Climate-Water Nexus Solutions, or CWN Solutions for short, is a team of sustainability consultants providing decarbonization and water stewardship strategy, auditing, and reporting services to businesses. We work at the intersection of the climate-water nexus, meaning that we find innovative solutions that simultaneously advance both your climate and water sustainability goals - being mindful of the trade-offs between them. Don't yet have a climate transition plan or a water stewardship plan? We can help you craft your company's first in alignment with industry best practice that incorporate science-based targets or help you to achieve certification against various climate and water stewardship standards for business. We are passionate about advancing corporate solutions to both climate and water issues and helping businesses achieve their sustainability goals.
We offer a range of services, including audits of your company's performance against climate and water standards, climate transition plan development (i.e., your decarbonization strategy), craft your water stewardship and sustainability strategy, and assist in sustainability reporting according to international frameworks like the ISSB's S1 and S2 standards. Our goal is to help businesses thrive by turning climate and water challenges into opportunities to increase your company's competitive advantage and overall sustainability performance.
Our team has over 20 years of experience working on climate, water, and sustainability problems. We have worked with businesses and trained business leaders across various industries including tourism and hospitality, food and beverage, agriculture, and industrial sectors. We have a deep understanding of the climate and water security challenges facing different industries and how to address them.
At CWN Solutions, our mission is to transform social-ecological systems along more sustainable pathways by leveraging the power and ingenuity of the business community.
We are most passionate at CWN Solutions about delivering water sustainability and stewardship solutions to our clients and the communities they serve. Our team includes Alliance for Water Stewardship Credentialed Specialists who have earned the highest level of certification against the business water stewardship standards. We are ready to help your business measure your baseline performance against the AWS Standards, identify solutions and best practices for water stewardship for your particular business and industry, and guide you through the AWS Certification process.
“AWS certification brings demonstrable benefits in regards to relationships with customers, increased investor confidence, strengthened social license to operate, brand perception and dialogue with regulators and policy makers”. – Alliance for Water Stewardship
We also perform water stewardship audits. Our team has provided technical input toward the development of SCS Global Environmental Services' Water Stewardship and Resiliency Standard and is now contracted by SCS Global Services to audit aspiring corporate leaders against this standard.
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. CWN Solutions can help guide your business to take an inventory of your carbon emissions across all scopes, and develop a decarbonization or net-zero strategy in alignment with best industry practices including the Science Based Target Initiative’s Net Zero Standard.
Not sure where to start to begin voluntary or mandatory reporting on your company’s sustainability progress and journey? Work with our team to craft a high-quality sustainability report that is credible, transparent, highlights the great things your company is doing, fairly reports on the strides your company has made, and which charts out a clear future pathway to meet your corporate sustainability targets.
Our team can provide customized training and workshops for your company's executives and/or sustainability professionals to build your firm's internal capacity to create, lead, and report on your climate, water, and other sustainability initiatives.
Dr. Robert Hobbins is the Founder and Director of CWN Solutions. He earned his PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University in 2020 and serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Sustainability and Management at the University of Colorado Denver Business School where he trains MBA and MS Sustainable Busines
Dr. Robert Hobbins is the Founder and Director of CWN Solutions. He earned his PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University in 2020 and serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Sustainability and Management at the University of Colorado Denver Business School where he trains MBA and MS Sustainable Business grad students in a variety of sustainable business topics. He has over 20 years experience working at the intersection of climate, water, and sustainability issues.