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[미국] 현재 물 정책 투자자의 위험을 야기시키다
현재 물 정책이 투자자의 위험으로 이어질 수 있다고 밝혀졌다.
기업의 64%가 5년이내에 수질 위험이 자신의 사업에 영향을 미칠 것으로 전망했다.
2013년 세계 물 보고서 cdp는 물 관련 리스트관리에 대한 잘못된 접근 방식은 세계 최대 규모의 글로벌 기업에서 이전처럼 사업화되고 있다고 밝혔다
보고에 따르면 기업이 너무 직접적으로 물 사용을 감소시키는데 집중되어있는데 이는 주주 가치를 위협하고 점점 즉각적이고 실질적인 물 위험을 가중시키는 부적절한 반응이라고 보도했다
물 조직관리는 오늘날 세계가 직면하고 있는 가장 시급한 문제 중 하나인 물 보안을 달성을 위한 해결방안이다. 그러나 중요한 변화 단계에서 탄소정보공개 프로젝트로 알려진 cdp를 얻는 것이 시급하다.
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Report Finds Current Water Practices May Lead to Risks for Investors
The report indicates 64% of companies expect water risks to impact their business within five years
The CDP Global Water Report 2013 indicates that a misguided approach to water-related risk management has become business as usual at the world’s largest global companies. According to the report, corporate focus is too often directed at reducing water use, which is an inadequate response to increasingly immediate substantive water risks, threatening shareholder value.
Water stewardship is the solution to achieving water security, one of the most pressing issues facing the world today. A significant step change, however, is required if stewardship is to be achieved. CDP, formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project, is calling on investors to take a leading role in guiding companies on this issue.
This new report, written by Deloitte, is based on data provided to CDP by 180 companies listed on the FTSE Global 500 Equity Index at the request of 530 investors representing $57 trillion.
Companies that use CDP’s water program for reducing risks and capitalizing on opportunities relating to water and are analyzed as part of the report include BP, Bayer, Lockheed Martin, General Motors, Nestle, Wal-Mart and Unilever.
Key findings of the report, titled, “A Need for a Step Change in Water Risk Management,” are:
• Water presents substantial risk threatening profitability and shareholder security, primarily in the energy, materials and consumer staples sectors. Each company in the sample faces an average of seven water-related risks, with nearly three-quarters (70%) stating that water presents substantive risk to their business. Half have already experienced detrimental business impacts in the past five years.
• Water risks are increasingly immediate. The percentage of risks that companies expect to impact their business within five years (64%) has increased by 16% in the space of one year and the majority of risks identified in direct operations (65%) and supply chains (62%) are near-term.
The most widely identified near-term water risk is water stress or scarcity, followed by flooding and rising compliance costs. Declining water quality, higher water prices and reputational damage are among the other reported risks expected to impact within five years.
• Corporates wrongly believe that water usage is the primary risk driver. Two-thirds of companies (63%) report targets for their direct operations that largely relate to reducing water use or increasing reuse.
Although more than half (52%) source materials or business inputs from regions of water risk, less than two fifths (37%) require key suppliers to measure and manage water risks. Of greater concern, a quarter (23%) of companies do not know if water presents risk to their supply chains. This outdated narrow focus falls short of the required response to the wide range of risks they face.
• Low level of strategic planning or corporate ambition on key water stewardship metrics raises risk level. Despite increasing recognition that water risks cannot be tackled in isolation, just 6% of companies have targets or goals for community engagement, 4% for their supply chains, 3% for water management and 1% for transparency.
Not a single company reports a public policy target and 15% of companies fail to meet water discharge regulations.
“Although we are seeing great strides in corporate ability to identify water-related risks, the approach to managing those risks is misguided. If businesses are to become truly resilient to the growing threats that water poses, they must strive for stewardship,” Cate Lamb, head of CDP’s water program.
“A 60% annual increase in companies using our water program is promising. The resultant data we have published today will provide unparalleled insight to investors aiming to seize a leadership position by educating their portfolio companies on this issue.”
[출처 = water&wastes digest / 2013년11월4일]
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