Valuing Water
DEEP DIVE
Driving large-scale change to protect our most vital resource
We are facing an existential threat to our freshwater resources across the U.S. and globally. The global water crisis poses a systemic and far-reaching financial risk to nearly all economies as well as a danger to human and environmental health, and the water crisis is exacerbated by climate change. Ceres is working to drive large‑scale systems change for business use and management of freshwater resources.
Valuing Water Finance Initiative
Launched in August 2022, Ceres’ Valuing Water Finance Initiative (VWFI) is a global investor-led effort to engage a focus list of 72 companies with a high water footprint to act on water as a financial risk. Building a powerful bench of investors, Ceres will scale up engagements on water risk and move the most water-intensive and polluting industries and companies around the world to conserve and protect freshwater resources. In turn, the focus companies will reduce the water-related impacts of their operations and value chains to protect high-risk watersheds.
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2023 Leadership Circle Executive Summary | 14
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