CDP Government Partnerships – Strengthening Environmental Disclosure and Driving Ambitious Action

Why Government Support Is Needed

Government support is vital to achieve the green transition. By collaborating with CDP, policymakers can actively drive the increase in quantity and quality of climate and environmental transparency by corporates and subnational jurisdictions (cities, states & regions). CDP’s disclosure system offers organization-specific, comparable data that can be easily accessed, tracked and monitored over time. This supports governments with tracking and monitoring progress of their economy and climate goals against their national and international goals, targets and commitments – thereby complementing top-down measures with bottom-up, entity-level primary data.

By partnering with CDP governments effectively leverage their authority to promote voluntary corporate and subnational jurisdictions’ climate and environmental disclosure and action.

How Governments Support CDP

Government endorsement

A government endorsement is a formal agreement of support by governmental bodies and agencies for CDP’s disclosure invitation. The government endorsement aims at including governments within CDP’s annual disclosure cycle and provides them with insights from publicly reported data of corporates, cities and regions. Endorsing CDP's disclosure invitation helps to improve the climate change, forests and water security data reported by companies and local governments in the respective jurisdiction.

Join us and endorse CDP to help drive disclosure and action in order to increase the number of corporates and subnational jurisdictions already reporting through CDP

How the endorsement process works

Year-round: CDP provides governments with a comprehensive list of all companies, cities and regions in their respective country requested to disclose to CDP, indicating whether the company, city or region has submitted a response.

By the end of February: The government provides its logo to CDP with permission to use it for endorsement of the CDP disclosure system. The logo will then be included in the disclosure request letter sent to companies, cities and regions as well as published on the CDP website, where the government entity is listed as an endorser.

April until July: CDP communicates the endorsement through our standard engagement process with companies, cities and regions. If desired by the government, CDP can provide disclosure updates throughout the cycle. This includes a disclosure tracker detailing the status of companies’, cities’ and regions’ disclosure progress.

From September: At the end of the CDP disclosure cycle, CDP reports back to the government on the final disclosure numbers, scores and expected impact as well as the progress towards delivering on the goals of the European Green Deal and the Paris Agreement.

Benefits for government partners endorsing CDP's disclosure request:

Disclosure

• Promote industrial-scale environmental and climate disclosure and engagement, aligned with the TCFD.
• Public recognition of your institution's commitment to engaging with companies and local governments on environmental topics.
• Delivery of capacity-building which highlights best practices and position organizations to submit comprehensive responses.

Insight

• Regular disclosure status updates during the disclosure period.
• Insights into public company and local government scores.
• Insights into current and historical public company and local government CDP responses.
• CDP country factsheets showcasing national disclosure and action by companies, financial market actors and local governments.

Action

• Support in delivering higher ambition initiatives to boost specific non-state actor commitments, such as Business Ambition for 1.5°C, science-based targets, ACT, RE100, and supply chain engagement.
• Support regulatory success and help companies and financial institutions to fulfil regulatory transparency requirements through capacity building and/or other support.
• Speaking opportunities and visibility through CDP workshops and webinars for companies, financial institutions and local governments.

Government collaboration

A government collaboration is an introductory engagement with CDP, that allows governments and other public institutions to explore how CDP can support non-state environmental actions and actively drive the availability and quality of climate and environmental data.

Bespoke projects

CDP recognizes that governments have their own specific requirements, reflecting diverse local contexts in industry, government systems, and corporate culture. CDP offers bespoke projects co-designed with governments to produce insights, tools, and tailored information to enable governments to achieve their national climate and environmental goals.

Examples of government collaborations and endorsements

Regional focus

CDP’s Global Policy Team has staff based in the UK, Europe, North America, Japan, China, Latin America, India and the Asia Pacific region. Find out more about our regional policy engagement and how to get in touch.