Water Footprint Assessment Interna0onal developments & Review process
July 7th, 2015
Simon Gmünder Quan%s La%n America Simon.Gmuender@quan%s-‐intl.com Sebas0en Humbert Water Sustainability Expert, Convener 14046/14073 Sebas%en.Humbert@quan%s-‐intl.com
A few words about Quan0s
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Our values
Our expertise
Our team Switzerland
United States
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Accompany companies to measure, understand, manage and communicate their sustainability performance.
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Our clients
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Quan0s’ strength – A unique posi0oning in Water Footprin0ng > 50 companies trusted us for water footprints
Methodology development Expert network and universi%es R&D ac%vi%es • ISO 14046 / 14073 • UNEP-‐SETAC WULCA • CEO Water Mandate • WFN WATER FOOTPRINT
KNOWLEDGE
WATER FOOTPRINT
DATABASE
Unique and complete water DB Regionalized comprehensive inventory 4000+ processes (aligned with ecoinvent)
Repor%ng, labelling and communica%on • CDP Water Disclosure • CSR reports and GRI • French labelling ini%a%ve Strategy, risk assessment and mi%ga%on plans WATER FOOTPRINT
EXPERIENCE
WATER FOOTPRINT
TOOLS
Quan%s SUITE 2.0 Database Regionalized Tool GWT/LWT (WBCSD/GEMI) and Excel®
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Overview of content
How and why is water footprin%ng used by companies?
Cer%fica%on of water footprint studies
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ISO 14046 Corporate perspec0ve
How and why is Water Footprint Assessment used?
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“global warming” …
“global drying”
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Companies: Carbon footprint as a starting point
Poll from webinar “leveraging value from your sustainability data” (>350 par%cipants)
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WEF Global Risks Report 2015 Water is the risk with the highest impact, and in the top ten in term of likelihood
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Water related risks and opportunities Business opportuni%es Physical risk
Image
Financial risk
Sustainable strategy
Reputa%onal risk
Regulatory risks
Differen%a%on 10 10
Water How to mitigate risks and create opportunities?
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Measure -‐ Why footprin0ng? Imagine running a company without a financial budget Managing corporate sustainability without an environmental footprint presents the same problems.
• Where do we start? • What do we do? • How do things connect? 12
Measure -‐ how to measure the footprints? ISO 14046 –defines the requirements, guidelines and principles, but does not define a methodology to assess a water footprint. Further documents: • ISO TR 14073 -‐ Working draf 4
• Guideline on ISO standard developed by Quan0s (available end 2015) • Keep-‐updated on methodological developments: hbp://www.wulca-‐waterlca.org/ 13
Water footprin0ng -‐ From data to value Various paths and objec0ves
• Hotspots • Risks & Opportuni%es • Strategic ac%ons Understand
• Product footprint • Corporate footprint
Measure
Communicate
• Disclosure programs • CSR repor%ng • Brand image and marke%ng • Customer awareness • Value chain collabora%on
• Corporate strategy • Supply chain and sourcing • Eco-‐design & Innova%on 14
(ml)
Water footprint: Iden0fy poten0al risks & priore0ze ac0ons
(ml-‐eq)
From inventory to Impacts / Risks
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Water footprint: Iden0fy hot-‐spots along the value chain
Climate change
Use phase 90%
Water consumption
Use phase 95%
Water pollution
End of life 78% 16
Water footprint: Communicate
Water footprint calculator: S0mulate behavioural changes EEQ -‐ Web-‐based u0lity and educa0onal plajorm
Water footprint: Communicate hmp://nescafe.ou%l-‐acv.com/
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Water footprint: Labelling & Communica0on
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How is water implicitely included in the upcoming European Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)?
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How is water implicitely included in the upcoming European Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)? Outputs Pes@cide PM2.5 Cu CO2 Phosphate … Inputs Water well Arable land Crude oil Iron ore … And hundreds more…
Climate change (kg CO2-‐eq) Resource deple%on – mineral, fossil (kg Sb-‐eq) Ozone deple%on (kg CFC11-‐eq) Human toxicity – cancer (CTUh = cases) Human toxicity – non-‐cancer (CTUh = cases) Ionizing radi%on HH (kg U235-‐eq) Respiratory inorganics (kg PM2.5-‐eq) Photochemical ozone forma%on (kg NMVOC-‐eq) Land transforma%on (kg of carbon deficit) Terrestrial eutrophica%on (mole N-‐eq) Marine eutrophica%on (kg N-‐eq) Freshwater eutrophica%on (kg P-‐eq) Freshwater ecotoxicity (CTUe = PAF.m3.day) Acidifica%on (mole H+-‐eq) Ionizing radi%on E (CTUe = PAF.m3.day) Resource deple%on – water (m3-‐eq)
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Beyond Water footprin0ng: Full Life Cycle Assessment From Water Footprin0ng to a more holis%c set of indicators: Life Cycle Assessment Small addi0onal workload is required in the inventory part (collec%on of slightly more data) and impact assessment (impacts on Human Health, Ecosystem Quality and Climate Change).
The benefits include: • Calculated Product carbon footprint of cement • Screening of impacts related to land use change (biodiversity & ecosystem services) • Quan%fica%on of poten%al human health impacts (toxic and carcinogenic substances, respiratory effects, etc.). • Increased credibility, since a complete set of indicators is assessed and not only impacts related to water.
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Cer0fica0on / Review
of Water Footprint studies according to ISO 14046
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Cri0cal review – ISO requirements To facilitate understanding and enhance the credibility of a study! Reference to cri%cal review according to ISO 14044 and ISO TS 14071 (further details on types & requirements) Cri0cal review Disclosed to Compara0ve yes yes mandatory public? study? No, internal use
No benchmarking
Cri0cal review recommended
By Internal or external expert or by review panel
By review panel (>3) Full LCA required (not only WF)
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Cer0fica0on & Verifica0on No cer0fica0on stamp from ISO, but several private organiza%ons offer cer%fica%on / verifica%on services. Cer%fying of ISO 14046 compliance does not mean you are performing well or that you reduced your impact.
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Water footprin0ng can be a very useful tool • Hotspots • Risks & Opportuni%es • Strategic ac%ons Understand
• Product footprint • Corporate footprint
Measure
Communicate
• Disclosure programs • CSR repor%ng • Brand image and marke%ng • Customer awareness • Value chain collabora%on
• Corporate strategy • Supply chain and sourcing • Eco-‐design & Innova%on 27
But, do not overuse of a good thing! Water footprin0ng is not the answer for every ques0ons related to sustainability!
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Other tools and ini0a0ves
Water footprin,ng (according to ISO) is a component / building block / an input for all of them
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Thank you for flying with Quan%s Simon Gmünder Quan%s Quan%s La%n America Simon.Gmuender@quan%s-‐intl.com
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