Food companies are not only at risk due to water scarcity, they are also responsible for it. Agriculture is rapidly draining aquifers in many regions of the world, and meat production is one of the biggest polluters of watersheds globally. This report provides investors with guidance and relevant data for evaluating the water risk management of 40 major companies in the agricultural products, beverage, meat, and packaged food industries. It also tracks their progress in managing their water risks as compared to performance in 2017 and 2015. This analysis can help food companies manage their water risks more effectively, which is critically important to their bottom lines.
This guidance document provides a practical framework that can be used to identify, prioritise and include mitigation measures that can increase a country’s climate change mitigation ambition through actions that improve local air quality. It also outlines how this can be reflected in the updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and accompanying information.
This report calls for national governments to prioritise compact, connected, and clean cities in order to secure economic prosperity and tackle the climate crisis. The report quantifies the necessary investments as well as the potential benefits available to governments willing to invest into zero-carbon cities and it sets out a six-part action plan on advocating for ambitious, coordinated climate action.
This report Climate and energy investment map in Germany: Status report 2016 presents a map illustrating the volume of climate and energy investment flows – from the financing sources, through the intermediaries and financial instruments, to the recipient sectors (i.e. agriculture, buildings, energy, industry, and transport sectors).
This report builds upon the growing momentum for an EU industrial transition to net-zero amongst policy makers and industry, and sketches the blueprint of such an industrial strategy towards climate neutrality. It identifies policy options to address key challenges industry faces on the transition path to climate neutrality. It also indicates how this policy set can be integrated into an industrial strategy and what governance instruments could guide to a successful implementation. This report should be seen as a primer to a more detailed and comprehensive debate on the need, design, implementation, and governance of a European industrial strategy for climate neutrality.