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2 Day Conference: 16 - 17 December 2008, Olympia, London.
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Day One: Tuesday 16 December 2008 |
0730 Executive Breakfast Briefing; Defining Common Terms On Water Footprinting
This 45 minute breakfast briefing is a chance for delegates to familiarize themselves with the key definitions and terms associated with corporate footprinting - including sustainable water management, water stress, water availability, water efficiency, water offsets, water stewardship, green, blue and grey water.
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| 08.15 |
Morning Coffees and Registration |
| 08.40 |
Morning Chairman’s Opening Session – A Comprehensive Introduction To Water Footprints |
- A brief history of the concept
- Why are we here talking about water footprinting?
- Where is the FMCG and retail industry today?
- What are the specific threats and opportunities?
- What can be learned from corporate initiatives taking place today?
- How to proceed in a practical way at the short term?
- The long-term vision on future developments - where are we heading?
Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Professor in Multidisciplinary Water Management, Twente Water Centre - University of Twente
| 09.00 |
Questions & Discussion |
| Why Measure Your Water Footprint? |
OPENING PANEL
| 09.10 |
Making The Business Case For Measuring Your Water Footprint – Why Retailers & FMCG Brands Need To Take Action |
- Gain an understanding of global water availability and quality now and in the future, based on projected population changes, price of energy and raw materials, farming demands, industrial usage changes and climatic changes
- Case studies; Demonstrating the corporate drivers for measuring your water footprint
- Gaining finance director buy-in on the business benefits
- Risk assessment – global, EU, UK
- Cost savings
- Managing supply chain uncertainties
- Business Continuity and future security
- Reputation and responsibility
Ulrike Ebert, Corporate Responsibility Director - Environment, Coca- Cola Europe
Ian Walsh, Global Head Of Environment, Cadbury Schweppes
Andy Wales, Head of Sustainable Development, SAB Miller Plc
Dave Challis, Sustainability Manager, Europe, Kimberly Clark
Claus Conzelmann, Global Head of Safety Health and Environment, Nestle Vevey
Henry King, Science & Technology Leader: Sustainability, SEAC, Unilever.
| 09.50 |
Questions & Discussion |
KEYNOTE PANEL SESSION
EVALUATING THE IMPLICATIONS TO YOUR BUSINESS
| 10.00 |
Understanding Key Stakeholders Perspectives On The Commercial Viability Of Water Footprints |
- Key stakeholders perspectives including
- Investors
- Retailers
- Customers
- Farmers
- Food and drink manufacturer perspectives on investment payback periods
Julian Walker-Palin, Head of Corporate Policy for Sustainability & Ethics, ASDA, Walmart
Vidyanath Gururajan, Group Head - Development & Projects, Branston Ltd
Henrik Lampa, Environmental Supply Chain Manager, H&M
Simon Houghton-Dodd, Head of Quality & Sustainability, Tate & Lyle Sugars
| 10.30 |
Questions & Discussion |
| Examining Corporate Strategies For Measuring Water Footprints – What Are The Practical Steps That You Need To Take To Get Started? |
DUAL PERSPECTIVE CASE STUDIES
| 10.40 |
Building A Strategy To Understand The Overall Water Footprint Of A Product |
- Grasping the link between carbon, water, and energy footprint impacts
- Developing guidelines for establishing your water footprint across internal operations and the supply chain
- Understanding water scarcity issues within a region to build a matrix of costs vs. region
- Defining local boundaries, including local catchment areas and regional river basins
- Understanding global supply chain impacts
- Example; Measuring the volumes of raw material sourced and agricultural water consumption (irrigation)
- Assessing what data is available, globally and locally
- Gathering data from different sources
- Choosing a methodology and assessment model
- Sharing responsibilities with suppliers and stakeholders in the market
- Benchmarking with the competition for a clearer understanding of your water footprint
Andy Wales, Head of Sustainable Development, SAB Miller Plc
Sylvain Lhôte, Director EU Affairs, Borealis Polymers N.V
| 11.25 |
Questions & Discussion |
CASE STUDY
UNDERSTANDING THE SCOPE FOR MEASURING AND REDUCING WATER FOOTPRINTS
| 11.35 |
Mapping Across The Life Cycle - Understanding How To Define The Boundaries Of The Product Lifecycle |
- Creating a holistic framework for water footprinting across operations and the supply chain – what does good water management look like?
- “How far do you go?”
- Understanding the product journey
- Measuring water can be more challenging than reducing it – so how do you cost effectively pull together all of the data?
