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Contextual Water Targets: Navigating the Ever-Expanding Guidance Ecosystem
Contextual Water Targets: Navigating the Ever-Expanding Guidance Ecosystem
By Rylan Dobson
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NEW GUIDANCE: Embedding local water context into strategy and targets
NEW GUIDANCE: Embedding local water context into strategy and targets
By Rylan Dobson
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Fear-less Corporate Water Stewardship - 2030 & beyond
Fear-less Corporate Water Stewardship - 2030 & beyond
By Rylan Dobson
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How can you use ESG reporting to reduce your water risk?
Water reporting is valuable but it should also add value to the company. Too often we see companies reporting for reporting sake - spending hours of time and resources collecting data that ultimately does not add value for the company. So any voluntary reporting should be assessed to see how the metrics and data align with what needs to be collected to monitor progress towards the company’s strategic goals. Another common issue we see is reporting influencing strategy - so reporting metrics being co-opted as strategic metrics for the company because they are rewarded by the reporting framework. An example is the fact that so many companies have water reduction goals when it is often not their strategic water challenge!
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How can you use ESG reporting to reduce your water risk?
Too often companies only consider the basin risk (e.g. the external water challenges) and forget the operational risk (e.g. the internal context of water). Without both you can’t accurately determine risk. For example - you could operate in a place facing high levels of wage scarcity but if you don’t need large volumes of water for your processes then water scarcity may not be your biggest risk. Too often we see companies saying they are taking action in all sites located in scarce locations but often many of these site actually face low risks due to the fact they are not heavily reliant on water.
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How can you use ESG reporting to reduce your water risk?
Not sure I would agree with this framing. There is not even an approved Science-Based methodology yet! The short answer here is that targets must be informed by your strategy. Too often companies flip this and targets are informing strategy. A good (must) read is WWF’s Putting Water Strategy into Context.
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Dear Friends, After more than 4 years at the helm, I’ll soon be stepping down soon as Director of the African Development Bank’s Independent…
Dear Friends, After more than 4 years at the helm, I’ll soon be stepping down soon as Director of the African Development Bank’s Independent…
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As many of you know, I've been busy doing a Foundation in Transactional Analysis in my spare time this year. I'm proud to say I've now successfully…
As many of you know, I've been busy doing a Foundation in Transactional Analysis in my spare time this year. I'm proud to say I've now successfully…
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Experience & Education
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WWF Germany
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Volunteer Experience
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Executive Director - SFU Net Impact Chapter
Net Impact
- 11 months
Directed event operations for the SFU Sustainability Case Competition 2016. Assisted fellow directors to deliver the chapters annual membership objectives.
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Branch Committee - London
Association for Project Management
- 1 year 10 months
Coordinated and hosted membership networking events around London. Designed corporate member annual engagement plans and assisted in communicating with the corporate membership.
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Vice-President
Argento-Palladio Residents Association
- 4 years 4 months
Collected and distributed residents feedback to managing agent and landlord. Monitored levels of communal building services and managed poor performance with suppliers.
Publications
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The Road to Context: Contextualising your Strategy & Goals Guide
The Embedding Project
Guide that explores how companies can develop their own Contextual strategy across multiple thresholds.
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Exploring the case for corporate context-based water targets
CEO Water Mandate
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From conflict to context-based metrics
Revolve Magazine - Issue 22 Winter 2016/17
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Biological treatment of precious metal refinery wastewater: A review
Minerals Engineering
International Scientific Publication:
Dobson, RS and Burgess JE (2006) pages 519 - 532,
Volume 20, issue 6, May 2007Other authors -
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For those curious to learn more about water stewardship, we have a wonderful team of trainers at AWS who can help you on your journey.
For those curious to learn more about water stewardship, we have a wonderful team of trainers at AWS who can help you on your journey.
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This is a really interesting article on groundwater and ecosystems. I started my career as a hydrogeologist (groundwater), and this article clearly…
This is a really interesting article on groundwater and ecosystems. I started my career as a hydrogeologist (groundwater), and this article clearly…
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Proud to work at Co-op - a different kind of business 🩵 We’re owned by our members and they get to choose how we’re run. Owned by you. Right by you.
Proud to work at Co-op - a different kind of business 🩵 We’re owned by our members and they get to choose how we’re run. Owned by you. Right by you.
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I'm excited to be taking up my pro-bono role as Walbrook Warden within The Worshipful Company of Water Conservators. This is one of the City of…
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I'm delighted to attend the Water Environment Federation Circular Water Economy Summit in Dallas, Texas, this week representing the Alliance for…
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The #SeineRiverRun simply wouldn’t have been possible without my amazing ground team. To Kelvin, our talented photographer, thank you for your…
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