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CDP Water Security Questionnaire Preview and Reporting Guidance 2019 - Version Control
Version number
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Release/Revision date
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Revision summary
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0.1
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Released: Dec 17, 2018
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The 2019 water security questionnaire preview and the general preliminary version of the reporting guidance was released.
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0.2
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Revised: Feb 15, 2019
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- The terms for submitting your response to CDP have been updated for 2019.
General questions
- W0.5: New 'Additional information'
- W1.2d: New 'Additional information'
- W1.4a: New 'Example response'
- W3.3b: New 'Example response'
- W3.3c: New 'Example response'
- W4.3a: New 'Example response' and 'Additional information'
- W6.1a: New 'Example response'
- W6.2a: Clarifications to 'Requested content'
- W6.5a: Clarifications to 'Requested content'
- W7.2: New 'Example response' and 'Additional information'
- W8.1: New 'Example response' and 'Additional information'
- W8.1a: New 'Example response'
Metals & mining sector
- W-MM3.2a: New 'Example response', and new and clarified options in column 2
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CDP water security questionnaire
Introduction to CDP’s water security program and water security questionnaires
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. In 2018, a record 2,111 companies worth approximately US$20 trillion in market capitalization disclosed through us.
Commit to Action
CDP and its partners in the We Mean Business coalition have created a central platform for companies to take action on key climate issues. Hundreds of companies representing every economic sector and geography have taken action to date.
The leadership these companies demonstrated formed a critical part of the package of solutions reached in Paris at COP21 in 2015 and has continued to grow, now playing a critical role as the Paris Agreement moves from agreement to implementation. The We Mean Business “Take Action” platform gives companies a clear pathway for building the Paris Agreement into their business strategies and to future-proof growth, sending a strong signal that companies are making the transition to a low-carbon world and giving policy makers the confidence in raising their ambitions as governments prepare to ratchet up their national pledges in 2020.
One initiative companies can commit to on the We Mean Business platform is to improve water security. This commitment can be tracked in CDP’s water security questionnaire:
- Overview: We Mean Business and the Business Alliance for
Water and Climate invite companies to commit to taking a specific set of
actions around water use measurement, management, and reporting to ensure they
are following best practice on corporate water stewardship.
- Reporting: Companies can report progress against this
commitment in the following questions:
- Analyzing water-related risks (W3.3a, W3.3b, W3.3c) and implementing collaborative response strategies (W1.4a, W4.1b, W4.2a, W4.3, W8.1, W8.1b);
- Measuring and reporting water use data (W1.2b, W1.2h, W1.2i, W8.1); and
- Reducing impacts on water availability and quality in direct operations and along the value chain (W1.4a, W8.1, W4.2, W4.2a, W4.3a)
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 11 water modules, including the Signoff, plus a module presented only to organizations that supply goods or services to the member companies of CDP’s supply chain program.
The journey through CDP’s general water questionnaire includes the following:
- water dependence and water accounting metrics
- value chain engagement activities
- business impacts
- risk assessment procedures
- risks, opportunities and responses to them
- facility water accounting
- water governance and business strategy
- targets and environmental linkages
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.
2019 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 2019
- The questionnaire is stabilized for 2019 so there are no major changes. There is one new question and some minor revisions to reflect feedback and a correction of errors. There are no new sector questionnaires. Modifications include:
- W6 - new question W6.6
- W4 - revised format for requesting potential financial impact of risks and opportunities
- W4/W5 - revised guidance on the grouping of facilities for the purpose of reporting
- Revisions and changes are also indicated within the questionnaire as: no change, minor change, modified question, new question, or modified guidance. 'Minor change' indicates wording edits and revisions to drop-down options or a simple clarification, while a modification indicates where a data request has been revised.
- A detailed document on water security question changes from 2018 to 2019 will be available on the CDP website.
Introduction
(W0.1) Give a general description of and introduction to your organization.
Change from 2018
No change (2018 W0.1)
Response options
This is an open text question with a limit of 5,000 characters.
Please note that when copying from another document into the disclosure platform, formatting is not retained.
(W0.2) State the start and end date of the year for which you are reporting data.
Change from 2018
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/regions for which you will be supplying data.
Change from 2018
Minor change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Country/Region
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Select all that apply:
- Country/region 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 2018
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 2018
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 2018
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 2018
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]
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 2018
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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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 2018
Minor 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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% of sites/facilities/operations
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Please explain
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Water withdrawals – total volumes
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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 from water stressed areas
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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 volumes
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[OIL & GAS SECTOR ONLY] Produced water associated with your oil & gas sector activities - total volumes
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Water withdrawals quality
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Water discharges – total volumes
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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.
(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 2018
Minor 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.
(W1.2d) Provide the proportion of your total withdrawals sourced from water stressed areas.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you indicate in W1.2 that you monitor the following water aspect(s):
- Water withdrawals – volumes from stressed areas
Change from 2018
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:
% withdrawn from stressed areas
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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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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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Select from:
- WBCSD Global Water Tool
- WRI Aqueduct
- WWF Water Risk Filter
- IPIECA Global Water Tool for Oil and Gas [oil & gas companies only]
- 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.
(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 2018
Minor 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 that you monitor the following water aspect(s):
- Water discharges - volume by destination
Change from 2018
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
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Select from:
- Not relevant
- Relevant
- Relevant but volume unknown
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Numerical field [enter
a range of 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
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Third-party destinations
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(W1.2j) What proportion of your total water use do you recycle or reuse?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you indicate in W1.2 that you monitor the following water aspect(s):
Change from 2018
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Response: Internal actions
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
% recycled or reused
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Comparison with previous reporting year
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Please explain
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Select from:
- None
- Less than 1%
- 1-10
- 11-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
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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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Water intensity
The questions in this section are presented to high-impact sectors only and will not be displayed here unless you have opted to view sector-specific questions.
Value-chain engagement
(W1.4) Do you engage with your value chain on water-related issues?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Neutral”, “Important”, or “Vital” as your “Indirect use importance rating” in response to W1.1.
- Your response to W1.4 prompts subsequent questions. If your response to W1.4 is amended, data already entered in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.
Change from 2018
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 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Response: Internal actions
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
% of suppliers by number
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% of total procurement spend
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Rationale for this coverage
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Impact of the engagement and measures of success
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Comment
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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
- Unknown
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-100
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Select from:
- Unknown
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-100
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Text field [maximum
1,000 characters]
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Text field [maximum 500 characters]
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(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 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Response: Internal actions
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Response options
Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows to this table using the "Add Row" button.
