improved water management and stewardship
- Innovation & collaboration
- Other
|
Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Select from:
- None
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-100
- Unknown
|
Select from:
- None
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-100
- Unknown
|
Text field [maximum 2,500
characters]
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
|
Text field [maximum 500 characters]
|
[Add Row]
Details of engagement (column 2)
Onboarding & compliance
- Inclusion of water stewardship and risk management in supplier selection mechanism
- Requirement for water-related targets is included in your supplier selection mechanism
- Requirement to adhere to our code of conduct regarding water stewardship and management
- Requirement to set and meet minimum standards for treatment of discharge
- Other, please specify
Incentivizing for improved water management and stewardship
- Demonstrable progress against water-related targets is incentivized in your supplier relationship management
- Water management and stewardship action is integrated into your supplier evaluation
- Water management and stewardship is featured in supplier awards scheme
- Offer financial incentives to suppliers reducing your operational water impacts through the products they supply to you
- Offer financial incentives to suppliers improving water management and stewardship across their own operations and supply chain
- Other, please specify
|
Innovation & collaboration
- Encourage/incentivize innovation to reduce water impacts in products and services
- Encourage/incentivize suppliers to work collaboratively with other users in their river basins
- Provide training and support on sustainable agriculture practices to improve water stewardship (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Educate suppliers about water stewardship and collaboration
- Other please specify
Other
|
(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 last year
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 last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Primary reason
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
- We are planning to do so within the next two years
- Judged to be unimportant
- No instruction from management
- Important but not an immediate business priority
- Lack of internal resources
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
|
W2 Business impacts
Recent impacts on your business
(W2.1) Has your organization experienced any detrimental water-related impacts?
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: External impacts
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(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 last year
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: External impacts
Response options
Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Country/Area
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River basin
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Type of impact driver
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Primary impact driver
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Primary impact
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Select from:
- Country/area drop-down list
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Select from:
- River basin drop-down list
- Not known
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Acute physical
- Chronic physical
- Regulatory
- Reputation & markets
- Technology
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Description of impact
| Primary response
| Total financial impact
| Description of response
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Primary impact driver (column 4)
Acute physical- Cyclone, hurricane, typhoon
- Drought
- Flood (coastal, fluvial, pluvial, groundwater)
- Glacial lake outburst
- Heavy precipitation (rain, hail, snow/ice)
- Storm (including blizzards, dust and sandstorm)
- Tornado
- Pollution incident
- Rupture of tailings dams and toxic spills (metals & mining sector only)
- Other, please specify
Chronic physical- Acid rock drainage and metal leaching (metals & mining sector only)
- Change in land-use
- Changing precipitation patterns and types (rain, hail, snow/ice)
- Declining water quality
- Dependency on water intensive energy sources
- Ecosystem vulnerability
- Inadequate infrastructure
- Increased levels of plastic in fresh water bodies
- Leaching of pollutants to groundwater bodies (metals & mining sector only)
- Ocean acidification
- Pollution of water bodies due to fertilizer, other chemical use, or animal residues (food, beverage & tobacco sector)
- Poorly managed sanitation
- Precipitation and/or hydrological variability
- Rationing of municipal water supply
- Saline intrusion
- Sea level rise
- Seasonal supply variability/inter annual variability
- Soil degradation (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Supplier dependency on water intensive energy sources
- Water scarcity
- Water stress
- Other, please specify
Regulatory
- Changed product standards
- Higher water prices
- Increased difficulty in obtaining withdrawals/operations permit
- Lack of transparency of water rights
- Limited or no river basin/catchment management
- Mandatory water efficiency, conservation, recycling or process standards
- Poor coordination between regulatory bodies
- Poor enforcement of water regulation
- Increased difficulty in supplier obtaining withdrawals/operations permit
- Litigation against supplier
- Tighter regulatory standards
- Regulation of discharge quality/volumes
- Regulatory uncertainty
- Statutory water withdrawal limits/changes to water allocation
- Other, please specify
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Reputation & markets
- Changes in consumer behavior
- Community opposition
- Inadequate access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services
- Increased stakeholder concern or negative stakeholder feedback
- Water-related litigation
- Negative media coverage
- Other, please specify
Technology
- Data access/availability
- Substitution of existing products with lower water impact options
- Transition to water efficient and low water intensity technologies and products
- Transition to water intensive, low carbon energy sources
- Unsuccessful investment in new technologies
- Transition to bio-based chemicals (chemicals sector only)
- Other, please specify
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Primary impact (column 5)
- Brand damage
- Changing revenue mix and sources
- Constraint to growth
- Closure of operations
- Diminished ability to reduce GHG emissions
- Disruption to sales
- Fines, penalties or enforcement orders
- Impact on company assets
- Disruption to workforce management and planning
- Increased insurance premiums
- Increased cost of capital
- Increased compliance costs
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- Increased operating costs
- Increased production costs
- Litigation
- Loss of license to operate
- Reduction or disruption in production capacity
- Reduced demand for products and services
- Reduction in capital availability
- Reduced revenues from lower sales/output
- Upfront costs to adopt/deploy new practices and processes
- Supply chain disruption
- Mine closure (metals & mining sector only)
- Other, please specify
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Primary response (column 7)
- Adopt water efficiency, water reuse, recycling and conservation practices
- Adopt regenerative agriculture policies
- Amend the Business Continuity Plan
- Comply with local regulatory requirements
- Develop drought emergency plans
- Develop flood emergency plans
- Develop new products and/or markets
- Engage with customers
- Engage with local communities
- Engage with NGOs/special interest groups
- Engage with regulators/policymakers
- Engage with suppliers
- Establish site-specific targets
- Greater due diligence
- Implement internal pricing on water
- Implement nature-based solutions
- Improve alignment of our public policy influencing activity with our water stewardship commitments
- Improve maintenance of infrastructure
- Improve monitoring
- Improve pollution abatement and control measures
- Increase capital expenditure
- Increase geographic diversity of facilities
- Increase insurance coverage
- Increase investment in new technology
- Increase supplier diversification
- Introduce/strengthen water management incentives
- Purchase water quality credits
- Re-site facilities
- Secure alternative water supply
- Support river basin restoration
- Tighten supplier performance standards
- Use risk transfer instruments
- Utilize aquifer storage to accrue recharge credits
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- Adopt alternative crop management strategies to reduce fertilizer and pesticide use (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Adopt alternative livestock management practices (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Adopt alternative livestock management practices to reduce use of veterinary products (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Adopt better animal waste management practices (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Adopt efficient fertilizer and pesticides management (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Adopt soil conservation practices (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Adopt sustainable irrigation practices (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of alternative crop management strategies to reduce fertilizer and pesticide use among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of alternative livestock management practices among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of alternative livestock management practices to reduce use of veterinary products among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of better animal waste management practices among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of efficient fertilizer and pesticide management among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of soil conservation practices among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of sustainable irrigation practices among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the use of drought resistant crop varieties among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Reduce food waste throughout the value chain (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Use drought resistant crop varieties (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Other, please specify
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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 last year
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 last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Current state: Compliance
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Total number of fines
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Total value of fines
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% of total facilities/operations associated
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Number of fines compared to previous reporting year
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Comment
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999]
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Percentage field [enter
a percentage from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Select from:
- Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- This is our first year of measurement
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(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 last year
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.
Type of penalty
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Financial impact |
Country/Area |
River basin
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Type of incident
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Description of penalty, incident, regulatory violation, significance and resolution
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Select from:
- Fine
- Enforcement order
- Other penalty type, please specify
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Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Select from:
- Country/area drop-down list
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Select from:
- River basin drop-down list
- Not known
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Spillage, leakage, or discharge of potential water pollutant
- Failure to monitor effluent
- Effluent limit exceedances
- Abstraction without a permit or abstraction that exceeded permit
- Other non-compliance with permits, standards, or regulations
- Incorrect administration of permits, standards, or regulations
- Other, please specify
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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
(W-CH3.1) How does your organization identify and classify potential water pollutants associated with its activities in the chemical sector that could have a detrimental impact on water ecosystems or human health?
Change from last year
No change
Response options
This is an open text question with a limit of 5,000 characters.
(W-CH3.1a) Describe how your organization minimizes adverse impacts of potential water pollutants on water ecosystems or human health. Report up to ten potential pollutants associated with your activities in the chemical sector.
Change from last year
No change
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.
