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CDP Water Security Questionnaire Preview and Reporting Guidance 2023 - Version Control
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Release / Revision date
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Revision summary
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1.0
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Released: January 11, 2023
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Publication of the 2023 questionnaire preview and reporting guidance.
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1.1
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Revised: February 16, 2023
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- W1.5d: updated guidance for column “Impact of the engagement and measures of success”. Disclosers are asked to provide examples of the beneficial water-related outcomes of the engagement activity.
- W2.1a: updated guidance for column “Description of impact”. Disclosers are asked to provide quantitative data relevant to the detrimental impact.
- W4.3a: updated guidance for column “Company-specific description & strategy to realize opportunity”. Disclosers are asked to provide an example of the action(s) taken to realize the opportunity.
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1.2
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Revised: March 10, 2023
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- W4.2b and W4.2c: updated guidance for column “Please explain”. Disclosers are asked to explain why the potential impacts are considered as not substantive for their organization.
- W4.3b: updated guidance for column “Please explain”. Disclosers are asked for details of the method for assessing opportunities and when the evaluation will be complete.
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1.3
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Revised: June 21, 2023
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- W1.2d: updated guidance for column “Comparison with previous reporting year”. If applicable to their situation, disclosers are asked to state the volumetric comparison of their withdrawals from stressed areas between the current and previous reporting year in the 'Please explain' column.
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1.4 |
Revised: June 23, 2023 |
- W0.6a: updated guidance for organizations that have 'water supply networks' as part of their activities under CDP’s Activity Classification System. These organizations may exclude water accounting data in relation to the production of drinking water in Modules W1 and W5.
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1.5 |
Revised: July 28, 2023 |
- W8.1b:Chinese translations updated for columns ‘Base year figure’ (column 7) and ‘Target year figure’ (column 9) to correct a translation error in response options.
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CDP disclosure cycle 2023
Accessing questionnaire previews, reporting guidance, and scoring methodologies
CDP’s corporate questionnaire previews, reporting guidance, and scoring methodologies for climate change, forests and water security can be accessed from the guidance for companies page of CDP's website.
Submitting a response to the questionnaire(s)
Responses to questionnaires must be submitted via CDP's Online Response System (ORS), which is part of CDP's online disclosure platform. Please refer to Using CDP's Online Disclosure Platform for more details. Please note that while the questions themselves are the same in the questionnaire preview as they are in the ORS, the display format of some questions may differ, particularly for drop-down options and tables.
Sector-specific questions
Companies in high-impact sectors, in addition to the general questions, will be presented with questions specific to that sector. The rationale for developing a refined questionnaire for each of these sectors is outlined in the relevant sector introduction.
The sector-specific questions allocated to companies are defined by CDP's Activity Classification System (CDP-ACS). This system categorizes companies by focusing on the activities from which they derive revenue and associating these with the impacts to their business from climate change, water security and deforestation.
Please note that since each questionnaire includes sector-specific questions throughout, as not all questions will be applicable to your organization, some question numbers may skip.
Full and Minimum versions of the questionnaire
All organizations completing the climate change, forests and water security questionnaires are eligible to complete the full questionnaire.
In some cases, organizations may be eligible to complete a minimum version which contains fewer questions, and no sector-specific questions or data points.
Organizations are eligible to complete the minimum version of a questionnaire if they have an annual revenue of less than EUR/US$250 million*, and are disclosing in response to a request from a customer (i.e. CDP supply chain members), the CDP banks program members, the RE100 initiative, or the NZAM initiative.
Organizations will not be eligible to complete the minimum version questionnaire if they are disclosing in response to an investor request.
For information on scoring eligibility and implications, please see our Scoring Introduction.
* CDP reserves the right to remove the option of completing a minimum version questionnaire for previous responders to a questionnaire with an annual revenue of less than EUR/US$250 million, on the basis of the organization’s potential or existing environmental impact.
Timeline:
Jan 2023
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- Preview of 2023 questionnaires and reporting guidance released on CDP website (English versions).
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March 2023
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- Preview of 2023 questionnaires and reporting guidance released on CDP website (translated versions).
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April 2023
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- Online Response System (ORS) opens.
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July 2023
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- Companies must submit their responses to investors and/or customers using the ORS to be eligible for scoring and inclusion in reports (where applicable).
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For any disclosure-related enquiries, please contact the CDP Help Centre or your regional CDP contact.
CDP water security questionnaire
This questionnaire is the property of CDP Worldwide, reproduction of all or part (including within software platforms) without permission of CDP Worldwide is prohibited. Please contact [email protected] for more information on this.
Introduction to CDP’s water security questionnaire
CDP uses transparency and accountability to drive corporations, financial markets, and governments to decouple growth from depletion of freshwater resources and allocate capital towards a water secure economy to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. We do this by collecting information for investors, customers and policy makers on a company’s management, governance, use and stewardship of water resources.
The CDP water security questionnaire provides data users and the companies themselves with an insight on current and future water-related risks and opportunities. Along with CDP's water scoring methodology, the water security questionnaire helps companies to drive improvements in water management and enables benchmarking against leading practice.
The water security program has grown significantly since it was established in 2010, in terms of the numbers of companies disclosing, the value of associated assets and the number of investors and customers requesting the data. CDP now holds the world’s largest corporate water dataset, with more companies reporting than ever before.
General water security questionnaire structure
The structure and content of the water security questionnaire reflects trends in corporate water reporting, the evolving needs for sector-specific data, developments in public policy agendas, and greater alignment with CDP’s climate change and forests 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, policy makers and others.
There are 12 modules in the water security questionnaire, including the Signoff, plus a module presented only to organizations that supply goods or services to the member companies of CDP’s supply chain program.
The journey through CDP’s general water security questionnaire includes the following:
- Corporate water accounting metrics
- Value chain engagement activities
- Business impacts
- Risk assessment procedures
- Risks, opportunities and responses to them
- Facility water accounting metrics
- Water governance and business strategy
- Targets
- Verification
- Plastics
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.
2023 water sectors:
- Agriculture: Agricultural commodities (AC); Food, beverage & tobacco (FB)
- Energy: Electric utilities (EU); Oil & gas (OG)
- Materials: Chemicals (CH); Coal (CO); Metals & mining (MM)
Water security questionnaire changes for 2023
For 2023, 73% of the 2022 questions are unchanged or just have a minor revision. Some questions have been modified, some have been removed and some new ones added.
The total number of questions has risen by 14 to 85 (not including sector specific questions or the supply chain module). Note that each company has a unique pathway through the questionnaires determined by, for example, its sector and its responses as it moves through each module. No company is presented with all questions.
Key changes include:
All companies
- New module on Plastics
- Nine new questions, including plastics mapping, impact assessments, business risks, and targets. For companies with specific plastic production and/or use activities, there are questions regarding total weights, raw material sources, and circularity potential.
- Four removed questions:
- W1.4a (2022), W1.4d (2022), W8.1b (2022), W10.2 (2022).
- Nine new questions
- In W1 ‘Current state’: six new questions – one on emissions to water, two on hazardous substances, and three on value chain engagement.
- In W3 ‘Procedures’: two new questions on water pollutant management.
- In W8 ‘Targets’: one new question on categories for water-related targets.
- Five questions with a revised question dependency:
- Questions no longer dependent on responses to W1.1: W1.2, W1.2b, W1.2d, W1.5 (2022 W1.4).
- Nineteen modified questions:
- Nine in W1 ‘Current state’: W1.2, W1.2b, W1.2d, W1.2h, W1.2i, W1.2j on water accounting volumes; and W1.5 (2022 W1.4), W1.5d (2022 W1.4b), W1.5e (2022 W1.4c) on value chain engagement.
- One in W2 ‘Business impacts’: W2.2 on fines and enforcement orders.
- One in W3 ‘Procedures’: W3.3b on risk assessment processes.
- Four in W6 ‘Governance’: W6.1a, W6.2a, W6.3, W6.4a on water policy, board oversight, management responsibilities, and employee incentives.
- Three in W8 ‘Targets’: W8.1, W8.1b (2022 W8.1a), W8.1c on target categories and details.
- Eight questions with modified guidance: W2.1a, W4.1b, W4.1c, W4.2b, W4.2c, W4.3a, W4.3b, W7.4.
- Three questions with additional guidance (Example responses, Explanation of terms, Additional information): W3.3a, W6.6, W7.4.
- Five questions with a minor change: W2.1a, W3.3a W4.2, W4.2a, W6.2b.
Sector-specific
- Removed questions:
- Eight sector-specific pollutant management questions replaced with two general questions (2023 W3.1 and W3.1a):
- Chemicals sector: W-CH3.1 (2022) and W-CH3.1a (2022)
- Electric utilities sector: W-EU3.1 (2022) and W-EU3.1a (2022)
- Food, beverage, and tobacco sector: W-FB3.1 (2022) and W-FB3.1a (2022)
- Oil and gas sector: W-OG3.1 (2022) and W-OG3.1a (2022)
- New questions:
- Eight for the Agricultural Commodities sector:
- W-FB0.1a/W-AC0.1a, W-FB1.1a/W-AC1.1a, W-FB1.2e/W-AC1.2e, W-FB1.2f/W-AC1.2f, W-FB1.2g/W-AC1.2g, W-FB1.3/W-AC1.3, W-FB1.3a/W-AC1.3a, W-FB1.3b/W-AC1.3b
- Seven for the Coal sector:
- W-MM0.1a/W-CO0.1a, W-MM1.3/W-CO1.3, W-MM1.3a/W-CO1.3a, W-MM3.2/W-CO3.2, W-MM3.2a/W-CO3.2a, W-MM3.2b/W-CO3.2b, W-MM3.2c/W-CO3.2c
- Eight questions with a revised question dependency:
- Sector-specific questions no longer dependent on responses to W1.1:
- Chemicals sector: W-CH1.3
- Electric utilities sector: W-EU1.2a, W-EU1.3
- Food, beverage, and tobacco sector: W-FB1.2e/W-AC1.2e, W-FB1.3/W-AC1.3
- Metals and mining sector: W-MM1.3/W-CO1.3
- Oil and gas sector: W-OG1.2c, W-OG1.3
- Two modified questions:
- W-FB1.1a/W-AC1.1a, W-OG1.2c
- Four questions with a minor change:
- W-MM0.1a/W-CO0.1a, W-MM3.2a/W-CO3.2a, W-MM3.2b/W-CO3.2b, W4.1c for CO
Revisions and changes are also indicated within the questionnaire as: no change, minor change, modified question, new question, modified guidance, additional guidance, or revised question dependency. 'Minor change' indicates wording edits and revisions to drop-down options or a simple clarification, while a modification indicates where the data requested has been revised.
A detailed document on water security question changes from 2022 to 2023 can be found on the Guidance page of the website.
W0 Introduction
Introduction
(W0.1) Give a general description of and introduction to your organization.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
This is an open text question with a limit of 5,000 characters.
(W0.2) State the start and end date of the year for which you are reporting data.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Start date
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End date
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From: [MM/DD/YYYY]
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To: [MM/DD/YYYY]
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(W0.3) Select the countries/areas in which you operate.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Country/Area
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Select all that apply:
- Country/area drop-down list
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(W0.4) Select the currency used for all financial information disclosed throughout your response.
Question dependencies
- All disclosed financial figures throughout the questionnaire will be in the same currency. The currency reported in this question will apply to all reported figures throughout this request.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(W0.5) Select the option that best describes the reporting boundary for companies, entities, or groups for which water impacts on your business are being reported.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Companies, entities or groups over which financial control is exercised
- Companies, entities or groups over which operational control is exercised
- Companies, entities or groups in which an equity share is held
- Other, please specify
(W0.6) Within this boundary, are there any geographies, facilities, water aspects, or other exclusions from your disclosure?
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(W0.6a) Please report the exclusions.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W0.6.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Exclusion
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Please explain
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Text field [maximum of 2,500 characters]
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Text field [maximum of 2,500 characters]
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[Add Row]
(W0.7) Does your organization have an ISIN code or another unique identifier (e.g., Ticker, CUSIP, etc.)?
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
Indicate whether you are able to provide a unique identifier for your organization
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Provide your unique identifier*
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Select from:
- Yes, an ISIN code
- Yes, a CUSIP number
- Yes, a Ticker symbol
- Yes, a SEDOL code
- Yes, another unique identifier, please specify
- No
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Text field [Maximum 50 characters]
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[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.
Change from last year
Revised question dependency
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
- Your response to W1.2 will determine which subsequent questions are presented. If your response to W1.2 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions.
- If you select “Not monitored” or “Not relevant” in response to W1.2, you will not be able to disclose associated volumetric data in this section. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.
Change from last year
Modified question; Revised question dependency
Connection to other frameworks
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Water Consumption
Water Use
CEO Water Mandate
Current state: Performance
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
0
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2
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3
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4
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Water aspect
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% of sites/facilities/operations
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Frequency of measurement*
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Method of measurement*
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Please explain
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Water withdrawals – total volume
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Select from:
- Not monitored
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Not relevant
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Select from:
- Continuously
- Daily
- Monthly
- Quarterly
- Yearly
- Unknown
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 500 characters]
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Water withdrawals – volumes by source
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[METALS & MINING and COAL SECTORS ONLY] Entrained water associated with your metals & mining and/or coal sector activities - total volume
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[OIL & GAS SECTOR ONLY] Produced water associated with your oil & gas sector activities - total volume
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Water withdrawals quality
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Water discharges – total volume
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Water discharges – volumes by destination
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Water discharges – volumes by treatment method
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Water discharge quality – by standard effluent parameters
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Water discharge quality – emissions to water (nitrates, phosphates, pesticides, and/or other priority substances)
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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, how do they compare to the previous reporting year, and how are they forecasted to change?
