As water risks and opportunities become greater strategic priorities, organizations need a more proactive approach to topics like water scarcity, climate volatility, and tightening regulations that can disrupt operations and threaten long‑term growth.
As water risks and opportunities become greater strategic priorities, organizations need a more proactive approach to topics like water scarcity, climate volatility, and tightening regulations that can disrupt operations and threaten long‑term growth.
ADEC ESG’s water strategy and resilience services help organizations understand and manage water‑related risks through rigorous analysis and actionable planning. We support companies in building water‑secure operations by strengthening disclosure, assessing exposure, and developing long‑term strategies that align with global standards. Backed by years of cross-industry technical sustainability expertise, our work empowers clients to engage in proactive water stewardship no matter where they are on their sustainability journey.
ADEC ESG will work closely with your team to develop a best-in-class climate transition plan that communicates your organization’s strategy and ambitions. We’ll do the foundational work of consolidating any existing documents and data, closing any information gaps, benchmarking against customer and regulatory requirements, and engaging with stakeholders on low-carbon economy transition.
ADEC ESG will conduct a comprehensive gap analysis your current climate transition strategy against industry-leading transition plans, established CTP frameworks, and regulatory frameworks. We’ll assess the completeness and credibility of your current transition strategy, identifying strengths, gaps, and priority areas for action and engagement.
Using the results of your gap analysis, our team develops a roadmap recommending next steps. Your roadmap will outline how to address the identified gaps, how to take action on emerging trends, and key steps to take before developing a robust, fully aligned climate transition plan. As global trends, regulations, and environmental impacts shift over time, so will your transition strategy. With strategic roadmapping, we’ll work to ensure that your transition plan evolves over time, setting out actions that adapt to emerging risks and changing conditions.
ADEC ESG will perform a climate risk and opportunity assessment, evaluating how shifting environmental, regulatory, and market conditions may impact your organization. Our team will identify physical and transition risks, highlight growth opportunities in resilience and low‑carbon innovation, and deliver actionable recommendations to strengthen strategy, reduce exposure, and unlock long‑term value.
A subsequent climate scenario analysis will look at different future conditions and the potential impacts from physical climate change and low-carbon transitions. We’ll identify impacts on your operations and supply chain, highlight risks and opportunities, and describe future anticipated changes in the short-, medium-, and long-term. The identified risks and opportunities are then evaluated against your risk scale, with recommendations on risks or opportunities that should be integrated into your risk, strategy, finance, and governance functions.
We’ll evaluate your existing climate transition plan against peers and industry leaders, comparing an array of sustainability program components including disclosure and reporting, targets, actions and initiatives, and policies. This analysis provides a clear view of your current maturity and establishes the groundwork for identifying strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement.
Don’t already have a transition plan in place? We’ll analyze how your peer group is performing and highlight opportunities to strengthen and formalize your approach.
We’ll work with you to develop and set clear, science‑aligned emissions reduction targets as a core element of your climate transition plan. We’ll assess your current emissions profile, evaluate feasible reduction pathways, and align targets with the latest climate science. This service defines targets that are ambitious, achievable, and fully integrated into your broader transition strategy, driving credible progress toward your goals.
Trust our team to put your plan into action. We’ll translate strategy and planning to real change, building the systems, processes, and relationships that will ensure your commitments come to life. From setting initiatives in motion to connecting you with our network of trusted partners, we’ll put every component of your plan into place to deliver on your climate goals.
Water-related corporate strategy development equips you with a clear, actionable roadmap for managing your water risks and impacts. Our team will help you understand how water-related risks affect your operational resilience, creating a roadmap to integrate water topics into your strategy and act as a guide in the short and long term. From meeting regulatory requirements and improving sustainability performance to policy development and target-setting, this process delivers a comprehensive strategic plan driven by data.
A water risk assessment (WRA) examines your current and future exposure to drought, flooding, and other water-related impacts under a variety of climate and socio-economic scenarios. We’ll reveal potential risks to direct operations, facility-level regulatory and community water contexts, and different parts of your value chain. A critical component of reporting, a WRA also helps your prioritize risks and helps inform your future mitigation and planning.
Water value chain mapping provides visibility into how water impacts your business across the entire value chain, not just within direct operations, by tracking water use, dependencies, and impacts from source to discharge or reuse. Using multiple assessment tools, it evaluates all relevant water risk components and significant water-related risks, helping organizations identify priority areas and focus mitigation efforts where they will have the greatest impact.