Type of engagement
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Details of engagement
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% of suppliers by number
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% of total procurement spend
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Rationale for the coverage of your engagement
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Impact of the engagement and measures of success
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Comment
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Select from:
- No other supplier engagements
- Onboarding & compliance
- Incentivizing for improved water management and stewardship
- Innovation & collaboration
- Other
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Select from:
- None
- Unknown
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-100
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Select from:
- None
- Unknown
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-100
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Text field [maximum 1,000
characters]
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Text field [maximum 500 characters]
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[Add Row]
Details of engagement (column 2)
Onboarding & compliance
- Inclusion of water stewardship and risk management in supplier selection mechanism
- Requirement to adhere to our code of conduct regarding water stewardship and management
- Other, please specify
Incentivizing for improved water management and stewardship
- Water management and stewardship is integrated into supplier evaluation processes
- 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
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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, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Educate suppliers about water stewardship and collaboration
- Other please specify
Other
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(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 2018
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.
Please note that when copying from another document into the disclosure platform, formatting is not retained.
(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 2018
No change
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 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
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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W2 Business impacts
Recent impacts on your business
(W2.1) Has your organization experienced any detrimental water-related impacts?
Change from 2018
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 2018
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: External impacts
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
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/Region
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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:
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Select from:
- River basin drop-down list
- Not known
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- 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
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Primary response
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Total financial impact
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Description of response
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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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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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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[Add Row]
Primary impact driver (column 4)
Physical
- Declining water quality
- Dependency on water intensive energy sources
- Drought
- Ecosystem vulnerability
- Flooding
- Inadequate infrastructure
- Increased levels of plastic in fresh water bodies
- Increased water scarcity
- Increased water stress
- Pollution incident
- Rationing of municipal water supply
- Supplier dependency on water intensive energy sources
- Seasonal supply variability/inter annual variability
- Severe weather events
- Change in land-use
- Soil degradation (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Pollution of water bodies due to fertilizer, other chemical use or animal residues (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Acid rock drainage and metal leaching (metals & mining sector only)
- Leaching of pollutants to groundwater bodies (metals & mining sector only)
- Rupture of tailings dams and toxic spills (metals & mining sector only)
- 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
- Litigation against supplier
- 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
- Mine closure (metals & mining sector only)
- Other, please specify
Technology
- Data access/availability
- Substitution of existing products with lower water impact options
- Transitioning to water efficient and low water intensity technologies and products
- Transitioning to water intensive, low carbon energy sources
- Unsuccessful investment in new technologies
- Transitioning 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 capital costs
- 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
- Other, please specify
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Primary response (column 7)
- Adopt water efficiency, water re-use, recycling and conservation practices
- Amend the Business Continuity Plan
- Aquifer storage to accrue recharge credits
- 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
- Geographic diversification of facilities
- 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 monitoring
- Increase insurance coverage
- Increase investment in new technology
- Increased capital expenditure
- Infrastructure maintenance
- Pollution abatement and control measures
- Re-siting of facilities
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- River basin restoration
- Secure alternative water supply
- Supplier diversification
- Tighter supplier performance standards
- Use of risk transfer instruments
- Water management incentives
- Water-related capital expenditure
- Adopting alternative crop management strategies to reduce fertilizer and pesticide use (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Adopting alternative livestock management practices (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Adopting alternative livestock management practices to reduce use of veterinary products (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Adopting better animal waste management practices (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Adopting soil conservation practices (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Adopting sustainable irrigation practices (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Adopting efficient fertilizer and pesticides management (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Using drought resistant crop varieties (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Promoting the adoption of soil conservation practices among suppliers (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Promoting the adoption of alternative crop management strategies to reduce fertilizer and pesticide use among suppliers (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption alternative livestock management practices among suppliers (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption alternative livestock management practices to reduce use of veterinary products among suppliers(food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption better animal waste management practices among suppliers (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Promoting the adoption of soil conservation practices among suppliers (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption sustainable irrigation practices among suppliers (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption efficient fertilizer and pesticide management among suppliers (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the use of drought resistant crop varieties among suppliers (food, beverages & 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 2018
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 2018
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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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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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 2018
Minor 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 value of penalty
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Country/Region
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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]
|
Select from:
- Country/region 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
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum
1,000 characters]
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[Add Row]
W3 Procedures
Potential water pollutants management procedures
The questions in this section only apply to organizations with activities in certain sectors. Questions will not appear unless you have opted to view the following sector-specific questions:
- Food, beverage & tobacco
- Chemicals
- Oil & gas
- Electric utilities
Other management procedures
The questions in this section only apply to organizations with activities in certain sectors. Questions will not appear unless you have opted to view the following sector-specific questions:
Risk identification and assessment procedures
(W3.3) Does your organization undertake a water-related risk assessment?
Question Dependencies
- Your response to W3.3 prompts subsequent questions to be presented. If your organization does not currently incorporate a water risk assessment into its core business procedures you will be presented with question W3.3e. If your response to W3.3 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.
Change from 2018
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 2018
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: Business risks
Response options
Please complete the following 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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Comment
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Direct operations
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Select from:
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Select from:
- Six-monthly or more frequently
- Annually
- Every two years
- 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
- Databases
- Other
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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Supply chain
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Other stages of the value chain
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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
- Water risks are not assessed in this stage of our value chain
- Other, please specify
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Tools and methods used (column 7)
Tools on the market
- Ecolab Water Risk Monetizer
- GEMI Local Water Tool
- Global Water Tool for Power Utilities [electric utilities only]
- IPIECA Global Water Tool [oil & gas only]
- Water Footprint Network Assessment tool
- WBCSD Global Water Tool
- WRI Aqueduct
- WWF-DEG Water Risk Filter
- SIWI Water Tool
- Ceres AquaGauge
- Other, please specify
Enterprise Risk Management
- COSO Enterprise Risk Management Framework
- ISO 31000 Risk Management Standard
- Other, please specify
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International methodologies
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Life Cycle Assessment
- IPCC Climate Change Projections
- Alliance for Water Stewardship Standard
- Other, please specify
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
- National-specific tools or standards
- Other, please specify
- Don’t know
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(W3.3b) Which of the following contextual issues are considered in your organization’s water-related risk assessments?
