The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent not-for-profit organisation aiming to create a lasting relationship between shareholders and corporations regarding the implications for shareholder value and commercial operations presented by climate change. Its goal is to facilitate a dialogue, supported by quality information, from which a rational response to climate change will emerge.

CDP provides a coordinating secretariat for institutional investors with a combined $41 trillion of assets under management. On their behalf it seeks information on the business risks and opportunities presented by climate change and greenhouse gas emissions data from the world's largest companies: 2,400 in 2007. Over 7 years CDP has become the gold standard for carbon disclosure methodology and process. The CDP website is the largest repository of corporate greenhouse gas emissions data in the world.

CDP leverages its data and process by making its information requests and responses from corporations publicly available, helping catalyse the activities of policymakers, consultants, accountants and marketers.

CDP was launched on 4th December 2000 at No. 10 Downing Street. The first cycle of the project (CDP 1) involved sending a letter and questionnaire to the FT500 largest companies in the world on 31st May 2002. This letter was signed by 35 institutional investors who collaborated to provide an efficient mechanism for disclosure of this information.

The CDP 1 report and the response from corporations were made available from this website on 17th February 2003. 71% of corporations responded and 45% answered the questionnaire in full. Launches were held in London (Chair, Derek Higgs), New York (Chair, Madeleine Albright) and Hong Kong (Tessa Tennant).

The CDP 2 information request was signed by 95 institutional investors with assets of $10 trillion and sent on 1st November 2003. The responses and a report based on them were made available from this website on 19 May 2004. 86% of corporations responded and 60% answered the questionnaire in full (increase in US response from 30% to 42%, including 83% answering questionnaire from the utility sector). Launches were held in London (Sir John Bond, Chairman of HSBC), New York (Alan Brown, Global CIO State Street), Melbourne (Hon. John Thwaites, Deputy Premier of Victoria and Minister for the Environment and Water), Tokyo (Hosted by the Development Bank of Japan), Toronto and Milan.

The CDP 3 information request was signed by 155 institutional investors with assets of more than $21 trillion and sent on 1st February 2005. The responses and a report based on these responses were made available from this website on 14th September 2005. 89% of corporations responded and 71% answered the questionnaire in full. Launches were held in New York (Jim Rogers - Cinergy, Alan Hevesi – New York State Common Retirement Fund, Margarett Beckett - UK Foreign Secretary), London (Sir Christopher Bland, BT), Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Melbourne, Sao Paulo, and Toronto.

The CDP 4 information request was signed by 225 institutional investors with assets of more than $31 trillion and sent on 1st February 2006. The information request was sent to 2180 companies and more than 940 answered the questions. From the FT500 sample 91% of corporations responded and 72% answered the questionnaire in full. The responses and reports based on these responses were made available from this website on 18th September 2006. Launch events were held in New York (Al Gore, Lord Adair Turner), London (Lord Adair Turner), Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Melbourne, Sao Paulo and Toronto. Please click here to see more information about the events.

The CDP 5 information request was signed by more than 280 institutional investors with assets of more than $41 trillion and sent on 1st February 2007. The information request was sent to 2,400 companies. The responses will be made available from this web site in September 2007.

We continue to invite all large companies to respond to the CDP information request on this site. If you would like to complete the CDP5 information request, please download the documents here and enter your completed response at www.cdproject.net/cdp5 For further information contact info@cdproject.net.

The Carbon Disclosure Project is a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers, with US IRS 501(c)3 charitable status, with the sole purpose of providing a co-ordinating secretariat for the participating funders and investors.

Many reports analysing company responses are available from this web site here

The Carbon Disclosure Project is funded by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Bridge House Trust, Polden Puckham Charitable Foundation, The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Oak Foundation, The Marmot Charitable Trust and WWF-UK.

Postal Address:
Carbon Disclosure Project,
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London,
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Email: info@cdproject.net or use the Contact Us form on this site.

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7970 5667

Carbon Disclosure Project team:
Paul Dickinson (Chief Executive), Paul Simpson (Chief Operating Officer), Jeremy Smith (Director), Daniel Turner (Project Manager), Zoe Riddell (Vice President), Sylvie Giscaro (Director Europe), Sue Howells (Partnerships Coordinator), Joanna Lee (Corporate Partnership Manager), Take Seuyoshi (Director Japan), Tim Keenan (Executive Officer), James Howard (Project Officer) and Alex Clarkson (Office Manager).

Advisory Board:
James Cameron (Chair), Alan Brown, Andrew Dlugolecki, Colin Maltby, Robert Monks, Robert Napier, Eckart Wintzen, Doug Bauer, Martin Whittaker, Caroline Williams.

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