2025 Disclosure Milestones: What To Expect

2025 MilestonesWhat to expect in 2025

Functionality improvements Things to look out for

2024 was a challenging year for CDP and many of our stakeholders. While we worked to modernize our systems, unforeseen technology issues, the scale of work required, and ongoing fixes negatively impacted the reporting cycle and caused operational challenges for our stakeholders. 

Throughout the 2024 cycle, we made continuous efforts to improve the experience for organizations, such as better signposting, improved organization search functionality, and in-Portal guidance. 

However, the technological challenges extended the 2024 delivery cycle into 2025, delaying the release of CDP scores and data products. 

As we continue to put the feedback we have received over the last 12 months at the heart of our long-term improvement plan, CDP is prioritizing stability and core functionality delivery for the Portal, ensuring users have a more stable and reliable experience that ultimately drives impact. 

This focus on stability and core functionality delivery underpins our decision to make only limited changes to the questionnaire and scoring methodology in 2025 while providing improved support through detailed guidance and training for our account managers. 

While we cannot guarantee that no unexpected hurdles will arise in the coming weeks, we are working to reduce the risk of having to shift timelines any further.

Should any unforeseen issues occur, we will provide timely, clear and transparent updates. 

2025 Disclosure Cycle Milestone Dates

Week of March 31

Questionnaire and Guidance published in PDF format (in English)*

Week of April 28

Scoring methodology published in PDF format (in English)*

Week of April 28

Requesters can start to create and submit lists**

Week of June 9

List submission deadline for Requesters

Week of June 16

The 2025 reporting window opens

Week of September 15

Scoring deadline

Week of November 17

Deadline to submit unscored responses and all amendments

*Translated versions of the Questionnaire and Guidance PDF and of the Scoring Methodology PDF will be made available in May (in Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish).  

**Requesters who can create and submit lists include Supply Chain Members, Private Markets, and Corporate Banking Members.

What to expect for 2025 

  • Less Portal down time for a more stable user experience. 

  • No changes to questionnaires' content. 

  • Minimal changes to the way questions are phrased, designed to remove ambiguity.

  • Enhanced signposting and guidance available in both PDF format and in the Portal.

  • Improved translations of the questionnaire in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese.

  • 2025 scores to be released before the end of the year. 

Functionality Improvements

A copy forward feature to enable disclosing organizations to utilize parts of their 2024 response for this year’s disclosure. 

A copy list feature to enable Supply Chain Members to copy forward their 2024 request lists.   

A new feature for Supply Chain Members to create invitation links based on email domains if individual email addresses are not available - this is available via Supply Chain account managers. 

Providing a sandbox environment and updated technical documentation for our Accredited Solutions Providers to allow them to test their connections to update responses without disrupting internal workflows 

Portal homepage and navigation enhancements, including clearer guidance for parent company submissions. 

Organization search and list management with improved search functionality and reduced organization duplication, enabling easier search for organizations to add to your requests.

Enhanced payment and invoicing capabilities, enhanced look and feel, and updated features in the portal.

Simplified Register to Disclose form with clearer user instructions, available from the 18th of June.

Questionnaire enhancements, including one-click editing of matrix cells, multi-line rich text input with line breaks, auto-expanding matrix fields, and truncated overflowing text, for improved and faster user experience. 

Things to look out for  

After June 18, your 2024 requests and responses will no longer be accessible. Learn more about exporting your questionnaire response from the CDP Portal.

As part of the 2025 cycle setup, you will need to identify a Submission Lead for your organization (designated 2024 Leads will revert to Discloser Contributors in the Portal so that you can ensure any internal changes to roles and responsibilities are reflected). A new Submission Lead must be assigned in the Portal and they will need to accept the 2025 Disclosure terms. You won’t be able to submit your response without a Submission Lead, so please do review and update your account as soon as possible.  

Supply Chain Member Account Managers will be able to enable these upon request

CDP disclosure 2025 - your questions answered

Below you can find our pre-recorded video answering your questions on this year's disclosure timeline. The themes talked about include:

  1. Portal updates, usability, and what to expect in 2025  

  2. Impact of shifting timelines on disclosure  

  3. Changes to the questionnaire and scoring methodology  

  4. Enhanced signposting and guidance

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