UNEP FI Water & Finance Workstream
|Survey: Corporate Water Performance as a Driver of Investment / Finance Decision Making |
|COMPANY NAME: |TYPE: |
| |Sell Side Analyst Rating Agency |
| |Buy Side Analyst / Portfolio Manager |
| |Commercial Lender Private Equity Vehicle |
| |Multilateral, Developmental or Public Lender |
| |Other: |
1. Is ‘water’ an issue for your company? Does your company take water-sustainability issues into consideration within its decision making processes, financial analysis or product development?
|a. Yes, always |b. Yes, depending on the sector |c. Yes, depending on the geography |d. Never |
2. If your answer to question 1 is a., b. or c., then why does your company take water issues into consideration (financial or environmental/social motivation)?
|a. Purely out of financial |b. Both, but rather out of financial |c. Both, but rather out of |d. Purely out of environmental / |
|motivation |motivation |environmental / social motivation |social motivation |
3. If your answer to question 1 is d., what is the most important reason for the exclusion of water issues from your analysis / decision making processes?
|a. The water issue is not material |b. Lacking know-how on assessing |c. Lacking access to credible and |d. Other |
| |water performance in corporate |reliable data | |
| |operations | | |
4. If your answer to question 1 is b., please specify the sectors where a water-sustainability assessment is undertaken (please start with the sector where the water-performance assessment is deemed most important, and so forth):
|a. |b. |c. |d. |
5. If your answer to question 1 is c., please specify the geographies where a water-sustainability assessment is undertaken (please start with the geography where the water-sustainability assessment is deemed most important, and so forth):
|a. |b. |c. |d. |
6. If your answer to question 1 is a., b. or c., please specify the water-related criteria looked at (please start with the criterion – water consumption, water security, water efficiency, resulting water pollution, social equality, environmental sustainability, etc. - deemed most important in your analysis, and so forth):
|a. |b. |c. |d. |
7. Is your company involved in agribusiness operations (including supply chain aspects in the food & beverages sector) or has it had a respective involvement in the past (finance, investments, analysis, and rating)? Is a respective water-sustainability assessment undertaken?
|a. YES, with a water assessment |b. YES, without a water assessment |b. NO |
8. If your answer to question 7 is a., please specify the water-related criteria looked at (please start with the criterion – water security, water efficiency, resulting water pollution, social equality, environmental sustainability, etc. - deemed most important in your analysis, and so forth):
|a. |b. |c. |d. |
9. If your answer to question 7 is b., what are the reasons for the exclusion of water issues from the analysis / decision making processes?
|a. The water issue is not material |b. Lacking know-how on assessing |c. Lacking access to credible and |d. Other: |
| |water performance in agribusiness |reliable data / information | |
| |operations | | |
10. If your answer to question 9 is not a., how important do you deem water performance issues to be for the success of agribusiness operations?
|a. Highest importance |b. High importance |c. Mediocre importance |d. Secondary |
11. If your answer to question 7 is a., what are your sources of water-related information?
|Source: |Always |At Times |Never |
|Interviews with the Agribusiness Entity | | | |
|Interviews with Third Stakeholders | | | |
|Entity’s Sustainability Report | | | |
|If applicable: (ESG)Rating Agencies | | | |
|If applicable: (ESG) Analysts | | | |
|Sell-side research | | | |
|Primary research | | | |
|Other: | | | |
|Other: | | | |
12. If your answer to question 7 is a. or b., please specify the geographies (countries, country-groups, regions) where most of the agribusiness operations you are engaged in (you have an exposure to) take place (please start with the geography of most relevant activity, and so forth):
|a. |b. |c. |d. |
13. If your answer to question 7 is a. or b., please specify the crops your are most exposed to (please start with the crop your institution is most exposed to, and so forth):
|a. |b. |c. |d. |
14. In terms of their relevance for the success of business operations: by when, do you think, will water performance issues have reached the status of ‘high or highest importance’ from the perspective of financial backers?
Business in General:
|a. Now |b. in 3 years |c. in 5 years |d. in 20 years |e. Never |
Agribusiness:
|a. Now |b. in 3 years |c. in 5 years |d. in 20 years |e. Never |
15. Regarding UNEP FI’s twofold focus when it comes to Water & Finance:
▪ The ‘Water Supply’ Challenge consists in increasing the flow of funds into the "water sector" (water/sanitation-infrastructure, -services, -technologies, -utilities) in an ESG-inclusive manner in order to support the achievement of the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target. This target consists
"in halving, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation."
▪ The ‘Water Use’ Challenge consists in mainstreaming water considerations into risk/opportunity assessment and due diligence processes of financial institutions in the context of water-exposed businesses (borrowers/investees) "downstream".
Which side of the Water & Finance challenge is more relevant for your financial institution?
| The ‘Water Supply’ Challenge | The ‘Water Use’ Challenge | Both equally | Both are of zero relevance |
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