Get a clear understanding of how your business might perform in a rapidly changing world—and how to prepare for every scenario. Will your business have enough usable water? And at what cost? Using specialized tools to analyze factors like water demand, water stress, interannual variability, and seasonal variability, we’ll model how your business performs against varying SSP scenarios and 2030-2080 time horizons to give you a fuller picture of your exposure across accepted climate and socio-economic futures.
Our team can help you set water targets to support your business and sustainability goals, mitigate water-related risk, and capitalize on water-related opportunities. Using your industry-specific context, we will apply best practices and science-based methods to develop targets on water use and withdrawal, water pollution, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services—all aligned with CDP or other disclosure requirements.
With water accounting services, our team delivers a clear, accurate picture of how water moves through your operations and value chain. Through structured data collection and analysis, we’ll provide a detailed view of your water consumption, withdrawals, discharge, and reuse—vital information that helps shape your water management and strategic planning.
Ensure that the water data you rely on is accurate and credible with our trusted verification services. We provide independent audits of organizational water-related information, helping you meet regulatory requirements, set accurate baselines for target-setting, and build stakeholder confidence.
Let our team of experts support your sustainability disclosure with robust water-related reporting. We consolidate your water data and build it into new or existing reporting aligned with GRI, CDP, SASB, the S&P CSA, CSRD’s ESRS E3 Water, and emerging water-stewardship protocols. From drafting to submission, we work to ensure that your disclosure is complete, accurate, and fully aligned with framework methodology.
CleanChain, an ADEC Innovation, helps organizations simplify chemical management and wastewater testing across complex operations and supply chains. The platform centralizes chemical inventories and Safety Data Sheets (SDSs), provides greater visibility into chemical use and hazards, and helps teams manage compliance requirements more efficiently. Combined with wastewater testing, monitoring and reporting services, CleanChain provides a connected approach to managing chemical and environmental performance, reducing manual processes and supporting more informed decision-making.
Water-related corporate strategy development equips you with a clear, actionable roadmap for managing your water risks and impacts. Our team will help you understand how water-related risks affect your operational resilience, creating a roadmap to integrate water topics into your strategy and act as a guide in the short and long term. From meeting regulatory requirements and improving sustainability performance to policy development and target-setting, this process delivers a comprehensive strategic plan driven by data.
A water risk assessment (WRA) examines your current and future exposure to drought, flooding, and other water-related impacts under a variety of climate and socio-economic scenarios. We’ll reveal potential risks to direct operations, facility-level regulatory and community water contexts, and different parts of your value chain. A critical component of reporting, a WRA also helps your prioritize risks and helps inform your future mitigation and planning.
Water value chain mapping provides visibility into how water impacts your business across the entire value chain, not just within direct operations, by tracking water use, dependencies, and impacts from source to discharge or reuse. Using multiple assessment tools, it evaluates all relevant water risk components and significant water-related risks, helping organizations identify priority areas and focus mitigation efforts where they will have the greatest impact.
Get a clear understanding of how your business might perform in a rapidly changing world—and how to prepare for every scenario. Will your business have enough usable water? And at what cost? Using specialized tools to analyze factors like water demand, water stress, interannual variability, and seasonal variability, we’ll model how your business performs against varying SSP scenarios and 2030-2080 time horizons to give you a fuller picture of your exposure across accepted climate and socio-economic futures.
Our team can help you set water targets to support your business and sustainability goals, mitigate water-related risk, and capitalize on water-related opportunities. Using your industry-specific context, we will apply best practices and science-based methods to develop targets on water use and withdrawal, water pollution, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services—all aligned with CDP or other disclosure requirements.
With water accounting services, our team delivers a clear, accurate picture of how water moves through your operations and value chain. Through structured data collection and analysis, we’ll provide a detailed view of your water consumption, withdrawals, discharge, and reuse—vital information that helps shape your water management and strategic planning.
Ensure that the water data you rely on is accurate and credible with our trusted verification services. We provide independent audits of organizational water-related information, helping you meet regulatory requirements, set accurate baselines for target-setting, and build stakeholder confidence.
Let our team of experts support your sustainability disclosure with robust water-related reporting. We consolidate your water data and build it into new or existing reporting aligned with GRI, CDP, SASB, the S&P CSA, CSRD’s ESRS E3 Water, and emerging water-stewardship protocols. From drafting to submission, we work to ensure that your disclosure is complete, accurate, and fully aligned with framework methodology.
