Water stewardship

We recognise that our operations can have adverse impacts on water resources. To minimise these impacts and to use water responsibly, 澳门葡京赌博游戏在整个业务中都采取了旨在为澳门葡京赌博游戏的业务保护这种自然资源的举措, our employees, local communities, and the ecosystems on which they depend:

• Across AstraZeneca sites: Decoupling water demand from business growth with our 2015–2025 water efficiency key performance indicators; working to link performance targets with the local context by setting site-specific water targets
• In drug development: Adopting Resource Efficiency Targets to reduce the water demand in drug development; conducting Life Cycle assessments (LCAs) to calculate the water footprint across the whole product life cycle including the raw materials used to make the drug substance. See more in Product environmental stewardship
• Maintaining Water Quality: Preventing pollution by applying, assessing, and reporting compliance against safe discharge targets for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) produced or formulated by our manufacturing operations; ensuring water quality is not compromised through patient use of products through environmental risk assessments and reporting via our EcoPharmacoVigilence Dashboard. See more in Pharmaceuticals in the environment (PIE)
• In our supply chain: Applying the same approach for safe discharge targets across our supply chain to prevent pollution from our API suppliers; implementing a Supplier Sustainability Framework
• In the communities where we operate: Developing partnerships to drive collective action in the river basins where we operate

澳门葡京赌博游戏正在继续加强澳门葡京赌博游戏对澳门葡京赌博游戏的网络和供应链中各个地点的当地水环境的了解. Supporting these efforts is the WWF Water Risk Filter tool, which identifies and evaluates water risks around the world. Using the WWF methodology, 澳门葡京赌博游戏正在扩大对与水有关的风险的认识，并在澳门葡京赌博游戏的价值链中确定投资领域.

As members of the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) we support a global movement to advance good water stewardship practices. 澳门葡京赌博游戏还致力于加强与澳门葡京赌博游戏所在社区的利益相关者的关系，并建立新的合作伙伴关系. Starting in 2024, 澳门葡京赌博游戏每年将投资500万美元，资助澳门葡京赌博游戏工厂附近地区的自然恢复和水资源管理项目.

Our longer-term ambition is to implement Science-Based Targets 在具有战略意义的相关地点，在适当的情况下，进一步降低风险.

Business Leaders’ Open Call for Accelerating Action on Water

We support the Open Call for Water Action 实现到2030年使至少100个缺水盆地受益的集体积极水资源影响. We are committed to building water resilience across our global operations and supply chain, and working collaboratively across sectors to accelerate positive water impact.

Through our continued collaboration with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Sweden, we championed a sector-level water risk assessment of the global pharmaceutical supply chain and published a case study on using scenarios to assess future climater-related risks. Further actions we have taken include:

• Leading with stewardship rather than management: 将水资源管理作为水资源的默认框架，可以使企业更好地与他人合作，寻找解决这些外部水相关风险的办法. 澳门葡京赌博游戏正在建立对共同的水资源挑战的理解，并在关键地点制定适合当地的水资源目标.
• Strategically addressing water quality more comprehensively across the value chain: 全球水质恶化可能会促使公众期望对环境中的原料药采取行动, regardless of their source. 在一个由大约26个公共和私营部门专家组成的多学科联盟中，澳门葡京赌博游戏领导着IMI-PREMIER合作, which aims to identify tools to address the environmental risks of pharmaceuticals, including aquatic habitats.
• Understanding raw material water-related risks: 而在药品生产中使用的原材料的数量被认为是相对较小的, links to water intensive sectors such as mining and agriculture, 意味着价值链中原材料部分的水相关风险可能不会那么小. We’re taking steps to understand risks deep within our supply chain. This case study on assessing water risks of commodities 说明澳门葡京赌博游戏如何与世界自然基金会合作，了解与生产澳门葡京赌博游戏许多产品的两种具有重要战略意义的商品-钯和棕榈油-有关的与水有关的风险.
• Collectively responding to shared water challenges in priority basins: 共同面临的水资源挑战既代表着潜在的风险，也代表着该部门在寻找解决方案方面发挥领导作用的机会，为该部门和周边社区创造利益. In 2021, 澳门葡京赌博游戏推行了一项水资源管理试点计划，以加深澳门葡京赌博游戏对营运所在流域所面临的水资源风险的认识, as well as what actions to prioritise to mitigate these risks. The pilot is focused on efficient water use within the boundaries of our sites, along with water quality and collective action opportunities in the local basin. We are prioritising six key sites in water-scarce areas across five countries, sites which face increasing availability and quality risks. 共同面临的水资源挑战代表着该部门在寻找解决方案方面发挥领导作用的潜在风险和机遇，为该部门和周边社区创造利益.

Our Water Stewardship strategy is embedded within Natural resources, 在澳门葡京赌博游戏的可持续发展策略的环境保护支柱下，哪个是重点关注的领域.

Learn more about Water stewardship in our Sustainability Report.