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.
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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

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

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)

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
