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Environmental transparency and accountability are vital to tracking progress towards a thriving, sustainable future

Disclosure in 2021
Guidance for companies
Home > Why disclose as a company

Why disclose as a company

As the world takes steps towards building a climate safe, deforestation free, water secure future, disclosure provides the bedrock for ambitious action. As the richest and most comprehensive dataset, CDP's data both fuels and tracks global progress towards building a truly sustainable economy for people and planet.

By reporting to CDP, you can gain competitive advantage. Disclosure helps you get ahead of regulatory and policy changes, identify and tackle growing risks, and find new opportunities for action that your investors and customers worldwide are demanding.

How to disclose
Start reporting today

Benefits of disclosure

There is a high and growing market demand for environmental disclosure.

In 2020, 515 investors with US$106 trillion in assets and 147+ large purchasers with over US$4 trillion in procurement spend are requesting thousands of companies to disclose their environmental data through CDP.

There are tangible business benefits to be gained from responding to your stakeholder’s requests for disclosure:

  • Protect and improve your company’s reputation – build trust through transparency and respond to rising environmental concern among the public

  • Boost your competitive advantage – gain a competitive edge when it comes to performance on the stock market, access to capital and winning tenders

  • Get ahead of regulation – prepare your business for likely mandatory environmental reporting rules; with CDP, you’ll be fully aligned with the best-practice TCFD recommendations – see our overview of CDP disclosure and the TCFD recommendations

  • Uncover risks and opportunities – identify emerging environmental risks and opportunities that would otherwise be overlooked, to inform data-driven strategy

  • Track and benchmark progress - benchmark your environmental performance against your industry peers and receive feedback on your progress each year

Disclosure is the essential first step to drive environmental action, and CDP is the gold standard for corporate environmental reporting.

Learn more about how disclosure can benefit you with the resources and case studies below.



Resources

We have produced a PowerPoint slide-deck to show how your company can benefit from disclosing your environmental data through CDP’s disclosure platform.

Download slide-deck (59MB)

Please download our disclosure brochure that explains the business benefits of disclosing through CDP.

Download brochure (1MB)

Case studies: Why other companies are disclosing

Inform your stakeholders

"As long-term owners of corporations, our role is to ensure that company strategies are in line with ours on areas such as climate risk. CDP's data is very useful in helping us do this efficiently and effectively. Mapping a company's carbon footprint, or the emissions it produces, and measuring its progress in this area is an important and growing part of our portfolio analysis."

Read Calpers' case study

Get internal buy-in

"When building our carbon strategy, CDP’s scoring methodology is very useful in helping us get buy-in from executive audiences. They like the fact that if we’re scoring low on one aspect, we can break it down in a clear way to see where the opportunities for improvement lie. Then next year, when our score improves, they can see the tangible output of those actions.”

Read WFP's case study

Find opportunities for action

"Once you measure your performance and identify a set of targets, you create the conditions to achieve them. Then you have to set a higher and higher bar all the time to continue to deliver for your shareholders... It’s a feedback loop, and CDP has been instrumental in that because it’s such a quantitative, objective measure of how we are doing."

Read Vermilion's case study

Benchmark against your peers

“CDP provides not only a disclosure platform but also a well-established rating mechanism. Being able to say we are on the A List is well-recognised. It shows we have a complete and well performing sustainability program, so we use our CDP score in external communications and investor presentations, and we get recognition for that.”

Read Signify's case study

How to disclose
Start reporting today
Need more help?
CDP workshops
CDP welcomes you to attend our virtual 2020 workshops. Our events will provide support and guidance for the 2020 disclosure cycle and beyond.
Organizational guide for environmental action
A snapshot of actions companies are taking at each stage of this journey towards environmental excellence.

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