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WWF Risk Filter Suite v3.0
The WWF Risk Filter Suite contains two free online tools – WWF Water Risk Filter and WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter - designed to be used by companies and financial institutions to assess and act on their water and biodiversity risks
Want to understand better what is new in v3.0? Then have a look at our FAQ document for the latest update!
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WHY COMPANIES AND INVESTORS SHOULD CARE ABOUT NATURE
$44 trillion
Economic value generation dependent on nature
World Economic Forum
46% GDP
Global GDP coming from high-water risk regions by 2050
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$10 trillion
Financial cost from nature loss by 2050
Roxburgh, et al., 2020
WWF RISK FILTER SUITE
The WWF Risk Filter Suite contains two free online tools –
WWF Water Risk Filter
and
WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter
- designed to be used by companies and financial institutions to assess and act on their water and biodiversity risks.
By aggregating over 80+ global scientific datasets and adjusting them based on industry characteristics, these tools enable users to screen and prioritise risk hotspots at a high level across their direct operations, value chains and investment portfolios worldwide. These risk assessment results allow users to identify where they should focus their efforts for deeper engagement, more localized analysis with more granular data, and implementation of risk reduction measures.
The WWF Risk Filter Suite therefore is a first but important step on the journey to integrate water and biodiversity into corporate and investment decisions, ultimately contributing to a more resilient business and a more sustainable future for all.
The WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter is designed to be used as a corporate and portfolio-level screening tool to identify biodiversity risks and prioritise corporate action on biodiversity
Inform
Understand industry-specific biodiversity impacts and dependencies
Explore
Explore a variety of current biodiversity risk maps, country profiles information and the tool’s methodology documentation.
Assess
Assess Physical, Regulatory Deficiency and Reputational biodiversity risks across your operations, supply chain or investments
Act
Stay tuned for the Act module to help prioritise corporate action to reduce your biodiversity risks and seize opportunities
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The WWF Water Risk Filter is designed to be used as a corporate and portfolio-level screening tool to identify water risks and prioritise corporate action on water
Explore
Explore a variety of current water risk maps, country profiles information and the tool’s methodology documentation.
Assess
Assess Physical, Regulatory Deficiency and Reputational water risks across your operations, supply chain or investments
Act
Stay tuned for the Act module to help prioritise corporate action to reduce your water risks and seize opportunities
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WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF USING THE WWF RISK FILTER TOOLS?
The results from your biodiversity and water risk assessments can help better
inform your
business strategies
target setting
and
investment decisions
– resulting in strengthening business resilience as well as contributing to a more sustainable future.
The WWF Risk Filter tools are aligned to and support key global initiatives and reporting frameworks such as the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (
TNFD
, Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures
TCFD
), Science Based Targets for Nature
SBTN
), Alliance for Water Stewardship (
AWS
), Carbon Disclosure Project (
CDP
), Global Reporting Initiative
GRI
), and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (
ESRS
).
WWF has created technical guides
on how companies and financial institutions can use the WWF Risk Filter Suite at specific points
in the SBTN target-setting process and the TNFD
LEAP approach.
Click below to access the summary step-by-step guides.
Download Technical Guide for SBTN
Download Technical Guide for TNFD
ASSESS YOUR NATURE-RELATED RISKS NOW FOR FREE
3 EASY STEPS
Register and create an account - only you have access to this account
Upload your data
Go to the Portfolio Manager to upload your data, save it and come back to edit it at any point
Assess your risks
Go to the Assess module of each tool to analyse your biodiversity and water risks
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‘HOW TO’ TUTORIAL PAGE
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WWF provides expert support to help you understand your risks and take action
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
The WWF Risk Filter Suite brings together over 80 different global datasets and materiality ratings across all industry sectors and translates them into business relevant terms.
Through the free online platform - the
WWF Risk Filter Suite
- companies and financial institutions have easy and streamlined access to two distinct and complementary WWF Risk Filter tools - the
WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter
and
WWF Water Risk Filter
. This enables users to upload and manage their data in a central and secure platform to seamlessly assess their biodiversity- and water-related risks.
The WWF Risk Filter tools are primarily aimed at
companies and financial institutions
who wish to understand, assess and act on their biodiversity and water risks. Both tools include global datasets and allow assessments of any industry sector, so that users regardless of geographic location and industry can use the tool.
As the WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter and WWF Water Risk Filter are both spatially explicit screening and prioritisation tools, they are
best suited for organizations with 1) location-specific data available and 2) a large portfolio of sites/assets to analyse
(e.g., company operational sites and supplier sites). Therefore, these tools are primarily used by medium to large-size companies that have robust value chain information available for analysis. While the tool is suitable for use by financial institutions, the needed input data is often not available, representing a key barrier for using the tools.
To read examples of how different organizations have previously used the WWF Risk Filter tools, please visit our
Case Studies
page.
To support financial institutions
that want to assess a broad portfolio of companies, WWF published
valuable guidance
in the WWF RFS
Methodology Documentation
on:
how existing datasets and approaches can be used as proxies for the required location-specific company and supply chain input data of the WWF Risk Filter tools
how the output data of the WWF Risk Filter tools can be aggregated to the company and portfolio level
WWF recommends using both the WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter and WWF Water Risk Filter as they are distinct but complementary tools
The WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter tool covers broad aspects of biodiversity (e.g., freshwater, marine, forest, grasslands, wetlands) and includes some specific indicators from the WWF Water Risk Filter (e.g., water scarcity, water quality, fragmentation status of rivers).
While the WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter provides general high-level assessment of biodiversity-related risks, the
WWF Water Risk Filter provides a more in-depth assessment of water-related risks
(including operational risk assessment). Therefore, the tools are intended to be complementary and offer unique features for assessing and acting on biodiversity and water-related risks.
As the two WWF Risk Filter tools are available through one central platform (the WWF Risk Filter Suite),
you only need to enter your data once to automatically assess your risks in both tools
– making it very easy to use both tools!
STILL HAVE QUESTIONS?
Check our tutorial page to help you get started
"HOW TO" TUTORIAL PAGE
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CASE STUDIES
Check out all the latest user case studies on how companies and investors have used the WWF Risk Filter tools to assess and respond to nature-related risks
Download, read, and share them!
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Assessing Water Risks of Commodities
This case study illustrates how WWF worked with global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to help it understand the water-related risks, using the WWF Water Risk Filter, linked to some of its strategically important commodities – namely palladium and palm oil.
Using water risk indicators to contextualise the use of sustainable agriculture standards.
How does a company sourcing fruit or vegetables identify the most contextually appropriate standard for each location that it sources produce for? This case study shows the dynamic process that could use unique basin water risk indicators for a specific agricultural commodity to identify the most contextually appropriate standard for a specific location.
Creating a Corporate Water Stewardship Standard Guided by the AWS Standard
This case study explains how Mondi was seeking to establish a pathway to both introduce leading water stewardship practices into its mills but also standardise the way water stewardship is implemented across its mills. It explains the process WWF and Mondi went through to develop an internal water stewardship standard that was guided by the AWS standard and where the implementation of the standard was informed by context.
How Mondi uses the WWF Water Risk Filter
Water is a critical input into the papermaking process and is used in all major stages of the production process. This short case study explains how Mondi and WWF have been using the Water Risk Filter tool to assess the unique basin and operational risks that face Mondi's 12 biggest pulp and paper mills in 9 countries across the world which produced around 6.2 million tons of paper.
How to use water risk indicators to set contextual water targets
This short case study applies the guidance framework set out in WWF's Contextual Water Targets guide to H&M Group. The case sets out the process that WWF used to support H&M Group establish contextual targets and how WWF used water risk indicators from WWF's Water Risk Filter to efficiently assign contextual targets to over 1,200 H&M Group's supplier sites globally.
How EDEKA Group uses the WWF Water Risk Filter
By conducting water risk assessments at global and local level using the WWF Water Risk Filter, EDEKA and Netto Marken-Discount are able to: increase their supplier engagement, identify water risk hotspots and contextual response actions, and increase customer awareness. Read more in this 2-page case study on how EDEKA and Netto Marken-Discount use the WWF Water Risk Filter tool.
Tchibo Report: Water Risk Analysis and Stewardship Strategy
To mitigate risks and increase transparency, Tchibo analysed water risks across its entire supply chain using the WWF Water Risk Filter. The analysis presented in this report focuses on coffee, cotton and textile wet processing and highlights WWF's recommendations for Tchibo's water stewardship strategy.