Potential water pollutant
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Value chain stage
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Description of water pollutant and potential impacts
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Management procedures
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Please explain
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Text field [maximum 300 characters]
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Select all that apply:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
- Distribution network
- Product use
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum of 2,500 characters]
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Select all that apply:
- Compliance with effluent quality standards
- Measures to prevent spillage, leaching, and leakages
- Providing best practices instructions on product use
- Providing best practice guidance to suppliers
- Auditing supplier compliance to industry standards
- R&D into less harmful alternative products
- Management procedure under development
- No formal management procedure in
place
- Other, please specify
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(W-EU3.1) How does your organization identify and classify potential water pollutants associated with your business activities in the electric utilities sector that could have a detrimental impact on water ecosystems or human health?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if “Electricity generation” is selected for question W-EU0.1a.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
This is an open text question with a limit of 5,000 characters.
(W-EU3.1a) Describe how your organization minimizes the adverse impacts of potential water pollutants associated with your activities in the electric utilities sector on water ecosystems or human health.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if “Electricity generation” is selected for question W-EU0.1a.
Change from last year
No change
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.
Potential water pollutant
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Description of water pollutant and potential impacts
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Management procedures
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Hydrocarbons
- Coal combustion residuals
- Radiation
- Contaminated cooling water
- Thermal pollution
- Other, please specify
- No potential water pollutants identified
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Select all that apply:
- Compliance with effluent quality standards
- Measures to prevent spillage, leaching, and leakages
- Community/stakeholder engagement
- Emergency preparedness
- Management procedure under development
- No formal management procedure in place
- Other, please specify
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(W-FB3.1) How does your organization identify and classify potential water pollutants associated with its food, beverage, and tobacco sector activities that could have a detrimental impact on water ecosystems or human health?
Change from last year
No change
Response options
This is an open text question with a limit of 5,000 characters.
(W-FB3.1a) Describe how your organization minimizes the adverse impacts of potential water pollutants on water ecosystems or human health associated with your food, beverage, and tobacco sector activities.
Change from last year
No change
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.
Potential water pollutant
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Activity/value chain stage
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Description of water pollutant and potential impacts
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Management procedures
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Wastewater and sludge with high organic or suspended solids content
- Fertilizers
- Pesticides and other agrochemical products
- Manure and slurries
- Other animal by-products
- Antibiotics and other veterinary products
- Food additives
- Chemicals formed during processing, storage and distribution (e.g., acrylamide, aflatoxins)
- Other, please specify
- No potential water pollutants identified
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Select all that apply:
- Agriculture – direct operations
- Agriculture – supply chain
- Manufacturing – direct operations
- Manufacturing – supply chain
- Distribution – direct operations
- Distribution – supply chain
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum of 2,500 characters]
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Select all that apply:
- Animal waste management
- Livestock management
- Soil conservation practices
- Crop management practices
- Sustainable irrigation and drainage management
- Fertilizer management
- Pesticide management
- Calculation of fertilizer intensity data
- Substitution of pesticides for less toxic or environmentally hazardous alternatives
- Waste water management
- Adapt processing or cooking methods
- Change raw material inputs
- Product innovation
- Follow regulation standards
- Adapt food containers and packaging
- No formal management procedure in place
- Management procedure under development
- Other, please specify
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(W-OG3.1) How does your organization identify and classify potential water pollutants associated with its activities in the oil & gas sector that may have a detrimental impact on water ecosystems or human health?
Change from last year
No change
Response options
This is an open text question with a limit of 5,000 characters.
(W-OG3.1a) For each business division of your organization, describe how your organization minimizes the adverse impacts on water ecosystems or human health of potential water pollutants associated with your oil & gas sector activities.
Change from last year
No change
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.
Potential water pollutant
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Business division
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Description of water pollutant and potential impacts
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Management procedures
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Hydrocarbons
- Chemicals
- Drilling fluids
- Cuttings
- Other, please specify
- No potential water pollutants identified
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Select all that apply:
- Upstream
- Midstream/Downstream
- Chemicals
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Select all that apply:
- Compliance with effluent quality standards
- Measures to prevent spillage, leaching, and leakages
- Community/stakeholder engagement
- Emergency preparedness
- No formal management procedure in place
- Management procedure under
development
- Other, please specify
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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:
(W-MM3.2) By river basin, what number of active and inactive tailings dams are within your control?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select "Mining" in response to W-MM0.1a.
Change from last year
No change
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.
Country/Area |
River basin
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Number of tailings dams in operation
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Number of inactive tailings dams
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Comment
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Select from:
- Country/area drop-down list
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Select from:
- River basin drop-down list
- Not known
- Other, please specify
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-1,000 using no decimal
places]
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Numerical field [enter a
number from 0-1,000 using no decimals places]
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(W-MM3.2a) Do you evaluate and classify the tailings dams under your control according to the consequences of their failure to human health and ecosystems?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you report that you have any active or inactive tailings dams in W-MM3.2.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Evaluation of the consequences of tailings dam failure
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Evaluation/Classification guideline(s)
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Tailings dams have been classified as 'hazardous' or 'highly hazardous'
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Yes, we evaluate the consequences of tailings dam failure
- No, we do not currently evaluate the consequences of tailings dam failure but we plan to do so within the next two years
- No, we do not evaluate the consequences of tailings dam failure and have no plans to do so within the next two years
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Select all that apply:
- Australian National Committee on Large Dams (ANCOLD)
- Canadian Dam Association (CDA)
- Ordinance 70.389/17 - Mining National Agency, Brazil
- Ghana Minerals Commission (LI 2182)
- South Africa SANS 10286
- Company-specific guidelines
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Yes, tailings dams have been classified as 'hazardous' or 'highly hazardous' (or equivalent)
- None of our tailings dams have been classified as 'hazardous' or 'highly hazardous' (or equivalent)
- Don't know
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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(W-MM3.2b) Provide details for all dams classified as 'hazardous' or 'highly hazardous'.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select "Yes, tailings dams have been classified as 'hazardous' or 'highly hazardous' (or equivalent)" in response to W-MM3.2a.
Change from last year
No change
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.
Tailings dam name/identifier
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Country/Area
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River basin
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Latitude |
Longitude |
Hazard classification
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Text field [maximum 100 characters] |
Select from:- Country/area drop-down list
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Select from:- River basin drop-down list
- Other, please specify
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0 to +/- 90.000000 using a maximum of six decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0 to +/- 180.000000 using a maximum of six decimal places]
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Text field [maximum 100 characters] |
Guideline(s) used
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Tailings dam's activity
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Current tailings storage impoundment volume (Mm3)
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Planned tailings storage impoundment volume in 5 years (Mm3)
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Please explain |
Select all that apply:- Australian National Committee on Large Dams (ANCOLD)
- Canadian Dam Association (CDA)
- Ordinance 70.389/17 - Mining National Agency, Brazil
- Ghana Minerals Commission (LI 2182)
- South Africa SANS 10286
- Company-specific guidelines
- Other, please specify
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Select from: |
Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places] |
Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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(W-MM3.2c) To manage the potential impacts to human health or water ecosystems associated with the tailings dams in your control, what procedures are in place for all of your dams?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you report that you have any active or inactive tailings dams in W-MM3.2.
Change from last year
No change
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.
Procedure
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Detail of the procedure
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Acceptable risk levels
- Operating plan
- Life of facility plan
- Assurance program
- Change management process
- Approval
- Other management procedure
- No management procedure applies to all tailings dams
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Detail of the procedure (column 2)
Acceptable risk levels
- Establishment of site-level guidance and standards for acceptable risk levels based on an evaluation of potential chemical and physical risks
- Establishment of site-level guidance and standards for acceptable risk levels for third party safety in consultation with potentially affected communities, employees and relevant government bodies
- Establishment of site-level guidance and standards for acceptable risk levels across all life stages, including post-closure
- Establishment of company-wide standards for acceptable risk levels that folllow a company policy to eliminate or minimize water-related risks associated with tailings dams
- Other, please specify
Operating plan
- An operating plan that is aligned with your established acceptable risk levels and critical controls framework
- An operating plan that includes the operating constraints of the dam and its construction method
- An operating plan that considers the consequences of breaching the operating constraints of the dam
- An operating plan that includes periodic review of the foundations and slope materials
- An operating plan that evaluates the effectiveness of the risk management measures and whether performance objectives are being met
- Other, please specify
Life of facility plan
- A life of facility plan that identifies minimum specifications and performance objectives for the operating and closure phases
- A life of facility plan that includes an identification of potential chemical and physical risks from the design and construction phases
- A life of facility plan that considers post-closure land and water use
- A life of facility plan that details the financial and human resources needed
- Other, please specify
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Assurance program
- An assurance program for the operating phase of the facility that details the procedures for the inspections, audits and reviews
- An assurance program for each phase of the facilities´ life that includes the frequency of the various levels of inspections, audits and reviews
- An assurance program for each phase of the facilities´ life that includes the scope of the various levels of inspections, audits and reviews
- An assurance program that details the competence requirements for the persons undertaking the inspections, audits and reviews
- An assurance program that includes an external audit covering the life of facility or the operating plans
- Other, please specify
Change management process
- Inclusion of a formal change management process for the construction phase of the facility
- Inclusion of a formal change management process for the operating phase of the facility
- Inclusion of a formal change management process for the closure and decommissioning phase of the facility
- Inclusion of a change management process in the assurance program
- Inclusion of the results from external audits of operating plans or life of facility plans into the change management process
- Other, please specify
Approval
- A policy to eliminate or minimize water-related risks associated with tailings dams is approved by a C-suite officer
- The operating plan and the life of facility plan are approved by the EHS manager
- The operating plan and the life of facility plan are approved by a C-suite officer
- The results of the assurance program and the change management process are approved by the EHS manager
- The results of the assurance program and the change management process are approved by a C-suite officer
- Other, please specify
Other management procedure
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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 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.