Ian Walsh, Global Head Of Environment, Cadbury Schweppes
| 12.05 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 12.30 |
Morning Coffee In The Exhibition Showcase Zone – Meet Industry Stakeholders To Share Ideas, Discuss New Approaches & Talk Through Solutions |
| Comparing Different Methodologies For Credibly Measuring Water Footprints – What Are The Emerging Standards? |
KEYNOTE PANEL
| 12.40 |
Identifying Standard Measurement Methodologies – Which Tools Will Become Tomorrow’s Standard? |
- Understanding the Water Footprint Tool
- Evaluating the total volume of water used to produce goods and services
- How to account for the embedded water in your global supply chain
- Introduction to the WWF model
- Calculating embodied water of products through analysing local climatic conditions
- Latest findings on crop-coefficients
- Future plans on developing the WWF model
- Overview of Word Business Council For Sustainable Development model – assessing operational water usage in a local context
- Overcoming the data sourcing challenges associated with this model
- Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the latest models
Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Professor in Multidisciplinary Water Management, Twente Water Centre - University of Twente
Brad Ridoutt, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO, Australia
Dr Hayley Terlevich, Policy Adviser- Food Chain Programme, Defra
Ashok K. Chapagain, Water Footprint Officer, WWF-UK
| 13.10 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 13.20 |
Communicating The Results Of The Pre-Conference Workshop On Developing WF Measurement Standards |
INDUSTRY COLLABORATION BREAKOUT SESSIONS
| 14.35 |
Drawing The Geographical Boundaries Of Your Water Footprint |
Delegates will break out into small roundtable discussion groups for 45 minutes. The objective of the roundtable discussion groups will be to
A. Defining The Geographical Scope Of Your Local Operational Water Usage Footprint
Delegates will break out into two small roundtable discussion groups for 45 minutes. The objective of the roundtable discussion groups will be to
- Share research and compare best practice methodologies on understanding the factors that need to be considered within a local area
- Assessing the water needs of the local environment including rainfall patterns, river basins, crop and plant species
- Accessing data sources for regional river basins
B. Methodologies For Measuring The Water Footprint Of Raw Materials Sourced Globally
- Understanding the international variables including climatic, social and political, irrigation, population densities, demand-supply balance
- Defining the boundaries of your global water footprint
- Measuring embedded water, water usage, & water efficiency within global supply chains
- Measuring water footprints
Each delegate will be sent a copy transcribed minutes from the working group’s best practice analysis following the conference.
Facilitated By: Tim Hess, Senior Lecturer, School of Applied Sciences, Cranfield University
MULTI-NATIONAL CASE STUDY
| 15.20 |
Developing A View Of Your Water Footprint To Understand Total Water Consumption & How It Relates To Reducing Energy, Waste & Carbon Footprints |
- Tensions between delivering low prices whilst also pursuing an aggressive sustainability agenda - Walmart's Save Money Live Better strategy
- Water is often an overlooked issue - adopting a holistic multi-national, group-wide perspective to water and analysing how this relates to reducing energy, waste and carbon costs
Julian Walker-Palin, Head of Corporate Policy for Sustainability & Ethics, ASDA, Walmart
| 15.50 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 16.00 |
Afternoon Refreshments Served In The Exhibition Showcase Area |
| Understanding Water Consumption Patterns Across The Supply Chain |
CASE STUDY
| 16.30 |
Measuring The Water Footprint Across The Clothing Manufacturing Value Chain |
- Prioritising water reduction efforts - H&Ms current position and strategy looking forward
- Methodologies for measuring water consumption in clothing manufacturing
- At H&M’S suppliers site:
- Ensuring wet processing suppliers factories should have a waste - water treatment plant
- Gathering water use and production data from facilities to analyse efficiency between similar set up and product types
- Testing technique in the denim laundries to reduce the water usage with 50%
- Raw materials - Steering cotton farmers to use water in a sustainable manner
- Motivating dying mills to work towards resource reduction and to prioritize water saving
- Initiating a compliance approach with key fabric suppliers
Henrik Lampa, Environmental Supply Chain Manager, H&M
| 17.00 |
Questions & Discussion |
INTERNATIONAL DUAL PERSPECTIVE CASE STUDIES
| 17.10 |
Measuring & Reducing Water Footprint Of Food And Grocery Products Throughout The Supply Chain – Upstream and Downstream |
CASE STUDY A
- How to practically conduct water footprint accounting
- Analysing where the maximum consumption takes place in the life cycle for different products
- Analysis consumption upstream and downstream
- Changing consumer behaviour
John Temple, Vitality Director, Unilever
CASE STUDY B
- Case study involving a selection of branded products made by Mars Australia
- Taking full account of all water appropriated into the value chain
- Creating awareness of water intensive stages of each product life cycle
- Identifying opportunities for water use reduction
- Assessing risks to operations and supply chains
Brad Ridoutt, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO, Australia
Adrian Greet, Global Sustainability Programme Director, Mars Inc
| 17.50 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 1800 – 1930 |
Networking Drinks Reception |
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Day Two: Wednesday 17 December 2008 |
| 08.40 |
Chair’s Opening Remarks |
TRANSFERING STRATEGIC & TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
| 08.50 |
Understanding How Water Utilities Can Help Brands Measure & Reduce Water Consumption |
- Understanding the real cost and value of water
- Identifying the optimum mix of water efficiency & re-use measures to make the business case for new investment programmes
- Evaluating whole life costs and benefits of various water efficiency and re-use technologies
- Leakage measurement
- Understanding the magnitude and complexity of the water loss problem
- Making sure you have the right figures through metering
- Implementing cost effective methodologies to aid water usage reduction
- Tackling data quality issues
Facilitator: Jack Noble, Commercial Development Leader Europe & Africa, GE Water & Process Technologies
Robin Phillips, Director, C2C Services, Severn Trent Services
| 09.30 |
Questions & Discussion |
Beyond Footprints
“You’ve calculated your footprint and gathered the data, now what?’