Question Dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes, water-related risks are assessed” in response to W3.3.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Contextual issue
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Relevance & inclusion
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Please explain
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Water availability at a basin/catchment level
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Select from:
- Relevant, always included
- Relevant, sometimes included
- Relevant, not included
- Not relevant, included
- Not relevant, explanation provided
- Not considered
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Text field [maximum 2,000 characters]
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Water quality at a basin/catchment level
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Stakeholder conflicts concerning water resources at a basin/catchment level
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Implications of water on your key commodities/raw materials
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Water-related regulatory frameworks
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Status of ecosystems and habitats
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Access to fully-functioning, safely managed WASH services for all employees
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Other contextual issues, please specify
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(W3.3c) Which of the following stakeholders are considered in your organization’s water-related risk assessments?
Question Dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes, water-related risks are assessed” in response to W3.3.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Stakeholder
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Relevance & inclusion
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Please explain
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Customers
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Select from:
- Relevant, always included
- Relevant, sometimes included
- Relevant, not included
- Not relevant, included
- Not relevant, explanation provided
- Not considered
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Text field [maximum 2,000
characters]
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Employees
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Investors
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Local communities
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NGOs
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Other water users at a basin/catchment level
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Regulators
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River basin management authorities
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Statutory special interest groups at a local level
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Suppliers
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Water utilities at a local level
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Other stakeholder, please specify
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(W3.3d) Describe your organization’s process for identifying, assessing, and responding to water-related risks within your direct operations and other stages of your value chain.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes, water-related risks are assessed” in response to W3.3.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: Business risks
Response options
This is an open text question with a limit of 5,000 characters.
Please note that when copying from another document into the disclosure platform, formatting is not retained.
(W3.3e) Why does your organization not undertake a water-related risk assessment?
Question Dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “No, water-related risks are not assessed” in response to W3.3.
Change from 2018
No change
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 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: Business risks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
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 2018
No change
Response options
This is an open text question with a limit of 5,000 characters.
Please note that when copying from another document into the disclosure platform, formatting is not retained.
(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 2018
Modified guidance
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]
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(W4.1c) By river basin, what is the number and proportion of facilities exposed to water risks that could have a substantive 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 2018
Minor change, 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. 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/Region
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River basin
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Number of facilities exposed to water risk
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% company-wide facilities this represents
|
Select from:
- Country/region drop-down list
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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
|
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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
| Select from:
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Unknown
| Select from:
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 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 2018
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: Business risks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
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.
Country/Region
|
River basin
|
Type of risk
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Primary risk driver
|
Primary potential impact
|
Company-specific description
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Timeframe
|
Select from:
- Country/region drop-down list
|
Select from:
- River basin drop-down list
- Not known
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Physical
- Regulatory
- Reputation & markets
- Technology
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
|
Select from:
- Current up to one year
- 1-3 years
- 4-6 years
- More than 6 years
|
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 1,500 characters]
| Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
| Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
|
[Add Row]
Primary risk driver (column 4)
Physical
- Declining water quality
- Dependency on water intensive energy sources
- Drought
- Ecosystem vulnerability
- Flooding
- Inadequate infrastructure
- Increased levels of plastic in fresh water bodies
- Increased water scarcity
- Increased water stress
- Pollution incident
- Rationing of municipal water supply
- Seasonal supply variability/inter annual variability
- Severe weather events
- Change in land-use
- Soil degradation (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Pollution of water bodies due to fertilizer, other chemical use, or animal residues (food, beverages & tobacco sector)
- Acid rock drainage and metal leaching (metals & mining sector only)
- Leaching of pollutants to groundwater bodies (metals & mining only)
- Rupture of tailings dams and toxic spills (metals & mining sector only)
- 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
- Mine closure (metals & mining sector only)
- Other, please specify
Technology
- Data access/availability
- Substitution of existing products with lower water impact options
- Transitioning to bio-based chemicals (chemicals sector only)
- Transitioning to water efficient and low water intensity technologies and products
- Transitioning 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 capital costs
- 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
- Other, please specify
|
Primary response to risk (column 15)
- Pollution abatement and control measures
- Aquifer storage to accrue recharge credits
- Improve alignment of our public policy influencing activity with our water stewardship commitments
- Secure alternative water supply
- Amend the Business Continuity Plan
- Comply with local regulatory requirements
- Develop flood emergency plans
- Develop drought emergency plans
- Engage with local communities
- Engage with NGOs/special interest groups
- Engage with customers
- Engage with suppliers
- Engage with regulators/policymakers
- Establish site-specific targets
- Water-related capital expenditure
- Infrastructure maintenance
- Greater due diligence
- Geographic diversification of facilities
- Increased capital expenditure
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- Increase investment in new technology
- Increase insurance coverage
- Implement internal pricing on water
- Implement nature based solutions
- Improve monitoring
- Develop new products and/or markets
- River basin restoration
- Re-siting of facilities
- Supplier diversification
- Tighter supplier performance standards
- Use of risk transfer instruments
- Water management incentives
- Adopt water efficiency, water re-use, recycling and conservation practices
- Adopting soil conservation practices (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Adopting alternative crop management strategies to reduce fertilizer and pesticide use (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Adopting alternative livestock management practices (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Adopting better animal waste management practices (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Adopting alternative livestock management practices to reduce use of veterinary products (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Adopting sustainable irrigation practices (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Efficient fertilizer and pesticide management (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Use of drought resistant crop varieties (food, beverages & 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 2018
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: Business risks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
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.
Country/Region
|
River basin
|
Stage of value chain | Type of risk
|
Primary risk driver
|
Primary potential impact
|
Company-specific description
|
Timeframe
|
Select from:
- Country/region 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:
- Physical
- Regulatory
- Reputation & markets
- Technology
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
|
Select from:
- Current up to one year
- 1-3 years
- 4-6 years
- More than 6 years
|
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 1,500 characters]
| Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
| Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
|
[Add Row]
Primary risk driver (column 4)
Physical
- Declining water quality
- Supplier dependency on water intensive energy sources
- Drought
- Ecosystem vulnerability
- Flooding
- Inadequate infrastructure
- Increased levels of plastic in fresh water bodies
- Increased water scarcity
- Increased water stress
- Pollution incident
- Rationing of municipal water supply
- Seasonal supply variability/inter annual variability
- Severe weather events
- Soil degradation (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Pollution of water bodies due to fertilizer, other chemical use, or animal residues(food, beverages & tobacco only)
- Acid rock drainage and metal leaching (metals & mining sector only)
- Leaching of pollutants to groundwater bodies (metals & mining sector only)
- Rupture of tailings dams and toxic spills (metals & mining sector only)
- 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
- Mine closure (metals & mining sector only)
- Other, please specify
Technology
- Data access/availability
- Substitution of existing products with lower water impact options
- Transitioning to bio-based chemicals (chemicals sector only)
- Transitioning to water efficient and low water intensity technologies and products
- Transitioning to water intensive, low carbon energy sources
- Unsuccessful investment in new technologies
- Other, please specify
|
Primary potential impact (column 5)
- 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 capital costs
- 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
- Other, please specify
|
Primary response to risk (column 12)
Direct operations
- Include in Business Continuity Plan
- Water-related capital expenditure
- Increase investment in new technology
- Develop new products and/or markets
- Improve alignment of our procurement policy influencing activity with our water stewardship commitments
- Other, please specify
Upstream
- Map supplier water risk
- Supplier diversification
- Tighter supplier performance standards
- Increase our insurance coverage
- Use of risk transfer instruments
- Other, please specify
|
Supplier engagement
- Develop supplier drought emergency plans
- Develop supplier flood emergency plans
- Establish supplier performance targets
- Increase requested supplier reporting on water
- Promote greater due diligence among suppliers
- Promote adoption of waste water management procedures among suppliers
- Promote investment in infrastructure and technologies for water saving, re-use and recycling among suppliers
- Promote the use of insurance among suppliers
- Supplier water management incentives
- 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, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of alternative livestock management practices among suppliers (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of alternative livestock management practices among suppliers to reduce use of veterinary products (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of better animal waste management among suppliers (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of soil conservation practices among suppliers (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of sustainable irrigation practices among suppliers (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Promote efficient fertilizer and pesticide management among suppliers (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the use of drought resistant crop varieties among suppliers (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Other, please specify
Downstream
- Pollution abatement and control measures
- Work with supplier to engage with NGOs/special interest groups
- Work with supplier to engage with customers
- Work with supplier to engage with regulators/policymakers
- Infrastructure investment
- River basin restoration
- Implement nature based solutions
- Other, please specify
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(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 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Primary reason
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Risks exist, but no substantive impact anticipated
- Evaluation in progress
- Not yet evaluated
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,000 characters]
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(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 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Primary reason
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Risks exist, but no substantive impact anticipated
- Evaluation in progress
- Not yet evaluated
- Lack of visibility of supply chain
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,000 characters]
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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 2018
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 2018
Modified question
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.
Type of opportunity
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Primary water-related opportunity
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Company-specific description & strategy to realize opportunity
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Estimated timeframe for realization
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Magnitude of potential financial impact
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Select from:
- Efficiency
- Resilience
- Products and services
- Markets
- Other
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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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Select from:
- Current - up to 1 year
- 1 to 3 years
- 4 to 6 years
- 6 years
- Unknown
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Select from:
- Low
- Low-medium
- Medium
- Medium-high
- High
- Unknown
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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
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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 1,500 characters]
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[Add Row]
Primary water-related opportunity (column 2)
Efficiency
- Cost savings
- Improved water efficiency in operations
- Improved field recovery factor [oil & gas 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/impacts
- Reduced impact of product use on water resources
- Other, please specify
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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
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(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 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Primary reason
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Please explain
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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
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Text field [maximum
2,000 characters]
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W5 Facility-level water accounting
Facility-level water accounting
(W5.1) For each facility referenced in W4.1c, provide coordinates, total water accounting data and comparisons 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 subsequent questions. If your response to W5.1 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 2018
Minor change, Modified 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 using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Facility reference number
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Facility name (optional)
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Country/Region
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River basin
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Latitude
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Longitude
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[ELECTRIC UTILITIES SECTOR ONLY] Primary power generation source for your electricity generation at this facility
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Select from:
- Facility reference numbers: 1-50
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Text field [maximum 500 characters]
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Select from:
- Country/region 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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Select from:
- Coal – hard
- Lignite
- Oil
- Gas
- Biomass
- Waste (non-biomass)
- Nuclear
- Geothermal
- Hydroelectric
- Wind
- Solar
- Other renewable
- Not applicable
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[OIL & GAS SECTOR ONLY] Oil & gas sector business division
| Total water withdrawals (megaliters/year) at this facility
| Comparison of withdrawals with previous reporting year
| Total water discharges (megaliters/year) at this facility | Comparison of discharges with previous reporting year | Total water consumption (megaliters/year) at this facility | Comparison of consumption with previous reporting year | Please explain |
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Select all that apply:
- Upstream
- 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]
| 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 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
| Text field [maximum 1,500 characters] |
[Add Row]
(W5.1a) For each facility referenced in W5.1, provide withdrawal data by water source.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you list facilities exposed to water risk in W5.1.
Change from 2018
Minor 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. You are able to add rows using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Facility reference number
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Facility name
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Fresh surface water, including rainwater, water from wetlands, rivers, and lakes
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Brackish surface water/seawater
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Select from:
- Facility reference numbers: 1-50
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Text field [maximum
500 characters]
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Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Groundwater (renewable)
| Groundwater (non-renewable)
| Produced/entrained water
| Third party sources
| Comment
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Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places] | Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places] | Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places] | Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places] | Text field [maximum 1,500 characters] |
[Add Row]
(W5.1b) For each facility referenced in W5.1, provide discharge data by destination.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you list facilities exposed to water risk in W5.1.
Change from 2018
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 using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Facility reference number
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Facility name
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Fresh surface water
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Brackish surface water/Seawater
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Groundwater
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Third party destinations |
Comment
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Select from: - Facility reference numbers: 1-50
|
Text field [maximum 500 characters]
|
Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Text field [maximum 1,500 characters] |
[Add Row]
(W5.1c) For each facility referenced in W5.1, provide the proportion of your total water use that is recycled or reused, and give the comparison with the previous reporting year.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you list facilities exposed to water risk in W5.1.