Change from last year
Modified question; Revised question dependency
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Water Consumption
Water Use
CEO Water Mandate
Current state: Performance
Response options
Please complete the following table:
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2
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4
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5
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6
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Water aspect
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Volume (megaliters/year)
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Comparison with previous reporting year
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Primary reason for comparison with previous reporting year
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Five-year forecast
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Primary reason for forecast
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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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Select from:
- Change in accounting methodology
- Divestment from water intensive technology/process
- Facility closure
- Facility expansion
- Increase/decrease in business activity
- Increase/decrease in efficiency
- Investment in water-smart technology/process
- Maximum potential volume reduction already achieved
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Unknown
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- Unknown
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Select from:
- Change in accounting methodology
- Divestment from water intensive technology/process
- Facility closure
- Facility expansion
- Increase/decrease in business activity
- Increase/decrease in efficiency
- Investment in water-smart technology/process
- Maximum potential volume reduction already achieved
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Unknown
- Other, please specify
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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) Indicate whether water is withdrawn from areas with water stress, provide the proportion, how it compares with the previous reporting year, and how it is forecasted to change.
Change from last year
Modified question; Revised question dependency
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Exposure to Water Stressed Areas
GRI
Standard 303-3: Water withdrawal
CEO Water Mandate
Current state: Performance
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
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2
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5
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6
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7
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8
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Withdrawals are from areas with water stress
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% withdrawn from areas with water stress*
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Comparison with previous reporting year*
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Primary reason for comparison with previous reporting year*
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Five-year forecast*
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Primary reason for forecast*
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Identification tool*
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Please explain
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Select from:
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Select from:
- Less than 1%
- 1-10
- 11-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Unknown
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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:
- Change in accounting methodology
- Divestment from water intensive technology/process
- Facility closure
- Facility expansion
- Increase/decrease in business activity
- Increase/decrease in efficiency
- Investment in water-smart technology/process
- Maximum potential volume reduction already achieved
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Unknown
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- Unknown
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Select from:
- Change in accounting methodology
- Divestment from water intensive technology/process
- Facility closure
- Facility expansion
- Increase/decrease in business activity
- Increase/decrease in efficiency
- Investment in water-smart technology/process
- Maximum potential volume reduction already achieved
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Unknown
- Other, please specify
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Select all that apply:
- WRI Aqueduct
- WWF Water Risk Filter
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 5,000 characters]
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(W-FB1.2e/W-AC1.2e) (W-FB1.2f/W-AC1.2f) (W-FB1.2g/W-AC1.2g)
Questions W-FB1.2e/W-AC1.2e to W-FB1.2g/W-AC1.2g apply only to organizations with activities in the food, beverage and tobacco, as well as agricultural commodities sectors - 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 last year
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Water Consumption
CEO Water Mandate
Current state: Performance
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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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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Primary reason for 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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Select from:
- Change in accounting methodology
- Divestment from water intensive technology/process
- Facility closure
- Facility expansion
- Increase/decrease in business activity
- Increase/decrease in efficiency
- Investment in water-smart technology/process
- Maximum potential volume reduction already achieved
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Unknown
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Brackish surface water/Seawater
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Groundwater – renewable
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Groundwater – non-renewable
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Produced/Entrained water
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Third party sources
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(W1.2i) Provide total water discharge data by destination.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you indicate in W1.2 that you monitor the following water aspect(s):
- Water discharges - volumes by destination
Change from last year
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Current state: Performance
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
0
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2
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3
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4
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Destination
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Relevance
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Volume (megaliters/year)* |
Comparison with previous reporting year* |
Primary reason for comparison with previous reporting year* |
Please explain
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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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Select from:
- Change in accounting methodology
- Divestment from water intensive technology/process
- Facility closure
- Facility expansion
- Increase/decrease in business activity
- Increase/decrease in efficiency
- Investment in water-smart technology/process
- Maximum potential volume reduction already achieved
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Unknown
- Other, please specify
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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) Within your direct operations, indicate the highest level(s) to which you treat your discharge.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you indicate in W1.2 that you monitor the following water aspect(s):
- Water discharges - volumes by treatment method
Change from last year
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Current state: Performance
GRI
Standard 303-4: Water discharge (clause 2.4.2)
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
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Highest level of treatment within direct operations
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Relevance of treatment level to discharge
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Volume (megaliters/year)*
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Comparison of treated volume with previous reporting year*
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Primary reason for comparison with previous reporting year*
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% of your sites/facilities/operations this volume applies to*
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Please explain
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Tertiary treatment
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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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Select from:
- Change in accounting methodology
- Divestment from water intensive technology/process
- Facility closure
- Facility expansion
- Increase/decrease in business activity
- Increase/decrease in efficiency
- Investment in water-smart technology/process
- Maximum potential volume reduction already achieved
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Unknown
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Not monitored
- Less than 1%
- 1-10
- 11-20
- 21-30
- 31-40
- 41-50
- 51-60
- 61-70
- 71-80
- 81-90
- 91-99
- 100%
- Unknown
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Secondary treatment
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Primary treatment only
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(W1.2k) Provide details of your organization’s emissions of nitrates, phosphates, pesticides, and other priority substances to water in the reporting year.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you indicate in W1.2 that you monitor the following water aspect:
- Water discharge quality – emissions to water (nitrates, phosphates, pesticides, and/or other priority substances)
Change from last year
New question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
1
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2
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3
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4
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Emissions to water in the reporting year (metric tonnes)
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Category(ies) of substances included
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List the specific substances included*
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Please explain
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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 all that apply:
- Nitrates
- Phosphates
- Pesticides
- Priority substances listed under the EU Water Framework Directive
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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Water intensity
(W1.3) Provide a figure for your organization's total water withdrawal efficiency.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Revenue
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Total water withdrawal volume (megaliters)
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Total water withdrawal efficiency
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Anticipated forward trend
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
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[Auto-calculated]
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Text field [maximum of 500 characters]
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Hazardous substances
(W1.4) Do any of your products contain substances classified as hazardous by a regulatory authority?
Question dependencies
Your response to W1.4 prompts subsequent questions. If your response to W1.4 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions.
Change from last year
New question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Exposure to Hazardous Substances
Response options
Please complete the following table:
1
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2
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Products contain hazardous substances
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Comment
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Select from:
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Text field [1,000 characters]
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(W1.4a) What percentage of your company’s revenue is associated with products containing substances classified as hazardous by a regulatory authority?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if “Yes” is selected in W1.4.
Change from last year
New question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Exposure to Hazardous Substances
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.
1
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2
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3
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Regulatory classification of hazardous substances
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% of revenue associated with products containing substances in this list
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Annex XVII of EU REACH Regulation
- Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern for Authorisation above 0.1% by weight (EU Regulation)
- EU Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Regulation
- Annex XIV of UK REACH Regulation
- Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern (UK Regulation)
- Federal Water Pollution Control Act / Clean Water Act (United States Regulation)
- Water Pollution Prevention Act (Japan Regulation)
- Guidelines for Controlling the Use of Key Chemical Substances in Consumer Products (China Regulation)
- Brazilian Regulatory Standards
- Official Mexican Standards (NOMs) / National Inventory of Chemical Substances
- List of substances (Canadian Environmental Protection Act)
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Don't know
- Less than 10%
- 10-20
- 21-40
- 41-60
- 61-80
- More than 80%
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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[Add row]
Value chain engagement
(W1.5) Do you engage with your value chain on water-related issues?
Question dependencies
- Your response to W1.5 prompts subsequent questions. If your response to W1.5 is amended, data already entered in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.
Change from last year
Modified question; Revised question dependency (2022 W1.4)
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
CEO Water Mandate
Response: Internal actions
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
0
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1
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2
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3
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Value chain stakeholder
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Engagement
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Primary reason for no engagement*
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Please explain*
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Suppliers
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Select from:
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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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Other value chain partners (e.g., customers)
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(W1.5a) Do you assess your suppliers according to their impact on water security?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W1.5 column 1 (Engagement) in the row ‘Suppliers’.
Change from last year
New question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Critical Supplier Identification
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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Assessment of supplier impact
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Considered in assessment*
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Number of suppliers identified as having a substantive impact*
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% of total suppliers identified as having a substantive impact*
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Yes, we assess the impact of our suppliers
- No, we do not currently assess the impact of our suppliers, but we plan to do so within the next two years
- No, we do not assess the impact of our suppliers and have no plans to do so within the next two years
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Select all that apply:
- Basin status (e.g., water stress or access to WASH services)
- Supplier dependence on water
- Supplier impacts on water availability
- Supplier impacts on water quality
- Procurement spend
- Other, please specify
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using no decimal places]
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Select from:
- None
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Unknown
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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(W1.5b) Do your suppliers have to meet water-related requirements as part of your organization’s purchasing process?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W1.5 column 1 (Engagement) in the row ‘Suppliers’.
- Your response to W1.5b prompts W1.5c. If your response to W1.5b is amended, data already entered in the dependent question may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data in W1.5c.
Change from last year
New question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Response options
Please complete the following table:
1
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2
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Suppliers have to meet specific water-related requirements
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Comment
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Select from:
- Yes, water-related requirements are included in our supplier contracts
- Yes, suppliers have to meet water-related requirements, but they are not included in our supplier contracts
- No, but we plan to introduce water-related requirements within the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to introduce water-related requirements within the next two years
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[Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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(W1.5c) Provide details of the water-related requirements that suppliers have to meet as part of your organization’s purchasing process, and the compliance measures in place.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if a ‘Yes’ response has been selected in W1.5b.
Change from last year
New question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Supplier Risk Management Measures
Response options
Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
1
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2
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4
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5
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6
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Water-related requirement
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% of suppliers with a substantive impact required to comply with this water-related requirement*
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% of suppliers with a substantive impact in compliance with this water-related requirement*
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Mechanisms for monitoring compliance with this water-related requirement
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Response to supplier non-compliance with this water-related requirement
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Comment
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Select from:
- Unknown
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
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Select from:
- Unknown
- None
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
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Select all that apply:
- Certification
- Community-based monitoring
- Fines and penalties
- Geospatial monitoring tool
- Grievance mechanism/Whistleblowing hotline
- Ground-based monitoring system
- Off-site third-party audit
- On-site third-party audit
- Supplier self-assessment
- Supplier scorecard or rating
- No mechanism for monitoring compliance
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Exclude
- No response
- Retain and engage
- Suspend and engage
- Other, please specify
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[Add Row]
Water-related requirement (Column 1)
- Complying with going beyond water-related regulatory requirements
- Complying with a water-related certification
- Conducting water-related risk assessments on a regular basis (at least once annually)
- Engaging with their suppliers on water security actions
- Providing fully-functioning, safely managed WASH services to all workers
- Reducing total water withdrawal volumes
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- Reducing water demands in water stressed basins
- Reporting against a sustainability index with water-related factors (e.g., DJSI, CDP Water Security questionnaire, etc.)
- Setting and monitoring water pollution-related targets
- Setting and monitoring water withdrawal reduction targets
- Substituting hazardous substances with less harmful substances
- Other, please specify
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(W1.5d) Provide details of any other water-related supplier engagement activity.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W1.5 column 1 (Engagement) in the row ‘Suppliers’.
Change from last year
Modified question (2022 W1.4b)
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Supplier Risk Management Measures
Supply Chain Transparency & Reporting
CEO Water Mandate
Response: Internal actions
Response options
Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows to this table using the "Add Row" button.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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Type of engagement
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Details of engagement*
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% of suppliers by number*
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% of suppliers with a substantive impact*
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Rationale for 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
- Information collection
- Incentivization
- Innovation & collaboration
- Other
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Select from:
- None
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Unknown
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Select from:
- None
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Unknown
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Text field [maximum 2,500
characters]
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Text field [maximum 500 characters]
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[Add Row]
Details of engagement (column 2)
Information collection
- Collect water management information at least annually from suppliers
- Collect information on water-related risks at least annually from suppliers
- Collect water quantity information at least annually from suppliers (e.g., withdrawal and discharge volumes)
- Collect water quality information at least annually from suppliers (e.g., discharge quality, pollution incidents, hazardous substances)
- Collect WASH information at least annually from suppliers
- Other, please specify
Incentivization
- Incentivize demonstrable progress against targets on water withdrawals in your supplier relationship management
- Incentivize demonstrable progress against targets on water pollution in your supplier relationship management
- Incentivize demonstrable progress against targets on WASH in your supplier relationship management
- 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
- Offer financial incentives to suppliers achieving water-related targets in their 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 toward sustainable water management
- Educate suppliers about water stewardship and collaboration
- Engage with suppliers to advocate for policy or regulatory change to address WASH provision challenges
- Engage with suppliers to advocate for policy or regulatory change to address water availability and pollution challenges
- Other please specify
Other
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(W1.5e) Provide details of any water-related engagement activity with customers or other value chain partners.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W1.5 column 1 (Engagement) in the row ‘Other value chain partners (e.g., customers).
Change from last year
Modified question (2022 W1.4c)
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
CEO Water Mandate
Response: Internal actions
Response options
Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows using the “Add Row” button.
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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Type of stakeholder
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Type of engagement
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Details of engagement
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Rationale for your engagement
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Impact of the engagement and measures of success
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Select from:
- Customers
- Investors & shareholders
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Education / information sharing
- Innovation & collaboration
- 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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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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[Add row]
Details of engagement (Column 3)
Education / information sharing
- Educate and work with stakeholders on understanding and measuring exposure to water-related risks
- Run an engagement campaign to educate stakeholders about your water-related performance and strategy
- Run an engagement campaign to educate stakeholders about the impacts on water that (using) your products, goods, and/or services entail
- Share information about your products and relevant certification schemes
- Other, please specify
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Innovation & collaboration
- Collaborate with stakeholders on innovations to reduce water impacts in products and services
- Engage with stakeholders to advocate for policy or regulatory change
- Encourage stakeholders to work collaboratively with other users in their river basins toward sustainable water management
- Other, please specify
Other
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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 last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Business Impacts of Water Related Incidents
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: External impacts
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(W2.1a) Describe the water-related detrimental impacts experienced by your organization, your response, and the total financial impact.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W2.1.
Change from last year
Minor change; Modified guidance
Connection to other frameworks
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Business Impacts of Water Related Incidents
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: External impacts
Response options
Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
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1b |
2a |
2b |
3 |
Country/Area
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River basin
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Type of impact driver
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Primary impact driver
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Primary impact
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Select from:
- Country/area drop-down list
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Select from:
- River basin drop-down list
- Not known
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Acute physical
- Chronic physical
- Regulatory
- Reputation & markets
- Technology
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
Description of impact
| Primary response
| Total financial impact
| Description of response
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
| Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
| 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 impact driver (column 2b)
Acute physical- Cyclone, hurricane, typhoon
- Drought
- Flood (coastal, fluvial, pluvial, groundwater)
- Glacial lake outburst
- Heavy precipitation (rain, hail, snow/ice)
- Storm (including blizzards, dust and sandstorm)
- Tornado
- Pollution incident
- Rupture of tailings dams and toxic spills (metals & mining and coal sectors only)
- Other, please specify
Chronic physical- Acid rock drainage and metal leaching (metals & mining and coal sectors only)
- Change in land-use
- Changing precipitation patterns and types (rain, hail, snow/ice)
- Changing temperature of water bodies
- Declining water quality
- Dependency on water intensive energy sources
- Ecosystem vulnerability
- Groundwater depletion
- Inadequate infrastructure
- Increased levels of plastic in freshwater bodies
- Leaching of pollutants into freshwater bodies
- Ocean acidification
- Poorly managed sanitation
- Precipitation and/or hydrological variability
- Rationing of municipal water supply
- Saline intrusion
- Sea level rise
- Seasonal supply variability/inter annual variability
- Soil degradation
- Supplier dependency on water intensive energy sources
- Water scarcity
- Water stress
- Other, please specify
Regulatory
- Changed product standards
- Higher water prices
- Increased difficulty in obtaining withdrawals/operations permit
- Lack of transparency of water rights
- Limited or no river basin/catchment management
- Mandatory water efficiency, conservation, recycling or process standards
- Poor coordination between regulatory bodies
- Poor enforcement of water regulation
- Increased difficulty in supplier obtaining withdrawals/operations permit
- Litigation against supplier
- Tighter regulatory standards
- Regulation of discharge quality/volumes
- Regulatory uncertainty
- Statutory water withdrawal limits/changes to water allocation
- Other, please specify
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Reputation & markets
- Changes in consumer behavior
- Community opposition
- Inadequate access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services
- Increased stakeholder concern or negative stakeholder feedback
- Water-related litigation
- Negative media coverage
- Other, please specify
Technology
- Data access/availability
- Substitution of existing products with lower water impact options
- Transition to water efficient and low water intensity technologies and products
- Transition to water intensive, low carbon energy sources
- Unsuccessful investment in new technologies
- Transition to bio-based chemicals (chemicals sector only)
- Other, please specify
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Primary impact (column 3)
- Brand damage
- Changing revenue mix and sources
- Constraint to growth
- Closure of operations
- Diminished ability to reduce GHG emissions
- Disruption to sales
- Fines, penalties or enforcement orders
- Impact on company assets
- Disruption to workforce management and planning
- Increased insurance premiums
- Increased cost of capital
- Increased compliance costs
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- Increased operating costs
- Increased production costs
- Litigation
- Loss of license to operate
- Reduction or disruption in production capacity
- Reduced demand for products and services
- Reduction in capital availability
- Reduced revenues from lower sales/output
- Upfront costs to adopt/deploy new practices and processes
- Supply chain disruption
- Mine closure (metals & mining and coal sectors only)
- Other, please specify
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Primary response (column 5)
- Adopt water efficiency, water reuse, recycling and conservation practices
- Adopt regenerative agriculture policies
- Amend the Business Continuity Plan
- Comply with local regulatory requirements
- Develop drought emergency plans
- Develop flood emergency plans
- Develop new products and/or markets
- Engage with customers
- Engage with local communities
- Engage with NGOs/special interest groups
- Engage with regulators/policymakers
- Engage with suppliers
- Establish site-specific targets
- Greater due diligence
- Implement internal pricing on water
- Implement nature-based solutions
- Improve alignment of our public policy influencing activity with our water stewardship commitments
- Improve maintenance of infrastructure
- Improve monitoring
- Improve pollution abatement and control measures
- Increase capital expenditure
- Increase geographic diversity of facilities
- Increase insurance coverage
- Increase investment in new technology
- Increase supplier diversification
- Introduce/strengthen water management incentives
- Purchase water quality credits
- Re-site facilities
- Secure alternative water supply
- Support river basin restoration
- Tighten supplier performance standards
- Use risk transfer instruments
- Utilize aquifer storage to accrue recharge credits
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- Adopt alternative livestock management practices (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Adopt better animal waste management practices (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Adopt efficient fertilizer and pesticide management (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Adopt soil conservation practices (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Adopt sustainable irrigation practices (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Promote the adoption of alternative livestock management practices among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Promote the adoption of better animal waste management practices among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Promote the adoption of efficient fertilizer and pesticide management among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Promote the adoption of soil conservation practices among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Promote the adoption of sustainable irrigation practices among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Promote the use of drought resistant crop varieties among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Reduce food waste throughout the value chain (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Use drought resistant crop varieties (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Other, please specify
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Compliance impacts
(W2.2) In the reporting year, was your organization subject to any fines, enforcement orders, and/or other penalties for water-related regulatory violations?
Question dependencies
- Your response to W2.2 will determine which subsequent questions are presented in this section. If your response to W2.2 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.
Change from last year
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Environmental Violations
CEO Water Mandate
Current state: Compliance
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
1
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2
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3
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Water-related regulatory violations
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Fines, enforcement orders, and/or other penalties* |
Comment
|
Select from:
|
Select all that apply:
- Fines
- Enforcement orders or other penalties
- Fines, but none that are considered as significant
- Enforcement orders or other penalties but none that are considered as significant
|
Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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(W2.2a) Provide the total number and financial value of all water-related fines.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Fines” or “Fines, but none that are considered as significant” in response to W2.2.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Environmental Violations
CEO Water Mandate
Current state: Compliance
Response options
Please complete the following table:
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
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
|
Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999]
|
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
|
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 “Fines” or “Enforcement orders or other penalties” in response to W2.2.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Business Impacts of Water Related Incidents
Environmental Violations
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.
1 |
2 |
3a |
3b |
4 |
5 |
Type of penalty
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Financial impact |
Country/Area |
River basin
|
Type of incident
|
Description of penalty, incident, regulatory violation, significance and resolution
|
Select from:
- Fine
- Enforcement order
- Other penalty type, please specify
|
Numerical field [enter
a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Select from:
- Country/area drop-down list
|
Select from:
- River basin drop-down list
- Not known
- Other, please specify
|
Select from:
- Spillage, leakage, or discharge of potential water pollutant
- Failure to monitor effluent
- Effluent limit exceedances
- Abstraction without a permit or abstraction that exceeded permit
- Other non-compliance with permits, standards, or regulations
- Incorrect administration of permits, standards, or regulations
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum
1,000 characters]
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[Add Row]
W3 Procedures
Pollutant management procedures
(W3.1) Does your organization identify and classify potential water pollutants associated with its activities that could have a detrimental impact on water ecosystems or human health?
Question dependencies
- Your response to W3.1 prompts W3.1a. If your response to W3.1 is amended, data in the dependent question may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for the relevant question.
Change from last year
New question; Modified question for CH, EU, FB, and OG
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
1
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2
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3
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Identification and classification of potential water pollutants
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How potential water pollutants are identified and classified*
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Please explain*
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Select from:
- Yes, we identify and classify our potential water pollutants
- No, we do not identify and classify our potential water pollutants
- Unknown
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(W3.1a) Describe how your organization minimizes the adverse impacts of potential water pollutants on water ecosystems or human health associated with your activities.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if in W3.1 “Yes, we identify and classify our potential water pollutants” is selected.
Change from last year
New question; Modified question for CH, EU, FB, and OG
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.
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Water pollutant category
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Description of water pollutant and potential impacts
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Value chain stage
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Actions and procedures to minimize adverse impacts
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Inorganic pollutants
- Oil
- Nitrates
- Phosphates
- Other nutrients and oxygen demanding pollutants
- Pesticides
- Other synthetic organic compounds
- Pathogens
- Microplastics and plastic particles
- Other physical pollutants
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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Select all that apply:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
- Product use phase
- Other, please specify
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Select all that apply:
- Assessment of critical infrastructure and storage condition (leakages, spillages, pipe erosion etc.) and their resilience
- Resource recovery
- Beyond compliance with regulatory requirements
- Implementation of integrated solid waste management systems
- Industrial and chemical accidents prevention, preparedness, and response
- Provision of best practice instructions on product use
- Water recycling
- Reduction or phase out of hazardous substances
- Requirement for suppliers to comply with regulatory requirements
- Discharge treatment using sector-specific processes to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements
- Upgrading of process equipment/methods
- Procedure(s) under development/ R&D
- No formal procedure(s) in place
- Other, please specify
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Other management procedures
The questions in this section only apply to organizations with activities in certain sectors. Questions will not appear unless you have opted to view the following sector-specific questions:
Risk identification and assessment procedures
(W3.3) Does your organization undertake a water-related risk assessment?
Question Dependencies
- Your response to W3.3 prompts subsequent questions to be presented. If your response to W3.3 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions.
- If your organization does not currently incorporate a water risk assessment into its core business procedures you will be presented with question W3.3c.
- The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: Business risks
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes, water-related risks are assessed
- No, water-related risks are not assessed
(W3.3a) Select the options that best describe your procedures for identifying and assessing water-related risks.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes, water-related risks are assessed” in response to W3.3.
Change from last year
Minor change; Additional guidance
Connection to other frameworks
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Quantity & Quality-Related Water Risks
Exposure of Suppliers to Water Risks
Exposure to Hazardous Substances
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.
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Value chain stage
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Coverage
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Risk assessment procedure
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Frequency of assessment
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How far into the future are risks considered?
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Type of tools and methods used
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Tools and methods used
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Select all that apply:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
- Product use phase
- Other stages of the value chain
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Select from:
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Select from:
- More than once a year
- Annually
- Every two years
- Every three years or more
- Not defined
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Select from:
- Up to 1 year
- 1 to 3 years
- 3 to 6 years
- More than 6 years
- Unknown
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Select all that apply:
- Tools on the market
- Enterprise Risk Management
- International methodologies and standards
- Databases
- Other
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Select all that apply:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Contextual issues considered | Stakeholders considered | Comment |
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Select all that apply:
- Water availability at a basin/catchment level
- Water quality at a basin/catchment level
- Stakeholder conflicts concerning water resources at a basin/catchment level
- Impact on human health
- Implications of water on your key commodities/raw materials
- Water regulatory frameworks
- Status of ecosystems and habitats
- Access to fully-functioning, safely managed WASH services for all employees
- Other, please specify
| Select all that apply:
- Customers
- Employees
- Investors
- Local communities
- NGOs
- Regulators
- Suppliers
- Water utilities at a local level
- Other water users at the basin/catchment level
- Other, please specify
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Risk assessment procedure (column 3)
- Water risks are assessed as part of an established enterprise risk management framework
- Water risks are assessed as part of other company-wide risk assessment system
- Water risks are assessed in an environmental risk assessment
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- Water risks are assessed as a standalone issue
- Other, please specify
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Tools and methods used (column 7)
Tools on the market
- Collect Earth
- Ecolab Water Risk Monetizer
- EcoVadis
- GEMI Local Water Tool
- RBA Country Risk Assessment Tool
- SEDEX
- SIWI Water Tool
- Water Footprint Network Assessment tool
- WRI Aqueduct
- WWF Water Risk Filter
- Other, please specify
Enterprise Risk Management
- COSO Enterprise Risk Management Framework
- Enterprise Risk Management
- ISO 31000 Risk Management Standard
- Other, please specify
International methodologies and standards
- Alliance for Water Stewardship Standard
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Life Cycle Assessment
- India Water Tool
- IPCC Climate Change Projections
- ISO 14001 Environmental Management Standard
- ISO 14046 Environmental Management – Water Footprint
- Other, please specify
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Databases
- FAO/AQUASTAT
- Maplecroft Global Water Security Risk Index
- Regional government databases
- UNEP Vital Water Graphics
- Other, please specify
Other
- Internal company methods
- External consultants
- Materiality assessment
- Nation-specific databases, tools, or standards
- Scenario analysis
- Source Water Vulnerability Assessment
- Other, please specify
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(W3.3b) Describe your organization’s process for identifying, assessing, and responding to water-related risks within your direct operations and other stages of your value chain.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes, water-related risks are assessed” in response to W3.3.
