water security

Businesses failing to engage suppliers on setting emissions targets

Businesses failing to engage suppliers on setting emissions targets

A little over one-third of large corporates are engaging with suppliers on the climate crisis and carbon reduction, with new analysis warning that most organisations operating in supply chains do not have science-based targets in place.

edie launches new business guide on water efficiency

COP26: String of water companies join Race to Zero, 700 corporates asked to disclose water risks to investors

UN: World facing ‘gathering storm’ with tenfold increase needed in climate adaption finance

CDP: Water risk costs for corporates five times higher than cost of action

Partnerships in space to avoid the ‘jaws of death’ on Earth

WRAP: UK food sector ‘needs to pick up the pace’ on waste

P&G and Electrolux among corporate members of major new water security alliance

A tale of resilience: The evolution of water stewardship

Fashion sector failing to act on water pollution

Investors target Facebook, Nintendo and other business giants over climate disclosure

AB InBev teams up with WWF to champion supply chain water stewardship

The world's largest brewer has launched new partnerships with WWF and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in a bid to accelerate water security initiatives in water-stressed areas around the world.

Corporate giants team up to champion UK water stewardship

Marks & Spencer (M&S), Asda and Coca-Cola are among the 60 businesses and NGOs that have committed to a new initiative which aims to tackle water scarcity and stress in the UK through collaborative catchment management.

Water risks still ‘invisible’ to finance sector, says ING

Commercial banks are struggling to overcome a communications barrier with businesses to gain insight into portfolio risks specifically associated with water, according to Dutch bank ING's vice president for sustainable finance Ambika Jindal.

World Water Week: 10 shocking facts about the global water crisis

As research released for World Water Week (27 August - 1 September) warns that more than 100 cities face flood-related risks similar to those currently being felt in Houston, edie dives deep into the data to pull out 10 alarming statistics which underline why businesses must act NOW.

Businesses urged to ‘wake up’ over £11bn water risks

Businesses have been issued a "wake-up call" by a new CDP report which revealed that water risks fuelled by climate change cost the private sector $14bn (£11.3bn) over the last year.

Liquid assets: Strengthening the business case for water management

With global water supplies running dry at an alarming rate, edie's Matt Mace hears from some of the private sector's leading lights on tackling water scarcity to uncover the business case that lies beneath the surface.

Businesses urged to view water as economic risk rather than environmental issue

Efforts to combat water scarcity are "absent from the portfolios" of investors, and it is now the responsibility of the private sector to step up water efficiency practices to build understanding that water is an economic risk as well as an environmental one.

World’s best-performing companies on water security revealed

Ford, Colgate Palmolive and Toyota have been named as some of the best-performing companies on water security in the first global ranking of corporate water stewardship from CDP.

Carney warns of risks from climate change ‘tragedy of the horizon’

Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, has warned that climate change will lead to financial crises and falling living standards unless the world's leading countries do more to ensure that their companies come clean about their current and future carbon emissions.
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