CEO Water Mandate

Corporate Water Stewardship Full Day
2024-09-25 10:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Date: 25 September 2024
Time: 10:30AM – 7:00PM
Description:

10:30AM-4:00PM: Corporate Water Stewardship Full Day
The Corporate Water Stewardship Full Day event will discuss the critical state of 100 stressed basins and share insights on global water issues. Throughout the day, interactive sessions and panels will explore current synergies in the water space, along with introductions of new frameworks and initiatives such as the Collaborative Model and the launch of NPWI. There will be networking opportunities throughout the day.

To request an invitation for the Corporate Water Stewardship Full Day, please register via this Eventbrite link.

4:00PM – 5:30PM: Engaging in new WASH Stewardship & Collective Actions WASH4Work I WaterAid I UNICEF Co-Hosted Session
The global water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) crisis remains severe and taking action to achieve SDG 6 is essential from all sectors and stakeholders – business have a central role to play. Companies that have invested in WASH in their operations, supply chains, and communities have built a more resilient workforce and business, yet we know that many companies continue to grapple with how to best take action on WASH as part of broader sustainability strategies.
This session will provide the opportunity for interactive discussion on:
1. New guidance on what “good” WASH looks like in 2024 and beyond
2. Insights into the new regulatory and business case for corporate action
3. Concrete examples on how companies can take action – including new WASH Collective Action opportunities
5:30PM-7:30PM
Cocktail Reception Hosted by Diageo and WaterAid

In Person: Annual General Meeting
2024-09-25 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York)
Date: 25 September 2024
Time: 9:00AM-10:00AM EST
Description:

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be a breakfast session where the Mandate will give updates on numerous programmatic areas, upcoming priorities and activities for the year. Note: This session is for mandate-endorsing companies only.
Agenda:

Welcome and Invite Guests to Get Breakfast?
Official Welcome & Debrief from CEO Circle and UNGC Leaders’ Summit
Member Engagement in the 100 Priority Basins
Updates to company reporting and data
Mandate Membership Updates
Informal World Café – Opportunity to Talk with Leaders of Projects and to Learn More

If you have any questions, please reach out to Samantha Morales (smorales@pacinst.org)

Leaders’ Summit - Innovative Best Practices in Corporate Water Stewardship
2024-09-24 13:30 - 15:00 UTC | Javits Center
Date: September 24, 2024
Time: 1:30PM – 3:30PM EST
Session Summary: This session showcases the how of water resilience, specifically highlighting the actions and tools companies have used in their corporate water stewardship journey. Participants will delve deeply in examples of successful water action and what approaches enabled that success. Participants will engage in small group discussions to share their experiences and ask questions. Coming out of this session, participants should understand specific steps their company can take to build water resilience and what resources to leverage while doing so.

Registration Link: https://events.unglobalcompact.org/leaderssummit24/RegisterPage

Leaders’ Summit - Water Resilience - Ripples of Progress: The Impact of Corporate Water Stewardship
2024-09-24 10:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Javits Center
Date: September 24, 2024
Time: 10:30AM – 12:30PM EST
Session Summary: Water resilience stands at the forefront of sustainable development, playing a pivotal role at the nexus of nature, business, and society. In this interactive session, participants will be guided through an interactive tour of how water impacts your business and how your corporate water stewardship positively impacts communities and nature.

Registration Link: https://events.unglobalcompact.org/leaderssummit24/RegisterPage

NPWI: BRIDGING BOUNDARIES IN CORPORATE WATER STEWARDSHIP
2024-08-29 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Stockholm) | Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre
Date: 29 August 2024
Time: 14:00-15:30 CET
Location: In-Person (Stockholm Waterfront Congress Center, A2, Level 6) & Online
Session Summary:

