CDP Earth-Positive Economics Advisory Board
Learn more about CDP's Earth-Positive Economics Advisory Board, its members, and latest activities.
CDP’s Earth-Positive economics agenda is focused on one central objective: To move beyond the correlation of environmental impacts on economic value to the identification of cause and effect based on proven economic laws.
Earth-Positive economics recognizes that environmental health is not a constraint on prosperity, but a precondition for it. The concept places sustainability at the heart of value creation and far from being at the expense of growth, acts as a catalyst for it. CDP's Earth-Positive Economics Advisory Board seeks to embed environmental impact into financial statements. One step at a time.
Building on a strong existing foundation of environmental economics, CDP – as the foremost platform for climate and nature data – is identifying how to unlock the evidence needed to show that embedding environmental indicators into the economic system will fuel the economy of tomorrow. It places natural world indicators in the driving seat of economic growth. Earth-Positive economics is simply good economics.
Read the full press release covering the board's launch
Latest update
CDP successfully launched the Earth-Positive Economics Advisory Board during London Climate Action Week 2026, bringing together leading economists, investors, corporate strategists and sustainability experts to explore a fundamental question: how can we move beyond correlation and establish clearer evidence of cause and effect between environmental performance and economic value?
Browse photos from our inaugural session, below.
Meet the board
Events and activities
Join the discussion. See upcoming events, and explore insights from previous events.
Earth-Positive Economics Advisory Board: Climate Week NYC 2026
Validating Causation: Embedding Climate and Nature Data into Economic Principles
September 24, 2026 | Central Manhattan, NYC – venue to be confirmed
This session will take the form of a moderated expert panel discussion and interactive roundtable, featuring members of the Advisory Board.
Earth-Positive Economics Advisory Board Inaugural Session
From Correlation to Causation: Embedding Climate and Nature Data into Economic Law
June 25, 2026 | London
The Board's inaugural session took place at London Climate Action Week 2026. Browse our gallery of photos from the session, above.
In today’s uncertain times a whole of economy approach is needed, while short- and long-term environmental impacts on inputs, prices and trade cannot be ignored. The Earth-Positive Economics Advisory Board will tap into the breadth of CDP’s data and insights to unlock clear causation between environmental trends and economic value creation.
Latest insights
When Growth Gets Thirsty: Why Water Pricing Belongs in The Boardroom
By Sherry Madera (CEO, CDP) | October 13, 2025
Water. Critical to life. Especially as we all stormed up and down Manhattan a few weeks ago at the biggest Climate Week NYC ever – we were all sipping water. We are thirsty. We know it is important for our health.
Transforming Markets: The Rise of Earth-Positive Economics
By Sherry Madera (CEO, CDP) | September 19, 2025
Markets thrive on information. Trusted and standardized intelligence informs confident positions that build value.
Knowledge Hub
This Knowledge Hub aims to curate the leading ideas, evidence and research that have shaped this field to date, ensuring that Earth-Positive economics builds upon existing expertise while identifying new opportunities to strengthen the evidence base.