Target setting process questions
Here we provide answers to common technical questions that companies have as they are going through the target-setting process.
Action options for freshwater [v1]
This is a non-exhaustive list of possible action options companies may consider to meet the science-based targets they have set. Many action options have co-benefits not only in terms of water quality and quantity, but for land too, for example. It is important to note that collective action for water stewardship is strongly advised as a means to engage proactively in partnerships and landscape-level initiatives. This is because there are likely to be freshwater-related challenges that cannot be effectively tackled on a company-by-company basis. The Alliance for Water Stewardship Standard is a useful resource to support companies in organising their Water Stewardship Plans that take into account action options that will help achieve science-based targets.
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Avoid pollution, effluents, and runoff, including acidification
- Landscape Engagement
- Freshwater Quality
- SBTi Climate FLAG
- Freshwater Quantity
Avoid illegal logging through monitoring/patrolling and regulating forest use of all timber and non-timber products
- No Conversion of Natural Ecosystems
- Landscape Engagement
- Freshwater Quantity
- Freshwater Quality
- SBTi Climate FLAG
Manage invasive alien species (IAS)/species encroachment through practice and multiple policy instruments (e.g. monitor silvicultural interventions, remove aggressive Indigenous species, remove invasives)
- Landscape Engagement
- Freshwater Quantity
- No Conversion of Natural Ecosystems
- Land Footprint Reduction
- Freshwater Quality
- SBTi Climate FLAG
Achieve zero conversion of natural lands in direct operations and supply chains
- No Conversion of Natural Ecosystems
- Freshwater Quality
- SBTi Climate FLAG
- Land Footprint Reduction
- Landscape Engagement
- Freshwater Quantity
Protect Critical Natural Habitat and areas of High Conservation Value
- No Conversion of Natural Ecosystems
- Landscape Engagement
- Land Footprint Reduction
- Freshwater Quantity
- Freshwater Quality
- SBTi Climate FLAG
Commodity production is not implemented on newly converted natural ecosystems or Core Natural Lands (especially avoid global and regional land conversion-driving commodities in Annex 1a)
- No Conversion of Natural Ecosystems
- Land Footprint Reduction
- Landscape Engagement
- SBTi Climate FLAG
- Freshwater Quantity
- Freshwater Quality
New operations, landfills, or recycling facilities are not implemented in or adjacent to newly converted natural ecosystems or Core Natural Lands
- Landscape Engagement
- Freshwater Quality
- SBTi Climate FLAG
- Land Footprint Reduction
- Landscape Engagement
- Freshwater Quantity
- Freshwater Quality
- SBTi Climate FLAG
Avoid persistent organic pollutants and chemicals with demonstrated negative impacts on biodiversity including harmful chemicals and hazardous substances
- Landscape Engagement
- Freshwater Quality
- SBTi Climate FLAG
- Land Footprint Reduction
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