- If your organization does not currently incorporate a water risk assessment into its core business procedures you will be presented with question W3.3c.
- The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.
Change from last year
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 last year
Modified question; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: Business risks
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.
Value chain stage
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Coverage
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Risk assessment procedure
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Frequency of assessment
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How far into the future are risks considered?
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Type of tools and methods used
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Tools and methods used
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Select all that apply:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
- Other stages of the value chain
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Select from:
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Select from:
- More than once a year
- Annually
- Every two years
- Every three years or more
- Not defined
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Select from:
- Up to 1 year
- 1 to 3 years
- 3 to 6 years
- More than 6 years
- Unknown
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Select all that apply:
- Tools on the market
- Enterprise Risk Management
- International methodologies and standards
- Databases
- Other
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Contextual issues considered | Stakeholders considered | Comment |
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Select all that apply:
- Water availability at a basin/catchment level
- Water quality at a basin/catchment level
- Stakeholder conflicts concerning water resources at a basin/catchment level
- Implications of water on your key commodities/raw materials
- Water regulatory frameworks
- Status of ecosystems and habitats
- Access to fully-functioning, safely managed WASH services for all employees
- Other, please specify
| Select all that apply:
- Customers
- Employees
- Investors
- Local communities
- NGOs
- Regulators
- Suppliers
- Water utilities at a local level
- Other water users at the basin/catchment level
- Other, please specify
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Risk assessment procedure (column 3)
- Water risks are assessed as part of an enterprise risk management framework
- Water risks are assessed as part of other company-wide risk assessment system
- Water risks are assessed in an environmental risk assessment
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- Water risks are assessed as a standalone issue
- Other, please specify
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Tools and methods used (column 7)
Tools on the market
- Collect Earth
- Ecolab Water Risk Monetizer
- EcoVadis
- GEMI Local Water Tool
- RBA Country Risk Assessment Tool
- SEDEX
- SIWI Water Tool
- Water Footprint Network Assessment tool
- WRI Aqueduct
- WWF Water Risk Filter
- Other, please specify
Enterprise Risk Management
- COSO Enterprise Risk Management Framework
- Enterprise Risk Management
- ISO 31000 Risk Management Standard
- Other, please specify
International methodologies and standards
- Alliance for Water Stewardship Standard
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Life Cycle Assessment
- India Water Tool
- IPCC Climate Change Projections
- ISO 14001 Environmental Management Standard
- ISO 14046 Environmental Management – Water Footprint
- Other, please specify
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Databases
- FAO/AQUASTAT
- Maplecroft Global Water Security Risk Index
- Regional government databases
- UNEP Vital Water Graphics
- Other, please specify
Other
- Internal company methods
- External consultants
- Materiality assessment
- Nation-specific databases, tools, or standards
- Scenario analysis
- Source Water Vulnerability Assessment
- Other, please specify
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(W3.3b) 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 last year
Modified guidance (2021 W3.3d)
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.
(W3.3c) 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 last year
No change (2021 W3.3e)
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Primary reason
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Please explain
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Select from:
- We are planning to introduce a risk assessment process within the next two years
- Important but not an immediate business priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Lack of internal resources
- Insufficient data on operations
- No instruction from management
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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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 last year
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 last year
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 last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: Business risks
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Total number of facilities exposed to water risk
|
% company-wide facilities this represents
|
Comment
|
Numerical field [enter a number from 0-1,000 using no decimals
or commas]
|
Select from:
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Unknown
|
Text field [maximum 4,500]
|
(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 last year
Additional guidance
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 by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Country/Area
|
River basin
|
Number of facilities exposed to water risk
|
% company-wide facilities this represents
|
Select from:
- Country/area drop-down list
|
Select from:
- River basin drop-down list
- Not known
- Other, please specify
|
Numerical field [enter a number from 0-1,000 using no decimals
or commas]
|
Select from:
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Unknown
|
[METALS & MINING SECTOR ONLY] Production value for the metals & mining activities associated with these facilities
| [ELECTRIC UTILITIES SECTOR ONLY] % company’s annual electricity generation that could be affected by these facilities
| [OIL & GAS SECTOR ONLY] % company’s global oil & gas production volume that could be affected by these facilities
| % company’s total global revenue that could be affected
| Comment
|
---|
Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Select from: - Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Unknown
- Not applicable
| Select from: - Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Unknown
- Not applicable
| Select from:
- Less than 1%
- 1-10
- 11-20
- 21-30
- 31-40
- 41-50
- 51-60
- 61-70
- 71-80
- 81-90
- 91-99
- 100%
- Unknown
| Text field [maximum 5,000 characters]
|
[Add Row]
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 last year
Minor change; Modified guidance; Additional guidance
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.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
Country/Area
|
River basin
|
Type of risk
|
Primary risk driver
|
Primary potential impact
|
Company-specific description
|
Timeframe
|
Select from:
- Country/area drop-down list
|
Select from:
- River basin drop-down list
- Not known
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Acute physical
- Chronic physical
- Regulatory
- Reputation & markets
- Technology
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
|
Select from:
- Current up to one year
- 1-3 years
- 4-6 years
- More than 6 years
- Unknown
|
Magnitude of potential impact | Likelihood | Are you able to provide a potential financial impact figure? | Potential financial impact figure (currency)* | Potential financial impact figure - minimum (currency)* | Potential financial impact figure - maximum (currency)* |
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Select from:
- High
- Medium-high
- Medium
- Medium-low
- Low
- Unknown
| Select from:
- Virtually certain
- Very likely
- Likely
- More likely than not
- About as likely as not
- Unlikely
- Very unlikely
- Exceptionally unlikely
- Unknown
| Select from:
- Yes, a single figure estimate
- Yes, an estimated range
- No, we do not have this figure
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Explanation of financial impact | Primary response to risk | Description of response | Cost of response | Explanation of cost of response |
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
| Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
| Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
|
[Add Row]
Primary risk driver (column 4)
Acute physical
- Cyclone, hurricane, typhoon
- Drought
- Flood (coastal, fluvial, pluvial, groundwater)
- Glacial lake outburst
- Heavy precipitation (rain, hail, snow/ice)
- Storm (including blizzards, dust and sandstorm)
- Tornado
- Pollution incident
- Rupture of tailings dams and toxic spills (metals & mining sector only)
- Other, please specify
Chronic physical
- Acid rock drainage and metal leaching (metals & mining sector only)
- Change in land-use
- Changing precipitation patterns and types (rain, hail, snow/ice)
- Declining water quality
- Dependency on water intensive energy sources
- Ecosystem vulnerability
- Inadequate infrastructure
- Increased levels of plastic in fresh water bodies
- Leaching of pollutants to groundwater bodies (metals & mining sector only)
- Ocean acidification
- Pollution of water bodies due to fertilizer, other chemical use, or animal residues (food, beverage & tobacco sector)
- Poorly managed sanitation
- Precipitation and/or hydrological variability
- Rationing of municipal water supply
- Saline intrusion
- Sea level rise
- Seasonal supply variability/inter annual variability
- Soil degradation (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Water scarcity
- Water stress
- Other, please specify
Regulatory
- Changed product standards
- Higher water prices
- Increased difficulty in obtaining withdrawals/operations permit
- Lack of transparency of water rights
- Limited or no river basin/catchment management
- Mandatory water efficiency, conservation, recycling or process standards
- Poor coordination between regulatory bodies
- Poor enforcement of water regulation
- Tighter regulatory standards
- Regulation of discharge quality/volumes
- Regulatory uncertainty
- Statutory water withdrawal limits/changes to water allocation
- Other, please specify
|
Reputation & markets
- Changes in consumer behavior
- Community opposition
- Inadequate access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services
- Increased stakeholder concern or negative stakeholder feedback
- Water-related litigation
- Negative media coverage
- Other, please specify
Technology
- Data access/availability
- Substitution of existing products with lower water impact options
- Transition to bio-based chemicals (chemicals sector only)
- Transition to water efficient and low water intensity technologies and products
- Transition to water intensive, low carbon energy sources
- Unsuccessful investment in new technologies
- Other, please specify
|
Primary potential impact (column 5)
- Brand damage
- Changing revenue mix and sources
- Constraint to growth
- Closure of operations
- Diminished ability to reduce GHG emissions
- Disruption to sales
- Fines, penalties or enforcement orders
- Impact on company assets
- Disruption to workforce management and planning