Change from last year
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: Business risks
Response options
Please complete the following table:
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2
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3
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4
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Rationale for approach to risk assessment
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Explanation of contextual issues considered |
Explanation of stakeholders considered |
Decision-making process for risk response
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(W3.3c) Why does your organization not undertake a water-related risk assessment?
Question Dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “No, water-related risks are not assessed” in response to W3.3.
Change from last year
No change
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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W4 Risks and opportunities
Risk exposure
(W4.1) Have you identified any inherent water-related risks with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business?
Question dependencies
- Your response to W4.1 will determine which subsequent questions are presented. If your response to W4.1 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: Business risks
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes, both in direct operations and the rest of our value chain
- Yes, only within our direct operations
- Yes, only in our value chain beyond our direct operations
- No
(W4.1a) How does your organization define substantive financial or strategic impact on your business?
Change from last year
No change
Response options
This is an open text question with a limit of 5,000 characters.
(W4.1b) What is the total number of facilities exposed to water risks with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business, and what proportion of your company-wide facilities does this represent?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select any of the following options in response to W4.1:
- Yes, both in direct operations and the rest of value chain
- Yes, only within our direct operations
- Yes, only in our value chain beyond our direct operations
Change from last year
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
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% company-wide facilities this represents
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Comment
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-1,000 using no decimals
or commas]
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Select from:
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Unknown
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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 financial or strategic impact on your business, and what is the potential business impact associated with those facilities?
Question Dependencies
- This question only appears if you select any of the following options in response to W4.1:
- Yes, both in direct operations and the rest of our value chain
- Yes, only within our direct operations
- Yes, only in our value chain beyond our direct operations
- Note that W5 will request water accounting data for facilities located in the basins reported here.
Change from last year
Modified guidance; Minor change for CO
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: Business risks
Response options
Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
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3 |
Country/Area
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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
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Select from:
- Country/area drop-down list
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Select from:
- River basin drop-down list
- Not known
- Other, please specify
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-1,000 using no decimals
or commas]
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Select from:
- Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Unknown
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[METALS & MINING AND COAL SECTORS 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 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Select from: - Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Unknown
- Not applicable
| Select from: - Less than 1%
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-99
- 100%
- Unknown
- Not applicable
| Select from:
- Less than 1%
- 1-10
- 11-20
- 21-30
- 31-40
- 41-50
- 51-60
- 61-70
- 71-80
- 81-90
- 91-99
- 100%
- Unknown
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Water-related risks and response
(W4.2) Provide details of identified risks in your direct operations with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business, and your response to those risks.
Question Dependencies
- This question only appears if you select one of the following options in response to W4.1:
- Yes, both in direct operations and the rest of our value chain
- Yes, only within our direct operations
Change from last year
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Quantity & Quality-Related Water Risks
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: Business risks
Response options
Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You are able to add rows to this table using the "Add row" button at the bottom of the table.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
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Country/Area
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River basin
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Type of risk
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Primary risk driver
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Primary potential impact
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Company-specific description
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Timeframe
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Select from:
- Country/area drop-down list
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Select from:
- River basin drop-down list
- Not known
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Acute physical
- Chronic physical
- Regulatory
- Reputation & markets
- Technology
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Select from:
- Current up to one year
- 1-3 years
- 4-6 years
- More than 6 years
- Unknown
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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]
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Explanation of financial impact | Primary response to risk | Description of response | Cost of response | Explanation of cost of response |
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
| Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
| Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
| Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places]
| Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Primary risk driver (column 2b)
Acute physical
- Cyclone, hurricane, typhoon
- Drought
- Flood (coastal, fluvial, pluvial, groundwater)
- Glacial lake outburst
- Heavy precipitation (rain, hail, snow/ice)
- Storm (including blizzards, dust and sandstorm)
- Tornado
- Pollution incident
- Rupture of tailings dams and toxic spills (metals & mining and coal sectors only)
- Other, please specify
Chronic physical
- Acid rock drainage and metal leaching (metals & mining and coal sectors only)
- Change in land-use
- Changing precipitation patterns and types (rain, hail, snow/ice)
- Changing temperature of water bodies
- Declining water quality
- Dependency on water intensive energy sources
- Ecosystem vulnerability
- Groundwater depletion
- Inadequate infrastructure
- Increased levels of plastic in fresh water bodies
- Leaching of pollutants into freshwater bodies
- Ocean acidification
- Poorly managed sanitation
- Precipitation and/or hydrological variability
- Rationing of municipal water supply
- Saline intrusion
- Sea level rise
- Seasonal supply variability/inter annual variability
- Soil degradation
- Water scarcity
- Water stress
- Other, please specify
Regulatory
- Changed product standards
- Higher water prices
- Increased difficulty in obtaining withdrawals/operations permit
- Lack of transparency of water rights
- Limited or no river basin/catchment management
- Mandatory water efficiency, conservation, recycling or process standards
- Poor coordination between regulatory bodies
- Poor enforcement of water regulation
- Tighter regulatory standards
- Regulation of discharge quality/volumes
- Regulatory uncertainty
- Statutory water withdrawal limits/changes to water allocation
- Other, please specify
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Reputation & markets
- Changes in consumer behavior
- Community opposition
- Inadequate access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services
- Increased stakeholder concern or negative stakeholder feedback
- Water-related litigation
- Negative media coverage
- Other, please specify
Technology
- Data access/availability
- Substitution of existing products with lower water impact options
- Transition to bio-based chemicals (chemicals sector only)
- Transition to water efficient and low water intensity technologies and products
- Transition to water intensive, low carbon energy sources
- Unsuccessful investment in new technologies
- Other, please specify
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Primary potential impact (column 3)
- Brand damage
- Changing revenue mix and sources
- Constraint to growth
- Closure of operations
- Diminished ability to reduce GHG emissions
- Disruption to sales
- Fines, penalties or enforcement orders
- Impact on company assets
- Disruption to workforce management and planning
- Increased insurance premiums
- Increased cost of capital
- Increased compliance costs
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- Increased operating costs
- Increased production costs
- Litigation
- Loss of license to operate
- Reduction or disruption in production capacity
- Reduced demand for products and services
- Reduction in capital availability
- Reduced revenues from lower sales/output
- Upfront costs to adopt/deploy new practices and processes
- Supply chain disruption
- Mine closure (metals & mining and coal sectors only)
- Other, please specify
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Primary response to risk (column 13)
- Adopt water efficiency, water reuse, recycling and conservation practices
- Adopt regenerative agriculture policies
- Amend the Business Continuity Plan
- Comply with local regulatory requirements
- Develop drought emergency plans
- Develop flood emergency plans
- Develop new products and/or markets
- Engage with local communities
- Engage with NGOs/special interest groups
- Engage with customers
- Engage with suppliers
- Engage with regulators/policymakers
- Establish site-specific targets
- Greater due diligence
- Implement internal pricing on water
- Implement nature-based solutions
- Improve alignment of our public policy influencing activity with our water stewardship commitments
- Improve maintenance of infrastructure
- Improve monitoring
- Improve pollution abatement and control measures
- Increase capital expenditure
- Increase geographic diversity of facilities
- Increase insurance coverage
- Increase investment in new technology
- Increase supplier diversification
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- Introduce/strengthen water management incentives
- Purchase water quality credits
- Re-site facilities
- Secure alternative water supply
- Support river basin restoration
- Tighten supplier performance standards
- Use risk transfer instruments
- Utilize aquifer storage to accrue recharge credits
- Adopt alternative livestock management practices (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Adopt better animal waste management practices (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Adopt efficient fertilizer and pesticide management (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Adopt soil conservation practices (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Adopt sustainable irrigation practices (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Reduce food waste throughout the value chain (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Use drought resistant crop varieties (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Other, please specify
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(W4.2a) Provide details of risks identified within your value chain
(beyond direct operations) with the potential to have a substantive financial
or strategic impact on your business, and your response
to those risks.
Question Dependencies
- This question only appears if you select one of the following options in response to W4.1:
- Yes, both in direct operations and the rest of our value chain
- Yes, only in our value chain beyond our direct operations
Change from last year
Minor change
Connection to other frameworks
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Quantity & Quality-Related Water Risks
Exposure of Suppliers to Water Risks
Water Risks Management of Suppliers
Supply Chain Risk Exposure
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: Business risks
Response options
Please complete the following table. The table is displayed over several rows for readability. You are able to add rows to this table using the "Add row" button at the bottom of the table.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
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1b
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2
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3a
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3b
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4
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5
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6
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Country/Area
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River basin
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Stage of value chain
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Type of risk
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Primary risk driver
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Primary potential impact
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Company-specific description
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Timeframe
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Select from:
- Country/area drop-down list
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Select from:
- River basin drop-down list
- Not known
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Supply chain
- Use phase
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Acute physical
- Chronic physical
- Regulatory
- Reputation & markets
- Technology
|
Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Select from:
- Current up to one year
- 1-3 years
- 4-6 years
- More than 6 years
- Unknown
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7
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8
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9
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10
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11
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12
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Magnitude of potential impact
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Likelihood
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Are you able to provide a potential financial impact figure?
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Potential financial impact figure (currency)*
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Potential financial impact figure - minimum (currency)*
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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]
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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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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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13
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14
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15
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16
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17
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Explanation of financial impact
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Primary response to risk
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Description of response
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Cost of response
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Explanation of cost of response
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
|
Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999,999 using a
maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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[Add Row]
Primary risk driver (column 3b)
Acute physical
- Cyclone, hurricane, typhoon
- Drought
- Flood (coastal, fluvial, pluvial, groundwater)
- Glacial lake outburst
- Heavy precipitation (rain, hail, snow/ice)
- Storm (including blizzards, dust and sandstorm)
- Tornado
- Pollution incident
- Rupture of tailings dams and toxic spills (metals & mining and coal sectors only)
- Other, please specify
Chronic physical
- Acid rock drainage and metal leaching (metals & mining and coal sectors only)
- Change in land-use
- Changing precipitation patterns and types (rain, hail, snow/ice)
- Changing temperature of water bodies
- Declining water quality
- Dependency on water intensive energy sources
- Ecosystem vulnerability
- Groundwater depletion
- Inadequate infrastructure
- Increased levels of plastic in freshwater bodies
- Leaching of pollutants into freshwater bodies
- Ocean acidification
- Poorly managed sanitation
- Precipitation and/or hydrological variability
- Rationing of municipal water supply
- Saline intrusion
- Sea level rise
- Seasonal supply variability/inter annual variability
- Soil degradation
- Water scarcity
- Water stress
- Other, please specify
Regulatory
- Changed product standards
- Higher water prices
- Increased difficulty in supplier obtaining withdrawals/operations permit
- Lack of transparency of water rights
- Limited or no river basin/catchment management
- Litigation against supplier
- Mandatory water efficiency, conservation, recycling or process standards
- Poor coordination between regulatory bodies
- Poor enforcement of water regulation
- Tighter regulatory standards
- Regulation of discharge quality/volumes
- Regulatory uncertainty
- Statutory water withdrawal limits/changes to water allocation
- Other, please specify
|
Reputation & markets
- Changes in consumer behavior
- Community opposition
- Inadequate access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services
- Increased stakeholder concern or negative stakeholder feedback
- Water-related litigation
- Negative media coverage
- Other, please specify
Technology
- Data access/availability
- Substitution of existing products with lower water impact options
- Transition to bio-based chemicals (chemicals sector only)
- Transition to water efficient and low water intensity technologies and products
- Transition to water intensive, low carbon energy sources
- Unsuccessful investment in new technologies
- Other, please specify
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Primary potential impact (column 4)
- Company brand damage
- Changing revenue mix and sources
- Constraint to growth
- Closure of company operations
- Diminished ability to reduce value chain GHG emissions
- Disruption to sales due to value chain disruption
- Fines, penalties or enforcement orders
- Impact on company assets
- Disruption to workforce management and planning
- Increased insurance premiums
- Increased cost of capital
- Increased compliance costs
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- Increased operating costs
- Increased production costs due to changing input prices from supplier
- Litigation
- Loss of license to operate
- Reduction or disruption in production capacity
- Reduced demand for products and services
- Reduction in capital availability
- Reduced revenues from lower sales/output
- Upfront costs to adopt/deploy new practices and processes
- Supply chain disruption
- Mine closure (metals & mining and coal sectors only)
- Other, please specify
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Primary response to risk (column 14)
Direct operations
- Develop new products and/or markets
- Improve alignment of our procurement policy influencing activity with our water stewardship commitments
- Include in Business Continuity Plan
- Increase capital expenditure
- Increase investment in new technology
- Purchase water quality credits
- Other, please specify
Upstream
- Increase our insurance coverage
- Increase supplier diversification
- Map supplier water risk
- Tighten supplier performance standards
- Use risk transfer instruments
- Reduce food waste throughout the value chain (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Other, please specify
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Supplier engagement
- Develop supplier drought emergency plans
- Develop supplier flood emergency plans
- Establish supplier performance targets
- Increase supplier reporting on water
- Introduce/strengthen water management incentives for suppliers
- Promote adoption of waste water management procedures among suppliers
- Promote greater due diligence among suppliers
- Promote investment in infrastructure and technologies for water saving, re-use and recycling among suppliers
- Promote the use of insurance among suppliers
- Work with supplier to engage with local communities
- Promote the adoption of alternative livestock management practices among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of better animal waste management among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of soil conservation practices among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the adoption of sustainable irrigation practices among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote efficient fertilizer and pesticide management among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Promote the use of drought resistant crop varieties among suppliers (food, beverage & tobacco sector only)
- Other, please specify
Downstream
- Implement nature-based solutions
- Improve pollution abatement and control measures
- Increase/review infrastructure investment
- Support river basin restoration
- Work with supplier to engage with customers
- Work with supplier to engage with NGOs/special interest groups
- Work with supplier to engage with regulators/policymakers
- Reduce food waste throughout the value chain (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- 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 last year
Modified guidance
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 2,500 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 last year
Modified guidance
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 2,500 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 last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: Business risks
Implications: Business opportunities
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes, we have identified opportunities, and some/all are being realized
- Yes, we have identified opportunities but are unable to realize them
- No
(W4.3a) Provide details of opportunities currently being realized that could have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes, we have identified opportunities, and some/all are being realized” in response to question W4.3.
