How to disclose as a company
Companies are asked to disclose through CDP by their customers and investors. By completing CDP's questionnaires on climate change, forests and water security, companies will identify ways to help them manage their own environmental risks and opportunities as well as providing vital information back to their customers and investors, and to the market through research, insights and financial products and services.
Disclosure information
This information is updated on an ongoing basis
The Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic presents a global challenge of unprecedented scale. CDP is aware that companies, investors, city and state governments around the world are facing serious impacts affecting their residents, staff, and ongoing operations. We recognize that for many this could also impact their 2020 disclosure.
On behalf of all CDP staff we would like to emphasize our solidarity and support for all our stakeholders at this difficult time. We are continuing to monitor the rapidly evolving situation and assessing the impacts on the disclosure cycle. We will open the reporting platform over the coming weeks for the companies, cities and state governments who are planning to disclose.
CDP will be in touch to keep all our stakeholders updated.
2020 timeline
2020 questionnaires and preliminary version of the reporting guidance available on our guidance page.
Official disclosure requests sent to companies requested by investors. See the requested companies.
Scoring methodologies and final version of the reporting guidance for climate change (including for the new financial services questions) and water security will be available on our guidance page by the end of March.
Scoring methodology and final version of the reporting guidance for forests will be available our guidance page in early April.
Online Response System (ORS) will open in the week commencing April 13, 2020.
Companies must submit their response to investors and/or customers using the ORS by July 29, 2020 to be eligible for scoring and inclusion in reports (where applicable).
Questionnaires
We will not be making any significant changes to our existing questionnaires to allow for consistency and year-on-year trend analysis and to ensure robust ORS functionality, including the ‘copy from last year’ feature. Visit our guidance & questionnaires page for the latest information.
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.
We hope you find this resource useful.
Consultation findings
Between 8 July and 23 August 2019, CDP conducted a public consultation on proposed developments for our three questionnaires. We have prepared a report summarizing the feedback we received. Visit our consultation page for more information and to read the report.