This session introduces Net Positive Water Impact (NPWI) and discusses it from the perspective of bridging application scales and aligning with other corporate water stewardship approaches. This will be discussed from the views of the framework developers, other thought leaders, corporates and practitioners.
Session Description:
tools and frameworks in the corporate water stewardship (CWS) space are rapidly evolving through the input from a vibrant community of corporates, practitioners and thought leaders. This session has three parts: Firstly, it showcases Net Positive Water Impact (NPWI), and how it can help build basin-wide water resilience in 100 priority basins. Historically, many corporates have undertaken their CWS approaches independently or in siloes. NPWI moves beyond site-level impacts to the basin scale, promoting collective action and partnerships at broader scales helping to bridge borders and drive catalytic impact. Getting CWS tools, frameworks and ambitions to increasingly complement each other is an essential step to making CWS clear, accessible and implementable. Secondly, thought leaders of other CWS frameworks, tools and standards will weigh in on the alignment and complementarity of NPWI with their respective CWS approaches. NPWI has been intentionally developed to align with several leading approaches to ensure that corporate partners integrate and maximize their stewardship efforts and meet multiple corporate objectives and SDGs. In the third part of this session, the floor is given to corporates and practitioners actively piloting or implementing NPWI and other CWS approaches. We will hear about their experiences, insights and progress.
Registration (Registration available on 8/5 for specific in-person & online sessions)
How you can join online:

Register for online access (FREE)
You will receive an email with a link to the digital platform
Go to the programme and search for this session
Click on the session card and press the “join meeting” button when the session is starting.

The join meeting button will be available 10 minutes prior to the meeting, if you dont see the button, re-open the session.

BUILDING RESILIENT WATER SYSTEMS: MEANS TO ENHANCE SOCIAL HARMONY
2024-08-29 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Stockholm)
Date: 29 August 2024
Time: 13:00-14:00 CET
This event is free to attend and online only
Session Summary:

This session explores building resilient water systems as a cornerstone for peace and sustainability. We’ll showcase key characteristics, practical strategies, and innovative solutions for building and measuring progress towards resilient water systems spanning political and hydrological boundaries. Join us for interactive presentations, discussions, and collaboration!
Session Description:

Over half the world shares water resources, demanding cooperation across borders and sectors. This session, aligned with World Water Week 2024’s theme, “Bridging Borders: Water for a Peaceful and Sustainable Future,” focuses on building resilient water systems as a foundation for peace, stability, and development.
Drawing on expert insights, we’ll delve into the key characteristics of strong resilient water systems highlighting how a robust, reliable, flexible, integrated, inclusive, and just water systems can foster peace and harmony. It delves into practical strategies for building and strengthening the system resilience, showcasing successful case studies and innovative solutions. The session features three key components:

Elaboration of the Water Resilience Assessment Framework and guidance documents with real-world examples.
Presentation and discussion of an innovative suite of resilience indicators to measure progress.
Interactive discussions to build understanding and partnerships.

This interactive session is designed to promote a world where shared water resources become catalysts for collaboration rather than conflict. It achieves this through presentations by experts, a panel discussion fostering dynamic exchanges, and breakout sessions for deeper exploration of specific themes. By encouraging active dialogue and knowledge exchange among participants, the session aims to achieve this goal.
Registration (Registration available for specific online sessions 8/5)
How you can join online:

Register for online access (FREE)
You will receive an email with a link to the digital platform
Go to the programme and search for this session
Click on the session card and press the “join meeting” button when the session is starting.

The join meeting button will be available 10 minutes prior to the meeting, if you dont see the button, re-open the session.

Water-resilient Agricultural Value Chains
2024-08-28 14:30 - 15:45 (Europe/Stockholm) | 7A Posthuset, Vasagatan 28, 11120 Stockholm
Date: 28 August 2024
Time: 2:30PM-3:45PM CET
Location: Nature Hub – 7A Posthuset, Vasagatan 28, 11120 Stockholm (Room #314)
Session Summary:

This session will explore how companies are making innovations throughout their value chains to reduce their water impact and improve watershed health while delivering benefits to nature and communities. It will spotlight opportunities for businesses and partners to promote scaling of action for water resilient value chains. Overall, it will demonstrate how companies can better mobilise growers to be a force for positive change for water.
Registration Link – Must be registered to attend