Change from last year
Modified guidance
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Implications: Business risks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Response options
Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
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 2,500 characters]
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Select from:
- Current - up to 1 year
- 1 to 3 years
- 4 to 6 years
- More than 6 years
- Unknown
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Select from:
- Low
- Low-medium
- Medium
- Medium-high
- High
- Unknown
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6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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 2,500 characters]
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[Add Row]
Primary water-related opportunity (column 2)
Efficiency
- Cost savings
- Improved water efficiency in operations
- Water recovery from sewage management
- Improved field recovery factor (oil & gas sector only)
- Other, please specify
Resilience
- Increased resilience to impacts of climate change
- Increased supply chain resilience
- Resilience to future regulatory changes
- Other, please specify
Products and services
- New R&D opportunities
- Increased sales of existing products/services
- Sales of new products/services
- Reduced impact of product use on water resources
- Other, please specify
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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 last year
Modified guidance
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
2,500 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, water accounting data, and a comparison with the previous reporting year.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you report that you have facilities exposed to water risk in W4.1c.
- Your response to W5.1 prompts W5.1a.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Goal 7: Affordable clean energy
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Water Consumption
Water Use
Exposure to Water Stressed Areas
GRI
Standard 303-3: Water withdrawal
Response options
Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
1
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2
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3a
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3b
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4
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5
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6
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Facility reference number
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Facility name (optional)
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Country/Area
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River basin
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Latitude
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Longitude
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Located in area with water stress
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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/area drop-down list
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Select from:
- River basin drop-down list
- Other, please specify
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Numerical field [enter
a number from 0 to +/-90.000000 using a maximum of six decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter
a number from 0 to +/-180.000000 using a maximum of six decimal places]
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Select from:
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7
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8
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9
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10
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11
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12
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13
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[ELECTRIC UTILITIES SECTOR ONLY] Primary power generation source for your electricity generation at this facility
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[OIL & GAS SECTOR ONLY] Oil & gas sector business division
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Total water withdrawals (megaliters/year) at this facility
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Comparison of total withdrawals with previous reporting year
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Withdrawals from fresh surface water, including rainwater, water from wetlands, rivers and lakes
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Withdrawals from brackish surface water/seawater
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Withdrawals from groundwater - renewable
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Select from:
- Coal – hard
- Lignite
- Oil
- Gas
- Biomass
- Waste (non-biomass)
- Nuclear
- Fossil-fuel plants fitted with carbon capture and storage
- Geothermal
- Hydropower
- Wind
- Solar
- Marine
- Other renewable
- Not applicable
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Select all that apply:
- Upstream
- Midstream/Downstream
- Chemicals
- Other, please specify
- Not applicable
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 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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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
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14
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15
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16
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17
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18
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19
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Withdrawals from groundwater - non-renewable
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Withdrawals from produced/entrained water
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Withdrawals from third party sources
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Total water discharges (megaliters/year) at this facility
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Comparison of total discharges with previous reporting year
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Discharges to fresh surface water
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 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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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
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20
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21
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22
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23
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24
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25
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Discharges to brackish surface water/seawater
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Discharges to groundwater
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Discharges to third party destinations
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Total water consumption (megaliters/year) at this facility
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Comparison of total consumption with previous reporting year
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Please explain
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number from 0 to +/-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of two decimal places]
|
Select from:
- Much lower
- Lower
- About the same
- Higher
- Much higher
- This is our first year of measurement
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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[Add Row]
(W5.1a) For the facilities referenced in W5.1, what proportion of water accounting data has been third party verified?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you list facilities exposed to water risk in W5.1.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
Water aspect
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% verified
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Verification standard used*
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Please explain*
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Water withdrawals – total volumes
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Select from:
- Not verified
- 1-25
- 26-50
- 51-75
- 76-100
- Not relevant
|
Text field [maximum 1,500
characters]
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Water withdrawals – volume by source
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Water withdrawals – quality by standard water quality parameters
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Water discharges – total volumes
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Water discharges – volume by destination
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Water discharges – volume by final treatment level
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Water discharges – quality by standard water quality parameters
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Water consumption – total volume
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W6 Governance
Water policy
(W6.1) Does your organization have a water policy?
Question dependencies
- Your response to W6.1 will determine if subsequent questions are presented in this section. If your response to W6.1 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Environmental Policy & Commitments
CEO Water Mandate
Response: Policies, governance and targets
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes, we have a documented water policy that is publicly available
- Yes, we have a documented water policy but it is not publicly available
- No, but we plan to develop one within the next 2 years
- No
(W6.1a) Select the options that best describe the scope and content of your water policy.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes, we have a documented water policy that is publicly available” or “Yes, we have a documented water policy, but it is not publicly available” in response to W6.1.
Change from last year
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Environmental Policy & Commitments
Hazardous Substances Commitment
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 the scope (including value chain stages) covered by the policy
- Description of business dependency on water
- Description of business impact on water
- Commitment to align with international frameworks, standards and widely-recognized water initiatives
- Commitment to prevent, minimize, and control pollution
- Commitment to reduce or phase-out hazardous substances
- Commitment to reduce water withdrawal and/or consumption volumes in direct operations
- Commitment to reduce water withdrawal and/or consumption volumes in supply chain
- Commitment to safely managed Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in the workplace
- Commitment to safely managed Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in local communities
- Commitment to stakeholder education and capacity building on water security
- Commitment to water stewardship and/or collective action
- Commitment to the conservation of freshwater ecosystems
- Commitments beyond regulatory compliance
- Reference to company water-related targets
- Acknowledgement of the human right to water and sanitation
- Recognition of environmental linkages, for example, due to climate change
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Board oversight
(W6.2) Is there board level oversight of water-related issues within your organization?
Question dependencies
- Your response to W6.2 will determine if subsequent questions are presented in this section. If your response to W6.2 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions. The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Response: Policies, governance and targets
Response options
Select one of the following options:
(W6.2a) Identify the position(s) (do not include any names) of the individual(s) on the board with responsibility for water-related issues.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W6.2.
Change from last year
Modified question
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
or committee
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Responsibilities for water-related issues
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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)
- Chief Government Relations Officer (CGRO)
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
- Other C-Suite Officer
- President
- Board-level committee
- General Counsel
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,000 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 last year
Minor 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
|
Select all that apply:
- Monitoring implementation and performance
- Monitoring progress towards corporate targets
- Overseeing acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures
- Overseeing and guiding public policy engagement
- Overseeing and guiding scenario analysis
- Overseeing major capital expenditures
- Overseeing the setting of corporate targets
- Overseeing value chain engagement
- Providing employee incentives
- Reviewing and guiding annual budgets
- Reviewing and guiding business plans
- Reviewing and guiding corporate responsibility strategy
- Reviewing and guiding major plans of action
- Reviewing and guiding risk management policies
- Reviewing and guiding strategy
- Reviewing innovation/R&D priorities
- Setting performance objectives
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 3,000
characters]
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(W6.2c) Why is there no board-level oversight of water-related issues and what are your plans to change this in the future?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “No” in response to W6.2.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Primary reason
|
Board level oversight of water-related issues will be introduced in the next two years
|
Please explain
|
Text field [maximum 200 characters]
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Select from:
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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(W6.2d) Does your organization have at least one board member with competence on water-related issues?
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
Board member(s) have competence on water-related issues
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Criteria used to assess competence of board member(s) on water-related issues*
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Primary reason for no board-level competence on water-related issues*
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Explain why your organization does not have at least one board member with competence on water-related issues and any plans to address board-level competence in the future*
|
Select from:
- Yes
- No, but we plan to address this within the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to address this within the next two years
- Not assessed
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Select from:
- Important but not an immediate priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Other, please specify
|
Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Management responsibility
(W6.3) Provide the highest management-level position(s) or committee(s) with responsibility for water-related issues (do not include the names of individuals).
Change from last year
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Response options
Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows by using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)<
Name of the position(s) and/or committee(s)
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Water-related responsibilities of this position*
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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 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)
- Chief Government Relations Officer (CGRO)
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
- Other C-Suite Officer, please specify
- President
- General Counsel
- 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
|
Select all that apply:
Risks and opportunities
- Assessing future trends in water demand
- Assessing water-related risks and opportunities
- Managing water-related risks and opportunities
- Conducting water-related scenario analysis
- Other, please specify
Targets
- Setting water-related corporate targets
- Monitoring progress against water-related corporate targets
- Other, please specify
Engagement
- Managing public policy engagement that may impact water security
- Managing value chain engagement on water-related issues
- Other, please specify
Strategy and financial planning
- Integrating water-related issues into business strategy
- Managing annual budgets relating to water security
- Managing major capital and/or operational expenditures related to low water impact products or services (including R&D)
- Managing water-related acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures
- Other, please specify
Other
- Providing water-related employee incentives
- Other, please specify
|
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
(W6.4) Do you provide incentives to C-suite employees or board members for the management of water-related issues?
Question dependencies
- Your response to this question will determine whether the next question is presented. If your response to this question is amended, data in the next question may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for the next question.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Provide incentives for management of water-related issues | Comment |
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Select from:
- Yes
- No, not currently but we plan to introduce them in the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to introduce them in the next two years
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(W6.4a) What incentives are provided to C-suite employees or board members for the management of water-related issues (do not include the names of individuals)?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if “Yes” is selected for W6.4.
Change from last year
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
CEO Compensation - Success Metrics
CEO Compensation - Long-Term Performance Alignment
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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Type of incentive
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Role(s) entitled to incentive
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Performance indicator*
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Contribution of incentives to the achievement of your organization’s water commitments*
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Please explain
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Monetary reward
|
Select all that apply:
- Board chair
- Board/Executive board
- Director on board
- Corporate executive team
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Chief Procurement Officer
- Chief Purchasing Officer (CPO)
- Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
- Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
- Chief Government Relations Officer (CGRO)
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
- Other C-suite Officer
- General Counsel
- Other, please specify
- No one is entitled to these incentives
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Select all that apply:
Water withdrawals and efficiency
- Reduction of water withdrawals – direct operations
- Reduction in water consumption volumes – direct operations
- Reduction of water withdrawal and/or consumption volumes – supply chain
- Improvements in water efficiency – direct operations
- Improvements in water efficiency – supply chain
- Improvements in water efficiency – product use
Water pollution
- Improvements in waste water quality – direct operations
- Improvements in waste water quality – supply chain
- Improvements in waste water quality – product use
- Reduction of water pollution incidents
- Reduction or phase out of hazardous substances
WASH
- Increased access to workplace WASH – direct operations
- Increased access to workplace WASH – supply chain
Products & services
- Increased investment in water-related R&D
- Increased proportion of revenue from low water impact products or services
Other
- Company performance against a sustainability index with water-related factors (e.g., DJSI, CDP Water Security score, etc.)
- Implementation of employee awareness campaign or training program on water-related issues
- Implementation of water-related community project
- Supply chain engagement
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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Text field [maximum of 1,500 characters]
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Non-monetary reward
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Public policy engagement
(W6.5) Do you engage in activities that could either directly or indirectly influence public policy on water through any of the following?
Question dependencies
- Your response to W6.5 will determine whether W6.5a is presented. If your response to W6.5 is amended, data in W6.5a may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for W6.5a.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Select all that apply from the following options:
- Yes, direct engagement with policy makers
- Yes, trade associations
- Yes, funding research organizations
- Yes, other
- No
(W6.5a) What processes do you have in place to ensure that all of your direct and indirect activities seeking to influence policy are consistent with your water policy/water commitments?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select any of the “Yes” options in response to W6.5.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
This is an open text question with a limit of 1,500 characters.
Reporting
(W6.6) Did your organization include information about its response to water-related risks in its most recent mainstream financial report?
