CDP Earth-Positive Economics Advisory Board
Learn more about CDP's Earth-Positive Economics Advisory Board, its members, and latest activities.
CDP’s Earth-Positive economics agenda is focused on one central objective: To move beyond the correlation of environmental impacts on economic value to the identification of cause and effect based on proven economic laws.
Earth-Positive economics recognizes that environmental health is not a constraint on prosperity, but a precondition for it. The concept places sustainability at the heart of value creation and far from being at the expense of growth, acts as a catalyst for it. CDP's Earth-Positive Economics Advisory Board seeks to embed environmental impact into financial statements. One step at a time.
Building on a strong existing foundation of environmental economics, CDP – as the foremost platform for climate and nature data – is identifying how to unlock the evidence needed to show that embedding environmental indicators into the economic system will fuel the economy of tomorrow. It places natural world indicators in the driving seat of economic growth. Earth-Positive economics is simply good economics.
Latest update
CDP Earth-Positive Economics Advisory Board: Climate Week NYC 2026
Validating Causation: Embedding Climate and Nature Data into Economic Principles
At Climate Week NYC, CDP convened the second meeting of its Earth-Positive Economics Advisory Board, bringing together leaders from business, finance, and academia to explore how environmental change can be translated into economic and financial outcomes. With water as the first major test case, the discussion examined how risks such as scarcity, pollution and disruption can flow through operations and supply chains into costs, revenues, resilience and ultimately enterprise value. The session sharpened a central ambition of Earth-Positive Economics: to use CDP’s unique data to build robust evidence of how climate and nature shape the economy, and translate that evidence into the decisions of boards, CFOs, investors, and insurers.
Browse photos from the session, below.
You can also view photos from the Board's previous meetings below:
Meet the board
Why Earth-positive economics matters
Watch our video interviews with members of the board to learn more.
Naoko Ishii
Naoko Ishii talks on how we can transform our economic way of doing business from a negative into a positive to better impact the planet.
Michael Sheren
Michael Sheren gives insight on how The Board will look to make data informed solutions to help shape economic and policy driven solutions to better our environment.
Markus Zimmer
Markus Zimmer talks about how he and The Board will look to practically link CDP data to science and managerial use cases in companies.
Markus Müller
Markus Müller discusses how The Board will look to put greater value on nature to provide new sources of opportunity and prosperity around the world.
Events and activities
Join the discussion. See upcoming events, and explore insights from previous events.
Earth-Positive Economics Advisory Board: Climate Week NYC 2026
Validating Causation: Embedding Climate and Nature Data into Economic Principles
September 24, 2026 | Central Manhattan, NYC – venue to be confirmed
This session will take the form of a moderated expert panel discussion and interactive roundtable, featuring members of the Advisory Board.
Earth-Positive Economics Advisory Board Inaugural Session
From Correlation to Causation: Embedding Climate and Nature Data into Economic Law
June 25, 2026 | London
The Board's inaugural session took place at London Climate Action Week 2026. Browse our gallery of photos from the session, above.
In today’s uncertain times a whole of economy approach is needed, while short- and long-term environmental impacts on inputs, prices and trade cannot be ignored. The Earth-Positive Economics Advisory Board will tap into the breadth of CDP’s data and insights to unlock clear causation between environmental trends and economic value creation.
Latest insights
Correlation to Causation: Equipping C-Suite with Insights for Tomorrow’s Economy
By Sherry Madera (CEO, CDP) | September 30, 2026
Exploring how environmental data is becoming an essential economic signal, and why demonstrating clear links between environmental change and financial outcomes is critical for business leaders.
When Growth Gets Thirsty: Why Water Pricing Belongs in The Boardroom
By Sherry Madera (CEO, CDP) | October 13, 2025
Water. Critical to life. Especially as we all stormed up and down Manhattan a few weeks ago at the biggest Climate Week NYC ever – we were all sipping water. We are thirsty. We know it is important for our health.
Transforming Markets: The Rise of Earth-Positive Economics
By Sherry Madera (CEO, CDP) | September 19, 2025
Markets thrive on information. Trusted and standardized intelligence informs confident positions that build value.
Knowledge Hub
This Knowledge Hub aims to curate the leading ideas, evidence and research that have shaped this field to date, ensuring that Earth-Positive economics builds upon existing expertise while identifying new opportunities to strengthen the evidence base.
Contribute research and insights
Earth-Positive Economics is intended to build on, connect, and accelerate existing thinking. We are actively curating research, frameworks, methodologies and practical examples from across academia, business, finance and policy to create a shared resource for the community.
If you would like to suggest a paper, report, framework, case study or other relevant resource, please email epe@cdp.net. Submissions will be reviewed by the team and may be featured as part of this Knowledge Hub.