2016 World Water Week programme

Monday | 29 August | 14:00-15:30
Building resilience, realising opportunity, delivering water security through
investor intervention
Introduction
Room: FH Congress Hall C
Room: NL Auditorium / Aulan
Convenor: Carbon Disclosure Project
The private sector is under increasing pressure to adopt improved water management practices. Institutional investors have woken up to
this situation and are motivating the world’s most significant industrial water users to act. Join this session to explore the current state of
investor interventions and how the water community can support these.
14:00 Welcome and overview of the
current state of investor
interventions and the
implications of this on water
security
CDP’s Global Head of Water
14:15 Putting their money where
their mouth is
Expectations of a Global Asset
Owner (tbc)
Reactions from a Global Asset
Manager (tbc)
Meeting increasing client water
demands from a Data Service
Provider (tbc)
15:00 Open discussion – Impressions
and reactions
15:20 Concluding remarks
CDP’s Global Head of Water
15:30 Close of event
Driving collaborative change in the textile and leather industry
Convenors: GAP Inc., SIWI and STWI
The apparel, textile, and leather industry contributes to development of many countries, but externalities are substantial. Gap Inc.’s
Women + Water and the Sweden Textile Water Initiative are two industry leading programmes addressing water in the supply chain.
Bilateral aid agencies such as USAID and Sida are working with the sector.
14:00 Welcome
14:10 Panel discission
Facilitator: The Guardian
Panellists:
Dan Henkle, Gap Inc
Anna Gedda, H&M
Elin Larsson, Filippa K
Chris Holmes, USAID
Katarina Veem, Swedish Water
House at SIWI
Photo: Medioimages, Photodisc
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15:30 Close of event
Photo: iStock
General info
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