Change from last year
Additional guidance
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes (you may attach the report – this is optional)
- No, but we plan to do so in the next two years
- No, and we have no plans to do so
W7 Business strategy
Strategic plan
(W7.1) Are water-related issues integrated into any aspects of your long-term strategic business plan, and if so how?
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Response: Policies, governance and targets
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Aspect of strategic business plan
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Are water-related issues integrated?
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Long-term time horizon (years)
|
Please explain
|
Long-term business objectives
|
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
|
Select from:
- 5-10
- 11-15
- 16-20
- 21-30
- > 30
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Text field [maximum 1,500
characters]
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Strategy for achieving long-term objectives
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Financial planning
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CAPEX/OPEX
(W7.2) What is the trend in your organization’s water-related capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operating expenditure (OPEX) for the reporting year, and the anticipated trend for the next reporting year?
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
1
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2
|
3
|
4
|
5
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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)
|
Please explain
|
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]
|
Percentage field [enter
a percentage from 0 to +/-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
|
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 scenario analysis to inform its business strategy?
Question dependencies
- Your response to W7.3 will determine whether W7.3a is presented in this section. If your response to W7.3 is amended, data in the dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Use of scenario analysis
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Comment
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Select from:
- Yes
- No, but we anticipate doing so within the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to do so within the next two years
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Text field [maximum
1,000 characters]
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(W7.3a) Provide details of the scenario analysis, what water-related outcomes were identified, and how they have influenced your organization's business strategy.
Question dependencies
- If 'Yes' is selected in column 1 of W7.3, this question is presented.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Type of scenario analysis used
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Parameters, assumptions, analytical choices
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Description of possible water-related outcomes
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Influence on business strategy
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Select all that apply:
- Water-related
- Climate-related
- Socioeconomic
- Land-use change
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,500 characters]
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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Text field [maximum 1,500 characters]
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Water pricing
(W7.4) Does your company use an internal price on water?
Change from last year
Modified guidance; Additional guidance
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Does your company use an internal price on water?
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Yes
- No, but we are currently exploring water valuation practices
- No, and we do not anticipate doing so within the next two years
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Products and services
(W7.5) Do you classify any of your current products and/or services as low water impact?
Change from last year
No change
Connection to other frameworks
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Water-Saving Devices
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
Products and/or services classified as low water impact
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Definition used to classify low water impact*
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Primary reason for not classifying any of your current products and/or services as low water impact*
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Yes
- No, but we plan to address this within the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to address this within the next two years
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Text field
[maximum 5,000 characters]
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Select from:
- Important but not an immediate business priority
- Judged to be unimportant, explanation provided
- Lack of internal resources
- No instruction from management
- Other, please specify
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Text field
[maximum 1,000 characters]
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W8 Targets
Water-related targets
(W8.1) Do you have any water-related targets?
Question dependencies
- Your response to W8.1 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 "Yes", you will be presented with W8.1a and W8.1b.
- If you select any "No" response, you will be presented with W8.1c.
Change from last year
Modified question
Connection to other frameworks
CEO Water Mandate
Response: Policies, governance and targets
Response options
Select from:
- Yes
- No, but we plan to within the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to within the next two years
(W8.1a) Indicate whether you have targets relating to water pollution, water withdrawals, WASH, or other water-related categories.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select "Yes" in response to W8.1.
Change from last year
New question
Connections to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
CEO Water Mandate
Response: Policies, governance and targets
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
0
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1
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2
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Category of target |
Target set in this category
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Please explain*
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Water pollution
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Select from:
- Yes
- No, but we plan to within the next two years
- No, and we do not plan to within the next two years
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Water withdrawals
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Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services
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Other
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(W8.1b) Provide details of your water-related targets and the progress made.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select "Yes" in response to W8.1.
Change from last year
Modified question (2022 W8.1a)
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Hazardous Substances Commitment
CEO Water Mandate
Response: Policies, governance and targets
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.
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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Target reference number
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Category of target
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Target coverage
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Quantitative metric
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Year target was set
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Select from:
- Reference number drop down
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Select from:
- Company-wide (direct operations only)
- Company-wide (including suppliers)
- Business division
- Business activity
- Site/facility
- Product level
- Country/area/region
- Basin level
- Suppliers
- Other, please specify
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Select from:
- Response drop-down options below table
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Numerical field [enter a number between 1900 and 2023 with no decimal places]
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6
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7
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8
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9
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10
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11
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12
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13
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Base year
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Base year figure
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Target year
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Target year figure
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Reporting year figure
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% of target achieved relative to base year
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Target status in reporting year
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Please explain
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Numerical field [enter a number between 1900 and 2023 with no
decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number between 0 and 999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number between 2018 and 2100 with no
decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number between 0 and 999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Numerical field [enter a number between 0 and 999,999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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[Auto-calculated]
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Select from:
- New
- Underway
- Achieved
- Expired
- Revised
- Replaced
- Retired
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Text field [maximum 2,000 characters]
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[Add Row]
Category of target (column 2)
- Water pollution
- Water withdrawals
- Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services
- Water consumption
- Product water intensity
- Water recycling/reuse
- Water use efficiency
- Monitoring of water use
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- Product use phase
- Community engagement
- Supplier engagement
- Watershed remediation and habitat restoration, ecosystem preservation
- Procurement/production of sustainable raw materials (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Other, please specify
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Quantitative metric (column 4)
Water pollution
- Increase in the proportion of wastewater that is safely treated
- Reduction in water discharge volumes
- Reduction in water discharges per business unit
- Reduction in water discharges per revenue
- Reduction in water discharges per product
- Reduction in water discharges per unit of production
- Reduction in concentration of pollutants
- Reduction of hazardous substance use
- Substitution of hazardous substances with less harmful substances
- Increase in water use met through recycling/reuse
- Increase in investment related to reducing water pollution
- Other, please specify
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 or other third party sources
- Increase in rainwater harvesting
- Increase in water use met through recycling/reuse
- Reduction in withdrawals per business unit
- Reduction in withdrawals per revenue
- Reduction in withdrawals per product
- Reduction in withdrawals per unit of production
- Increase in investment related to reducing water withdrawals
- Other, please specify
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services
- 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
- 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
Water consumption
- Reduction in total water consumption
- Reduction per business unit
- Reduction per revenue
- Reduction per product
- Reduction per unit of production
- Increase in investment related to reducing water consumption
- Other, please specify
Product water intensity
- Reduction per business unit
- Reduction per revenue
- Reduction per product
- Reduction per unit of production
- Increase in investment related to product water intensity
- Increase in water use met through recycling/reuse
- Other, please specify
Water recycling/reuse
- Increase in water use met through recycling/reuse
- Increase in investment related to water recycling/reuse
- 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 or other third party sources
- Increase in water withdrawal efficiency (i.e. revenue generation per water withdrawal volume)
- Reduction in total water discharge
- Increase water use met through recycling/reuse
- Other, please specify
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Monitoring of water use
- Increase in the proportion of sites monitoring water withdrawals total volumes
- Increase in the proportion of sites monitoring water withdrawal by source
- Increase in the proportion of sites monitoring water recycled/reused
- Increase in the proportion of sites monitoring water discharge total volumes
- Increase in the proportion of sites monitoring water discharges by destination
- Increase in the proportion of sites monitoring water discharge quality – by treatment method
- Increase in the proportion of sites monitoring water discharge quality – by standard effluent parameter
- Increase in the proportion of sites monitoring water discharge quality - temperature
- Increase in the proportion of sites monitoring water consumption total volumes
- Increase in the proportion of sites monitoring employee access to safely managed drinking water and sanitation services around our facilities and operations
- Increase in the proportion of sites monitoring population access to safely managed drinking water and sanitation services around our facilities and operations
- Other, please specify
Product use phase
- Increase in revenue from products designed for use phase resource efficiency
- Decrease in total revenue associated with water-polluting products
- Other, please specify
Community engagement
- Increase in number of population participating in community engagement activities
- Increase in investment in community engagement initiatives
- Other, please specify
Supplier engagement
- Increase in the proportion of suppliers engaged
- Increase in number of suppliers engaged
- Increase in investment in supplier engagement initiatives
- Increase in the proportion of suppliers in compliance with water-related requirements
- Other, please specify
Watershed remediation and habitat restoration, ecosystem preservation
- 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
- Other, please specify
Procurement/production of sustainable raw materials (food beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Reduction in procurement/production of high water impact commodities (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Increase in procurement/production of certified crops (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Increase in procurement/production of crops using sustainable agriculture practices (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Reduction in procurement/production of commodities from water-stressed areas (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Increase in procurement/production of commodities with improved water management practices (food, beverage & tobacco and agricultural commodities sectors only)
- Other, please specify
Other
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(W8.1c) Why do you not have water-related target(s) and what are your plans to develop these in the future?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select any "No,..." response in W8.1.
Change from last year
Modified question
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 target 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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W9 Verification
Verification of water information
(W9.1) Do you verify any other water information reported in your CDP disclosure (not already covered by W5.1a)?
Question dependencies
- Your response to W9.1 will determine whether W9.1a is presented. If your response to W9.1 is amended, data in W9.1a may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for W9.1a.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Select one of the following options:
- Yes
- In progress
- No, but we are actively considering verifying within the next two years
- No, we are waiting for more mature verification standards and/or processes
- No, we do not currently verify any other water information reported in our CDP disclosure
(W9.1a) Which data points within your CDP disclosure have been verified, and which standards were used?
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to W9.1.
Change from last year
No change
Response options
Please complete the following table. You are able to add rows to this table using the “Add Row” button at the bottom of the table.
Disclosure module
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Data verified
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Verification standard
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Please explain
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Select from:
- W0 Introduction
- W1 Current state
- W2 Business impacts
- W3 Procedures
- W4 Risks and opportunities
- W6 Governance
- W7 Strategy
- W8 Targets
- SW Supply chain module
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Text field [maximum 1,000
characters]
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Select from:
- AA1000AS
- ASAE3000
- Alliance for Water Stewardship certification
- Compagnie Nationale des Commissaires aux Comptes (CNCC)
- IDW AsS 821: IDW Assurance Standard: Generally Accepted Assurance Principles for the Audit or Review of Reports on Sustainability Issues
- ISAE 3000
- RevR6 Procedure for assurance of sustainability report
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,000 characters]
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[Add Row]
W10 Plastics
Mapping plastics
(W10.1) Have you mapped where in your value chain plastics are used and/or produced?
Change from last year
New question
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
1
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2
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3
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Plastics mapping
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Value chain stage*
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Yes
- Not mapped - but we plan to within the next two years
- Not mapped - and we do not plan to within the next two years
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Select all that apply:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
- Product use phase
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,000 characters]
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Potential impacts
(W10.2) Across your value chain, have you assessed the potential environmental and human health impacts of your use and/or production of plastics?
Change from last year
New question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Goal 14: Oceans and seas
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
1
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2
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3
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Impact assessment
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Value chain stage*
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Yes
- Not assessed - but we plan to within the next two years
- Not assessed - and we do not plan to within the next two years
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Select all that apply:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
- Product use phase
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,000 characters]
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Risks to the business
(W10.3) Across your value chain, are you exposed to plastics-related risks with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business? If so, provide details.
Change from last year
New question
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
1
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2
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3
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4
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Risk exposure
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Value chain stage*
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Type of risk*
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Yes
- No, risks assessed, and none considered as substantive
- Not assessed - but we plan to within the next two years
- Not assessed - and we do not plan to within the next two years
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Select all that apply:
- Direct operations
- Supply chain
- Product use phase
- Other, please specify
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Select all that apply:
- Regulatory
- Reputational
- Technology
- Physical
- Other, please specify
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Text field [maximum 2,000 characters]
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Targets
(W10.4) Do you have plastics-related targets, and if so what type?
Change from last year
New question
Connection to other frameworks
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Global Commitment
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Goal 14: Oceans and seas
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
1
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2
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3
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4
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Targets in place
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Target type*
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Target metric*
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Please explain
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Select from:
- Yes
- No – but we plan to within the next two years
- No – and we do not plan to within the next two years
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Select all that apply:
- Plastic polymers
- Plastic packaging
- Plastic goods
- Microplastics
- Waste management
- Other
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Select all that apply:
Plastic polymers
- Reduce the total weight of virgin content in plastic polymers
- Increase the proportion of post-consumer recycled content in plastic polymers
- Increase the proportion of renewable content from responsibly managed sources in plastic polymers
- Reduce the use of plastics additives
- Other, please specify
Plastic packaging
- Reduce the total weight of plastic packaging used and/or produced
- Eliminate problematic and unnecessary plastic packaging
- Reduce the total weight of virgin content in plastic packaging
- Increase the proportion of post-consumer recycled content in plastic packaging
- Increase the proportion of renewable content from responsibly managed sources in plastic packaging
- Increase the proportion of plastic packaging that is recyclable in practice and at scale
- Increase the proportion of plastic packaging that is reusable
- Increase the proportion of plastic packaging that is compostable
- Other, please specify
Plastic goods
- Eliminate single-use plastic goods
- Reduce the total weight of plastics in our goods
- Eliminate problematic and unnecessary plastics within our goods
- Reduce the total weight of virgin content in plastic goods
- Increase the proportion of post-consumer recycled content in plastic goods
- Increase the proportion of renewable content from responsibly managed sources in plastic goods
- Increase the proportion of our goods that are recyclable in practice and at scale
- Increase the proportion of our goods that are compostable
- Other, please specify
Microplastics
- Eliminate the primary use of microplastics and plastic particles
- Reduce the potential release of microplastics and plastic particles
- Other, please specify
Waste management
- Increase the proportion of recyclable plastic waste that we collect, sort, and recycle
- Increase the proportion of recyclable plastic waste that is collected, sorted, and recycled in the community
- Other, please specify
Other
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Text field [maximum 2,000 characters]
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Activities
(W10.5) Indicate whether your organization engages in the following activities.
