Events & Webinars

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

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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. 

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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. 

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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.  

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, CEO Water Mandate, will also be participating.

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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!.

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.

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

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

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.  

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.