Multi-benefits of Nature Based Solutions (NbS) in Corporate Water Stewardship
2024-08-28 12:45 - 14:15 (Europe/Stockholm) | 7A Posthuset, Vasagatan 28, 11120 Stockholm
Date: 28 August 2024
Time: 12:45PM-2:15PM CET
Location: Nature Hub – 7A Posthuset, Vasagatan 28, 11120 Stockholm (Room #202)
Session Summary:

This session will build the business case for NbS investments and showcase how NbS can connect communities from different sectors of society through the diverse impacts they deliver. Collaborators will share examples of impacts on water security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity and socio-economics and the contributions NbS can make to multiple global goals.
Registration – Must be registered to attend

Freshwater Challenge Private Sector Engagement
2024-08-28 08:30 - 11:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | 7A Posthuset, Vasagatan 28, 11120 Stockholm
Date: 28 August 2024
Time: 8:30AM-11:00AM CET
Location: 7A Posthuset, Vasagatan 28, 11120 Stockholm (Room #314)
Session Summary:

The Freshwater Challenge (FWC) is a country-led initiative that aims to support, integrate and accelerate the restoration of 300,000 km of degraded rivers and 350 million hectares of degraded wetlands by 2030, as well as conserve intact freshwater ecosystems. 45 countries and the European Union have joined the Freshwater Challenge so far. The Challenge aims to substantiate, elevate and accelerate targeted interventions for rivers and wetlands, connecting these with national plans and strategies. It will increase the overall investment into the restoration and conservation of freshwater ecosystems and substantially increase the social and economic returns on those investments.
While country-led, the private sector has an important role to play to partner and help meet the ambitious aims of the challenge. Freshwater ecosystems are central to both climate adaptation and climate resilience, and supporting government efforts will create greater efficiencies and leverage of current and future efforts. Building on the ACTD1 framework, a private sector support program is being developed to support country efforts, and foster public-private partnerships.
During the event we aim to:

Share information about the Freshwater Challenge and the corporate support programme

Hear from leading corporates and Freshwater Challenge country members – e.g. why they joined, their progress to date, potential areas of collaboration with the private sector

Co-Shape the FWC Corporate Supporter Program and outlay the next steps towards the official launch and a potential commitment from your organization

Engage in dialogues to begin to foster more public-private partnerships & communication between FWC member countries and private sector actors

How to sign-up:
Please register for the event and secure your spot via the registration form

Navigating the Waters: Accelerating Business Action Across Borders
2024-08-27 12:00 - 12:20 (Europe/Stockholm) | Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre
Date: 27 August 2024
Time: 12:00PM-12:20 CET
Location: Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, Talkshow Studio Level 5
Session Summary:

This live studio talkshow delves into the pivotal role of businesses in advancing sustainable water management. It examines how businesses can expedite water stewardship across value chains, emphasizing collaborative solutions and business leadership. Through collective action, companies drive positive change, ensuring a sustainable future for all stakeholders.
Session Description:
In today’s dynamic landscape characterized by intense competition for water resources and the effects of climate change, businesses play a key role in achieving sustainable water management. By implementing sustainable water practices throughout their operations and supply chains business can ensure access and minimize environmental harm. With innovative solutions and by promoting sustainable water management beyond the business wall, companies can also contribute to positive water impact.
One crucial step is collective action aimed at reducing impacts on water-stressed areas. This involves business collaborating with stakeholders across sectors and regions to exchange ideas and resources. Additionally, businesses together with policymakers, business partners, and civil society can advocate for policy measures and sustainable water practices that safeguard water resources. By actively participating in local communities and supporting measures for the provision of water and sanitation systems, companies can make tangible contributions to sustainable management of water. This collaborative approach, transcending borders and sectors, is crucial for addressing complex water challenges and ensuring a sustainable future. In this session, we will explore how businesses can accelerate water stewardship actions within and beyond their value chains.
Additional Information

Collective Action
2024-08-27 11:00 - 12:30 (Europe/Stockholm) | 7A Posthuset, Vasagatan 28, 11120 Stockholm
Date: 27 August 2024
Time: 11:00AM-12:30PM CET
Location: Nature Hub – 7A Posthuset, Vasagatan 28, 11120 Stockholm