Question dependencies
- Your response to W10.5 prompts subsequent questions. If your response to W10.5 is amended, data in those dependent questions may be erased. In this case, be sure to re-enter data for all relevant questions.
- The guidance for each question indicates if it is a dependent question.
Change from last year
New question
Response options
Please complete the following table:
0
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1
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2
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Activity
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Activity applies
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Comment
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Production of plastic polymers
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Select from:
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Production of durable plastic components
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Production / commercialization of durable plastic goods (including mixed materials)
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Production / commercialization of plastic packaging
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Production of goods packaged in plastics
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Provision / commercialization of services or goods that use plastic packaging (e.g., retail and food services)
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Metrics for production of plastic polymers
(W10.6) Provide the total weight of plastic polymers sold and indicate the raw material content.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to the row “Production of plastic polymers” in W10.5.
Change from last year
New question
Connection to other frameworks
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Global Commitment
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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Total weight of plastic polymers sold during the reporting year (Metric tonnes)
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Raw material content percentages available to report
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% virgin fossil-based content*
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% virgin renewable content*
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% post-industrial recycled content*
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% post-consumer recycled content*
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Please explain
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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 all that apply:
- % virgin fossil-based content
- % virgin renewable content
- % post-industrial recycled content
- % post-consumer recycled content
- None
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Percentage field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Percentage field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Percentage field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Percentage field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Metrics for durable goods/components
(W10.7) Provide the total weight of plastic durable goods/components sold and indicate the raw material content.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if you select “Yes” in response to either of the rows “Production of durable plastic components” and “Production / commercialization of durable plastic goods (including mixed materials)” in W10.5.
Change from last year
New question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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Total weight of plastic durable goods/components sold during the reporting year (Metric tonnes)
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Raw material content percentages available to report
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% virgin fossil-based content*
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% virgin renewable content*
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% post-industrial recycled content*
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% post-consumer recycled content*
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Please explain
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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 all that apply:
- % virgin fossil-based content
- % virgin renewable content
- % post-industrial recycled content
- % post-consumer recycled content
- None
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Percentage field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Percentage field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Percentage field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Percentage field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Metrics for plastic packaging
(W10.8) Provide the total weight of plastic packaging sold and/or used, and indicate the raw material content.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if in W10.5 you selected “Yes” in response to the rows: “Production / commercialization of plastic packaging”, “Production of goods packaged in plastics”, and/or “Provision / commercialization of services or goods that use plastic packaging (e.g., retail and food services)”.
Change from last year
New question
Connection to other frameworks
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Global Commitment
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
0 | 1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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| Total weight of plastic packaging sold / used during the reporting year (Metric tonnes)
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Raw material content percentages available to report
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% virgin fossil-based content*
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% virgin renewable content*
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% post-industrial recycled content*
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% post-consumer recycled content*
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Please explain
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Plastic packaging sold* | Numerical field [enter a number from 0-999,999,999,999 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Select all that apply:
- % virgin fossil-based content
- % virgin renewable content
- % post-industrial recycled content
- % post-consumer recycled content
- None
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Percentage field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Percentage field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Percentage field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Percentage field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Plastic packaging used* | |
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(W10.8a) Indicate the circularity potential of the plastic packaging you sold and/or used.
Question dependencies
- This question only appears if in W10.5 you selected “Yes” in response to the rows: “Production / commercialization of plastic packaging”, “Production of goods packaged in plastics”, and/or “Provision / commercialization of services or goods that use plastic packaging (e.g., retail and food services)”.
Change from last year
New question
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Response options
Please complete the following table:
(*column/row appearance is dependent on selections in this or other questions)
0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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Percentages available to report for circularity potential
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% of plastic packaging that is reusable*
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% of plastic packaging that is technically recyclable*
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% of plastic packaging that is recyclable in practice at scale*
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Please explain
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Plastic packaging sold*
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Select all that apply:
- % reusable
- % technically recyclable
- % recyclable in practice and at scale
- None
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Percentage field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Percentage field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Percentage field [enter a number from 0-100 using a maximum of 2 decimal places]
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Text field [maximum 1,000 characters]
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Plastic packaging used*
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W11 Signoff
Further information
(W-FI) Use this field to provide any additional information or context that you feel is relevant to your organization's response. Please note that this field is optional and is not scored.
Response options
This is an open text question with a limit of 9,999 characters.
When copying from another document into the disclosure platform, formatting is not retained.
Note
- You may attach a file. This is optional.
Signoff
(W11.1) Provide details for the person that has signed off (approved) your CDP water response.
Change from last year
No change (2022 W10.1)
Response options
Please complete the following table:
Job title
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Corresponding job category
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Text field [maximum 200 characters]
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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
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Important Information
Companies should not consider their CDP response a means of complying with any regulatory requirement to share financially sensitive non-public information with the market. You may wish to consult with your financial, legal, and/or compliance departments for advice on your company’s general approach to the provision of forward-looking statements and information concerning risks.
CDP questionnaire copyright and licensed use
The copyright to CDP’s annual questionnaire/s is owned by CDP Worldwide, a registered charity number 1122330 and a company limited by guarantee, registered in England number 05013650. Any use of any part of the questionnaire, including the questions, must be licensed by CDP. Any unauthorized use is prohibited and CDP reserves the right to protect its copyright by all legal means necessary.
Terms for responding to the CDP Water Security Questionnaire 2023
These terms apply if you are submitting a response to the CDP Water Security Questionnaire 2023. If you are also submitting a response to the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire 2023 or the CDP Forests Questionnaire 2023 the corresponding terms for responding to each questionnaire will also apply.
1. DEFINITIONS
Affiliate(s): means any entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party. For the purposes of this definition, “control” of an entity means the ownership, directly or indirectly, of more than fifty percent of the outstanding voting securities or capital stock of such entity, or the legal power to direct or cause the direction of the general management and policies of such entity.
Amended Response: has the meaning given in Section 10.3.
Bank Program Member: means a banking institution or organization that has entered into a bank program member agreement with CDP, that is requesting disclosure from their clients.
Billing Company: means the organization determined in accordance with the table in Section 20 of these terms.
CDP: means CDP Worldwide, a charitable company registered with the Charity Commission of England and Wales (registered charity no. 1122330 and company number 05013650). References to “we”, “our” and “us” in these terms are references to CDP.
CDP Affiliate(s): means any Affiliate of CDP, and any organizations within CDP’s operational group to whom we license the CDP name and brand (which shall include CDP North America, and CDP Europe, and their Affiliates).
CDP Europe: means CDP Europe AISBL, a charity registered in Belgium whose registered address is Due Ducale 67, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
CDP North America: means CDP North America, Inc., the Delaware incorporated non-profit 501(c)3 organization whose registered office is at 127 W 26th Street, Third Floor, New York, NY, 10001, United States.
CDP Response Dashboard: the area of our website where each Responding Company signs into its corporate user account, in order to view which Requesting Authorities have requested it to submit a Response, and other information to track submission of its Response.
Deadline: means 26 July 2023 (or any alternative date that is notified to Responding Companies during CDP’s disclosure cycle for 2023, via the notification methods outlined in Section 6.4 of these terms).
Disclosure API: means the application programming interface connected to the Online Response System that the Responding Company may use through any CDP accredited solutions provider to facilitate submission of its Response.
Fee: means the annual administrative fee to enable CDP to maintain its Online Response System.
Final Closure Date: 27 September 2023 (or any alternative date that is notified to Responding Companies during CDP’s disclosure cycle for 2023, via the notification methods outlined in Section 6.4 of these terms).
Full Version: means the complete version of the Questionnaire which contains all questions that are applicable to you as a Responding Company.
Investor Signatory: means an organization that has entered into an investor signatory agreement with us, that is requesting disclosure from companies.
Minimum Version: means the version of the Questionnaire which contains a subset of the questions included in the Full Version.
Online Response System: means the CDP operated online disclosure system, where Responding Companies are required to complete and submit their Response.
Personal Data: means data which relates to an individual who can be identified from the data (such as a person’s name, email address, and job title).
Questionnaire: means the CDP Water Security Questionnaire 2023.
Reopened Response: has the meaning given in Section 10.1.
Requesting Authority: means the organization(s) requesting you to complete the Questionnaire as listed on your CDP Response Dashboard, categorised in accordance with the following types (which may be modified and subject to change from time to time):
(1) Investor Signatories;
(2) Supply Chain Members; and
(3) Bank Program Members;
Responding Company: means the company responding to the Questionnaire. References to “you” and “your” in these terms are references to you as the Responding Company.
Response: means your submitted response to the Questionnaire made via our Online Response System.
Supply Chain Member: means an organization, that has entered into a supply chain member agreement with CDP, that is requesting disclosure from companies that are in its supply chain.
2. PARTIES
2.1. The parties to these terms are:
(1) CDP;
(2) Responding Company
(and solely where the Billing Company is not CDP, and the Fee is payable);
(3) Billing Company.
2.2. The Billing Company can be identified by referring to Section 20.
3. YOUR AGREEMENT TO THESE TERMS
3.1. These are the terms that apply when you submit a Response to the Questionnaire. Please read these terms carefully. Submission of your Response signifies your agreement to these terms. Further, you will not be able to submit a Response unless you agree to these terms.
3.2. If you do not agree to these terms, please contact us at our Help Center: https://help.cdp.net/
4. IMPORTANT REPRESENTATIONS
4.1. You confirm that:
(a) the person submitting the Response to us is authorised by the Responding Company to submit the Response;
(b) the Responding Company has obtained all necessary consents and permissions to submit a Response to us;
(c) the Responding Company is a legal entity and not a sole trader, partnership or natural person or persons; and
(d) the Response that you submit:
(i) does not infringe the rights of any third party (including privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights);
(ii) does not defame any third party; and
(iii) does not include any Personal Data.
5. ‘PUBLIC’ AND ‘NON-PUBLIC’ RESPONSES GENERALLY
5.1. Submitting your Response ‘publicly’ or ‘non-publicly’. 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’.
6. SCORING ELIGIBILITY, DEADLINES, RELEVANT DATES, OUR SYSTEMS AND GENERAL INFORMATION
6.1. Eligibility for scoring. To be eligible for scoring you must submit your Response to us via our Online Response System by the Deadline. CDP may publish your score in accordance with Sections 11 to 13 of these terms. Please review those Sections carefully for further information relating to scoring your Response, and further criteria for publication of your score.
6.2. If submission of your Response misses the Deadline. Notwithstanding Section 10 below (in relation to amending your Response), we reserve the right:
(i) not to score your Response; and
(ii) not to include data contained in your Response in any report, data product or other analysis.
6.3. We may elect at our sole discretion to score your Response if you submit it after the Deadline, and before the Final Closure Date, but are under no obligation to do so.
6.4. CDP reserves the right to make changes to relevant dates. To the extent that any calendar date, or period of days is referred to in these terms and relates to the timetable for submission of your Response, or CDP’s timetable for scoring and/or publication of your score, such calendar date, or period of days, may be subject to change and modified by CDP at its sole discretion at any time, and notified to you via methods including: emails to the Responding Company and/or notifications within the CDP Response Dashboard. In addition, CDP may provide notice of any such relevant date change(s) on the CDP website.
6.5. CDP’s online systems. Our Online Response System and the CDP Response Dashboard are not the same. The CDP Response Dashboard allows you to track information related to submission of your Response and the identity of your Requesting Authorities, whereas our Online Response System is the online solution where you draft and submit your Response. You agree that CDP shall not be liable, shall be held fully harmless and accepts no responsibility for any delay to the time of submission of Response, failure to submit Responses by the Deadline, errors, omissions, corruption or loss of data or software caused directly or indirectly by the Responding Company’s use of the Disclosure API to facilitate submission of its Response.
6.6. Requesting Authority list(s) on our website. From time to time, we may make a list of Requesting Authorities available on our website, but we are under no obligation to do so on an ongoing, or exhaustive basis.
7. PUBLIC RESPONSES AND CDP’S USAGE
7.1. You agree that CDP may use your ‘public’ Response for all purposes that we decide. If you submit your Response using the ‘public’ option, our uses of your Response may include (but not be limited to):
(i) making your Response publicly available on our website;
(ii) making your Response available to your Requesting Authorities (and their Affiliates);
(iii) making your Response available to other third parties; and
(iv) scoring your Response.
7.2. Where you are headquartered in the EU, and your Response is ‘public’, we may share your reported climate and environmental actions on the European Climate Pact website. The European Climate Pact is a European Commission initiative bringing citizens and organizations together to achieve a climate-neutral Europe, and more information can be found here: https://europa.eu/climate-pact/about/about-pact_en
8. NON-PUBLIC RESPONSES AND CDP’S USAGE
CDP general restrictions.
