Guidance for companies

Climate change questionnaire for companies disclosing to the 2021 request.

Forests questionnaire for companies disclosing to the 2021 request.

Water security questionnaire for companies disclosing to the 2021 request.

CDP provides guidance that explains each question in detail and describes what information to provide, the required format, and where to find tools or further information to construct your answer.

Reporting guidance for companies disclosing to the 2021 climate change request.

Reporting guidance for companies disclosing to the 2021 forests request.

Reporting guidance for companies disclosing to the 2021 water security request.

A map of the relationship between questions in the 2020 climate change questionnaire and the 2021 climate change questionnaire.

A map of the relationship between questions in the 2020 forests questionnaire and the 2021 forests questionnaire.

A map of the relationship between questions in the 2020 water security questionnaire and the 2021 water security questionnaire.

CDP technical note – Financial Services Sector

Guidance for banks, asset owners, asset managers and insurers on methodologies for calculating the portfolio impact metrics requested by CDP.

CDP technical note – TCFD

An introduction to the TCFD, why CDP has committed to aligning its platform, and how to disclose the TCFD’s recommendations.

Linking GRI and CDP – water security 2018

Provides detailed alignment of the GRI 303: Water and Effluents 2018 and CDP water security 2018. Remains relevant for CDP water security 2021.

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CDP scoring methodologies

CDP uses the scoring methodologies to incentivize companies to measure and manage environmental impacts through participation in CDP's climate change, forests, and water security questionnaires. Each of CDP’s questionnaires has an individual scoring methodology.

Maintaining CDP’s reputation as an independent and unbiased provider of high quality information is of paramount importance. Read our policy on conflicts of interest for more information.

The scoring of CDPs questionnaires is conducted by accredited scoring partners trained by CDP. CDP’s internal scoring team coordinate and collate all scores and run data quality checks and quality assurance processes to ensure that scoring standards are aligned between samples and scoring partners.

Climate change

Full version scoring methodology for companies disclosing to the 2020 climate change request (updated July 26, 2020)

Forests

Full version scoring methodology for companies disclosing to the 2020 forests request (updated July 9, 2020)

Water security

Full version scoring methodology for companies disclosing to the 2020 water security request (updated July 24, 2020)

Scoring Introduction

An introduction to how scoring is applied to all of CDP questionnaires. (updated Dec 8, 2020)

Minimum version methodologies are ONLY applicable to companies responding to a customer request who have less than EUR/USD 250 million annual revenue. (updated April 1, 2020)

Minimum version methodologies are ONLY applicable to companies responding to a customer request who have less than EUR/USD 250 million annual revenue. (updated April 23, 2020)

Minimum version methodologies are ONLY applicable to companies responding to a customer request who have less than EUR/USD 250 million annual revenue. (updated April 1, 2020)

This document indicates where the 2020 climate change scoring methodology differs from the 2019 methodology

This document indicates where the 2020 water security methodology differs from the 2019 methodology

A guide to the climate change scoring categories and the weightings that will be applied to these categories per sector.

A guide to the forests scoring categories and the weightings that will be applied to these categories per sector.