Sharing ideas, testing them and learning from others

Writing and speaking have been important parts of my work throughout my sustainability career.

I have contributed to publications, methodologies and guidance on corporate water strategy, contextual targets, collective action and water stewardship, and regularly speak with corporate, NGO and professional audiences about water, nature and sustainability.

Increasingly, my speaking and writing also explore the organisational questions behind sustainability: leadership, partnerships, business transformation and how environmental ambition becomes practical action.

Selected Publications

Selected publications include:

Unpacking Collective Action in Water Stewardship (WWF - 2023)
Scaling Up Water Stewardship (WWF - 2023)
Net Positive Water Briefing (WWF - 2022)
Water Footprint Labelling (WWF - 2022)
Water Risk in the ICT Sector (WWF/AWS - 2021)
Diagnosing Water Risk in the Pharmaceutical Sector (WWF - 2021)
Embedding Context into Strategy (WWF - March 2021)
Context Water Targets (WWF - 2021)
Science-Based Targets for Water: Why you may still be a few steps away (Medium - 2019)
3 ways the upgraded Water Risk Filter can add context into your water stewardship (Medium - 2019)
Why the Water Risk Filter’s new Respond Section changes the game (Medium - 2019)
WWF Report: Water Stewardship Revisited (WWF - 2018)
Context-Based Water Targets: Why should business care? (Medium - 2018)
What is the right spatial and temporal scale needed for a meaningful CBWT? (Medium - 2018)
Distinct but mutually beneficial: How context-based water targets fit into Alliance for Water Stewardship Standard (Medium - 2018)
Beyond incremental energy and carbon goals in a global market (Innovation magazine - 2017)
Why water scarcity-adjusted targets are not context-based water targets (Sustainable Brands - 2017)
The Road to Context: Contextual Strategy Guide (Embedding Project - 2017)
The Road to Context: What you need to know about contextual Strategy and Goal setting (Sustainable Brands - 2017)
Exploring the case for corporate context-based water metrics (CEO Water Mandate Paper - 2017)
From conflict to context-based metrics (Revolve Magazine - 2017)
Biological treatment of precious metal refinery wastewater: A Review (Minerals Engineering Journal - 2007)

Speaking & Convening

I regularly speak and contribute to discussions with corporate, NGO and sustainability audiences internationally.

Selected engagements have included:

World Water Week
GreenBiz
Alliance for Water Stewardship Global Forum
Pharmaceutical Environment Group
BioPhorum
CEFIC
Waterlogues
International water stewardship seminars and corporate forums

Topics have ranged from corporate water strategy and contextual targets to collective action, business transformation, nature and the role of companies in addressing shared environmental challenges.

WaterLogues

I conceived and launched Waterlogues as a neutral space for the water stewardship community to explore difficult questions together.

Five events have brought together more than 250 participants from companies, NGOs and other organisations.

The idea was deliberately simple: create a space where people could move beyond organisational positions and explore the questions that were proving difficult for the wider community.

That same philosophy now influences much of my writing through Meandering Mondays with Water.

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