Elevate your CDP score with our global sustainability experts

Why you should amplify your CDP reporting strategy

• 1. Regulations across the globe are aligning with CDP

  CDP has collaborated with leading reporting standards and frameworks bodies across the globe. These partnerships will enhance alignment and significantly alleviate the reporting burden on companies. They will also ensure that corporate disclosures are broadly applicable across the market, guided by the highest ambitions. As a result, corporations will provide consistent, comparable, and valuable environmental data to capital markets, procurement teams, and policymakers globally.
• 2. CDP's 5-year strategic plan includes a significant shift and expansion

  CDP has added Biodiversity and Plastics to its questionnaire which means companies need to begin building programmes, expertise, and data collection on these new reporting themes. There has also been an expansion with Water and Forest. Because climate change is just one aspect of a company’s impact, CDP plans to continue its expansion into other nature-based planetary boundaries. We expect this trend to continue and recommend getting ahead on these additional impact areas.
• 3. CDP has updated its A-list criteria, making earning an A more complex than ever

  Companies must disclose a transition plan aligned with 1.5°C, publicly available, and inclusive of board-level oversight and management responsibility with a feedback mechanism in place or planned within 2 years. Also, a near-term emission target validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is mandatory or the target must be company-wide, cover 95% of Scope 1 and 2 base year emissions, and have a goal date of 5-10 years from the base year.