Change from 2018
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Response: Internal actions
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
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
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Facility name
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% recycled or reused
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Comparison with previous reporting year
|
Please explain
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Select from:
- Facility reference numbers: 1-50
|
Text field [maximum 500 characters]
|
Select from:
- Not monitored
- None
- Less than 1%
- 1-10
- 11-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Not relevant
|
Select from:
- Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- This is our first year of measurement
|
Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
|
[Add Row]
(W5.1d) For the facilities referenced in W5.1, what proportion of water accounting data has been externally verified?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you list facilities exposed to water risk in W5.1.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Water aspect
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% verified
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What standard and methodology was used?
|
Water withdrawals – total volumes
|
Select from:
- Not verified
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-100
|
Text field [maximum 1,500
characters]
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Water withdrawals – volume by source
|
|
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Water withdrawals – quality
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Water discharges – total volumes
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|
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Water discharges – volume by destination
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Water discharges – volume by treatment method
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Water discharge quality – 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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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 2018
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 2018
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
- 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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Text field [maximum 2,000 characters] |
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 2018
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 2018
Minor 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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[Add Row]
(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 2018
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 2018
Added to minimum version
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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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 2018
Minor 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.
Name of the position(s) and/or committee(s)
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Responsibility
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Frequency of reporting to the board on water-related issues
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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 from:
- Assessing water-related risks and opportunities
- Managing water-related risks and opportunities
- Both assessing and 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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[Add Row]
Employee incentives
The questions in this section are presented to high-impact sectors only and will not be displayed here unless you opted to view sector-specific questions.
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 2018
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 2018
No change
Response options
This is an open text question with a limit of 1,500 characters.
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Reporting
(W6.6) Did your organization include information about its response to water-related risks in its most recent mainstream financial report?
Change from 2018
New question
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 2018
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 2018
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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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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W7.3 Scenario analysis
(W7.3) Does your organization use climate-related scenario analysis to inform its business strategy?
Question dependencies
- Your response to W7.3 will determine whether W7.3a is presented in this section. If your response to W7.3 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Use of climate-related scenario analysis
|
Comment
|
Select from:
- Yes
- No, but we anticipate doing so within the next two years
- No plans for the next two years
|
Text field [maximum
1,000 characters]
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(W7.3a) Has your organization identified any water-related outcomes from your climate-related scenario analysis?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W7.3.
- Your response to W7.3a will determine whether W7.3b is presented in this section. If your response to W7.3a is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(W7.3b) What water-related outcomes were identified from the use of climate-related scenario analysis, and what was your organization’s response?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W7.3a.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Climate-related scenario(s)
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Description of possible water-related outcomes
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Company response to possible water-related outcomes
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Select all that apply:
- 2DS
- IEA 450
- Greenpeace
- DDPP
- IRENA
- RCP 2.6
- IEA B2DS
- IEA Sustainable Development Scenario
- Nationally determined contributions (NDCs)
- Other, please specify
|
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 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Does your company use an internal price on water?
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Please explain
|
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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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 2018
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 2018
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. 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
|
Select from:
- Company-wide
- Business
- Business activity
- Site/facility
- Brand/product
- Country level
- Basin level
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Text field [maximum 1,000) characters
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Baseline year
| Start year
| Target year
| % achieved
| Please explain
|
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Numerical field [enter a number between 1900 and 2100 with no
decimal places] | Numerical field [enter a number between 1900 and 2019 with no
decimal places] | Numerical field [enter a number between 2018 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, beverages & tobacco only]
- Other, please specify
|
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
|
- 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 withdrawals from third-party sources
- % increase in rainwater harvesting
- % increase in water 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 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 recycling/reuse
- Other, please specify
Water recycling/reuse
- % increase in water 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
- % reduction in total water discharge
- Absolute increase in the % water 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
|
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
- 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, beverages & tobacco only]
- % reduction in procurement/production of high water impact commodities [food, beverages & tobacco only]
- % increase in procurement/production of certified crops [food, beverages & tobacco only]
- % increase in procurement/production of crops using sustainable agriculture practices [food, beverages & tobacco only]
- % reduction in procurement/production of commodities from water-stressed areas [food, beverages & tobacco only]
- % increase in procurement/production of commodities with improved water management practices [food, beverages & tobacco only]
- Other, please specify
Other
|
(W8.1b) Provide details of your corporate 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 2018
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
|
Level
|
Motivation
|
Description of goal
|
Baseline year
|
Start year
|
End year
|
Progress
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Select from:
- Company-wide
- Business
- Business activity
- Site/facility
- Brand/product
- Country level
- Basin level
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Text field [maximum 1,500 characters] |
Numerical field [enter a number between 1900 and 2100 with no decimal
places] |
Numerical field [enter a number between 1900 and 2019 with no
decimal places] |
Numerical field enter a number between 2018 and 2100 with no
decimal places] |
Text field [maximum 1,500 characters] |
[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
|
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
|
Motivation (column 3)
- Brand value protection
- Cost savings
- Increased revenue
- Sales of new products / services
- Reduced environmental impact
- Recommended sector best practice
- Risk mitigation
|
- 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
|
(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 2018
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]
|
W9 Linkages and tradeoffs
Managing linkages and tradeoffs
(W9.1) Has your organization identified any linkages or tradeoffs between water and other environmental issues in its direct operations and/or other parts of its value chain?
Question Dependencies
- Your response to W9.1
will determine whether W9.1a is presented in this section. If your response
W9.1 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 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Linkages across sustainability issues
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(W9.1a) Describe the linkages or trade-offs and the related management policy or action.
Question Dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W9.1.
Change from 2018
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Linkages across sustainability issues
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.
Linkage/trade-off
|
Type of linkage/tradeoff
|
Description of linkage/trade-off
|
Policy or action
|
Select from:
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down list below table
|
Text field [maximum 1,000
characters] |
Text field [maximum 1,500
characters] |
[Add Row]
Type of linkage/tradeoff (column 2)
Linkage
- Increased energy efficiency
- Decreased energy use
- Increased biodiversity
- Environmental restoration
- Decreased GHG emissions
- Decreased wastewater treatment
- Improved levels of ecosystem services (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Other linkage, please specify
|
Tradeoff
- Decreased energy efficiency
- Increased energy use
- Decreased biodiversity
- Increased GHG emissions
- Increased dust generation
- Increased wastewater treatment
- Reduced carbon sequestration (food, beverages & tobacco sector only)
- Other tradeoff, please specify
|
(W9.1b) Why has your organization not identified any linkages or tradeoffs between water and other environmental issues?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select "No" in response to W9.1.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Primary reason
|
Please explain
|
Select from:
- Considered, but none were identified
- Not considered, but we have plan to do so within the next two years
- Not considered, and have no plans to do so
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 500
characters]
|
W10 Verification
Verification of water information
(W10.1) Do you verify any other water information reported in your CDP disclosure (not already covered by W5.1d)?