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WWF REPORTS
Check out all latest WWF reports on #WaterRisk, #BiodiversityRisk, #Stewardship, #Finance
Download, read, and share them!
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Unpacking collective action in water stewardship. WWF, 2024
As a shared resource, collective action is critical to achieve the scale, scope  and speed required to address shared water challenges in catchments. Moreover, the shared challenges facing our freshwater systems require us to scale up our solutions – as the title indicates, shared water challenges require shared water solutions, and that means figuring out new ways to work together, collectively. This paper outlines, in four sections, a series of frameworks, our shared experiences,  opportunity mapping and a proposed pathway forward for collective  action on freshwater in order to  better deliver impact at scale. #Freshwater #CollectiveAction #WaterResources
Scaling Up Water Stewardship - WWF’s refreshed Water Stewardship vision. WWF, 2023
In this report, WWF is proposing a new vision for its corporate water stewardship efforts that will be used to guide WWF offices and encourage greater coherence in its work. The refreshed WWF water stewardship vision aims to measurably improve river basin status by collaborating with the private sector, implementing boardroom strategies, and scaling investments to achieve positive impacts for communities and ecosystems.
#WaterStewardship, #Network, #Multilateral, #Proactive
Advancing Water Stewardship Through Supplier Collaboration. WWF, 2023
In collaboration with the Embedding Project, this report discusses different pathways for the corporate journey on Water Stewardship. The corporate journey on water stewardship begins with implementing processes and activities to manage water within the company’s operations, traditionally driven by compliance and risk mitigation, where the company has control or influence. #WaterStewardship, #RiskMitigation, #AstraZeneca, #Apple, #Sodexo, #HM, #Diageo
Analysing the high-stakes of hydropower in the lower Mekong's supply chains. WWF & AMPERES, 2023
Although the Mekong region’s economy has grown rapidly in recent decades, this economic growth has come with significant environmental and social costs; uncoordinated infrastructure development has fragmented and polluted the river’s natural processes, undermining the basin’s immense biodiversity and productivity, while communities have faced displacement and inequitable sharing of the economic benefits of hydropower. #WaterRisks #HydropowerThreats #SocialEnvironmentalCosts
Preserving Biodiversity: A Call to Action for German Businesses. WWF and Bain & Company, 2023
With a strong manufacturing industry, an export-oriented economy, an important financial center, and a strong demand for agricultural imports, Germany has a strong impact on the drivers of biodiversity loss.  This impact is not limited to its corporations own operations but is particularly relevant in upstream and downstream activities within value chains. Our evaluation sheds light on the impacts of major German industries. It shows the importance of engaging value chains to reduce adverse impacts and to drive restoration and protection of biodiversity, especially in the secondary and tertiary sectors.  The identification of places and activities that contribute most to a to a company's impact on biodiversity is critical to allow for a focus of corporate resources on value chain stages where actions are urgently needed to preserve biodiversity and lower business risks. #Biodiversity #BusinessImpacts #ValueChains
Tackling Biodiversity Risk – A biodiversity risk assessment guide for companies and financial institutions. WWF, 2023
This report presents a case study on how the WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter, with the support of the methodological guidance, can be applied to a representative investor portfolio of listed companies. The case study demonstrates how the WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter can add value to companies and financial institutions as a tool for risk hotspot identification and prioritizing areas for action. It also shows that the location-specific information needed for companies and financial institutions to assess biodiversity risk is indeed already available. There is no reason to leave biodiversity risks unaddressed.
#BiodiversityRisks #Business&Biodiversity #ValueChain
Eau Courant: Water Stewardship in Apparel & Textiles. WWF & H&M 2022
The apparel, footwear, and textiles industry (the industry for short) has made some headway on sustainability in the past few years, stepping up target setting and collaboration around chemicals, climate, supply chain reporting and driving toward more sustainable materials. Nevertheless, one major impact area still remains relatively neglected by the industry: water. #Textile #WaterRisk #Appareal #SupplyChain
A Biodiversity Guide for Business. WWF, 2022
The report sets out WWF’s approach for identifying, assessing and addressing biodiversity risks as well as the opportunities that come from conserving, sustainably using and restoring biodiversity.
