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Embedding Project Newsletter - April 2022

Every month, we curate the best in corporate sustainability and bring you useful new tools and resources, upcoming events, and leading practice to inspire you. Focusing on climate change this month and what your company can do, we share some of our favourite resources to help your company’s senior leadership and board better understand climate change scenarios. However, as we went to press, a reassessment led by the Stockholm Resilience Centre concluded that the planetary boundary for freshwater has now been transgressed. This reassessment means we have now exceeded 6 out of the 9 planetary boundaries, including biochemical flows, novel entities, land-systems change, biosphere integrity, and climate change, which can lead to irreversible changes in the systems around us. As a result, we have also created a section on some of the key resources to support corporate water stewardship. We hope you’ll find them useful!

A Highlight From Our Community

For change agents in your networks, here are some great opportunities with other member companies: Manager Sustainable Operations (Vancity), Manager, Outreach & Disclosure (West Fraser), Senior Strategist (Nedbank), and Lead, Future Fleet Decarbonization (Teck).

Leading Practice


New Goals

Owens Corning has set a pollutants reduction goal, and Aston Martin has set a goal to achieve net zero emissions across the value chain by 2039. Visit our Goals Database to see these and other leading goals.


New Position Statements

We have added a position statement from Included Health on LGBTQ+ healthcare for employees and continue to add many position statements regarding the war in Ukraine. Visit our Positions Database to see leading position statements.

Resources We Like - Climate Change

The Climate Game

Based on published scientific research and modelling by the International Energy Agency, this interactive game from the Financial Times tasks you - as the new Global Minister for Future Generations - to keep global warming below 1.5°C and save the world from the worst effects of climate change. The game presents you with three rounds of decision-making (covering the years 2022 to 2050) that highlight the depth and breadth of intersecting choices and challenges involved in reducing and reversing the impacts of the climate crisis.

En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator

The new climate solutions simulator from Climate Interactive, the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, and Ventana Systems is a powerful tool that illustrates how various important variables – particularly policy shifts – can affect global warming. It will help you visualise how the choices we make today regarding energy, the electrification and efficiency of transport and buildings, population and economic growth, land and industry emissions, and carbon removal will shape future climate scenarios.

Breaking Down Corporate Net-Zero Climate Targets

Critically assessing decarbonization targets can be challenging, and especially given the lack of uniformity in target types, boundaries, units, and timelines. This guide from MSCI introduces an analytical framework to help you to evaluate climate targets across three key dimensions: comprehensiveness, ambition, and feasibility.

In-depth Q&A: What is ‘climate justice’?

This primer may be particularly helpful for executives, board members, and others who are not yet familiar with the concept and who may have questions similar to the ones addressed here. This resource explores the history of climate justice, explains why the impacts of climate change have such an outsized effect on communities that experience systemic discrimination, and examines how the concept of climate justice is influencing our social, political, and legal spheres.

Resources We Like - Water

The Global Assessment of Private Sector Impacts on Water

This comprehensive report from Ceres explains how industry practices are driving critical threats to global freshwater systems. It explains how industry at large is affecting freshwater resources and how, in turn, business is being impacted; the specific impacts on water from different business sectors; critical and emergent impacts and threats to global water systems; and strategies to mitigating them.

WWG Guidance Note: “Net Positive Water”

The concept of “net positive water” may seem appealing as a simple, universal water metric, but the reality is that the framing and pursuit of "net positive water" can do more harm than good. This guidance note from the World Wildlife Fund unpacks the concept of net positive water; explains some of the benefits and drawbacks of "net positive" framing with respect to water; and provides recommendations for companies looking to measure consumption, make commitments, and set targets.

Putting Water Strategy into Context

This guide from the WWF was created to help businesses begin the process of embedding science-based water targets into their operations and strategy. It details six shifts that corporations need to make in the development of their water strategies, and introduces a four-step approach to facilitate this change: assess, prioritise, define context, and set goals and targets. This guide is an excellent resource for change agents, business leaders, and other corporate water experts who want to strengthen stewardship principles and activities within their organisation and advance corporate uptake and investment in water stewardship.

We have also added the following resources to our Resource Wheel and Issue Snapshots:
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