About CDP

CDP's mission is:
To collect and distribute high quality information that motivates investors, corporations and governments to take action to prevent dangerous climate change.

Through annual climate change Information Requests issued on behalf of 475 institutional investors, more than 35 purchasing organisations and UK government bodies to more than 3,700 corporations across the globe, CDP plays a vital role in encouraging private and public sector organisations to measure, manage and reduce emissions and climate change impacts. 

“The first step towards managing carbon emissions is to measure them because in business what gets measured gets managed. The Carbon Disclosure Project has played a crucial role in encouraging companies to take the first steps in that measurement and management path.”
Lord Adair Turner, Chairman Financial Services Authority. 

The data collected by CDP provides valuable insight into the strategies deployed by many of the largest companies in the world in relation to climate change. It also provides a better understanding of how companies are positioned in relation to the risks and commercial opportunities associated with the transition to a low carbon economy.

“Disclosure can spur innovation. … The CDP has shown that internationally consistent disclosure not only helps to pinpoint risk but also to generate opportunities.”
Financial Times

The process of data collection provides management with new insight into reducing carbon emissions and, with CDP, the private and public sectors have a clear framework and a neutral forum within which to report and discuss the development of climate change strategies. The data is made available to a wide audience including policymakers and their advisers, investors, corporations, academics and the public, in order to raise awareness and advance expertise.

“Energy and climate are key issues for business in this carbon-constrained age. CDP helps us to highlight and then demonstrate the importance of climate change risks and opportunity”
JT Wang, Chairman, Acer Inc

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.

 

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 sponsor liaison is Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, which provides CDP with 501(c)3 charitable status.