The interactive session reviews a vision and a strategy for a future where financial institutions and shareholders understand, recognize and value water resources more fully. Using the Valuing Water Principles as a foundation, participants discuss a blueprint for how to get financiers to be more productive stakeholders on water.
Investment firms manage over $90 trillion in savings, with much of this invested in companies listed on global stock exchanges. A small subset of these investment firms control almost half of this money, and thus can have a significant influence over industries and companies they invest in--including motivating them to manage water more sustainably. Banks, as lenders to companies, cities and projects, can also play an influential role in creating systemic change including how water is valued and managed by companies they finance.
Speakers include representatives from:
The Government of the Netherlands
Ceres
SEB
AustralianSuper