Question dependencies
- Your response to W10.1 will determine whether W10.1a is presented. If your response to W10.1 is amended, data in W10.1a may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for W10.1a.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes
- In progress
- No, but we are actively considering verifying within the next two years
- No, we are waiting for more mature verification standards and/or processes
- No, we do not currently verify any other water information reported in our CDP disclosure
(W10.1a) 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 W10.1.
Change from 2018
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
|
Data verified
|
Verification standard
|
Please explain
|
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
- 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
- ISAE3000
- RevR6 Procedure for assurance of sustainability report
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,000 characters]
|
[Add Row]
W11 Signoff
Further information
(W-FI) Use this field to provide any additional information or context that you feel is relevant to your organizations 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
- Click “File upload” button (paperclip icon) to drag and drop a file if you want to attach one.
Signoff
(W11.1) Provide details for the person that has signed off (approved) your CDP water response.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Job title
|
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
(W11.2) 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 2018
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 2018
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]
|
(SW0.2) Do you have an ISIN for your organization that you would be willing to share with CDP?
Question dependencies
- Your response to SW0.2 will determine if subsequent questions are presented in this section. If your response to SW0.2 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(SW0.2a) Please use the table below to share your ISIN.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to SW0.2.
Change from 2018
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
ISIN country code |
ISIN numeric identifier (including single check digit)
|
Text field [maximum two characters] |
Text field [maximum 10 characters] |
Facility details
(SW1.1) Have you identified if any of your facilities reported in W5.1 could 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 2018
Minor 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 affect 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 2018
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 site 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 2018
Minor change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- 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
(SW1.2a) Please provide all available geolocation data for your site 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 2018
Minor 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 2018
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 2018
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 2018
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
|
Product water intensity
(SW3.1) Provide any available water intensity values for your organization’s products or services across its operations.
Change from 2018
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: Unit of production
|
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 Investors (2019 Water Security)
These terms apply if you are submitting a response to the CDP Water Security Questionnaire 2019 to Investors. If you are also submitting a response to Supply Chain Members the Terms for responding to Supply Chain Members (2019 Water Security), below, will also apply.
1.DEFINITIONS
Billing Company: means the organization determined in accordance with the table at the end of these terms.
CDP: means CDP Worldwide, a charitable company registered with the Charity Commission of England and Wales (registered charity no. 1122330 and a company number 05013650). References to “we”, “our” and “us” in these terms are references to CDP and the Billing Company.
Deadline: means 31 July 2019.
Fee: means the fee set out in the table at the end of these terms, which is exclusive of any applicable taxes.
Full version: means the version of the Questionnaire which contains all questions that are applicable to you.
Minimum version: means the version of the Questionnaire which contains a subset of the questions included in the Full Version.
Personal Data: means data which relates to an individual who can be identified from the data, such as a person’s name and job title.
Questionnaire: means the Full Version and the Minimum Version of the CDP Water Security Questionnaire 2019.
Responding Company: means the company responding to the Questionnaire. References to “you” and “your” in these terms are references to the Responding Company.
2.PARTIES
The parties to these terms shall be CDP, the Billing Company (where the Billing Company is not CDP) and the Responding Company.
3.THESE TERMS
These are the terms that apply when you submit a response to our Questionnaire to Investors. If you do not agree to these terms, please contact us at [email protected] to discuss them with us.
4.RESPONDING TO OUR QUESTIONNAIRE
General. When responding to our Questionnaire, you will be given a choice as to whether your response can be made public or whether your response is non-public. We strongly encourage you to make your response public.
Deadline for responding. You must submit your response to us using our online response system by the Deadline for your response to be eligible for scoring and inclusion in any reports.
Public responses. If you agree that your response can be made public, we may use and make it available for all purposes that we decide (whether for a fee or otherwise), including, for example, making your responses available on our website, to our investor signatories and other third parties and scoring your response.
Non-public responses. If your response is non-public, we may use it only as follows:
(a) make it available as soon as it is received by CDP to our investor signatories (as listed on our website) either directly or through Bloomberg terminals, for any use within their organizations but not for publication unless any data from your response has been anonymized or aggregated in such manner that it has the effect of being anonymized;
(b) make it available as soon as it is received by CDP to our group companies and affiliates (for example, CDP North America, Inc), our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners:
(i) to score your response; and
(ii) for any other use within their organizations but not for publication unless any data from your response has been anonymized or aggregated in such manner that it has the effect of being anonymized.
Sharing responses with the CEO Water Mandate. If, by ticking ‘Yes’ in response to question W10.2 of the Questionnaire, you agree to us sharing your response to questions W2.1a (response to impacts), W4.2 and W4.2a (response to risks) with the CEO Water Mandate for publication of suitable projects on its Water Action Hub website, you agree that we may also share the e-mail address of your registered CDP user with the CEO Water Mandate. This is so that the Hub administrator can alert your company that its data includes a project of potential interest to other parties sharing water resources in the geographies in which you operate. The Hub will publish the project and the associated contact details after providing your company with secure log-in information which enables amendments to the project profile and contact details.
Amending your response. You may amend a response that you have submitted at any time before the Deadline. After the Deadline has passed, certain amendments to your response can only be made by our staff and we may charge a fee for making them. Please note that any changes to your response after the Deadline may not be reflected in any score or in any report. Please email [email protected] for more information about amending your response.
Scoring of responses to the Full Version (of the Questionnaire). If you submit your response to the Full Version in English using our online response system:
(a) by the Deadline, your response will be scored;
(b) after the Deadline but on or before 30 September 2019 you can request an ‘On-Demand’ score for a fee. Please email [email protected] for more information on On-Demand scoring.
Please contact your local CDP office for information about scoring if you intend to submit your response in a language other than English.
Scoring of responses to the Minimum Version (of the Questionnaire). Responses to the Minimum Version will only be scored in certain circumstances. Please contact your local CDP office for further information.