Description:
This session will build on the collaborative effort of the organisations in the last 2 years to develop the implementation pathway for collective action in catchments. The aim will be to establish a joint workplan for the coming year focussed on global coordination & governance, data & tools, financing models, experience sharing & pathways to enhance engagement with the public sector on the collective action effort. Besides, the session will include experience sharing on the challenges that corporations have faced when developing multi-stakeholder collective action for water security, and strategies to overcome these challenges.
Registration Link

Nature's Balance Sheet: Introducing Biodiversity Benefit Accounting
2024-08-27 09:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Stockholm) | 7A Posthuset, Vasagatan 28, 11120 Stockholm
Date: 27 August 2024
Time: 9:00AM-10:30AM CET
Location: Nature Hub – 7A Posthuset, Vasagatan 28, 11120 Stockholm

Description:
Water Stewardship programs often fail to account for the profound connections between water and biodiversity, leading to missed opportunities to enhance environmental, societal, and business outcomes. This session will be the official launch event for the Biodiversity Benefit Accounting landscape assessment and showcase the upcoming standardized framework with appropriate indicators and metrics to effectively integrate biodiversity into corporate water stewardship. This framework will provide businesses with general guidance on how to incorporate biodiversity considerations into their water management strategies.
Registration Link

High-Level Roundtable on Sustainable Water Management
2024-08-27 08:30 - 10:00 UTC | Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre
Date: 27 August 2024
Time: 8:30AM-10:00 CET
Location: Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre
Session Summary:

Hosted by the UN Global Compact Network Sweden and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), this high-level roundtable brings together experts, business leaders, and stakeholders to address critical water challenges. Representatives from the global coalition of the UN Global Compact and CEO Water Mandate will be participating.

More Information + how to express interest

Water Security Through Nature Based Solutions - From Theory to Practice
2024-08-26 09:00 - 10:30 (Europe/Stockholm) | Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre
Date: 26 August 2024
Time: 9:00AM-10:30AM CET
Location: In- Person at Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre (A2, Level 6) & Online

Summary:
This interactive panel will showcase global place-based initiatives supporting water security through nature-based solutions. It will emphasize the vital role of these solutions in addressing water-related climate risks, crucial for ecosystem and human security. The discussion will illustrate successful cooperation among stakeholders and across geographical boundaries.
Description:
Nature-based solutions (NBS) in both urban and rural contexts are key to ecosystem and human security. NBS can ensure sufficient water supply, water treatment, and reduce risks associated with extreme weather events that threaten human security. This session will spotlight global examples of NBS implementation that support water security, including in the Canadian Prairies, the United States, Latin America, and Africa. Weaving together themes of water security, regional cooperation, and NBS, panelists will speak to the place-based realities of implementing NBS in water insecure contexts and highlight the broader implications for human safety. The aim is to grasp how cooperation among stakeholders and across geographies is achieved in NBS projects, and to explore institutional requirements for promoting NBS, especially in underserved communities. Additionally, it will discuss the business case for NBS, advocating for collaboration among the private sector, public entities, and NGOs. For example, the IISD-led Natural Infrastructure for Water Solutions Initiative aims to break down silos between stakeholder groups and integrate natural infrastructure into decision-making processes, benefiting underserved communities in the Canadian Prairies. Similarly, an NBS project in the Kafue Flats, Zambia, engages NGOs, academia, and investors to implement NBS to support climate adaptation, through flood and drought prevention.
Registration (Registration available on 8/5 for specific in-person & online sessions)
How you can join online:

Register for online access (FREE)
You will receive an email with a link to the digital platform
Go to the programme and search for this session
Click on the session card and press the “join meeting” button when the session is starting.

The join meeting button will be available 10 minutes prior to the meeting, if you dont see the button, re-open the session.