- Increased insurance premiums
- Increased cost of capital
- Increased compliance costs
|
- Increased operating costs
- Increased production costs
- Litigation
- Loss of license to operate
- Reduction or disruption in production capacity
- Reduced demand for products and services
- Reduction in capital availability
- Reduced revenues from lower sales/output
- Upfront costs to adopt/deploy new practices and processes
- Supply chain disruption
- Mine closure (metals & mining sector only)
- Other, please specify
|
Primary response to risk (column 15)
- Adopt water efficiency, water reuse, recycling and conservation practices
- Adopt regenerative agriculture policies
- Amend the Business Continuity Plan
- Comply with local regulatory requirements
- Develop drought emergency plans
- Develop flood emergency plans
- Develop new products and/or markets
- Engage with local communities
- Engage with NGOs/special interest groups
- Engage with customers
- Engage with suppliers
- Engage with regulators/policymakers
- Establish site-specific targets
- Greater due diligence
- Implement internal pricing on water
- Implement nature-based solutions
- Improve alignment of our public policy influencing activity with our water stewardship commitments
- Improve maintenance of infrastructure
- Improve monitoring
- Improve pollution abatement and control measures
- Increase capital expenditure
- Increase geographic diversity of facilities
- Increase insurance coverage
- Increase investment in new technology
- Increase supplier diversification
|
- Introduce/strengthen water management incentives
- Purchase water quality credits
- Re-site facilities
- Secure alternative water supply
- Support river basin restoration
- Tighten supplier performance standards
- Use risk transfer instruments
- Utilize aquifer storage to accrue recharge credits
- Adopt alternative crop management strategies to reduce fertilizer and pesticide use (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Adopt alternative livestock management practices (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Adopt alternative livestock management practices to reduce use of veterinary products (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Adopt better animal waste management practices (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Adopt efficient fertilizer and pesticide management (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Adopt soil conservation practices (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Adopt sustainable irrigation practices (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Reduce food waste throughout the value chain (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Use drought resistant crop varieties (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Other, please specify
|
(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 last year
Minor change; Modified guidance
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.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
Country/Area |
River basin
|
Stage of value chain | Type of risk
|
Primary risk driver
|
Primary potential impact
|
Company-specific description
|
Timeframe
|
Select from:
- Country/area drop-down list
|
Select from:
- River basin drop-down list
- Not known
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:- Supply chain
- Use phase
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Acute physical
- Chronic physical
- Regulatory
- Reputation & markets
- Technology
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
|
Select from:
- Current up to one year
- 1-3 years
- 4-6 years
- More than 6 years
- Unknown
|
Magnitude of potential impact | Likelihood | Are you able to provide a potential financial impact figure? | Potential financial impact figure (currency)* | Potential financial impact figure - minimum (currency)* | Potential financial impact figure - maximum (currency)* |
---|
Select from:
- High
- Medium-high
- Medium
- Medium-low
- Low
- Unknown
| Select from:
- Virtually certain
- Very likely
- Likely
- More likely than not
- About as likely as not
- Unlikely
- Very unlikely
- Exceptionally unlikely
- Unknown
| Select from:
- Yes, a single figure estimate
- Yes, an estimated range
- No, we do not have this figure
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Explanation of financial impact | Primary response to risk | Description of response | Cost of response | Explanation of cost of response |
---|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
| Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
| Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
|
[Add Row]
Primary risk driver (column 5)
Acute physical- Cyclone, hurricane, typhoon
- Drought
- Flood (coastal, fluvial, pluvial, groundwater)
- Glacial lake outburst
- Heavy precipitation (rain, hail, snow/ice)
- Storm (including blizzards, dust and sandstorm)
- Tornado
- Pollution incident
- Rupture of tailings dams and toxic spills (metals & mining sector only)
- Other, please specify
Chronic physical- Acid rock drainage and metal leaching (metals & mining sector only)
- Change in land-use
- Changing precipitation patterns and types (rain, hail, snow/ice)
- Declining water quality
- Dependency on water intensive energy sources
- Ecosystem vulnerability
- Inadequate infrastructure
- Increased levels of plastic in fresh water bodies
- Leaching of pollutants to groundwater bodies (metals & mining sector only)
- Ocean acidification
- Pollution of water bodies due to fertilizer, other chemical use, or animal residues (food, beverage & tobacco sector)
- Poorly managed sanitation
- Precipitation and/or hydrological variability
- Rationing of municipal water supply
- Saline intrusion
- Sea level rise
- Seasonal supply variability/inter annual variability
- Soil degradation (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Water scarcity
- Water stress
- Other, please specify
Regulatory
- Changed product standards
- Higher water prices
- Increased difficulty in supplier obtaining withdrawals/operations permit
- Lack of transparency of water rights
- Limited or no river basin/catchment management
- Litigation against supplier
- Mandatory water efficiency, conservation, recycling or process standards
- Poor coordination between regulatory bodies
- Poor enforcement of water regulation
- Tighter regulatory standards
- Regulation of discharge quality/volumes
- Regulatory uncertainty
- Statutory water withdrawal limits/changes to water allocation
- Other, please specify
|
Reputation & markets
- Changes in consumer behavior
- Community opposition
- Inadequate access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services
- Increased stakeholder concern or negative stakeholder feedback
- Water-related litigation
- Negative media coverage
- Other, please specify
Technology
- Data access/availability
- Substitution of existing products with lower water impact options
- Transition to bio-based chemicals (chemicals sector only)
- Transition to water efficient and low water intensity technologies and products
- Transition to water intensive, low carbon energy sources
- Unsuccessful investment in new technologies
- Other, please specify
|
Primary potential impact (column 6)
- Company brand damage
- Changing revenue mix and sources
- Constraint to growth
- Closure of company operations
- Diminished ability to reduce value chain GHG emissions
- Disruption to sales due to value chain disruption
- Fines, penalties or enforcement orders
- Impact on company assets
- Disruption to workforce management and planning
- Increased insurance premiums
- Increased cost of capital
- Increased compliance costs
|
- Increased operating costs
- Increased production costs due to changing input prices from supplier
- Litigation
- Loss of license to operate
- Reduction or disruption in production capacity
- Reduced demand for products and services
- Reduction in capital availability
- Reduced revenues from lower sales/output
- Upfront costs to adopt/deploy new practices and processes
- Supply chain disruption
- Mine closure (metals & mining sector only)
- Other, please specify
|
Primary response to risk (column 16)
Direct operations
- Develop new products and/or markets
- Improve alignment of our procurement policy influencing activity with our water stewardship commitments
- Include in Business Continuity Plan
- Increase capital expenditure
- Increase investment in new technology
- Purchase water quality credits
- Other, please specify
Upstream
- Increase our insurance coverage
- Increase supplier diversification
- Map supplier water risk
- Tighten supplier performance standards
- Use risk transfer instruments
- Reduce food waste throughout the value chain (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Other, please specify
|
Supplier engagement
- Develop supplier drought emergency plans
- Develop supplier flood emergency plans
- Establish supplier performance targets
- Increase supplier reporting on water
- Introduce/strengthen water management incentives for suppliers
- Promote adoption of waste water management procedures among suppliers
- Promote greater due diligence among suppliers
- Promote investment in infrastructure and technologies for water saving, re-use and recycling among suppliers
- Promote the use of insurance among suppliers
- Work with supplier to engage with local communities
- Promote the adoption of alternative crop management strategies among suppliers to reduce use of fertilizers and pesticides (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of alternative livestock management practices among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of alternative livestock management practices among suppliers to reduce use of veterinary products (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of better animal waste management among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of soil conservation practices among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of sustainable irrigation practices among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote efficient fertilizer and pesticide management among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the use of drought resistant crop varieties among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Other, please specify
Downstream
- Implement nature-based solutions
- Improve pollution abatement and control measures
- Increase/review infrastructure investment
- Support river basin restoration
- Work with supplier to engage with customers
- Work with supplier to engage with NGOs/special interest groups
- Work with supplier to engage with regulators/policymakers
- Reduce food waste throughout the value chain (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Other, please specify
|
(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 last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Primary reason
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
- Risks exist, but no substantive impact anticipated
- Evaluation in progress
- Not yet evaluated
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
|
(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 last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Primary reason
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
- Risks exist, but no substantive impact anticipated
- Evaluation in progress
- Not yet evaluated
- Lack of visibility of supply chain
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
|
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 last year
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 last year
Modified guidance
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.