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RETAIL CASE STUDY
| 09.40 |
Water Usage Impact Assessment Across The Supply Chain |
- Strategising globally, acting locally
- Once you understand what your water footprint is and where it comes from, how do you reduce impacts locally?
- Incorporating all regional and local dimensions into impact assessment
Mike Barry, Head of CSR, Marks and Spencers
| 10.10 |
Questions & Discussion |
WHAT NEXT?
| 10.15 |
Understanding The Impact Of Your Water Usage Whilst Working Towards A Response |
- Defining impact – what do you mean by this?
- How do you measure impact in practice?
- Practical tips towards strategizing a response - once you know your impact what can you do?
Stuart Orr, Freshwater Policy Officer, WWF-UK
Derk Kuiper, Co-ordinator, Water Footprint Working Group
| 10.45 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 10.55 |
Morning Coffee In The Exhibition Showcase Zone – Meet Industry Stakeholders To Share Ideas, Discuss New Approaches & Talk Through Solutions |
CASE STUDY
REDUCING WHITBREAD’S WATER FOOTPRINT
| 11.20 |
Understanding How Different Techniques Make A Substantial Difference To Water Consumption In Real Terms, Saving Money And Helping The Environment. |
- Whitbread Case Study highlighting various projects implemented to reduce their water footprint including:
- Water audits, data logging, leak detection and repair
- Greywater recycling, rainwater harvesting, and water conservation
- Finding the balance between environmental and economic sustainability
Neil Pendle, Managing Director, Waterscan
| 11.45 |
Questions & Discussion |
| Practical Case Studies On Implementing Water Usage Reduction Programmes - Turning Theory Into Practice |
MULTINATIONAL DUAL PERSPECTIVE CASE STUDIES
| 11.50 |
Engaging Supply Chain Partners To Understand Their Use Of Water To Gain A Better Understanding Of Your Overall Water Footprint |
CASE STUDY A: Water Footprinting for Consumer Products- Using a Life Cycle Approach to Engage Supply Chain Partners and Understand Their Use Of Water
- Taking a life cycle approach to investigate the importance of water
- Understanding the key impacts across the total supply chain
- Fostering sound water management principles in the total supply chain
- Working with suppliers to reduce their contribution to the overall water footprint
- Example – Managing the water footprint of ANDREX® tissue
Dave Challis, Sustainability Manager, Europe, Kimberly Clark
CASE STUDY B: IKEAs Practical Experiences With Engaging With Key Suppliers In India, Pakistan And Bangladesh
- Overall approach
- Working with suppliers to improve quality standards to reduce the water footprint by installing effluent treatment plants
- Water recycling
- Changing production techniques in order to save water and reduce amount of hazardous wastewater
Olle Blidholm, Development Manager, Social & Environmental Affairs, IKEA Group
| 12.30 |
Questions & Discussion |
DUAL PERSPECTIVE CASE STUDIES
| 14.00 |
Reducing Water Consumption Within A Global Food & Drink Production & Manufacturing Value Chain |
- Risk analysis of water resources supplying global manufacturing plants
- Measuring and understanding water footprints in beverage manufacturing operations
- Reducing water usage in beverage manufacturing operations
- Reducing wastewater discharge and emissions to the environment
- Working with communities to improve watershed management
- Assessing the business case of investing in technologies for recovering waste streams for reuse
Jens Rupp, Sustainability Manager, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company SA
Claus Conzelmann, Global Head of Safety Health and Environment, Nestle Vevey
| 14.50 |
Questions & Discussion |
DUAL PERSPECTIVE CASE STUDIES
GAINING OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY
| 15.00 |
Practical Steps To Effectively Reduce Power Hungry Water Consumption Pattern In Your Own Factories |
- Monitoring and calculating water consumption internally
- Understanding where your water comes from
- Evaluating the most water hungry processes
- Gaining efficiencies
- Understanding which processes can be modified to reduce consumption
- Evaluating processes to reuse water
- How to promote these efficiencies with employees
Vidyanath Gururajan, Group Head - Development & Projects, Branston Ltd