Perceived and Experienced Barriers to Corporate Engagement in Collective Actions
2024-08-25 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Stockholm) | Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre
Date: 25 August 2024
Time: 16:00 – 17:30 CET
Location: Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, Room 26 Level 2
Summary:
This workshop explores barriers to expanding corporate involvement in collective actions. Corporates and their partners will candidly share lessons learned from initiatives like the pioneering Women + Water Collaborative in India. Audience will participate in unpacking the opportunities and conditions for collective actions to contribute to basin-wide resilience goal.
Description:
The workshop will be run Roundtable-style, alternating between presentations, panel discussions, and open reflections from the audience. There will be two clear “units” covered: 1. Creating conditions for collective action, and 2. Scaling collective actions for basin-wide resilience.
Unit 1 introduces the principles, characteristics, and enabling conditions of collective action. It features a case study of the Women + Water Collaborative in India, highlighting lessons from the first collective action program aimed at improving clean water access. This initiative illustrates the first time companies from various sectors, including textiles and pharmaceuticals, have united to address a regional water crisis. An interactive panel with corporate members, moderated by WaterAid, will discuss the challenges of collective action. A roundtable will explore why companies hesitate to finance such efforts, addressing perceived and real obstacles.
Unit 2 examines the limitations of collective action in achieving basin-wide resilience and introduces a framework for scaling efforts to meet common targets. A panel of corporate leaders will discuss their experiences piloting this framework and integrating it into their water strategies. A roundtable will consider the alignment of stewardship ambitions with major basin coordination mechanisms, identifying new barriers and potential values for companies.
Registration

Building Corporate Water Resilience
2024-05-28 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Paris)
Date: 28 May 2024
Time: 14:00-15:00 CET
Audience: Swiss Companies

About the event

In this webinar, we will address how businesses can identify, measure, and address their impacts and dependencies on water by drawing on insights and resources from the CEO Water Mandate and the UN Global Compact (UNGC) Forward Faster initiative. We will share practical strategies of leading practice and how companies are working together through collective action to address water security and improve water resilience.
In the face of climate change, water security emerges as a critical concern, fundamentally altering the way we look at water systems, and how we govern and manage these systems effectively. Businesses of all types rely on water, using it as a critical resource in their production processes and throughout their supply chains. Despite substantial investments in water solutions, current progress remains insufficient, with water challenges posing significant risks to business continuity, ecosystems, and affected communities. As a result, the private sector has a significant role to play in improving water resilience, and achieving net positive water impact in the most water-stressed basins, through corporate water stewardship and collective action.
We invite Swiss and Liechtenstein companies to join these global efforts in building water resilience. Participants will be equipped with knowledge and tools to set goals and take action on the road to net-positive water impact.

To request an invite, please email: smorales@pacinst.org

Water Resilience Investment Portfolio
2024-04-25 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Open to: All Mandate Endorsers + WRC + Forward Faster + Open Call
Topic: Current Investment Opportunity Presentation | Water Resilience Investment Portfolio
Venue: Virtual
Date & Time: April 25th 2024 – 8am PT
Description: Explore the Water Resilience Investment Portfolio Strategy aimed at fulfilling commitments. Hear from INCOFIN and investors like DANONE as they discuss insights. Gain insights into the INCOFIN Water Access Fund’s investment pipeline and its alignment with our goal to ensure resilient WASH access for 300 million people.

NBS Benefits Explorer
2024-02-01 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us for the launch of the Nature-Based Solutions Benefits Explorer Version 2 on February 1 at 8 AM PT/11 AM ET.
The NBS Benefits Explorer, part of the Water Action Hub (a suite of digital tools for corporate water stewardship), is designed to serve as a key starting point for organizations looking to invest in hashtag#NatureBasedSolutions (NBS).
The tool helps build the business case for NBS projects by enabling users to:
? Identify the full range of benefits of NBS activities across water quantity, water quality, carbon, biodiversity and socio-economic themes.
? Understand when and where NBS benefits will accrue,
? Identify indicators and calculation methods used to estimate or quantify benefits,
? Estimate the potential return on investments from NBS projects in different habitats.
Register here: https://lnkd.in/gAfY6vMX
