As a shared resource, collective action is critical to achieve the scale, scope  and speed required to address shared water challenges in catchments. Moreover, the shared challenges facing our freshwater systems require us to scale up our solutions – as the title indicates, shared water challenges require shared water solutions, and that means figuring out new ways to work together, collectively. This paper outlines, in four sections, a series of frameworks, our shared experiences,  opportunity mapping and a proposed pathway forward for collective  action on freshwater in order to  better deliver impact at scale. #Freshwater #CollectiveAction #WaterResources

In this report, WWF is proposing a new vision for its corporate water stewardship efforts that will be used to guide WWF offices and encourage greater coherence in its work. The refreshed WWF water stewardship vision aims to measurably improve river basin status by collaborating with the private sector, implementing boardroom strategies, and scaling investments to achieve positive impacts for communities and ecosystems.
#WaterStewardship, #Network, #Multilateral, #Proactive

In collaboration with the Embedding Project, this report discusses different pathways for the corporate journey on Water Stewardship. The corporate journey on water stewardship begins with implementing processes and activities to manage water within the company’s operations, traditionally driven by compliance and risk mitigation, where the company has control or influence. #WaterStewardship, #RiskMitigation, #AstraZeneca, #Apple, #Sodexo, #HM, #Diageo

Although the Mekong region’s economy has grown rapidly in recent decades, this economic growth has come with significant environmental and social costs; uncoordinated infrastructure development has fragmented and polluted the river’s natural processes, undermining the basin’s immense biodiversity and productivity, while communities have faced displacement and inequitable sharing of the economic benefits of hydropower. #WaterRisks #HydropowerThreats #SocialEnvironmentalCosts

With a strong manufacturing industry, an export-oriented economy, an important financial center, and a strong demand for agricultural imports, Germany has a strong impact on the drivers of biodiversity loss.  This impact is not limited to its corporations own operations but is particularly relevant in upstream and downstream activities within value chains. Our evaluation sheds light on the impacts of major German industries. It shows the importance of engaging value chains to reduce adverse impacts and to drive restoration and protection of biodiversity, especially in the secondary and tertiary sectors.  The identification of places and activities that contribute most to a to a company's impact on biodiversity is critical to allow for a focus of corporate resources on value chain stages where actions are urgently needed to preserve biodiversity and lower business risks. #Biodiversity #BusinessImpacts #ValueChains

This report presents a case study on how the WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter, with the support of the methodological guidance, can be applied to a representative investor portfolio of listed companies. The case study demonstrates how the WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter can add value to companies and financial institutions as a tool for risk hotspot identification and prioritizing areas for action. It also shows that the location-specific information needed for companies and financial institutions to assess biodiversity risk is indeed already available. There is no reason to leave biodiversity risks unaddressed. #BiodiversityRisks #Business&Biodiversity #ValueChain

The report sets out WWF’s approach for identifying, assessing and addressing biodiversity risks as well as the opportunities that come from conserving, sustainably using and restoring biodiversity. For many companies, much of their risk can lie within their value chain. There is a critical need for companies that advance value chain transparency and an understanding of the locations that pose the highest risks. #BiodiversityRisks #Business&Biodiversity #ValueChain

Climate change is predicted to drive various changes in hydrology that can translate into risks for river ecosystems and for those who manage rivers, such as for hydropower. Here we use the WWF Water Risk Filter (WRF) and geospatial analysis to screen hydropower projects, both existing (2488 dams) and projected (3700 dams), for a variety of risks at a global scale, focusing on biodiversity risks, hydrological risks (water scarcity and flooding), and how those hydrological risks may shift with climate change, based on three scenarios. #Hydropower #WaterRisk #ClimateChange #ScenarioAnalysis

Considering the role of Net Positie Water in water stewardship and solving the linked freshwater, biodiversity and climate crises, this report discuss the benefits, drawbacks and the role of net positive in stewardship, to finally close with a WWF summary recommendations about Net Positive in water programs. #NetPositive #WaterStewardship #Freshwater

Through our work with Open Supply Hub, this second report offers insights into a hydrogeography of hope for rivers tied to the apparel and textiles industry. We believe it will help companies and industry allies to begin to think about how we can better collaborate with each other and scale our solutions to tackle the significant challenges facing people and nature. #Appareal #WaterRisks #WaterOpportunities