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SCP Publications
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Corporate Water Accounting - An analysis of methods and tools for measuring water use and its impacts
Water as a natural resource is facing many
challenges at the local, regional, and global
levels. Human water use is increasingly
having negative impacts on human health,
economic growth, the environment, and
geopolitical stability.
In recent years, concerns
over growing water scarcity, lack of access to
water to meet basic human needs, degraded
ecosystem function, and the implications of
climate change on the hydrologic cycle have
brought water to the forefront as a strategic
concern for companies around the world.
Corporate Water Accounting is a joint effort of
the United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP) and the CEO Water Mandate, which aims to
assess existing and emerging water accounting
methods and tools being used in the
private sector, with the goals of elucidating commonalities and differences among emerging methods and practice, identifying gaps and challenges and suggesting where accounting methods
might benefit from harmonization and
increased field testing.
The CEO Water Mandate is a UN Global
Compact initiative designed to help the private
sector better understand and address its
impacts on and management of water resources.
Language: English
Publication date:
2010
Programme:
Water
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Business
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Life Cycle
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Global Compact
Pages: 60
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