8.1. If your Response is submitted using the ‘non-public’ option, CDP shall not publish the Response without the information in your Response first being anonymized (or aggregated in such manner that it has the effect of being anonymized).
How CDP may share your non-public Response.
8.2. Where your Response is ‘non-public’, dependant on the type(s) of Requesting Authorities that have requested your Response, you agree that CDP may share your ‘non-public Response in accordance with Parts A to C below (where relevant, and as applicable).
Part A – Supply Chain Members, and Bank Program Members.
8.3. You agree that where one of your Requesting Authorities is a Supply Chain Member, or a Bank Program Member, as soon as your non-public Response is received:
(i) CDP may make your Response available to each Supply Chain Member (that is a Requesting Authority specifically for you, and their Affiliates); and
(ii) CDP may make your Response available to each Bank Program Member (that is a Requesting Authority specifically for you, and their Affiliates).
8.4. Your Response may therefore be provided to multiple Supply Chain Members, or multiple Bank Program Members. This will depend on the number of Requesting Authorities that have requested a Response specifically from you, as a Responding Company. This information can be viewed and tracked in your corporate user account within the CDP Response Dashboard.
Part B – Investor Signatories.
8.5. You agree that where one of your Requesting Authorities is an Investor Signatory, as soon as your ‘non-public’ Response is received:
(i) CDP may make your Response available to Investor Signatories (and their Affiliates);
(ii) your Response may be made available via Bloomberg terminals to Investor Signatories (and their Affiliates);
(iii) your Response may be made available via other secure third party platforms to Investor Signatories (and their Affiliates); and
(iii) CDP may list the Responding Company on the CDP website or otherwise make it known that the Responding Company has responded to our Questionnaire.
Part C - CDP Affiliates and other recipients.
8.6. You agree that as soon as your ‘non-public’ Response is received, CDP may make your Response available to:
(a) CDP Affiliates;
(b) country partners;
(c) research partners;
(d) report writers; and
(e) scoring partners,
for:
(i) scoring your Response; and
(ii) any other use within their organizations.
9. SUPPLY CHAIN MODULE (2023 WATER SECURITY)
9.1. This Section 9 solely applies to the extent that your Response includes answers to the Supply Chain Module (2023 Water Security).
9.2. Please note that all parts of your Response to Supply Chain Module (2023 Water Security) will be treated as ‘non-public’ irrespective of whether you selected the ‘public’ or ‘non-public’ option for your Response. For the avoidance of doubt, you have the option to respond to the Supply Chain Module (2023 Water Security) as part of either a ‘public’ or a ‘non-public’ Response, but the Supply Chain Module (2023 Water Security) answers within your Response will be ‘non-public’ by default.
9.3. Notwithstanding Section 9.2 above, you acknowledge and agree that:
(a) some questions in the Supply Chain Module (2023 Water Security): require you to select a Supply Chain Member using a drop-down menu. Only the Supply Chain Member (and its Affiliates) that you select for each row will have access to the information in that part of your Response; and
(b) all information you submit in the Supply Chain Module (2023 Water Security) will be accessible to:
(i) CDP Affiliates;
(ii) country partners;
(iii) research partners;
(iv) report writers; and
(v) scoring partners,
(all of which are obliged to keep such information confidential).
9.4. Sharing responses with the Pacific Institute. In the submission pages for your Response, you will be asked to grant or decline consent for CDP to share with the Pacific Institute the e-mail address of the person within your organization registered with us as the 'main user'. This enables your organization to be contacted by the administrator of the Water Action Hub. The Water Action Hub is a global online knowledge sharing platform for water sustainability and climate resilience, developed by the CEO Water Mandate (an initiative of the UN Global Compact, implemented in partnership with the Pacific Institute). CDP shares its corporate response data with the CEO Water Mandate. If your Response includes details of a river basin project of potential interest to other parties sharing water resources in the geographies in which you operate, the Water Action Hub administrator would request your permission to publish the project and provide secure log-in information enabling amendments to be made to the project profile.
10. ‘REOPENING’ AND ‘AMENDING’ YOUR RESPONSE
10.1. You may ‘reopen’ a Response that you have submitted for correction by you (a “Reopened Response”), provided that you do so before the Deadline. When you reopen a Response any submission that is in progress, or that has already been submitted, will automatically become void. If you reopen a Response, you must ensure that a Reopened Response is submitted before the Deadline to be eligible for scoring. To reopen a Response you must notify us that you wish to do so by 13 July 2023, and you must submit a Reopened Response by the Deadline to be eligible for scoring.
10.2. If you choose not to submit a Reopened Response before the Final Closure Date, your original Response will be stored within our Online Response System, but no further processing will be undertaken, CDP will not use it in any manner prescribed for valid on-time Responses pursuant to these terms, and your Response will no longer be made available to your Requesting Authorities (or any other third parties).
10.3. Our process for ‘amending’ your Response differs from our process for reopening your Response. Amending your Response may be actioned by CDP staff on your behalf, with the decision to do so being at CDP’s absolute discretion, and furthermore, we may charge a fee for making amendments to your Response (an “Amended Response”).
10.4. We are under no obligation to accept your request for, or to provide you with an option to submit an Amended Response, but in the event that we choose to do so:
(i) amendments to your Response will be made no earlier than 5 October 2023;
(ii) the final date for requesting that CDP make amendments to your Response is 30 November 2023; and
(iii) any amendments requested to be made to a submitted Response from 14 July 2023 may not be reflected in any score, report, data product or other analysis.
10.5. We cannot commit to consideration of amending your Response if the Scoring Special Provisions described in Section 11 apply to you. In the event that the Scoring Special Provisions apply to you, and you wish for us to amend your Response, please contact our Help Center: https://help.cdp.net/ for more information about amending your Response.
11. SCORING SPECIAL PROVISIONS
11.1. Where you are headquartered or operate in Ukraine and do not submit a Response, we will not attribute any score to your Response and will recognise a pause in reporting where appropriate. Where you are headquartered in Belarus or the Russian Federation, your Response will not be eligible for scoring.
12. SCORING THE MINIMUM AND THE FULL VERSION
12.1. Scoring your Response to the Minimum Version. Responses to the Minimum Version will only be scored in certain circumstances. Please contact your local CDP office for further information.
12.2. Scoring your Response to the Full Version. Save in the case where Scoring Special Provisions apply, if you submit your Response to the Full Version in English (or the applicable language for your location set out below):
(i) by the Deadline: CDP will score your Response;
(ii) after the Deadline but on or before 9 August 2023: you can request an ‘on-demand’ score for a fee. Only a limited number of on-demand scores are available in 2023, so your request may not be granted. Please contact your local CDP office for more information about on-demand scoring.
12.3. Scoring non-English language Responses. CDP recommends that wherever possible you respond in English. This is to facilitate the broadest applicability, usages and utility of your Response. Please contact your local CDP office for information about scoring if you intend to submit your Response in any language other than English. The following languages may be used to submit your Response to the Full Version of the Questionnaire: Chinese (if you are located in China); Japanese (if you are located in Japan); Portuguese (if you are located in Brazil); or Spanish (if you are located in any country in Latin America except for Brazil).
13. PUBLICATION AND USE OF SCORES
13.1. If you are not responding to a CDP water security questionnaire for the first time, CDP may publish your score, and use and make it available for all purposes that we decide (whether for a fee or otherwise).
13.2. If your Response is the first CDP water security questionnaire you are submitting, you may choose for your score to be ‘private,’ in which case CDP will not publish your score. If you do not actively elect for your score to be ‘private’, CDP shall be entitled to publish your score.
13.3. If you request the ‘private’ option in relation to your score (irrespective of whether your Response is submitted as ‘non-public’ or ‘public’), and you do not achieve an A grade, we may only make it available to:
(i) any Supply Chain Member or Bank Program Member that is a Requesting Authority for your Response;
(ii) CDP Affiliates;
(iii) country partners;
(iv) research partners;
(v) report writers and scoring partners,
in each case for any use within their organizations. We will not make it available to Investor Signatories.
13.4. If your Response is answered using the ‘private’ score option, and you achieve an A grade, we may only make it available to Investor Signatories, and the organizations listed above in Section 13.3.
14. FUTURE QUESTIONNAIRES
14.1. Your submission of a Response for the current year also constitutes the grant of consent for CDP to invite you (and to remind you) to respond in future years but you acknowledge that any future responses will be made upon the then current version of these terms which you will need to accept at that time in order to submit a response.
15. FEE
15.1. Why we charge a Fee. We are a not-for-profit organization and charge certain companies an annual administrative fee to enable us to maintain our Online Response System. Unless the Responding Company is exempt from paying the Fee, as set out below, or the Responding Company is listed, incorporated or headquartered in a country/region that is listed in Section 15.2, the Fee is payable (plus any applicable taxes) to CDP (or the Billing Company, as applicable). The Fee is payable once regardless of how many responses to questionnaires relating to climate change, forests and/or public authorities) the Responding Company submits in 2023 in addition to the Questionnaire.
15.2. Countries/regions where the Fee applies. A Responding Company will be required to pay the Fee to the Billing Company unless it is listed, incorporated or headquartered in one of the following countries: Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Ukraine.
15.3. Exemptions from the Fee. A Responding Company may be eligible for exemption from paying the Fee if:
(a) the Responding Company is listed, incorporated, or headquartered outside of Europe and North America and the Responding Company has not submitted a Response to CDP in the last three years; or
(b) the Responding Company does not have any Investor Signatories as a Requesting Authority.
15.4. Payment of the Fee. You must pay the Fee to CDP or the Billing Company (as applicable) by credit or debit card or request an invoice via the CDP Response 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.
15.5. CDP’s discretion regarding Fees. Please note that CDP reserves the right to decide (at its sole discretion) whether the Fee is payable or not, and we will notify you before you submit your Response whether you are exempt (via communications made through the CDP Response Dashboard and/or email).
16. RIGHTS IN THE RESPONSES
16.1. Ownership. All intellectual property rights in your Response will be owned by you (and your licensors).
16.2. License. You grant to CDP, or shall procure the grant to us, of a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, assignable, sub-licensable, royalty-free and worldwide license to use your Response and any intellectual property rights including copyright and database rights in your Response for the uses set out in these terms.
17. LIABILITY
17.1. We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
17.2. We are not liable for financial losses. Neither CDP nor the Billing Company have any liability to you in any circumstances whatsoever 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.
17.3. We are not liable for consequential losses. Neither CDP nor the Billing Company have any liability to you in any circumstances whatsoever for any indirect or consequential loss or damage of any nature whatsoever.
17.4. Exclusion of liability. Neither CDP nor the Billing Company have liability to you in any circumstances howsoever arising from the content or submission of your Response to us, our use of your Response, or your score and/or the use of or any reliance placed upon your Response or your score by you or by any third parties (including any Requesting Authorities).
18. DATA PROTECTION
18.1. Each party acknowledges that CDP may process Personal Data provided to it by or on behalf of the Responding Company, including Personal Data of corporate users of the CDP Response Dashboard, and other contacts. CDP will only process such Personal Data for purposes related to its business relationship with the Responding Company (for example, sending communications to the Responding Company encouraging completion of the Questionnaire. CDP may also share Personal Data with Supply Chain Members and Bank Program Members to enable them to send communications to Responding Companies encouraging completion of the Questionnaire.
18.2. You shall ensure that any relevant data subjects receive a fair processing notice which includes the above information and includes a reference to CDP’s privacy notice available at https://www.cdp.net/en/info/privacy-policy and shall otherwise ensure that CDP is able to process all Personal Data provided to it by or on behalf of the Responding Company for the above purposes in compliance with applicable data protection legislation including the Data Protection Act 2018 as amended by the Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 which merge the previous requirements of that Act with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (“UK GDPR”).
19. GENERAL
19.1. We may assign our rights to someone else. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organization.
19.2. Nobody else has any rights under these terms. These terms are between you and us (and the Billing Company, where the Billing Company is not CDP). The Billing Company may enforce these terms for its own benefit but otherwise no other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms.
19.3. Entire agreement. These terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your Response to the CDP Water Security Questionnaire 2023.
19.4. Variation. CDP reserves the right to change these terms at any time. The consent of the Billing Company is not needed, and any such changes shall be effective immediately or such other time as CDP elects. If you do not agree to the updated terms, you may request to withdraw your Response within 30 days of us notifying you of the update.
19.5. If a court finds part of these terms illegal, the remainder will continue in full force and effect. Each of the Sections of these terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining Sections will remain in full force and effect.
19.6. Governing law and jurisdiction. These terms are governed by English law and both the Responding Company and CDP submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts to resolve any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these terms, their subject matter or formation.
19.7. Language. In the event of any inconsistency or ambiguity if these terms are translated into any language other than English, the English language version will prevail in relation to interpretation.
20. BILLING COMPANY
Billing Company
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Location of Responding Company
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CDP Worldwide
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All countries/regions not listed elsewhere in this table
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CDP Worldwide (Europe) gGmbH
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Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
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CDP North America, Inc
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Canada, USA
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Carbon Disclosure Project (Latin America)
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Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela
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Beijing Carbon Disclosure Project Environment Consulting Co., Ltd. (北京诚度普 环境咨询有限公司)
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China
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CDP Operations India Private Limited
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India
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一般社団法人 CDP Worldwide-Japan
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Japan
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