Important information
CDP has been making information requests on behalf of institutional investors to corporations on carbon and climate change since 2002, water since 2010, and forests since 2013. In addition, CDP has been making information requests to cities since 2010 as well as to states and regions since 2014. To find out more about CDP and the previous responses from these organizations, please refer to our website at www.cdp.net.
What are the financial implications of responding?
CDP has a charitable status and seeks to use its limited funds effectively. Consequently, responses must be prepared and submitted at the expense of responding states and regions. CDP also reserves the right, where it deems it appropriate in view of its charitable aims and objectives, to charge for access to or use of data and/or reports it publishes or commissions.
What is the basis of participation and what will happen to the data received?
When responding to CDP you will be given a choice as to whether your response is made public or non-public. We strongly encourage states and regions to make their responses public which means that the response will be made publicly available from the CDP website. Non-public responses will not be made publicly available and will only be used in aggregate and/or anonymously.
What if a state/region wishes to change or update a response?
After you submit your response via the Online Response System, it will become ‘read-only’ and any amendments can be made through the dashboard. If your state/region wants their information to be included for the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit in California, please submit and make all necessary amendments by 25th July 2018.
How can a state/region confirm its participation?
If you received this document in hard copy, please email [email protected] to confirm your participation.
What is the legal status of CDP?
CDP Worldwide (CDP) is a UK Registered Charity no. 1122330 and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales no. 05013650 with its registered office at Level 3, 71 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4AY. The charity has wholly owned subsidiaries in Germany and China and companies in Australia, Brazil and India over which it exercises control through majority Board representation. In the US, CDP North America, Inc. is an independently incorporated affiliate which has United States IRS 501(c)(3) charitable status.
CDP is an independent not-for-profit organization holding the largest collection globally of self-reported climate change, water and forest-risk data. Thousands of organizations from across the world’s major economies measure and disclose their environmental information through CDP.
CDP puts this information at the heart of financial and policy decision-making and its goal is to collect and distribute high quality information that motivates investors, corporations and governments to take action to prevent dangerous climate change.
