CDP Global Partners

As CDP grows, a group of global partners will support CDP's work over the next three years. The Consortium will help accelerate the collection and disclosure of key corporate climate change data from more and more companies. It will also play an important part in enabling CDP to pursue new projects to expand the CDP reach and to raise awareness of the importance of corporate climate change reporting and accounting.

Merrill Lynch is the founding member of CDP's Consortium of global partners. As a global partner, Merrill Lynch will play a key role in supporting CDP's development and growth worldwide over the next three years.

Merrill Lynch President & COO, Greg Fleming:
'As a founding partner of CDP, Merrill Lynch is proud to support the expansion of this critical and unique organization. CDP is the gold standard for carbon disclosure methodology and we are proud to partner with them as we pursue environmental excellence for our firm and our clients.'

Merrill Lynch Managing Director & Global Head of Carbon Emissions, Abyd Karmali:
'CDP has been instrumental in creating a constructive dialogue between companies and the financial markets on new opportunities and risks posed by climate change. Importantly it has also promoted continuous improvement in corporate reporting on carbon emissions, which has been valuable to Merrill Lynch in developing new carbon-related investment products. For example, CDP data were instrumental for Merrill Lynch in launching our Capital Protected Carbon Leaders Europe Index Certificate in 2007.'