CleanChain, an ADEC Innovation, helps organizations simplify chemical management and wastewater testing across complex operations and supply chains. The platform centralizes chemical inventories and Safety Data Sheets (SDSs), provides greater visibility into chemical use and hazards, and helps teams manage compliance requirements more efficiently. Combined with wastewater testing, monitoring and reporting services, CleanChain provides a connected approach to managing chemical and environmental performance, reducing manual processes and supporting more informed decision-making.
Adrienne specializes in CSR reporting and ESG consulting services, supporting clients in reporting on ESG efforts in alignment with global reporting frameworks and sustainability indices. Since 2018, Adrienne has assisted companies in maximizing performance in CDP, data management, and developing comprehensive CSR reports.
Adrienne Garcia Senior Project Manager, Disclosure and Reporting Team
Alicia has 14 years of experience working in corporate sustainability. She works with multinational companies to evaluate and improve their ESG performance on their supply chains, reporting indices, CSR reports and corporate strategy.
Alicia Godlove MESM, Senior Sustainability Services Manager, Disclosure and Reporting Team Lead
Adrienne specializes in CSR reporting and ESG consulting services, supporting clients in reporting on ESG efforts in alignment with global reporting frameworks and sustainability indices. Since 2018, Adrienne has assisted companies in maximizing performance in CDP, data management, and developing comprehensive CSR reports.
Adrienne Garcia Senior Project Manager, Disclosure and Reporting Team
Alicia has 14 years of experience working in corporate sustainability. She works with multinational companies to evaluate and improve their ESG performance on their supply chains, reporting indices, CSR reports and corporate strategy.
Alicia Godlove MESM, Senior Sustainability Services Manager, Disclosure and Reporting Team Lead
Water is a vital human need, and its essential role in everyday life makes its use and governance frequent topics of discussion, regardless of location or industry. For our clients, a water strategy is a structured plan that guides water management and planning in a way that balances the priorities of the organization with those of stakeholders, including local agencies, regulators, and communities. A comprehensive water strategy accounts for water-related risks, opportunities, dependencies, and impacts. It enables an organization to build business and climate resilience, improve efficiency, increase supply chain stability, and reduce risk.
The concept of water risk covers the many ways that water-related challenges can disrupt a business, including operations, supply chain, regulatory compliance, reputation, and financial performance. Water stress and scarcity, water-related regulations, high-volume water use, and other issues can create material exposure to a range of strategic vulnerabilities that affect overall business continuity
The key dimensions of corporate water risk include:
Even for industries that are not traditionally high-volume users, water is an indispensable resource. Every organization and every individual relies on freshwater to function, so when scarcity emerges, businesses, value chains, and stakeholders face heightened risk—with vulnerable communities often bearing disproportionate impacts. Understanding your water risks equips your organization with the information it needs to make more informed decisions, set feasible (and ambitious) targets, and strengthen resilience in the face of water-related challenges.
A water risk assessment (WRA) identifies potential vulnerabilities, giving you a new perspective on potential physical, regulatory, and other risks across your operations and supply chain. Understanding what your water-related risks are and the extent to which they may impact your business enables you to prioritize policies and initiatives that target those risks, set appropriate targets, and build overall business and climate resilience. A WRA is also a critical component of reporting in alignment with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures, SASB, and the Alliance for Water Stewardship. It also plays an important role in environmental risk management processes. Learn more about water risk assessments.
A water-focused scenario analysis models a variety of future states, accounting for climate impacts, regulatory shifts, and other potential conditions that could affect your business outcomes. A scenario analysis allows you to test how your current business might perform under these conditions—as well as how strategic planning may change those outcomes.
Value chain mapping enables organizations to take a holistic view of water-related dependencies, impacts, and risks across their operations, suppliers, and downstream activities. By identifying water hotspots and understanding where risks are concentrated, businesses can prioritize mitigation strategies, strengthen resilience to water scarcity and quality issues, support regulatory compliance, and drive more informed decision-making to improve long-term sustainability performance. Value chain mapping can also help identify and prioritize specific operations, suppliers, or customers to directly engage with on high priority water tasks.
During a water risk assessment, we assess your fresh and saltwater basin risk relative to identified value chain locations. To do this, we utilize industry-leading tools and databases like the WRI Aqueduct and WFF Water Risk Atlas, as well as company-specific variables that allow us to narrow the scope and help illuminate your own unique risks. Ranging from water withdrawn at each facility to water efficiency per pound of produced product, these internal variables make the WRA unique to the organization and highlight company-specific water risks.
After a water risk assessment, you’ll have the data you need to make informed decisions related to your water strategy. A WRA also provides a structured assessment process that can be regularly updated as business operations, climate impacts, and global regulations evolve. Learn more about water risk assessments.
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