WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- DuPont (NYSE:DD)
today announced that it has joined the Water Resilience
Coalition and signed the CEO Water Mandate as part of its
goal to increase global access to clean water. Through these
actions the company is strengthening its commitment to implement
innovative, sustainable water strategies across its facilities,
especially in high-risk watersheds.
"DuPont is proud to join a coalition of organizations that
deeply understand the value of water resilience and the importance
of industry taking collective action to improve our global water
future," said Ed Breen, DuPont
Executive Chairman and CEO. "With the ever-increasing impact of
climate change on our global water supply, we must act with a sense
of urgency to protect our water resources, now, and for future
generations."
The Water Resilience Coalition, founded in 2020, is
an industry-driven, CEO-led coalition of the UN Global
Compact's CEO Water Mandate that aims to elevate global water
stress to the top of the corporate agenda and preserve the world's
freshwater resources through collective action in water-stressed
basins and ambitious, quantifiable commitments.
By endorsing the Mandate, a UN Global Compact initiative in
co-secretariat with the Pacific Institute, DuPont commits to the
continuous improvement in six core areas of water stewardship
practice: direct operations, supply chain and watershed management,
collective action, public policy, community engagement, and
transparency.
With this, DuPont becomes a part of the Mandate's global
community, which gathers over 190 companies seeking to advance on
water, sanitation, and the Sustainable Development Goals for
corporate water stewardship.
Signing the Water Resilience Coalition pledge means DuPont also
joins an ambitious group of over 30 companies and organizations
committed to reducing water stress by 2050 in some of the most
vulnerable basins around the world and advancing net-positive water
impact through intersectoral partnerships and collective
efforts.
While it is making a corporate-wide water stewardship commitment
across its global operations, DuPont also plans to bring its
expertise in water challenges and solutions to the collective
impact of the Coalition. For example, DuPont helps municipalities
and industrial water users purify water supply, optimize water
usage, minimize discharges, recover valuable raw materials, and
minimize energy consumption. DuPont will also make its water
experts available to join the Coalition's committees to address the
unique challenges of watersheds around the world.
DuPont's Water Solutions business unit has a broad
portfolio of sustainable water purification and separation
technologies and solutions that enable water reuse and recycling,
desalination and groundwater access, including reverse osmosis (RO)
membranes, ion exchange resins (IEX), ultrafiltration (UF),
electrodeionization (EDI), nanofiltration (NF), membrane bioreactor
systems (MBR), membrane aerated biofilm reactors (MABR), membrane
degasification, and closed circuit reverse osmosis (CCRO)
systems.
In addition to the Water Resilience Coalition and CEO Water
Mandate, DuPont is working to optimize the global water supply
through a variety of cross-sector partnerships and collaborations.
For example, DuPont is sponsoring the forthcoming Economist Impact
City Water Optimisation Index that will help stakeholders
around the world use data to make resource, investment and policy
decisions to improve more cities' water futures.
"DuPont envisions a future where all 7.8 billion people on this
planet have daily access to safe, clean drinking water, industry
has the necessary water to make the products and foods on which we
rely, and we optimize the circular nature of water in a
sustainable, energy efficient way," said HP Nanda, global vice
president and general manager, DuPont Water Solutions. "To shape a
water future that is best for the planet and society, we will
continue to collaborate with water stakeholders--across sectors and
borders—to accelerate progress against shared water
challenges."
"DuPont's focus on science and innovation to drive solutions for
the world's complex challenges make it a natural ally to accelerate
water resilience in the face of climate change," said Jason Morrison, President of the Pacific
Institute and Head of the CEO Water Mandate. "By joining the
Water Resilience Coalition, DuPont recognizes the private sector's
powerful opportunity to scale water stewardship impact through
collective action and share best practices with companies around
the world."
For more information on DuPont's Water Stewardship Goals, please
click here.
About DuPont
DuPont (NYSE: DD) is a global innovation
leader with technology-based materials and solutions that help
transform industries and everyday life. Our employees apply diverse
science and expertise to help customers advance their best ideas
and deliver essential innovations in key markets including
electronics, transportation, construction, water, healthcare and
worker safety. More information about the company, its businesses
and solutions can be found at www.dupont.com. Investors can access
information included on the Investor Relations section of the
website at investors.dupont.com.
About Water Resilience Coalition
The Water Resilience
Coalition brings together some of the biggest companies in the
world to help preserve the world's freshwater resources. Led by the
CEO Water Mandate, an initiative of the UN Global Compact,
Coalition members commit to having a positive impact in water
stressed basins, to develop and implement resilient practices
across their industry, and to provide leadership and advocacy in
the field of water resilience. Water Resilience Coalition
(ceowatermandate.org/resilience)
About the CEO Water Mandate
The CEO Water Mandate is a
United Nations Global Compact initiative that mobilizes business
leaders on water, sanitation, and the Sustainable Development Goals
for corporate water stewardship. Endorsers of the Mandate commit to
continuous progress against six core elements (direct operations,
supply chain and watershed management, collective action, public
policy, community engagement and transparency) and in so doing
understand and manage their own water risks. Established in 2007
and implemented in partnership with the Pacific Institute, the
Mandate was created out of the acknowledgement that global water
challenges create risk for a wide range of industry sectors, the
public sector, local communities and ecosystems alike. For more
information, follow @H2O_stewards on Twitter and visit our
website at ceowatermandate.org.
About the United Nations Global Compact: As a
special initiative of the UN Secretary-General, the United Nations
Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to align
their operations and strategies with Ten Principles in the
areas of human rights, labour, environment and
anti-corruption. Our ambition is to accelerate and scale the global
collective impact of business by upholding the Ten Principles and
delivering the Sustainable Development Goals through accountable
companies and ecosystems that enable change. With more than 12,000
companies and 3,000 non-business signatories based in over 160
countries, and 69 Local Networks, the UN Global Compact is the
world's largest corporate sustainability initiative — one Global
Compact uniting business for a better world. For more information,
follow @globalcompact on social media and visit our website
at unglobalcompact.org.
About the Pacific Institute: The Pacific Institute
envisions a world in which society, the economy, and the
environment have the water they need to thrive now and in the
future. In pursuit of this vision, the Institute creates and
advances solutions to the world's most pressing water challenges,
such as unsustainable water management and use; climate change;
environmental degradation; food, fiber, and energy production for a
growing population; and lack of access to freshwater and
sanitation. Since 1987, the Pacific Institute has cut across
traditional areas of study and actively collaborated with a diverse
set of stakeholders, including policymakers, scientists, corporate
leaders, international organizations such as the United Nations,
advocacy groups, and local communities. This interdisciplinary and
nonpartisan approach helps bring diverse interests together to
forge effective real-world solutions. Since 2007, the Pacific
Institute has also acted as co-secretariat for the UN Global
Compact CEO Water Mandate, a global commitment platform that
mobilizes a critical mass of business leaders to address global
water challenges through corporate water stewardship. More
information about the Pacific Institute and our staff, directors,
and funders can be found at www.pacinst.org.
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