2025 Disclosure Milestones: What To Expect
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
Things to look out for
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:
Portal updates, usability, and what to expect in 2025
Impact of shifting timelines on disclosure
Changes to the questionnaire and scoring methodology
Enhanced signposting and guidance