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TLDR: What type of systems steward are you? An Unlocker, Enabler, Catalyser or Caretaker? Take our “stewardship quiz” to find out. https://lnkd.in/gwsQg-mY ************ At CPI ANZ, we’ve been exploring the concept systems stewardship since we began 4.5 years ago. The literature suggests that there is no single definition of stewardship. And our work with leaders in the public service confirms this. What we’ve realised is that different stewardship approaches are needed in different contexts. Even within teams, having people with different stewardship orientations and leanings can be really constructive. For these reasons, we’ve developed a Stewardship Matrix - a tool to help us think about the different stewardship approaches and styles we might embody in different contexts. Read this fantastic blog by Allison Edwards and Jessica Fuller and take the quiz to discover your stewardship style.

How can we become stewards of better #healthcare? This Centre for Public Impact matrix highlights the term coming up in the public realm across the world and notes that a stewardship approach means moving "away from the belief that they can have complete authority and control over outcomes". We know there is no one-size solution for any systems change-- helpful to know our part (and style) as we move forward.

Has your company started its #Water #Journey #watermeasurement #Waterfootprint ? Check out SCS Global Services new Global Water Standard and become #certified - reach out if you need support or have questions. #waterstewardship #sustainability #biodiversity

How is your business tracking its' fresh water consumtion? "The Freshwater Accountability Navigator (FAN), is a publicly available, streamlined and interactive guidance that helps to direct businesses to various frameworks and tools as it relates to assessing water-related impacts and dependencies, setting water targets, taking transformative action and disclosing water-related information. The FAN summarizes key water-related frameworks and tools across the ACT-D steps (Assess, Commit, Transform, Disclose) and will help sustainability professionals to identify key frameworks to use depending on their current level of water maturity and data readiness. The navigator is being developed by WBCSD, in collaboration with Quantis, and will be available to companies in early 2024." WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development #freshwater #tracking #management #accounting #efficiencymatters

Water stewardship is a journey - recently our partners at Waterplan (YC S21) published a case study where we describe some of the work we're doing together to improve Brown-Forman's water stewardship. https://lnkd.in/ehwiTGMm

27 27 voluntary initiatives providing guidance across the stages of corporate action on water. Often with slightly different takes and perspectives. If we want to scale corporate action on water (and we desperately need to!), we need to do something about this number. International standards and the system of ‘quality infrastructure’ can help us to scale action. Using this system we can build on the cutting edge work of initiatives like Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) to bring clarity, harmonise guidance, and raise the bar for impact. BSI Will Sarni Scott McCready Noelia Garcia Nebra Emily Faint Leslie M. James Dalton Suvi Sojamo Thérèse Rudebeck Glada Lahn Rylan Dobson Jared Sheehan Ben D. Daniel Barlow Alejandro Sturniolo Andrew Roby BEM

CDP 2024 Integrated format available !

Curious about the ways groundwater contaminants could impact your business? Our Senior Environmental Consultant and Environmental Chemist, Susan Borland discusses how the updated CL:AIRE’s guidance on Assessment and Monitoring of Natural Attenuation of Contaminants in Groundwater’ has changed almost quarter of a century on from the original Environment Agency R&D Publication 95, capturing the advances in research, monitoring methodologies and site-won experience gained in that time. Her key takeaways for clients in this space? ▶ Take note of the way MNA considerations are integrated into the framework set out in the Land Contamination Risk Management (LCRM) guidance. ▶ Also take note of sustainability considerations highlighted in the SuRF-UK framework. Susan shares these insights and more in her recent article - https://lnkd.in/gDeEcbfx

I'll put this quite crudely, and there is an awful lot of nuance in this, so don't take it as gospel and universal BUT in my own experience companies who should be following high bar voluntary standards or the non-profits who could be pressuring the companies they work with to follow high bar standards avoid doing so for two reasons. For companies they often don't like to be hemmed into things which are demanding and systematic. Auditing costs and the risk of auditing findings are also a factor. So the push back is "well, we follow most of it already so we don't really need to do....". The 'don't really need to' part usually being audited evidence of compliance. For non-profits who don't push for standards as a part of their wider engagements with companies as strongly as potentially they could do, the push back is "Well, requiring companies to do something that not all of them want to do limits our ability to achieve what we want to do". The limiting being setting a bar that could make it less appealing to use or join their own thing/product/initiative. The result can be 👀 ⬇ "The research looked into how standards can support the scaling-up of water stewardship action. The focus was on how standards could bring clarity, harmonisation and scale.   But why do companies need harmonisation? And what does ‘fragmentation’ in the water stewardship landscape mean?....." Worth a read (d/l link in comments) Virginia Newton-Lewis, PhD Will Sarni Jared Sheehan James Dalton Patricia Calderon Glada Lahn Suvi Sojamo Andrew Roby BEM Nick Hepworth Alex Money Michael Alexander Jennifer Möller-Gulland Thérèse Rudebeck Alexis Morgan Rylan Dobson Shama Perveen, Ph.D. Kirsten James Adrian Sym Joe Ray Pierre K. Simon Zbinden Greg Koch #WaterStewardship #Corporatewaterstrategy #Waterandbusiness

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