The variety of firms publicly disclosing environmental information by the CDP platform has soared 24 p.c within the final yr, with over 23,000 listed firms worldwide publicly reporting on their environmental efficiency.
The annual replace from the more and more influential disclosure platform confirmed that listed firms that collectively boast a market capitalization of $67 trillion, accounting for over two-thirds of whole market capitalization, now present some type of environmental impression information on their enterprise by the platform.
The U.S., China, and Japan proceed to make up the highest three disclosing international locations, however there was additionally substantial development in Asia the place each South Korea and Cambodia greater than doubled the variety of disclosing firms in comparison with 2022.
CDP works on behalf of traders to write down to listed firms requesting their present data on their carbon emissions, impression on water and forests, provide chain administration and plans to reinforce their environmental efficiency. The ensuing disclosures present traders and different stakeholders with comparable data on the environmental and climate-related dangers and alternatives a enterprise faces.
The platform has gained vital prominence lately, as extra traders name on listed companies to supply correct environmental information. At the moment’s report confirms that the variety of companies disclosing by the platform has elevated fourfold because the Paris Settlement in 2015.
Nevertheless, CDP warned that disclosures from the overwhelming majority of listed companies remained incomplete, with just one p.c of companies offering information on all three of its focus areas: local weather change, water safety and deforestation.
The replace additionally confirms that rising numbers of public sector our bodies are reporting by the platform, with disclosures offered by over 1,100 metropolis, state and regional governments in near 100 international locations.
Sherry Madera, chief government at CDP, stated it was clear that environmental reporting had change into a mainstream observe for the overwhelming majority of the world’s largest companies. “With over 23,000 companies disclosing by CDP this yr, it’s clear that sustainability — and the information that underpins it — shouldn’t be a ‘good to have’, however a vital a part of long-term success within the enterprise neighborhood that’s displaying no signal of slowing down — nor ought to it,” she stated. “IPCC forecasts on our world’s local weather trajectory making for grim studying in what is ready to be the warmest yr on file. To take decisive motion for the way forward for our planet, we’d like organizations to be measuring and managing the place they’re on their sustainability journey by disclosure.”
Michelle Papayannakos, BBC group senior sustainability supervisor, stated a standardized method to carbon reporting and environmental disclosures can play a crucial position in enabling the event of efficient decarbonization methods.
“CDP has actually helped the BBC to interact internally on local weather change, rising our maturity as a corporation and offering a sturdy valuation of our present actions,” she stated. “CDP can be a core a part of our decarbonization technique for our provide chain. Asking our prime 450 suppliers to additionally disclose has enhanced engagement, transparency of knowledge and most significantly, led to a ripple impact of improvement and motion on local weather change.”
The information comes simply days after the Taskforce for Local weather-related Monetary Disclosures disbanded after its suggestions on disclosure greatest practices had been adopted by the Worldwide Sustainability Requirements Board (ISSB), which gives a worldwide commonplace for company sustainability reporting.
CDP stated its requests for data from listed firms had been already aligned with the TCFD suggestions and that it could align its 2024 questionnaire with the ISSB’s local weather disclosure commonplace (IFRS S2). From subsequent yr it should additionally begin to replicate the not too long ago launched Taskforce on Nature-related Monetary Disclosures (TNFD) Framework in its data requests, it stated.
“CDP recognises its distinctive position and duty to speed up motion because the driving pressure for gathering major environmental information from organizations for over 20 years,” stated Madera. “Because the demand for sustainability information will get more and more intense and complex for organizations to barter, we have now the experience to organize organizations — massive and small — to satisfy the wants of their stakeholders. For this reason in 2024, we shall be making it simpler and faster to reveal and entry information, by a brand new framework on a brand new and enhanced expertise platform.
“These enhancements will allow CDP to proceed to push boundaries in environmental reporting and helps organizational leaders ship impression for his or her firm and for the planet.”
Emmanuel Faber, chair of the ISSB, welcomed the alignment between the CDP platform and the ISSB’s new requirements.
“The demand from international capital markets for sturdy, constant and correct climate-related data is increased than ever, and with it the necessity for a disclosure eco-system that’s straightforward to navigate for firms,” he stated. “CDP’s work in direction of alignment with the IFRS S2 is extremely welcome and well timed, as it should additional ease the reporting burden for 1000’s of firms, transferring us one step nearer to a standard language for disclosures, whereas enhancing the consistency of climate-related data for traders and accelerating their entry to this information.
“As firms put together to implement the ISSB requirements, it’s optimistic to see yet one more yr of development in voluntary disclosure by CDP.”
