Business Session, Managing Extreme Events

1. Business contribution to managing climate and water risks:
Tools and lessons learned
Paul Reig, World Resources Institute (WRI)
Cate Lamb, CDP Water
Bert Share, Anheuser Busch InBev
Katalin Solymosi, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

2. Agenda
09:00 Welcome and overview presentation
Paul Reig, WRI
09:15 Panel discussion
Cate Lamb, CDP Water
Katalin Solymosi, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Bert Share, Anheuser Busch InBev
10:00 Questions and discussions with the audience
10:40 Wrap up and summary: How do we move forward?
10:50 Adjourn

3. WRI, WATER & SDGs

4. Climate and Water Related Risks

5. Business Challenges to Practical Responses
1. Financing is scarce for long-term investments in sustainable water
management and climate and water risk mitigation
2. Integrating water stewardship and sustainable development into standard
business activities is a challenging and complex process, and foreign to most
companies.
3. Meaningful business, investment and policy decisions are difficult to make
because the disclosure of corporate water-related information is seriously
inadequate.

6. Addressing challenges with new financing instruments:
CLIMATE AND WATER FUNDS

7. Addressing challenges through capacity development:
CORPORATE AND RIVER BASIN STEWARDSHIP
Source: WWF 2014

8. Addressing challenges with technology:
ONLINE WATER RISK, ASSESSMENT, & DISCLOSURE TOOLS

10. WRI AQUEDUCT Global Flood Risk Analyzer

11. 5 years of data
> 1,000 corporations
> 200 cities
80 countries
112 sub-industries

12. Barriers
1. Lack of incentives, experience, and regulatory frameworks for making
investments in sustainable development, and climate and water risk
mitigation.
2. Short-term thinking, following normal business cycles, and lack of sound
water policy and local capacity at the watershed level.
3. Complexity of climate and water-related risk information makes it difficult to
communicate.

13. Lessons learned
1. Risks need to be mitigated to prevent financial, social and business impacts.
The business case for action is clear and compelling. Business now needs
tools and frameworks to guide meaningful interventions
2. External pressures (buyer certifications, costs) as well as peer and investor
pressure (through public disclosure and external corporate commitments)
help drive internal goals and trigger investments and engagement in water
stewardship and sustainable development.

14. Panel discussion
Cate Lamb, CDP Water
Katalin Solymosi, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Bert Share, Anheuser Busch InBev

15. Layers of the cake - steps to using donor finance to bring in private capital
Private sector investment
IDB loans
Donor concessional finance
Donor grant funding
to demonstrate
feasibility
Sustainable
investment
policies
Catalyzing investment with
public funds
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1. Work with governments to establish and
identify investment environments with
economically viable opportunities
2. Provide detailed engineering analysis to
demonstrate financial viability and/or
investment grants for pilot projects
3. Provide donor concessional
finance to overcome cost and
risk barriers
4. Provide long-term market rate
finance
5. Actively market and deliver
private sector investment

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Promoting Water Stewardship by
Using Company Tools
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Bert Share
Global Senior Director Beer & Better World
Anheuser-Busch InBev
2015 Annual UN-Water Annual International Zaragoza Conference
15 – 17 January 2015

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Goal Development, Cascading and Tracking
Track Progress and Appraise
Company-wide tools in place to:
• Set goals
• Cascade goals
• Track and appraise goals
• Issue rewards based on goal
achievement

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Track Progress and Appraise
Multi-phase Water Risk Assessment Tools
• WRI Aqueduct Tool and 7 simple questions
• If risk, deep dive on physical, regulatory and
reputation that lead to Action Plans
• Action plan template
• Stakeholder mapping tool
• Quarterly water risk calls and annual in-person
water risk workshop

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Management Systems and Best Practice Sharing
Our Voyager Plant Optimization program is the Anheuser-
Busch InBev way to drive efficiency at our breweries and
verticalized facilities. VPO ensures we have uniform
processes and measurable standards for brewery operations,
quality, safety and the environment.
• Quarterly Zone Water Risk Calls
• Project Management Tracking Tool
• Annual Global Environmental Conference
• Quarterly Steering Committee Review
• Action Plan Sharing – One Document
• Barley Grower Day Award Program
• SmartBarley
Supply Excellence Program

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Grower to Grower
Benchmarking
Capturing a conversation between
our agronomists and barley growers
Field Level – Production Practices to KPIs
• Review of individual grower fields with barley
• Specific varieties, rotations and crop performance
• Capture inputs and management practices
Farm Level – Better World Indicators
• Assess concern regarding water and soil risks
• Ability to address and manage weather risk
• Economic contribution of producing barley for ABI

21. Panel discussion
1. Are longer payback periods, technology risks and high levels of uncertainty
associated with investments in water-related climate resilience a barrier to the
type of commercial financing that will be required for countries to meet the
SDG’s for water? What actions can be taken, and what tools are available, for
governments and companies to help overcome these barriers and incentivize
investments to help meet water SDG’s?
2. Company culture is a significant asset when integrating water stewardship into
regular business activities. What key lessons, and tools, can governments take
from companies, like AB InBev, to drive a similar cultural shift across
government staff and civil society in an effort to help meet the SDG’s for
water?
3. Open access web-based platforms allow for much greater transparency and
access to information worldwide. In what ways can greater corporate water
disclosure and transparency more broadly, help governments meet SDG’s?

22. 10:00 Questions and discussions with the audience
10:40 Wrap up and summary: How do we move forward?
10:50 Adjourn