Type of opportunity
|
Primary water-related opportunity
|
Company-specific description & strategy to realize opportunity
|
Estimated timeframe for realization
|
Magnitude of potential financial impact
|
Select from:
- Efficiency
- Resilience
- Products and services
- Markets
- Other
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
|
Select from:
- Current - up to 1 year
- 1 to 3 years
- 4 to 6 years
- More than 6 years
- Unknown
|
Select from:
- Low
- Low-medium
- Medium
- Medium-high
- High
- Unknown
|
Are you able to provide a potential financial impact figure? | Potential financial impact figure (currency) | Potential financial impact figure - minimum (currency) | Potential financial impact figure - maximum (currency) | Explanation of financial impact
|
---|
Select from: - Yes, a single figure estimate
- Yes, an estimated range
- No, we do not have this figure
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Numerical field [enter a number from
0-999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
|
[Add Row]
Primary water-related opportunity (column 2)
Efficiency
- Cost savings
- Improved water efficiency in operations
- Water recovery from sewage management
- Improved field recovery factor (oil & gas sector only)
- Other, please specify
Resilience
- Increased resilience to impacts of climate change
- Increased supply chain resilience
- Resilience to future regulatory changes
- Other, please specify
Products and services
- New R&D opportunities
- Increased sales of existing products/services
- Sales of new products/services
- Reduced impact of product use on water resources
- Other, please specify
|
Markets
- Expansion into new markets
- Improved community relations
- Improved staff retention
- Improved customer satisfaction
- Increased brand value
- Increased shareholder value
- Strengthened social license to operate
- Stronger competitive advantage
- Other, please specify
Other
|
(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 last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Primary reason
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
- Opportunities exist, but we are unable to realize them
- Opportunities exist, but none with potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on business
- Evaluation in progress
- Judged to be unimportant
- No instruction from management to seek out opportunities
- Not yet evaluated
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum
2,500 characters]
|
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 last year
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.
Facility reference number
|
Facility name (optional)
|
Country/Area
|
River basin
|
Latitude
|
Longitude
|
Located in area with water stress |
Select from:
- Facility reference numbers: 1-50
|
Text field [maximum 500 characters]
|
Select from:
- Country/area drop-down list
|
Select from:
- River basin drop-down list
- Other, please specify
|
Numerical field [enter
a number from 0 to +/-90.000000 using a maximum of six decimal places]
|
Numerical field [enter
a number from 0 to +/-180.000000 using a maximum of six decimal places]
|
Select from: |
[ELECTRIC UTILITIES SECTOR ONLY] Primary power generation source for your electricity generation at this facility | [OIL & GAS SECTOR ONLY] Oil & gas sector business division
| Total water withdrawals (megaliters/year) at this facility
| Comparison of total withdrawals with previous reporting year
| Withdrawals from fresh surface water, including rainwater, water from wetlands, rivers and lakes | Withdrawals from brackish surface water/seawater | Withdrawals from groundwater - renewable |
---|
Select from: - Coal – hard
- Lignite
- Oil
- Gas
- Biomass
- Waste (non-biomass)
- Nuclear
- Fossil-fuel plants fitted with carbon capture and storage
- Geothermal
- Hydropower
- Wind
- Solar
- Marine
- Other renewable
- Not applicable
| Select all that apply:
- Upstream
- Midstream/Downstream
- Chemicals
- Other, please specify
- Not applicable
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of two decimal places]
| Select from:
- Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- This is our first year of measurement
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
|
Withdrawals from groundwater - non-renewable | Withdrawals from produced/entrained water | Withdrawals from third party sources | Total water discharges (megaliters/year) at this facility | Comparison of total discharges with previous reporting year | Discharges to fresh surface water |
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places] | Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places] | Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places] | Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places] | Select from: - Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- This is our first year of measurement
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Discharges to brackish surface water/seawater | Discharges to groundwater | Discharges to third party destinations | Total water consumption (megaliters/year) at this facility | Comparison of total consumption with previous reporting year | Please explain |
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places] | Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places] | Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places] | Numerical field [enter a number from 0 to +/-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places] | Select from: - Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- This is our first year of measurement
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(W5.1a) For the facilities referenced in W5.1, what proportion of water accounting data has been third party verified?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you list facilities exposed to water risk in W5.1.
Change from last year
Modified question; Additional guidance
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
Water aspect
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% verified
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Verification standard used*
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Please explain*
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Water withdrawals – total volumes
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Select from:
- Not verified
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-100
- Not relevant
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Text field [maximum 1,500
characters]
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Water withdrawals – volume by source
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Water withdrawals – quality by standard water quality parameters
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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 last year
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 last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Response: Policies, governance and targets
Response options
Please complete the following table.
Scope
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Content
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Company-wide
- Select facilities, businesses, or geographies only
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Select all that apply: - Description of business dependency on water
- Description of business impact on water
- Description of water-related performance standards for direct operations
- Description of water-related standards for procurement
- Reference to international standards and widely-recognized water initiatives
- Company water targets and goals
- Commitment to align with public policy initiatives, such as the SDGs
- Commitments beyond regulatory compliance
- Commitment to water-related innovation
- Commitment to stakeholder awareness and education
- Commitment to water stewardship and/or collective action
- Commitment to safely managed Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in the workplace
- Commitment to safely managed Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in local communities
- Acknowledgement of the human right to water and sanitation
- Recognition of environmental linkages, for example, due to climate change
- Other, please specify
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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 last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Response: Policies, governance and targets
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(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 last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Response: Policies, governance and targets
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.
Position of individual
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Board Chair
- Director on board
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)
- Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
- Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
- Other C-Suite Officer
- President
- Board-level committee
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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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 last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Frequency that water-related issues are a scheduled agenda item
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Governance mechanisms into which water-related issues are integrated
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Scheduled - all meetings
- Scheduled - some meetings
- Sporadic - as important matters arise
- Other, please specify
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Select all that apply:
- Monitoring implementation and performance
- Overseeing acquisitions and divestiture
- Overseeing major capital expenditures
- Providing employee incentives
- Reviewing and guiding annual budgets
- Reviewing and guiding business plans
- Reviewing and guiding major plans of action
- Reviewing and guiding risk management policies
- Reviewing and guiding strategy
- Reviewing and guiding corporate responsibility strategy
- Reviewing innovation/R&D priorities
- Setting performance objectives
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 3,000
characters]
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(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 last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Primary reason
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Board level oversight of water-related issues will be introduced in the next two years
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Please explain
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Text field [maximum 200 characters]
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Select from:
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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(W6.2d) Does your organization have at least one board member with competence on water-related issues?
Change from last year
New question
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
Board member(s) have competence on water-related issues
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Criteria used to assess competence of board member(s) on water-related issues*
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Primary reason for no board-level competence on water-related issues*
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Explain why your organization does not have at least one board member with competence on water-related issues and any plans to address board-level competence in the future*
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Select from:
- Yes
- No, but we plan to address this within the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to address this within the next two years
- Not assessed
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Select from:
- Important but not an immediate priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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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 last year
Modified question; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
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.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
Name of the position(s) and/or committee(s)
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Responsibility* |
Frequency of reporting to the board on water-related issues* |
Please explain
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Select from:
- There is currently no management-level responsibility for water-related issues
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)
- Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
- Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
- Other C-Suite Officer, please specify
- President
- Risk committee
- Sustainability committee
- Safety, Health, Environment, and Quality committee
- Corporate responsibility committee
- Other committee, please specify
- Business unit manager
- Energy manager
- Environmental health and safety manager
- Environment/Sustainability manager
- Facilities manager
- Process operation manager
- Procurement manager
- Public affairs manager
- Risk manager
- Other, please specify
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Select all that apply:
- Assessing future trends in water demand
- Assessing water-related risks and opportunities
- Managing water-related risks and opportunities
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- More frequently than quarterly
- Quarterly
- Half-yearly
- Annually
- Less frequently than annually
- As important matters arise
- Not reported to board
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Text field [maximum
1,000 characters]
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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 last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Provide incentives for management of water-related issues | Comment |
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Select from:
- Yes
- No, not currently but we plan to introduce them in the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to introduce them in the next two years
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(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 last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Type of incentive |
Role(s) entitled to incentive |
Performance indicator |
Please explain
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Monetary reward
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Select all that apply:
- Board chair
- Board/Executive board
- Director on board
- Corporate executive team
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Chief Purchasing Officer (CPO)
- Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
- Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
- Other C-suite Officer
- Other, please specify
- No one is entitled to these incentives
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Select all that apply:
- Reduction of water withdrawals
- Reduction in consumption volumes
- Improvements in efficiency – direct operations
- Improvements in efficiency – supply chain
- Improvements in efficiency – product-use
- Improvements in waste water quality – direct operations
- Improvements in waste water quality – supply chain
- Improvements in waste water quality – product-use
- Implementation of employee awareness campaign or training program
- Supply chain engagement
- Increased access to workplace WASH
- Implementation of water-related community project
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum of 1,500 characters]
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Non-monetary reward
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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 last year
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 last year
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 last year
No change
Response options
Select one of the following 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 last year
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:
Aspect of strategic business plan
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Are water-related issues integrated?
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Long-term time horizon (years)
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Please explain
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Long-term business objectives
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Select from:
- Yes, water-related issues are integrated
- No, water-related issues were reviewed but not considered as strategically relevant/significant
- No, water-related issues not yet reviewed, but there are plans to do so in the next two years
- No, water-related issues were not reviewed and there are no plans to do so
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Select from:
- 5-10
- 11-15
- 16-20
- 21-30
- > 30
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Text field [maximum 1,500
characters]
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Strategy for achieving long-term objectives
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Financial planning
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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 last year
No change
Response options
Water-related CAPEX (+/- % change)
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Anticipated forward trend for CAPEX (+/- % change)
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Water-related OPEX (+/- % change)
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Anticipated forward trend for OPEX (+/- % change)
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Please explain
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Percentage field [enter
a percentage from 0 to +/-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Percentage field [enter
a percentage from 0 to +/-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Percentage field [enter
a percentage from 0 to +/-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Percentage field [enter
a percentage from 0 to +/-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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W7.3 Scenario analysis
(W7.3) Does your organization use 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 the dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions.
Change from last year
Modified question
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Use of scenario analysis
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Comment
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Select from:
- Yes
- No, but we anticipate doing so within the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to do so within the next two years
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Text field [maximum
1,000 characters]
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(W7.3a) Provide details of the scenario analysis, what water-related outcomes were identified, and how they have influenced your organization's business strategy.
Question dependencies
- If 'Yes' is selected in column 1 of W7.3, this question is presented.
Change from last year
Modified question (2021 W7.3b)
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Type of scenario analysis used
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Parameters, assumptions, analytical choices
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Description of possible water-related outcomes
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Influence on business strategy
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Select all that apply:
- Water-related
- Climate-related
- Socioeconomic
- Land-use change
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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Water pricing
(W7.4) Does your company use an internal price on water?
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Does your company use an internal price on water?
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Yes
- No, but we are currently exploring water valuation practices
- No, and we do not anticipate doing so within the next two years
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Products and services
(W7.5) Do you classify any of your current products and/or services as low water impact?
Change from last year
New question
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
Products and/or services classified as low water impact
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Definition used to classify low water impact*
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Primary reason for not classifying any of your current products and/or services as low water impact*
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Yes
- No, but we plan to address this within the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to address this within the next two years
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Text field
[maximum 5,000 characters]
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Select from:
- Important but not an immediate business priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Lack of internal resources
- No instruction from management
- Other, please specify
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Text field
[maximum 1,000 characters]
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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 last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Response: Policies, governance and targets
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Levels for targets and/or goals
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Monitoring at corporate level
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Approach to setting and monitoring targets and/or goals
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Select all that apply:
- Our company sets no targets or goals
- Company-wide targets and goals
- Business level specific targets and/or goals
- Activity level specific targets and/or goals
- Site/facility specific targets and/or goals
- Brand/product specific targets and/or goals
- Country level targets and/or goals
- Basin specific targets and/or goals
- Other, please specify
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Select all that apply:
- None are monitored at corporate level
- Targets are monitored at the corporate level
- Goals are monitored at the corporate level
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Text field [maximum 3,000
characters]
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(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 last year
Minor change; Modified guidance
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.
Target reference number
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Category of target
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Level
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Primary motivation
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Description of target
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Quantitative metric
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Select from:
- Reference number drop down
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Select from:
- Company-wide
- Business
- Business activity
- Site/facility
- Brand/product
- Country level
- Basin level
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Baseline year
| Start year
| Target year
| % of target achieved
| Please explain
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Numerical field [enter a number between 1900 and 2022 with no
decimal places] | Numerical field [enter a number between 1900 and 2022 with no
decimal places] | Numerical field [enter a number between 2017 and 2100 with no
decimal places] | Percentage field [enter a percentage from 0-100 using a maximum
of 2 decimal places] | Text field [maximum 1,000 characters] |
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Category of target (column 2)
- Water withdrawals
- Water consumption
- Water discharge
- Product water intensity
- Water recycling/reuse
- Water use efficiency
- Water pollution reduction
- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services in the workplace
- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services in the community
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- Monitoring of water use
- Product use-phase
- Community engagement
- Supplier engagement
- Watershed remediation and habitat restoration, ecosystem preservation
- Impact of packaging material
- Procurement/production of sustainable raw materials (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Other, please specify
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Primary motivation (column 4)
- Brand value protection
- Cost savings
- Increased revenue
- Sales of new products / services
- Reduced environmental impact
- Recommended sector best practice
- Risk mitigation
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- Increasing freshwater availability for users/natural environment within the basin
- Commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Corporate social responsibility
- Shared value
- Water stewardship
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies
- Other, please specify
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Quantitative metric (column 6)
Water withdrawals
- Absolute reduction in total water withdrawals
- % reduction in total water withdrawals
- % reduction of water withdrawals from surface water
- % reduction of water withdrawals from groundwater
- % reduction of water withdrawals from municipal supply
- % increase in water withdrawals from third-party sources
- % increase in rainwater harvesting
- % increase in water use met through recycling/reuse
- % reduction per business unit
- % reduction per revenue
- % reduction per product
- Absolute increase in investment related to this category
- % increase in investment related to this category
- % reduction per unit of production
- Other, please specify
Water consumption
- % reduction in total water consumption
- % reduction per business unit
- % reduction per revenue
- % reduction per product
- Absolute increase in investment related to this category
- % increase in investment related to this category
- % reduction per unit of production
- Other, please specify
Water discharge
- % reduction per business unit
- % reduction per revenue
- % reduction per product
- Absolute increase in investment related to this category
- % increase in investment related to this category
- % reduction per unit of production
- % increase in water use met through recycling/reuse
- Other, please specify
Product water intensity
- % reduction per business unit
- % reduction per revenue
- % reduction per product
- Absolute increase in investment related to this category
- % increase in investment related to this category
- % reduction per unit of production
- % increase in water use met through recycling/reuse
- Other, please specify
Water recycling/reuse
- % increase in water use met through recycling/reuse
- Absolute increase in investment related to this category
- % increase in investment related to this category
- Other, please specify
Water use efficiency
- % reduction in total water withdrawals
- % reduction of water withdrawals from surface water
- % reduction of water withdrawals from groundwater
- % reduction of water withdrawals from municipal supply
- % increase in withdrawals from third party sources
- % increase in water withdrawal efficiency (i.e. revenue generation per water withdrawal volume)
- % reduction in total water discharge
- % increase in water use met through recycling/reuse
- Other, please specify
Water pollution reduction
- % proportion of wastewater that is safely treated
- % reduction in concentration of pollutants
- % reduction in water discharge volumes
- Absolute increase in investment related to this category
- % increase in investment related to this category
- Other, please specify
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services in the workplace
- Proportion of employees using safely managed drinking water services
- Proportion of employees using safely managed sanitation services, including a hand-washing facility with soap and water
- % increase in the proportion of employees using safely managed drinking water services
- % increase in the proportion of employees using safely managed sanitation services, including a hand-washing facility with soap and water
- Other, please specify
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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services in the community
- Proportion of local population using safely managed drinking water services around our facilities and operations around our facilities and operations
- Proportion of local population using safely managed sanitation services, including a hand-washing facility with soap and water around our facilities and operations
- % increase in the proportion of local population using safely managed drinking water services around our facilities and operations
- % increase in the proportion of local population using safely managed sanitation services, including a hand-washing facility with soap and water around our facilities and operations
- Other, please specify
Monitoring of water use
- % sites monitoring water withdrawals total volumes
- % sites monitoring water withdrawals by source
- % sites monitoring water recycling/reuse
- % sites monitoring water discharge total volumes
- % sites monitoring water discharge by destination
- % sites monitoring water discharge quality - by treatment method
- % sites monitoring water discharge quality - by standard effluent parameter
- % sites monitoring water discharge quality - temperature
- % sites monitoring water consumption total volumes
- % sites monitoring the proportion of employees having access to safely managed drinking water and sanitation services around our facilities and operations
- % sites monitoring the proportion of population having access to safely managed drinking water and sanitation services around our facilities and operations
- Other, please specify
Product use-phase
- Absolute increase in revenue from products designed for use-phase resource efficiency
- % increase in revenue from products designed for use-phase resource efficiency
- % decrease in total revenue associated with water-polluting products
- Other, please specify
Community engagement
- Total number of population participating in community-engagement activities
- % increase in number of population participating in community-engagement activities
- % increase in investment in community engagement initiatives
- Absolute increase in investment in community engagement initiatives
- Other, please specify
Supplier engagement
- % increase in proportion of suppliers engaged
- % increase in number of suppliers engaged
- % increase in investment in supplier engagement initiatives
- Other, please specify
Watershed remediation and habitat restoration, ecosystem preservation
- Total number of watershed remediation and habitat restoration, ecosystem preservation activities
- % increase in watershed remediation and habitat restoration, ecosystem preservation activities
- Improvement in health of water-related ecosystems over time
- % increase in investment in watershed remediation and habitat restoration, ecosystem preservation activities
- Absolute increase in investment in watershed remediation and habitat restoration, ecosystem preservation
- Other, please specify
Impact of packaging material
- % increase of biodegradable packaging material
- % decrease of packaging per product unit
- Other, please specify
Procurement/production of sustainable raw materials (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- % reduction in procurement/production of high water impact commodities (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- % increase in procurement/production of certified crops (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- % increase in procurement/production of crops using sustainable agriculture practices (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- % reduction in procurement/production of commodities from water-stressed areas (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- % increase in procurement/production of commodities with improved water management practices (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Other, please specify
Other
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(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 last year
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.
