Introduction to the UNEP Project on Water footprint, neutrality and efficiency (WaFNE) CILCA, Coatzacoalcos, April 2011 Sonia Valdivia Guido Sonnemann Maite Aldaya Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch Division of Technology, Industry and Economics United Nations Environment Programme

Agenda UNEP and Thematic Priorities WAFNE project Water Accounting Systems Water Assessment in LCIA Go through agenda/outline of the presentation

1 UNEP and the thematic priorities

UNEP Thematic Priorities Climate Change Harmful Substances & Hazardous Waste Ecosystem Management Resource Efficiency & SCP * Disasters & Conflicts Environmental Governance Describe the 6 priority areas of UNEP Biodiversity is cross-cutting, can be touched upon in multiple of these themes Will focus on SCP – our branch = SCP, RE – our unit = IRMU, contains both the Resource Panel and the Life Cycle Initiative *SCP = Sustainable Consumption & Production

WaFNE - Efficiency Economic efficiency + Environmental efficiency = Resource efficiency (water, materials, energy, land & emissions)  By producing more wellbeing with less resource consumption, RE enhances the means to meet human needs while respecting the ecological carrying capacity of the Earth. Reducing the environmental impact of consumption and production of goods and services over their full life cycles

WaFNE overview - Goal To enhance water efficiency and water quality management through the refinement of water accounting/ footprint and water neutrality methodologies with support of related management tools, their testing and application in (i) high water impact and water dependent industry sectors, used by their financiers and investors in due diligence and stock picking exercises, as well as (ii) water-stressed / scarce regions, used by public authorities in local water service and conservation operations.

WaFNE outline Time frame: 3 years (2009/10 – 2012/13) Partners: UNEP: UNEP SCP Branch (Paris), UNEP Finance Initiative - FI (Geneva), International Environmental Technology Centre - IETC (Osaka) UN Global Compact – CEO Water Mandate Business & Industry: participant companies, organizations Relevant UN institutions, expert institutes & networks: UN- Water, Pacific Institute, Water Footprint Network and UNEP/ SETAC International Life Cycle Initiative - ILCI, Global Reporting Initiative - GRI

WaFNE overview - Outputs Methodologies, tools Guidelines Country pilot tests / demonstrations Capacity platform and awareness raising Dialogue forums & communications

WaFNE activities Refinement, promotion of methodologies and tools for application of water accounting/ footprint related concepts / tools Under development: Expert groups working on a Life Cycle Impact Assessment methodology. Under development: ISO 14046 – Water Footprint Standard under development Available: ISO Footprint Network methodology

WaFNE activities 2. Guides UNEP publication on “Corporate Water Accounting”. Includes Water accounting methods: WFN “Water Footprint”, LCA WBCSD Global Water and GEMI Water Sustainability Tools. Authors: Pacific Institute and Institute for Environmental Research and Education

WaFNE activities 2. Guides Under development Private sector Report Water efficiency improvement in the corporate sector in South East – Asia (Vietnam)

WaFNE – Activities 2. Guides Under development Public sector UNEP report ‘Water footprint application, policy and measures at different geographic scales’ 1. WF application at different geographical scales 2. Policy framework and measures 3. Framework of the WF application in geographical areas

WaFNE activities 3. Country pilot tests / demonstrations Applying water accounting/ footprint related concepts & management tools in: - selected industry sectors (e.g. apparel) - financial sector - selected geographical locations Later in June 2011: Pilots on water efficiency in South East – Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia) – Levis, H&M, Nordica and Nike.

WaFNE – Activities 4. Capacity platform & awareness raising Under development: Online capacity building platform for water accounting and management Ongoing: Regional capacity building and training of trainers on the use of the water footprint management tools in developing countries. Example: UNEP/SETAC Training on 7 April, CILCA

WaFNE – Activities 5. Dialogue Forums & communications Ongoing: Providing input to UNEP’s Resource Panel work on water accounting and footprint

WaFNE – Next Activities 2012 and on Pilot projects in water-intensive industry sectors in target countries, providing co- financing to interested companies funded by GTZ, Korean Funds, and others

2 Water accounting systems

Water accounting systems Production Eurostat/OECD joint questionnaire System of Environmental and Economic Accounting for Water (SEEA-W) FAO AQUASTAT Water footprint dataset Consumption Input output analysis Partial and general equilibrium models Process analysis (LCA, WF) Water neutrality

Water neutrality http://www.waterneutral.org/ Water Neutral is an awareness campaign to promote the offsetting of water used and consumed through support of water related to prevention, recycling, reuse, and efficient use and distribution of water. http://www.waterneutral.org/

3 Water assessment in LCA

LCIA Midpoint-Damage Framework of the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative Water Inventory

Water use in LCA - Framework

Other ‘water’ impact assessment methods

Review of methods addressing water

ISO 14046 Water Footprint • Development process: 2010-2012. • Objective: develop an international standard specifying requirements and guidelines to assess and report water footprint based on life cycle assessment.

Sources ISO (2011) ISO 14046, Water footprint – Requirements and guidelines. Available from: http://www.iso.org/iso/iso-focus-plus_index/iso-focusplus_online-bonus- articles/isofocusplus_bonus_water-footprint.htm Morrison, J. and Schulte, P. (2010) Corporate water accounting: An analysis of methods and tools for measuring water use and its impacts. UNEP, The Global Compact CEO Water Mandate. Available from: http://www.pacinst.org/reports/corporate_water_accounting_analysis/corporate_water_accounting_a nalysis.pdf UNEP DTIE (2011) Water Footprint, Neutrality and Efficiency (WaFNE) Umbrella Project. United Nations Environmental Programme, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch. Available from: http://www.unep.fr/scp/water/WAFNE.htm UNEP SETAC (2011) UNEP SETAC Life Cycle Initiative. Available from: http://lcinitiative.unep.fr/ WFN (2011) Water Footprint Network. Available from: http://www.waterfootprint.org

WaFNE Project For more information: Guido Sonnemann, PhD Sonia Valdivia, PhD Maite Aldaya, PhD SCP Branch UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics http://www.unep.org Email: guido.sonnemann@unep.org sonia.valdivia@unep.org