For many companies, much of their risk can lie within their value chain. There is a critical need for companies that advance value chain transparency and an understanding of the locations that pose the highest risks. #BiodiversityRisks #Business&Biodiversity #ValueChain
Bridging the gaps in ESG water data to create opportunities. WWF, Deltares & Achmea 2022
As the unfolding climate crisis has unfolded, investors have increasingly sought stronger data and understanding of various ESG factors, including water. However, the ESG community has adopted limited comprehensive approaches to water issues due to the complex nature of water, including its differences from carbon emissions and its linkages to biodiversity. This report briefly outline some of the current weaknesses of water-related ESG data and systemic challenges around data availability, and to encourage a shift in thinking by investors. #ESG #Investors #SRI #CascadingRisks
Sustainable Groundwater Management for Agriculture. WWF, 2022
Fresh- water supplies make up only 2.5% of all the water on our planet, and two-thirds of that freshwater is frozen in glaciers and ice caps. That means that less than 1% of all water on our planet is accessible for our use and for supporting freshwater ecosystems. And most of that accessible freshwater is found underground. #Agriculture #Sustainability #Groundwater
Nature-based solutions for managing rising flood risk and delivering multiple benefits.
River floods are already the most damaging disaster type globally, with risk projected to rise in much of the world due to climate change, development in flood-prone areas, and/or deteriorating infrastructure. Naturebased solutions, such as using floodplains to manage floodwaters, can contribute to a diversified portfolio for managing flood risks. #NBS #FloodRisk #RiverManagement
Using the WWF Water Risk Filter to Screen Existing and Projected Hydropower Projects for Climate and Biodiversity Risks
Climate change is predicted to drive various changes in hydrology that can translate into risks for river ecosystems and for those who manage rivers, such as for hydropower. Here we use the WWF Water Risk Filter (WRF) and geospatial analysis to screen hydropower projects, both existing (2488 dams) and projected (3700 dams), for a variety of risks at a global scale, focusing on biodiversity risks, hydrological risks (water scarcity and flooding), and how those hydrological risks may shift with climate change, based on three scenarios. #Hydropower #WaterRisk #ClimateChange #ScenarioAnalysis
Net Positive Water. WWF 2022
Considering the role of Net Positie Water in water stewardship and solving the linked freshwater, biodiversity and climate crises, this report discuss the benefits, drawbacks and the role of net positive in stewardship, to finally close with a WWF summary recommendations about Net Positive in water programs. #NetPositive #WaterStewardship #Freshwater
Avant-Garde: The Water Risks and Opportunities Facing Apparel and Textiles Clusters. WWF, 2022
Through our work with Open Supply Hub, this second report offers insights into a hydrogeography of hope for rivers tied to the apparel and textiles industry. We believe it will help companies and industry allies to begin to think about how we can better collaborate with each other and scale our solutions to tackle the significant challenges facing people and nature. #Appareal #WaterRisks #WaterOpportunities
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MAP GALLERY
Looking for high-resolution maps to communicate on #WaterRisk and #BiodiversityRisk on social media, in a new report or blog?
Download, communicate and share them!
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Biodiversity | Physical Risk
Water | Physical Risk
Water | Water Availability
Biodiversity | Environmental Factors
Water | Drought
Biodiversity | Enabling Services
Water | Socioeconomic Factors
Biodiversity | Reputational Risk
Biodiversity | Cultural Services
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OUR TEAM
Meet our passionate team behind the WWF Risk Filter Suite! Contact us to receive our tailored expert support to better understand your risks and take action
Maria Walsh
Lead Risk Filter Team
Dr. Liam Bailey
Geospatial Analyst Risk Filter Suite
Raquel Capella
Science Manager Risk Filter Suite
Andréa Thillou
Project Manager Risk Filter Suite
Nicola Lei-Ravello
Partnership Lead, WWF Risk Filter Suite for Financial Institution
Alexis Morgan
Global Water Stewardship Lead
Rebekah Church
Global Biodiversity Stewardship Lead
Amandine Favier
Head Sustainable Finance, WWF Switzerland
Rylan Dobson
Senior Water Stewardship Manager
Ariane Laport-Bisquit
Senior Biodivesity Stewardship Manager
PARTNERS
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Image: © Martina Lippuner / WWF-Africa