Publication and use of scores. If you are responding to a CDP Water Security Questionnaire for the first time or have received an On-Demand score, you may choose for your score to be “private” but in all other cases CDP may publish your score, and use and make it available for all purposes that we decide (whether for a fee or otherwise), regardless of whether your response is public or non-public. If you choose for your score to be “private”, unless you achieve an A grade in which case we may make your score public, we may only make it available to our group companies and affiliates (for example, CDP North America, Inc), our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners, in each case for any use within their organizations but not for publication. Note that if you also submit your response to Supply Chain Members it will also be available to any Supply Chain Member that has asked you to respond to the Questionnaire. For further details please see the Terms for responding to Supply Chain Members (2019 Water Security).
5.FEE
Fee. We are a not-for-profit organization and charge certain companies an annual administrative fee to enable us to maintain the disclosure system. Unless you are exempt from paying the Fee, as set out below, if you are listed, incorporated or headquartered in a country/region that is listed in the next paragraph, you are required to pay the Fee plus any applicable taxes. The Fee is payable once regardless of how many responses (climate change, forests and water security) you submit in 2019. Please note that we may charge an additional fee if you want to amend your response after the Deadline or if you submit your response after the Deadline and you would like it to be scored.
Countries/regions where the Fee applies. A Responding Company will be required to pay the Fee if it is listed, incorporated or headquartered in any one of the following countries/regions:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the UK or the USA.
Exemptions from the Fee. A Responding Company is exempt from paying the Fee if:
(a) it falls within one of CDP’s investor samples and it has not submitted a response to CDP in the last three years; or
(b) it is responding only to CDP’s supply chain request.
Please note we will decide in our absolute discretion as to whether the Fee is payable or not and we will notify you before you submit your response. A full list of companies in our investor samples is available on our website.
Payment of the Fee. You must pay the Fee by credit or debit card or request an invoice via CDP’s online corporate dashboard, which must be paid within such time as set out in the invoice. Please note that you will not be able to submit your response unless you have paid the Fee, you have requested an invoice or you are exempt from paying the Fee.
6.RIGHTS IN THE RESPONSES
Ownership. All intellectual property rights in your response will be owned by you or your licensors.
License. You grant to us, or shall procure for us, a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, assignable, sub-licensable, royalty-free and global license to use your response and any copyright and data base rights in your response for the uses set out in these terms.
7.IMPORTANT REPRESENTATIONS
You confirm that:
(a) the person submitting the response to us is authorized by you to submit the response;
(b) you have obtained all necessary consents and permissions to submit the response to us; and
(c) the response that you submit:
(i) does not infringe the rights of any third party (including privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights);
(ii) does not defame any third party; and
(iii) does not include any Personal Data.
8.LIABILITY
We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors; for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
We are not liable for business losses. Subject to these terms, CDP and the Billing Company have no liability to you in any circumstances for any loss of revenue, loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, loss of business opportunity, loss of goodwill, loss of reputation, loss of, damage to or corruption of data or software or any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
Exclusion of liability. Subject to these terms, CDP and the Billing Company have no liability to you in any circumstances arising from the content or submission of your response to us, our use of your response and/or the use of your response 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 £625 if you are not required to pay the Fee.
9.GENERAL
We may transfer our rights to someone else. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organization.
Nobody else has any rights under these terms. These terms are between you and us. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms.
Entire agreement. These terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us unless you also choose to share your response with supply chain members, in which case you will also be subject to our Terms for responding to Supply Chain Members (2019 Water Security).
Variation. CDP (acting on its own behalf and the Billing Company’s behalf, if applicable) reserves the right to change these terms at any time. Such changes shall be effective immediately or such other time as CDP elects. In the event of any materially adverse changes, you may request to withdraw your response within 30 days of us notifying you of the change.
If a court finds part of these terms illegal, the rest will continue in force. Each of the paragraphs of these terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.
Governing law and jurisdiction. These terms are governed by English law and you and us both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts to resolve any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these terms or their subject matter or formation.
Language. If these terms are translated into any language other than English, the English language version will prevail.
10.AMOUNT OF FEE
Location of Responding Company
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Fee (exclusive of any applicable taxes)
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Brazil
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BRL 3,560
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India
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INR 67,000
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Japan
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JPY 97,500
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UK
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GBP 625
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Europe (excluding UK)
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EUR 925
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Rest of the world
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USD 975
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11.BILLING COMPANY
Billing Company | Location of Responding Company |
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CDP Worldwide
| Australia, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom
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CDP Worldwide (Europe) gGmbH
| Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
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CDP North America, Inc
| Canada, USA
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Carbon Disclosure Project (Latin America)
| Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru
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Carbon Disclosure Project India
| India
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一般社団法人
CDP Worldwide-Japan
| Japan
|
If the Responding Company is located in a territory that is not listed in the table above, the Billing Company shall be CDP Worldwide.
Terms for responding to Supply Chain Members (2019 Water Security)
These terms apply if you are submitting a response to the CDP Water Security Questionnaire 2019 to Supply Chain Members. If you are also submitting a response to Investors the Terms for responding to Investors (2019 Water Security), above, will also apply.
1.DEFINITIONS
CDP: means CDP Worldwide, a charitable company registered with the Charity Commission of England and Wales (registered charity no. 1122330 and a company number 05013650). References to “we”, “our” and “us” in these terms are references to CDP.
Deadline: means 28 August 2019.
Full version: means the version of the Questionnaire which contains all questions that are applicable to you.
Minimum version: means the version of the Questionnaire which contains a subset of the questions included in the Full Version.
Personal Data: means data which relates to an individual who can be identified by such data, such as a person’s name and job title.
Questionnaire: means the Full Version and the Minimum Version CDP Water Security Questionnaire 2019.
Responding Company: means the company responding to the Questionnaire. References to “you” and “your” in these terms are references to the Responding Company.
Supply Chain Member: means an organization that is requesting data from its suppliers.
2.PARTIES
The parties to these terms shall be CDP and the Responding Company.
3.THESE TERMS
These are the terms that apply when you submit a response to our Questionnaire to Supply Chain Members. If you do not agree to these terms, please contact us at [email protected] to discuss them with us.
4.RESPONDING TO OUR QUESTIONNAIRE
General. When responding to our Questionnaire, you will be given a choice as to whether your response can be made public or whether your response is non-public. We strongly encourage you to make your response public, but in either case, we will not divulge the relationship between you and any Supply Chain Member that has asked you to respond other than to our group companies and affiliates (for example, CDP North America, Inc), our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners, all of which are obliged to keep such relationship confidential.
Deadline for responding. You must submit your response to us using our online response system by the Deadline for your response to be eligible for scoring and inclusion in any reports.
