CDP Sets Sights on Impact: Organizational Changes to Accelerate Decision-Useful Disclosure
Strategic restructure will support a leaner, technology and partner-enabled CDP, focused on reducing reporting burden and advancing real-time, actionable insights to advance Earth-positive action.
May 14 2025, London
CDP, the global non-profit that runs the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system, today announced a strategic organizational shift designed to accelerate its mission of delivering actionable environmental data to enable decisions that matter most for the planet.
The organizational restructure optimizes CDP’s global model and will strengthen key capabilities – particularly in new functions across Product, Growth, Operations and Customer Success – to better service customers and partners and accelerate the next phase of CDP’s strategy. CDP will direct more of its resources toward innovation and impact, with reinvestment in associated skills and expertise – maximizing the contributions of donor support and enhancing service to its stakeholders.
"The restructure announced today will enable CDP to invest in the resilience and innovation of tomorrow – reflecting our commitment to our partners and stakeholders across the ecosystem.” said Sherry Madera, Chief Executive Officer at CDP. “We are relied upon to deliver consistent, comparable data that enables faster, smarter decisions – for sustainable business and the wider economy. We proudly support organizations to take action that protects the planet – and the bottom line.”
Since its founding in 2000, CDP has managed the world’s most comprehensive database of self-reported environmental data – a resource that drives real-world action. Following each annual disclosure cycle, CDP’s dataset powers data markets, indices and ratings, investment research and financial products. Disclosing through CDP is not ticking a box – it surfaces critical information that drives both economic performance and environmental protection.
In today’s rapidly evolving market landscape, CDP remains steadfast in its commitment to serving the global economy and providing an independent disclosure system to the world. The organization’s priority for 2025 is ensuring a stable annual disclosure cycle that delivers business-critical information requested by over 700 financial institutions and 300 of the world’s largest supply chain owners. This period also represents an opportunity to engage directly with market participants to validate CDP’s future direction and work with partners to help businesses make profitable, Earth-positive decisions in uncertain times.
CDP’s updated strategy aims to:
Deliver decision-useful, sector-specific, actionable insights, surfaced through a use case model;
Streamline disclosure by reducing burden, duplication of efforts and manual data entry;
Improve the provisioning and interoperable access of high-quality, standard-aligned data to the financial markets, requesting bodies, policy makers and the general public;
“We remain focussed on our mission, our partners and our people – supporting a whole of economy approach to planet and profit,” said Madera. “It is with deep gratitude that we thank our CDP team and recognize their valuable contributions in pursuit of our bold vision.”
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About CDP
CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system. As the founder of environmental reporting, we believe in transparency and the power of data to drive change. Partnering with leaders in enterprise, capital, policy and science, we surface the information needed to enable Earth-positive decisions. We helped more than 24,800 companies and 1,100 cities, states and regions disclose their environmental impacts in 2024. Financial institutions with more than a quarter of the world’s institutional assets use CDP data to help inform investment and lending decisions. Aligned with the ISSB’s climate standard, IFRS S2, as its foundational baseline, CDP integrates best-practice reporting standards and frameworks in one place. Our team is truly global, united by our shared desire to build a world where people, planet and profit are truly balanced.