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Guidance for companies
Companies and SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) can disclose through CDP in response to a formal request to disclose from an authority, or volunteer to disclose without such a request as a Self-Selected Company.
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View the questionnaire, reporting guidance and scoring methodologies for companies disclosing through the full corporate questionnaire in 2024. Note, you will need to select 'corporates' on the first screen, then 'full version' on the second screen.
PDF versions of the full corporate questionnaire and reporting guidance are also available to download to your device:
Other disclosure materials for companies
Learn more about the structure of the full corporate questionnaire, the environmental issues covered, the sectoral approach, and more.
See our summary of connections between the 2024 CDP full questionnaire and the IFRS S2 standard.
See our mapping of changes to CDP’s disclosure framework from 2023 to 2024 datapoints.
See a summary of the terms used throughout the full corporate questionnaire.
See details of revisions made to the CDP corporate questionnaires, reporting guidance and scoring methodologies following its initial publication. This document will be periodically updated if further revisions are made.
Learn how information and data from the preparation of TNFD disclosures can be applied to the CDP questionnaire, and vice versa.
Scoring materials for companies
Get an overview of the scoring process before disclosing through CDP's full corporate questionnaire in 2024.
See our summary of the changes to the scoring methodology that have occurred at a module level of the CDP full corporate questionnaire in 2024.
View the questionnaire, reporting guidance and scoring methodologies for SMEs disclosing through the full corporate questionnaire in 2024. Note, you will need to select 'corporates' on the first screen, then 'SMEs' on the second screen.
PDF versions of the SME questionnaire and reporting guidance are available to download to your device:
Other disclosure materials for SMEs
Learn more about the structure of the SME questionnaire, the environmental issues covered, as well as high-level guidance for disclosers to facilitate consistent and accurate reporting.
View a map of CDP's 2024 SME questionnaire against the 2024 full corporate questionnaire and 2023 SME questionnaire, which was available to organizations disclosing through CDP’s Private Markets Program.
Scoring materials for SMEs
Get an overview of the scoring process before disclosing through CDP's SME questionnaire in 2024.
Get an outline of the scoring categories and their question level mapping that will be applied to companies responding to the SME questionnaire in 2024.
Get an outline of the weightings that will be applied to the scoring categories for companies responding to the SME questionnaire in 2024.
Read more about accepted verification standards.
An overview of biofuels and their impacts to support disclosure.
Technical FAQs on the EU Taxonomy for sustainable activities and integration of its criteria into CDP questionnaires and scoring.
Guidance on the methodologies used to calculate portfolio impact metrics – for banks, asset owners, asset managers and insurers.
An overview of concepts related to deforestation free and natural ecosystem conversion free (DCF) supply chains.
Technical FAQs and mapping against the Ellen MacArthur's Foundation's Global Commitment.
This document signposts the categories of Scope 3 emissions that companies should be measuring and taking action to mitigate.
Guidance on how organizations disclosing through CDP can demonstrate that they have a credible climate transition plan.
Guidance on how investors, banks, and insurers can disclose against their net zero commitments and demonstrate that they have credible climate transition plans.
Note, this is currently being updated to reflect questionnaire changes in 2024.
Guidance on reporting commodity volumes in the disclosure of forests-related data to CDP.
Get an overview of the SEA scoring process in 2024 before disclosing through CDP's Climate Change questionnaire.
See full details of the SEA Question Level Scoring Methodology for 2024, with a complete breakdown of the scoring criteria. Within each scoring band, there are different criteria that points are awarded for.
CDP’s annual Supplier Engagement Assessment (SEA) evaluates corporate supply chain engagement on climate issues. See the highest-rated companies in the SEA Leaderboard.
You can find all CDP materials from previous cycles in the CDP Guidance Tool.
- Questionnaire: climate change, forests, water security
- Questionnaire changes (2022 to 2023): climate change, forests, water security
- Reporting guidance: climate change, forests, water security
- Full scoring methodologies: climate change, forests, water security
- Scoring introduction: climate change, forests and water security
- Minimum scoring methodologies: climate change, forests, water security
- Scoring methodology change documents (2022 to 2023): climate change, forests, water security
- Scoring categories and weighting documents: climate change, forests, water security
- Supplier engagement rating: introduction, methodology
- SME questionnaire and reporting guidance: preview of questionnaire for SMEs requested to disclose as part of the 2023 Sustainable Finance and Banks program only.
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