Public responses. If you agree that your response can be made public, we may use and make it available for all purposes that we decide (whether for a fee or otherwise), including, for example, making your responses available on our website, to our investor signatories and other third parties and scoring your response. Note that information you submit within the Supply Chain module (2019 Water Security) will be treated as non-public (see below for details).
Non-public responses. If your response is non-public, we may use it only as follows:
(a) make it available as soon as it is received by CDP to any Supply Chain Member that has asked you to respond to the Questionnaire for any use within their organization but not for publication unless any data from your response has been anonymized or aggregated in such manner that it has the effect of being anonymized;
(b) make it available as soon as it is received by CDP to our group companies and affiliates, our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners:
(i) to score your response; and
(ii) for any other use within their organizations but not for publication unless any data from your response has been anonymized or aggregated in such manner that it has the effect of being anonymized.
Supply Chain module (2019 Water Security). Information you submit in response to the Supply Chain module (2019 Water Security) (questions SW0, SW1, SW2, and SW3 of the Questionnaire) will be treated as non-public even if you choose to make your response public. Questions SW1.1, SW2.1, and SW2.2a ask you to select a Supply Chain Member using a drop-down menu in our online response system, and only the Supply Chain Member you select for each row will have access to the information in it. For all other questions in the Supply Chain module (2019 Water Security) the information you submit will be accessible to any Supply Chain Member that has asked you to respond to the Questionnaire. All information you submit in the Supply Chain module (2019 Water Security) will be accessible to CDP and to our group companies and affiliates, our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners, all of which are obliged to keep such information confidential.
Sharing responses with the CEO Water Mandate. If, by ticking ‘Yes’ in response to question W10.2 of the Questionnaire, you agree to us sharing your response to questions W2.1a (response to impacts), W4.2 and W4.2a (response to risks) with the CEO Water Mandate for publication of suitable projects on its Water Action Hub website, you agree that we may also share the e-mail address of your registered CDP user with the CEO Water Mandate. This is so that the Hub administrator can alert your company that its data includes a project of potential interest to other parties sharing water resources in the geographies in which you operate. The Hub will publish the project and the associated contact details after providing your company with secure log-in information which enables amendments to the project profile and contact details.
Amending your response. You may amend a response that you have submitted at any time before the Deadline. After the Deadline has passed, certain amendments to your response can only be made by our staff and we may charge a fee for making them. Please note that any changes to your response after the Deadline may not be reflected in any score or in any report. Please email [email protected] for more information about amending your response.
Scoring of responses to the Full Version (of the Questionnaire). If you submit your response to the Full Version in English using our online response system:
(a) by the Deadline, your response will be scored;
(b) after the Deadline but on or before 30 September 2019 you can request an ‘On-Demand’ score for a fee. Please email [email protected] for more information on On-Demand scoring.
Please contact your local CDP office for information about scoring if you intend to submit your response in a language other than English.
Scoring of responses to the Minimum Version (of the Questionnaire). Responses to the Minimum Version will only be scored in certain circumstances. Please contact your local CDP office for further information.
Publication of scores. Unless you achieve an A grade, in which case we may make your score public, we may only make your score available to any Supply Chain Member that has asked you to respond to the Questionnaire, our group companies and affiliates (for example, CDP North America, Inc), our country partners, research partners, report writers and scoring partners, in each case for any use within their organizations but not for publication.
5.RIGHTS IN THE RESPONSES
Ownership. All intellectual property rights in your response will be owned by you or your licensors.
License. You grant to us, or shall procure for us, a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, assignable, sub-licensable, royalty-free and global license to use your response and any copyright and data base rights in your response for the uses set out in these terms.
6.IMPORTANT REPRESENTATIONS
You confirm that:
(a) the person submitting the response to us is authorized by you to submit the response;
(b) you have obtained all necessary consents and permissions to submit the response to us; and
(c) the response that you submit:
(i) does not infringe the rights of any third party (including privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights);
(ii) does not defame any third party; and
(iii) does not include any Personal Data.
7.LIABILITY
We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors; for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
We are not liable for business losses. Subject to these terms, CDP has no liability to you in any circumstances for any loss of revenue, loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, loss of business opportunity, loss of goodwill, loss of reputation, loss of, damage to or corruption of data or software or any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
Exclusion of liability. Subject to these terms, CDP has no liability to you in any circumstances arising from the content or submission of your response to us, our use of your response and/or the use of your response by any third parties.
Limitation of liability. Subject to these terms, CDP’s total liability to you in all circumstances shall be limited to £625.
8.GENERAL
We may transfer our rights to someone else. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organization.
Nobody else has any rights under these terms. These terms are between you and us. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms.
Entire agreement. These terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us, unless you also choose to share your response with investors in which case you will also be subject to our Terms for responding to Investors (2019 Water Security).
Variation. CDP reserves the right to change these terms at any time. Such changes shall be effective immediately or such other time as CDP elects. In the event of any materially adverse changes, you may request to withdraw your response within 30 days of us notifying you of the change.
If a court finds part of these terms illegal, the rest will continue in force. Each of the paragraphs of these terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.
Governing law and jurisdiction. These terms are governed by English law and you and us both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts to resolve any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these terms or their subject matter or formation.
Language. If these terms are translated into any language other than English, the English language version will prevail.
About CDP
CDP is an international non-profit that drives companies and governments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard water resources and protect forests.
Voted number one climate research provider by investors and working with institutional investors with assets of US$96 trillion, we leverage investor and buyer power to motivate companies to disclose and manage their environmental impacts.
Over 7,000 companies with some 50% of global market capitalization disclosed environmental data through CDP in 2018. This is in addition to the over 750 cities, states and regions who disclosed, making CDP’s platform one of the richest sources of information globally on how companies and governments are driving environmental change. CDP, formerly Carbon Disclosure Project, is a founding member of the We Mean Business Coalition. Please visit www.cdp.net or follow us @CDP to find out more.
What is the legal status of CDP?
CDP Worldwide (CDP) is a UK Registered Charity no. 1122330 and a company limited by guarantee registered in England no. 05013650. The charity has wholly owned subsidiaries in Germany and China and companies in Australia, Brazil and India over which it exercises control through majority Board representation. In the US, CDP North America, Inc. is an independently incorporated affiliate which has United States IRS 501(c)(3) charitable status.
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