Developing Enterprise Water Targets Informed by Local Contexts: Cargill’s Approach

Abstract

In response to growing threats to clean water supplies due to climate change, growing populations and demand, and weak governance, many companies are assessing water risks to their operations. Increasingly, companies are recognizing that their dependencies and impacts on water can occur outside of their direct operations and are responding by setting enterprise-wide contextual water targets that reflect water challenges in priority locations across their value chains. This Practice Note documents the approach that WRI and Cargill followed to set enterprise-wide contextual water targets.