Goal
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Level
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Motivation
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Description of goal
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Baseline year
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Start year
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End year
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Progress
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Select from:
- Company-wide
- Business
- Business activity
- Site/facility
- Brand/product
- Country level
- Basin level
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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Numerical field [enter a number between 1900 and 2022 with no decimal
places]
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Numerical field [enter a number between 1900 and 2022 with no
decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number between 2017 and 2100 with no
decimal places]
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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[Add Row]
Goal (column 1)
Providing access to safely managed Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in workplace
Providing access to safely managed Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in local communities
Engaging with local community
Engaging with customers to help them minimize product impacts
Engagement with public policy makers to advance sustainable water management and policies
Engagement with suppliers to help them improve water stewardship
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Engagement with suppliers to reduce the water-related impact of supplied products
Promotion of sustainable agriculture practices
Watershed remediation and habitat restoration, ecosystem preservation
Promotion of water data transparency
Reduce environmental impact of product in use phase
Improve wastewater quality beyond compliance requirements
Other, please specify
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Motivation (column 3)
- Brand value protection
- Cost savings
- Increased revenue
- Sales of new products / services
- Reduced environmental impact
- Recommended sector best practice
- Risk mitigation
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- Commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Increasing freshwater availability for users/natural environment within the basin
- Corporate social responsibility
- Shared value
- Water stewardship
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies
- Other, please specify
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(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 last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Primary reason
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
- We are planning to introduce a target or goal within the next two years
- Important but not an immediate business priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Lack of internal resources
- Insufficient data on operations
- No instruction from management
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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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 last year
Modified guidance
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 last year
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.
Disclosure module
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Data verified
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Verification standard
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Please explain
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Select from:
- W0 Introduction
- W1 Current state
- W2 Business impacts
- W3 Procedures
- W4 Risks and opportunities
- W6 Governance
- W7 Strategy
- W8 Targets
- SW Supply chain module
|
Text field [maximum 1,000
characters]
|
Select from:
- AA1000AS
- ASAE3000
- Alliance for Water Stewardship certification
- Compagnie Nationale des Commissaires aux Comptes (CNCC)
- IDW AsS 821: IDW Assurance Standard: Generally Accepted Assurance Principles for the Audit or Review of Reports on Sustainability Issues
- ISAE 3000
- RevR6 Procedure for assurance of sustainability report
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,000 characters]
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[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 last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Job title
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Corresponding job category
|
Text field [maximum 200 characters]
|
Select from:
- Board Chair
- Board/Executive board
- Director on board
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)
- Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
- Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
- Other C-Suite Officer
- President
- Business unit manager
- EHS manager
- Energy manager
- Environment/Sustainability manager
- Facilities manager
- Process operation manager
- Procurement manager
- Public affairs manager
- Risk manager
- Other, please specify
|
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 last year
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
SW Supply chain
Supply chain introduction
(SW0.1) What is your organization’s annual revenue for the reporting period?
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Annual revenue
|
Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
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 last year
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 last year
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.
Facility reference number
|
Facility name
|
Requesting member
|
Description of potential impact on member
|
Comment
|
Select from:
- Reference number drop down
|
Text field [maximum 500 characters]
|
Select from:
|
Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
|
Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
|
[Add Row]
(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 last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Are you able to provide geolocation data for your facilities? | Comment |
---|
Select from:- Yes, for all facilities
- Yes, for some facilities
- No, not currently but we intend to provide it within the next two years
- No, we do not have this data and have no plans to collect it
- No, this is confidential data
| Text field [maximum 1,000 characters] |
(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 last year
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.
Identifier |
Latitude
|
Longitude
|
Comment
|
- Text field [maximum 500
characters]
|
Numerical field [enter a number from 0 to +/-90.000000 using a maximum of 6 decimal places]
|
Numerical field [enter a number from 0 to +/-180.000000 using a maximum of 6 decimal places]
|
Text field [maximum 1,000
characters]
|
[Add Row]
Collaborative opportunities
(SW2.1) Please propose any mutually beneficial water-related projects you could collaborate on with specific CDP supply chain members.
Change from last year
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.
Requesting member
|
Category of project
|
Type of project
|
Motivation
|
Estimated timeframe for achieving project
|
Details of project
|
Projected outcome
|
Select from:
|
Select from:
- New product or service
- Relationship water assessment
- Change to provision of goods and services
- Promote river basin collective action
- Communications
- Other
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Text field [maximum 500 characters]
|
Select from:
- Up to 1 year
- 2 to 3 years
- 4 to 5 years
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
|
[Add Row]
Type of project (column 3)
New product or service
- New product or service that reduces customers' operational water consumption
- New product or service that reduces customers' products/services water consumption
- New product or service that has a lower upstream water impacts
- Other, please specify
- Reduced packaging water impacts
- Other, please specify
Relationship water assessment
- Assessing products' or services' water-related impacts to identify efficiencies
- Water audit of existing relationship
- Aligning goals to feed into customers targets and ambitions
- Other, please specify
Change to provisioning of goods and services
- Reduced water-related impacts
- Other, please specify
|
Promote river basin collective action
- Invite customer to collaborate with other users in their river basins to reduce impact
- Other, please specify
Communications
- Awards – apply for external awards together
- Joint case studies or marketing campaign
- Other, please specify
Other
|
(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 last year
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(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 last year
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.
Requesting member
|
Category of project
|
Type of project
|
Description of project
|
Progress
|
Select from:
|
Select from:
- New product or service
- Relationship water assessment
- Change to provision of goods and services
- Promote river basin collective action
- Communications
- Other
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Text field [maximum 5,000 characters
|
Text field [maximum 5,000 characters]
|
[Add Row]
Type of project (column 3)
New product or service
- New product or service that reduces customers' operational water consumption
- New product or service that reduces customers' products/services water consumption
- New product or service that has a lower upstream water impacts
- Other, please specify
- Reduced packaging water impacts
- Other, please specify
Relationship water assessment
- Assessing products' or services' water-related impacts to identify efficiencies
- Water audit of existing relationship
- Aligning goals to feed into customers targets and ambitions
- Other, please specify
Change to provisioning of goods and services
- Reduced water-related impacts
- Other, please specify
|
Promote river basin collective action
- Invite customer to collaborate with other users in their river basins to reduce impact
- Other, please specify
Communications
- Awards – apply for external awards together
- Joint case studies or marketing campaign
- Other, please specify
Other
|
Water intensity (SW)
(SW3.1) Provide any available water intensity values for your organization’s products or services.
Change from last year
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.
Product name
|
Water intensity value
|
Numerator: Water aspect
|
Denominator
|
Comment
|
Text field [maximum 500 characters]
|
Numerical field [up to 999,999,999,999 using a maximum of four decimal places]
|
Select from:
- Water withdrawn
- Water consumed
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum
100 characters]
|
Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
|
[Add Row]
Important Information
Companies should not consider their CDP response a means of complying with any regulatory requirement to share financially sensitive non-public information with the market. You may wish to consult with your financial, legal, and/or compliance departments for advice on your company’s general approach to the provision of forward-looking statements and information concerning risks.
CDP questionnaire copyright and licensed use
The copyright to CDP’s annual questionnaire/s is owned by CDP Worldwide, a registered charity number 1122330 and a company limited by guarantee, registered in England number 05013650. Any use of any part of the questionnaire, including the questions, must be licensed by CDP. Any unauthorized use is prohibited and CDP reserves the right to protect its copyright by all legal means necessary.
