AAK sustainability report 2018

47 Water risk assessment AAK has started a journey to adapt our production to potential risks from climate change. The first step in this journey is a risk assessment of our production portfolio. AAK has chosen to focus on water risk first because of an increased number of extreme weather events reported globally linked to water as well as the poten- tially destructive power of water. The World Resources Institute has made available the Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas (Aqueduct). It is a comprehensive and publicly available global database and interactive mapping tool that provides information on water-related risks worldwide. Twelve global indica- tors are being used to assess the water related risks for specific geographic locations and to give an overall water risk score between 1 and 5 (1 being the lowest possible risk and 5 being extremely high risk). AAK has used the Aqueduct tool to create a global water risk map of all our production sites. None of our sites is exposed to extremely high or high risk. The highest scoring production sites in AAK’s portfolio score medium to high risk. A global meeting was held to introduce this tool to the production sites. Each site has received a detailed analysis of their overall score in order to be able to develop a water risk mitigation plan relevant to their specific situation in 2019. low risk low risk to medium risk medium to high risk high risk extremely high risk