1. 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

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

3. 1
UNEP and the thematic priorities

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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

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

9. 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 – Water Footprint Standard under development
Available: ISO Footprint Network methodology

10. 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

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

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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

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

16. 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

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Water accounting systems

18. 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

19. 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.

20. 3
Water assessment in LCA

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

22. Water use in LCA - Framework

23. Other ‘water’ impact assessment methods

24. Review of methods addressing water

25. 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.

26. Sources
ISO (2011) ISO 14046, Water footprint – Requirements and guidelines. Available from: 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: 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:
UNEP SETAC (2011) UNEP SETAC Life Cycle Initiative. Available from:
WFN (2011) Water Footprint Network. Available from:

27. WaFNE Project For more information: Guido Sonnemann, PhD
Sonia Valdivia, PhD
Maite Aldaya, PhD
SCP Branch
UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics