About CDP

Through the promotion of an ongoing dialogue between institutional investors and senior corporate management in relation to climate change, CDP plays a vital role in encouraging private and public sector organisations to measure, manage and reduce emissions and climate change impacts. 

The data collected by CDP provides investors with valuable insight into the strategies deployed by many of the largest companies in the world in relation to climate change. It also provides investors with a better understanding of risks and opportunities from climate change in their portfolios.

CDP provides the private and public sectors with a clear framework within which to report and discuss the development of climate change strategies.

CDP’s data is made available to as wide an audience as possible including policymakers and their advisers, investors, corporations, academics and the public to raise awareness and advance expertise.

CDP’s Information Request has encouraged thousands of corporations to engage in climate change issues for the first time.

CDP’s visibility and credibility provides a neutral forum for reporting companies to demonstrate their commitment to carbon disclosure and emissions management to a wide range of stakeholders. 

CDP’s corporate data permits companies to benchmark against their peer group and represents a resource in terms of strategic ideas.

Climate change programmes related to risk, opportunity and GHG management can yield various internal benefits, particularly in terms of cost savings.

All companies are encouraged to report their emissions data using the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol: the most widely used international accounting tool in respect of emissions and one which global governments and industrialists are familiar with.

CDP has assembled the largest corporate greenhouse gas emissions database in the world and its analyst reports, published annually, provide a detailed analysis of how the largest companies around the globe are responding to climate change.

CDP is committed to the provision of the best information available in respect of business related climate change risks and opportunities to all interested parties including policymakers and their advisers, the investment community, corporate management, academics and the public.

The Carbon Disclosure Project, a company limited by guarantee and registered in England (no. 05013650), is a Registered Charity (no. 1122330). In the United States, CDP’s fiscal agent and sponsor liaison is Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, which provides CDP with 501(c)3 charitable status.