Terms for responding to the CDP Water Security Questionnaire 2022
These terms apply if you are submitting a response to the CDP Water Security Questionnaire 2022. If you are also submitting a response to the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire 2022 or the CDP Forests Questionnaire 2022 the corresponding Terms for responding to each questionnaire will also apply.
1.DEFINITIONS
Affiliate(s): means any entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party. For the purposes of this definition, “control” of an entity means the ownership, directly or indirectly, of more than fifty percent of the outstanding voting securities or capital stock of such entity, or the legal power to direct or cause the direction of the general management and policies of such entity.
Bank Program Member: means a bank that has entered into a Bank Program member agreement with us and is requesting data from its clients.
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 company number 05013650). References to “we”, “our” and “us” in these terms are references to CDP.
Deadline: means 27 July 2022.
Fee: means the fee set out in the table at the end of these terms, which is exclusive of any applicable taxes.
Investor Signatory: means an organization that has entered into an investor signatory agreement with us and is listed on our website from time to time.
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 2022.
Requesting Authority: means the organisation(s) requesting you to complete the Questionnaire as listed on your CDP response dashboard from time to time (accessed by signing in to our website), which may include (1) Investor Signatories; (2) Supply Chain Members; and (3) Bank Program Members.
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, the Billing Company (where a Fee is payable and 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. If you do not agree to these terms, please contact us at our Help Center: https://casemgmt-crm.cdp.net/en-US/
4.RESPONDING TO OUR QUESTIONNAIRE
4.1 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.
4.2 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 28 September 2022 (the date our online response system will close in 2022) it will not be scored and may not be included in any report, data product or other analysis.
4.3 Responding
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 your Requesting Authorities and other third parties and scoring your response. Where a Responding Company is headquartered in the EU, we may share your reported climate and environmental actions on the European Climate Pact website if you give us your consent to do so when making your submission on our online response system. The European Climate Pact is a European Commission initiative bringing citizens and organisations together to achieve a climate-neutral Europe, and more information can be found here: https://europa.eu/climate-pact/about/about-pact_en
Non-public responses. If your response is non-public, we may use it only as follows:
(a) other than information you submit in response to the Supply Chain module (2022 Water Security) to which (d) below applies, make it available as soon as it is received by CDP to each of your Requesting Authorities either directly or through Bloomberg terminals in the case of Investor Signatories, for any use within their organizations (including their Affiliates) 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;
(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) where your Requesting Authorities include Investor Signatories, 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 (i.e. if your Requesting Authorities are Supply Chain Members and/or Bank Program Members only and you respond non-publicly this will not apply); and
(d) information you submit in response to the Supply Chain module (2022 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 SW1.1a, 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 (and its Affiliates) you select for each row will have access to the information in it. For all other questions in the Supply Chain module (2022 Water Security) the information you submit will be accessible to any Supply Chain Member (and its Affiliates) that has asked you to respond to the Questionnaire. All information you submit in the Supply Chain module (2022 Water Security) will be accessible to CDP and 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), all of which are obliged to keep such information confidential.
Sharing responses with the CEO Water Mandate. If you tick ‘Yes’ in response to question W10.2 of the Questionnaire, then 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, and you also confirm 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 be made to the project profile and contact details.
4.4 Amending your response. You may reopen a response you have submitted before the Deadline (27 July 2022). To do so you must notify us that you wish to reopen your response by 13 July 2022 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 28 September 2022), 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 your Requesting Authorities or other third parties.
From 14 July 2022, 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 5 October 2022 at the earliest. Please note that the final date for requesting an amendment is 30 November 2022 and any changes you request to your submitted response from 14 July 2022 may not be reflected in any score, report, data product or other analysis or use of your response. You may not make amendments if the Scoring Special Provisions apply to you. Please contact our Help Center: https://casemgmt-crm.cdp.net/en-US/ for more information about amending your response.
4.5 Scoring of responses to the Full Version (of the Questionnaire). Except where the Scoring Special Provisions apply, if you submit your response to the Full Version in English (or the applicable language for your location set out below) using our online response system:
(a) by the Deadline, your response will be scored;
(b) after the Deadline but on or before 10 August 2022 you can request an ‘On-Demand’ score for a fee. Only a limited number of On-Demand scores are available in 2022 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. The following languages may be used to submit your response to the Full Version of the Questionnaire: Chinese (if you are located in China); Japanese (if you are located in Japan); Portuguese (if you are located in Brazil); or Spanish (if you are located elsewhere in Latin America).
Scoring Special Provisions: Where you are headquartered or operate in Ukraine and do not submit a response, we will not attribute any score to your response and will recognise a pause in reporting where appropriate. Where you are headquartered in Belarus or the Russian Federation, your response will not be eligible for scoring.
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.
4.6 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” then, unless you achieve an A grade in which case we may in any event make your score public, we will only make it available to your Requesting Authorities, 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.
If you are responding to Supply Chain Members and Bank Program Members only (i.e. these are your only Requesting Authorities), unless you achieve an A grade, in which case we may in any event make your score public, we will only make your score available to any Supply Chain or Bank Program 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.
4.7 Future Questionnaires. Your submission of your response for the current year also constitutes your request to us to invite you and to remind you to respond in future years but you acknowledge that any future responses will be made upon the then-current version of these terms which you will need to accept at that time.
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, or 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 to the Billing Company. The Fee is payable once regardless of how many responses (Climate Change, Forests and Water Security) you submit in 2022. Please note that you may be charged 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 plus any applicable taxes to the Billing Company unless it is listed, incorporated or headquartered in one of the following countries:
Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Ukraine.
Exemptions from the Fee. A Responding Company is exempt from paying the Fee if:
(a) you have been requested to respond by Investor Signatories and you have not submitted a response to CDP in the last three years; or
(b) your only Requesting Authorities are Supply Chain Members and/or Bank Program Members (and you have not been requested to respond by Investor Signatories).
Please note we will decide in our absolute discretion as to whether the Fee is payable to the Billing Company 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 to the Billing Company 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 intellectual property rights including copyright and database 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;
(c) you are a legal entity and not a sole trader, partnership or natural person or persons; and
(d) 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, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
We are not liable for financial losses. Subject to these terms, each of 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.
We are not liable for consequential losses. Subject to these terms, each of CDP and the Billing Company have no liability to you in any circumstances for any indirect or consequential loss or damage of any nature whatsoever.
Exclusion of liability. Subject to these terms, each of 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 or any reliance placed upon your response or your score by you or 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 £848 if you are not required to pay the Fee.
9.DATA PROTECTION
Each party acknowledges that during the course of their relationship CDP may process personal data including personal data which may be provided to it by or on behalf of the Responding Company including the personal data of its registered users of the CDP dashboard and other contacts. CDP will only process such personal data for purposes related to its relationship with the Responding Company including inviting and assisting the Responding Company to complete the reporting process and sharing the personal data with Supply Chain Members and Bank Program Members to assist in effective communications and engagement between CDP stakeholders. You shall ensure that any relevant data subjects receive a fair processing notice which includes the above information and includes a reference to CDP’s privacy notice available at https://www.cdp.net/en/info/privacy-policy and shall otherwise ensure that CDP is able to process all personal data provided to it by or on behalf of the Responding Company for the above purposes in compliance with applicable data protection legislation including the Data Protection Act 2018 as amended by the Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 which merge the previous requirements of that Act with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (“UK GDPR”).
10.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. The Billing Company may enforce these terms for its own benefit but otherwise 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 in relation to your response to the CDP Water Security Questionnaire 2022.
Variation. CDP reserves the right to change these terms at any time. The consent of the Billing Company is not needed and any 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 submit 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.
11.AMOUNT OF FEE
Location of Responding Company
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Fee (exclusive of any applicable taxes)
|
Brazil
|
BRL 6,060
|
China
|
CN¥ 7,800
|
Europe (excluding UK)
|
EUR 1,000
|
India
|
INR 86,400
|
Japan
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JPY 105,300
|
UK
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GBP 848
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All other countries
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USD 1,055
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12.BILLING COMPANY
Billing Company | Location of Responding Company |
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CDP Worldwide
| All countries/regions not listed elsewhere in this table
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CDP Worldwide (Europe) gGmbH
| Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland
|
CDP North America, Inc
| Canada, USA
|
Carbon Disclosure Project (Latin America)
| Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas,
Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,
Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and
Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and
Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela
|
Beijing Carbon Disclosure Project Environment Consulting Co., Ltd. (北京诚度普 环境咨询有限公司)
| China
|
CDP Operations India Private Limited
| India
|
一般社団法人
CDP Worldwide-Japan
| Japan
|