Millwater Partners

Making Sustainability Work

Millwater Partners helps make sustainability happen in practice. Our partners and clients are part of a growing movement who see the necessity as much as the opportunities in moving towards a truly future-proof society.

We help make sustainability part of business and organisational goals, create strategic pathways towards growth, and foster solid and trusted partnerships that are key to lasting change.

We support organisations and companies to apply the UN Sustainable Development Goals as a basis for investment, ethical growth, and stronger impact. Within the 17 SDG topics, we specialise in health, equality, energy, climate change, and sustainability (ESG) management. This ranges from addressing climate change as business opportunity to patients’ engagement in health research and decision-making.

We work with you to create practical and efficient solutions that allow you to move forward with confidence on your sustainability challenges.

Vision and Mission

Climate change and global inequalities pose existential threats to our planet and to humanity. Systematic and creative engagement can do more than just contain the threats – it will lead to huge benefits for people, businesses, and organisations.

Our vision is that by 2030, the world can celebrate real, tangible progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals as the global paradigm for political, economic, and civil society development.

Our mission is to work with clients and partners to steer into new, sustainable strategies and practices. We support our clients and partners in playing their part towards reaching the Sustainable Development Goals.

“This decade is THE decade for change: from climate change to the Pandemic, from poverty to migration, all the aspects of human life show that we need to manage this planet better, jointly and sustainably.”

What We Do

Our current work and interests include the EU Green Deal, health policy at EU and international levels, health equity in Europe, Asia, and Africa, financing clean energy solutions, and making ESG legislation work as a competitive asset.

SDG Strategy

We work with you to engage fruitfully with the Sustainable Development Goals at international and local level.

Decision-Making in Sustainability

We support Boards and Senior Management Teams in effective decision-making on sustainability matters.

ESG Advisory

We support your work to make the EU’s sustainability standards benefit you (ESRS, CSRD, CSDDD, CBAM, and GRI).

Health Policy and Patients Engagement

We help you design and strengthen patient engagement, access to medicines, and collaboration between patients, medical professionals, industry, and academia.

Health

Chair of the Global Patient Think Tank

The Global Patient Think Tank focuses on ensuring a patient’s voice in Universal Health Coverage – see IAPO – International Alliance of Patient Organisations

FT3 – From Testing to Targeted Treatment

Advising the FT3 Platform – a global platform on precision medicines – on governance, stakeholder and community engagement.
https://www.fromtestingtotargetedtreatments.org

Person Centred Value Based Health Care

Co-chairing an international community bringing together patient centred and value-based healthcare and advising on the establishment of a Global Centre to drive this forward.
Report (2021) at https://www.sprink.co.uk/pcvbhc-report

Senior advisor to FH Europe

Focusing in particular on the implementation of FH Paediatric Screening in Europe and leading an International Task Force on elevated Lp(a).
https://fheurope.org/

Collaboration with the Global Heart Hub

Implementing the Patients’ Journey Report in Heart Valve Disease. See also https://globalhearthub.org/patient-councils/hvdpatientcouncil

Chair of the GSK Health Advisory Board

Member of the External Advisory Committee of the International Experience Exchange with Patient Organisations (IEEPO)

Supported by F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. See https://www.ieepo.com/en

Cooperation with EFPIA

In the framework of the CEE Roadmap on Patient Engagement, Membership Review of the EFPIA Patient Think Tank, as well as a research project on the added value of industry in Public Private Partnerships

Advisor to the European Association of the Study of the Liver (ELPA)

Author of the European Action Plan on Cardiovascular Health

Moderator for the Annual Conference of the European Multiple Sclerosis Platform EMSP

Environment and ESG

ESG accounting & advisory services (on-going)

Supporting companies to establish streamlined, well-functioning systems for ESG accounting and reporting, with a focus on the EU market (CSRD, ESRS) and globally (GRI). New solution forthcoming.

EU sustainable finance taxonomy

Research project into promoting sustainable finance as a business opportunity for EU companies, especially technology SMEs and financial institutions.

Transitioning from fossil fuels to clean energy

Facilitating and designing the medium-term communications strategy for a consortium of 200 energy-focused NGOs based in four continents. Not public. Global Gas & Oil Network (GGON)

Support of offshore wind energy

Advising an international marine conservation organisation on the best campaign options for replacing offshore oil and gas with offshore wind.

OCEANA in Europe

Innovative Mechanisms in the Context of Development Aid

Innovation as strategic instrument for economic and social development: why and how can governments use innovation to pursue Agenda 2030 and the SDGs to drive recovery from the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis. Scoping report for German Development Cooperation (with lead consultant SD-Strategies for GIZ. Unpublished. https://sd-strategies.com

Urban and Municipal Development Fund – AfDB

Developing a proposal to the German International Climate Initiative for strengthening National Development Banks´ abilities to structure and finance urban sustainable infrastructure projects, in six African countries.
https://www.afdb.org/en/topics-and-sectors/initiatives-partnerships/urban-and-municipal-development-fund

WWF Global Dialogue on the Future of Conservation

Convening, hosting, and facilitating a global dialogue of non-conservation experts to identify new and unusual practices for conservation success.

Report: https://wwfint.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/new_horizons_for_conservation_final_march_2021.pdf

RENAC – The Renewables Academy

Strategic advice and research to promote existing online and face-to-face trainings on green energy finance.
https://www.renac.de