Reporting to the Carbon Disclosure Project

Has your organization received an information request from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)? Or, are you considering making an unsolicited disclosure?

Carbon Clear can help to streamline the CDP reporting process for your business. By reporting with the CDP, your company can gain recognition for carbon reduction achievements and signal to investors your commitment to sustainable, long-term commercial growth.

What is the CDP?

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent, not-for-profit organization that publishes a database of climate change information from over 3,000 global organizations. Over the past 10 years, the CDP has become the de facto platform to which businesses credibly communicate their carbon data.

The CDP serves a community of 534 institutional investors, holding over $64 trillion in assets. These investors increasingly look to environmental and carbon performance to assess long-term corporate risk and profitability. The CDP website and reports are also publicly available, accessed by the media, policy makers and the general public in search of transparent data.

Apart from investors, large corporations use the CDP to track their supply chain emissions and make procurement decisions by having suppliers disclose their carbon performance with the CDP. For example, Walmart uses the CDP platform to quantify the carbon footprints of their over 200,000 suppliers. Dell, HP, IBM and 45 others also utilize the CDP to track their supply chain. Reporting with the CDP can be a key attribute of messaging your green supply chain credentials to top accounts.

How can Carbon Clear help?

In order to make a meaningful disclosure with the CDP, you must be accurately measuring, documenting and reducing your carbon emissions. Carbon Clear will ensure that your carbon footprint calculations are of sufficient scope and quality, and help you to develop a carbon management plan to demonstrate robust reductions. Our experts will also assist you with qualitative and risk assessment reporting, and submitting your data via the CDP’s online response system.

The scope and detail of your disclosures, the quality of your supporting evidence and a robust carbon reduction approach can help you achieve high Leadership Index scores, gain coverage in CDP reports and overall improve your corporate image.

Carbon Clear’s market experience and familiarity with the CDP make us a knowledgeable and cost effective partner for your company. Let us work with you to simplify and streamline the reporting process.