Proportion of agricultural products or animal feed produced or sourced from regions with high or extremely high baseline water scarcity

Unit

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: Percentage (%)

Indicator

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: Water consumption and withdrawal

Metric type

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: Pressure

Framework alignment notes

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GBF Target 11
UN - CCD: This metric is aligned with the requirements of the framework.
TNFD FA.C3.0
ESRS 2 IRO-1
SBTN: This metric is partially aligned with the requirements of the framework.
SBTi - FLAG: This metric is partially aligned with the requirements of the framework.
GRI 101-5 Locations with biodiversity impacts
CDP - This metric is aligned with the requirements of the framework.
This metric is partially aligned with the requirements of the framework.

Target example
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[Company name] will reduce the proportion of [agricultural products/animal feed] sourced from regions with high or extremely high baseline water scarcity by [target percentage]% by [target year], compared to a [baseline year] baseline.

Target source: WBCSD target template

Sector

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Agri-food

Value chain stage

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Raw Materials Manufacturing

Metric assessment

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Relevance: High

Feasibility: Medium

Additional Metric Notes
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Rationale: This metric can be used to assess water stress risk across a company's sourcing portfolio. Contextualizing water use or consumption data with information on water stress is important to focus reductions on areas of greatest need.

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