Tom Oxley, UK Corporate Responsibility, Norwich Union
| 15.40 |
Questions & Discussion |
CASE STUDY
| 15.50 |
Best Practice Approaches To Managing Recycled Water In A Food Processing Environment |
- Understanding the decision making process on water recycling
- Using recycled water in food itself
- Utilising recycled water within ancillary process equipment
- Reviewing the different technology options for recycling and treatment
- Cost efficiency benefits and contribution to carbon footprint reduction
Warren Allison, Environmental Manager, Northern Foods- Cavaghan & Gray, Carlisle
| 16.05 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 16.15 |
Afternoon Refreshments Served In The Exhibition Showcase Area |
| 16.45 |
The Challenges And Opportunities In Implementing Water Footprint For Raw Materials To Capture Credible Data |
- “Not just a question of quantifying, it's identifying where your water has come from”
- What to include – differentiating the impacts of Green and Blue water
- Understanding seasonal variations
- Collecting viable data from suppliers interrupting
Tim Hess, Senior Lecturer, School of Applied Sciences, Cranfield University
| 17.15 |
Questions & Discussion |
CLOSING PANEL SESSION
OFFSETTING VS REDUCTION?
| 17.25 |
Assessing The Risks & Benefits Of Water Offsetting |
- “A cubic liter of water used in two places is not the same”. Can you really offset water?
- Comparing the payback of water reduction in the supply chain Vs water offsetting initiatives
- Analysing investment data to indicate the most beneficial way of spending your money
- Considering the “intangible” PR benefits of offsetting and measuring the impact on the brand
Ulrike Ebert, Corporate Responsibility Director - Environment, Coca- Cola Europe
Derk Kuiper, Co-ordinator, Water Footprint Working Group
Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Professor in Multidisciplinary Water Management, Twente Water Centre - University of Twente
Dr. Catherine Ball, Environmental Statistician, RPS Water
| 18.00 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 18.10 |
Chair’s Closing Remarks and End of Summit |
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Ulrike Ebert, Corporate Responsibility Director - Environment, Coca- Cola Europe
Sylvain Lhôte, Director EU Affairs, Borealis Polymers N.V
Ian Walsh, Global Head Of Environment, Cadbury Schweppes
Andy Wales, Head of Sustainable Development, SABMiller Plc
Mike Barry, Head of CSR, Marks & Spencer
Henry King, Science & Technology Leader: Sustainability, SEAC, Unilever
Julian Walker-Palin, Head of Corporate Policy for Sustainability & Ethics, ASDA, Walmart
Claus Conzelmann, Global Head of Safety Health and Environment, Nestle Vevey
Jack Noble, Commercial Development Leader Europe & Africa, GE Water
& Process Technologies
Simon Houghton-Dodd, Head of Quality & Sustainability, Tate & Lyle Sugars
Olle Blidholm,
Development Manager, Social & Environmental Affairs, IKEA Group
Robin Phillips, Director,
C2C Services, Severn Trent Services
Jens Rupp, Sustainability Manager, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company SA
Henrik Lampa, Environmental Supply
Chain Manager, H&M
Neil Pendle, Managing Director, Waterscan
Tom Oxley, UK Corporate Responsibility, Norwich Union
Dr. Catherine Ball, Environmental Statistician, RPS Water
Dave Challis, Sustainability Manager, Europe, Kimberly Clark
Warren Allison, Environmental Manager, Northern Foods- Cavaghan & Gray, Carlisle
Vidyanath Gururajan,
Group Head - Development & Projects, Branston Ltd
Brad Ridoutt, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO, Australia
Dr Hayley Terlevich, Policy Adviser- Food Chain Programme, Defra
John Temple,
Vitality Director, Unilever
Tim Hess, Senior Lecturer, School of Applied Sciences, Cranfield University
Arjen Y. Hoekstra,
Professor in
Multidisciplinary Water Management, Twente Water Centre - University of Twente
Stuart Orr, Freshwater Policy Officer, WWF-UK
Derk Kuiper, Co-ordinator, Water Footprint Working Group
Ashok K. Chapagain, Water Footprint Officer, WWF-UK
Jonathan C. Kaledin, Blue Water Certification Program Director, The Nature Conservancy
Matthew Wenban-Smith, Director, OneWorldStandards
Brian Richter, Director, The Sustainable Waters Program
Adrian Greet, Global Sustainability Programme Director, Mars Inc
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