CDP’s 2024 Integrated Questionnaire Explained
This year, CDP has moved to a new, integrated questionnaire model, combining Climate, Water Security, and Forests questionnaires into one. How has it changed, and will this impact your response in the coming months?
CDP and ISSB Alignment: What May Change and How to Prepare
CDP is making some big updates to its questionnaire this year. How might alignment with IFRS S2 change the way you disclose, and what can you do to prepare?
Best Practices for CDP Responders in 2023 (Webinar Recap)
ADEC ESG hosted a webinar to help you understand the latest questionnaire changes from CDP and how to best optimize your response for 2023. We review the highlights and best practices from that webinar here.
CDP in 2023: Upping the Ante on Water Security
CDP has made some notable changes to its 2023 Water Security questionnaire. We’ll be exploring what those changes are in-depth and look ahead to what we may be able to expect in future iterations.
CDP’s New Plastics Section: What You Need to Know for Your 2023 Disclosure
Global sustainability reporting non-profit CDP is setting its sights on plastics disclosure. What’s driving this shift, and how might CDP’s focus on plastics impact your organization?
Disclosure in 2022: This Year’s Key CDP Takeaways and Trends
From transparency in emissions data to ESG target integration, here’s what we learned over the 2022 CDP reporting season and what you can do to prepare for what’s ahead.
Getting Started with ESG Foundations (ESG Professional Series Recap 1)
Part 1 of our workshop series with USGBC-LA covers foundational topics in ESG, as well as trends and drivers in the sustainability space.
Take Action for CDP 2023: A Checklist for Responders
Your 2022 CDP disclosure has been submitted. Congratulations! You and your team are breathing a well-deserved sigh of relief. What’s next on the agenda, and what should you look forward to for the 2023 season?
Prepping for Your CDP and ESG Success in 2022 (Webinar Recap)
Disclosing to CDP this year? Stay on top of the 2022 changes to CDP’s methodology with our latest webinar and hear what experts at ADEC ESG Solutions have to say.
GRI Standards Revisions Part 2: How Do the New Universal Standards Align?
The GRI’s disclosure standards—which provide guidance for a significant portion of sustainability reports—have recently undergone major changes. Find out what this may mean for your reporting strategy in the second of our three-part series.
2022 CDP Updates: Optimizing Your Response (Webinar Recap)
CDP is changing in 2022. What lies ahead for responding organizations? Two of our ESG disclosure and reporting experts sat down to discuss updates to CDP for this year and answer audience questions.
Key Trends and Data from CDP in 2021: Your Sustainability Journey (Webinar Recap)
With CDP’s reporting season finally at a close, we took a look back at the successes, challenges, and lessons learned this past year surrounding the reporting landscape and ESG in general.
Sustainatech: Applying Data Insights and Technology to Enable the Sustainability Journey
ADEC Innovations is at the center of a rapid global movement where companies, coalitions, and governments aim to apply data insight and software technology to enable their sustainability journey – a movement I refer to as Sustainatech.
Measuring CDP Performance by Sector in 2021
As CDP’s Global Scoring and Outsourcing Partner from 2011-2019, ADEC ESG Solutions has unique experience in supporting organizations reporting to CDP.
CDP Checkup: Optimizing Your CDP Disclosure in 2021 (Webinar Recap)
Our expert team of ESG consultants at ADEC ESG Solutions recently hosted a webinar to help viewers prepare for CDP disclosure in 2021. Want to gain exclusive insight and tips on updating your response this year? We take you through a full breakdown below.
CDP Checkup: Optimizing Your CDP Disclosure in 2021
ADEC ESG hosted a live webinar to help you understand CDP Core Principles when working on CDP disclosures. Watch the recording on-demand and join our expert team of ESG consultants as they provide exclusive tips on updating your response for 2021.
CDP Core Principles (Webinar Recap)
In the latest interactive webinar hosted by ADEC ESG Solutions, our expert team of ESG consultants led a discussion on CDP’s Core Principles and how CDP data can be used across other ESG reporting frameworks. Want to gain a better understanding of the fundamentals and what trends to look out for in 2021 and beyond? We take you through a full breakdown below.
CDP Core Principles: A Primer for Reporting Companies
ADEC ESG Solutions hosted a live webinar to help you learn about CDP Principles and where these principles come into play in responding to not only CDP, but other reporting frameworks as well. Watch the webinar on-demand to understand the fundamentals–and what to look out for in 2021.
Measuring CDP Performance by Sector
With the submittal deadline fast-approaching, let’s talk CDP: why you should disclose, how different sectors are performing, and what you can do to ensure that your organization improves year-over-year.
Webinar Recap: Responding to CDP During Times of Global Crisis
The current pandemic has propelled resiliency and sustainability to the forefront for companies and other organizations as they adapt, adjust, and evaluate how they do business amidst global disruption.
Understanding Scenario Planning and the TCFD
We presented an overview of scenario planning and introduce the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) and how these directly affect how companies disclose environmental and financial information.
Responding to CDP During Times of Global Crisis
While transparency and reporting for businesses have become increasingly important in recent years, the changing landscape in light of the current pandemic has made these factors even more crucial.
Scenario Planning: Understanding Risk and Opportunity
Scenario planning is a strategic planning tool that helps you account for the uncertainty of future conditions while developing your business strategy. Evaluating multiple factors involved in a range of future possibilities will help you better understand uncertainties and key areas of vulnerability.
What Corporate Sustainability Rankings Should You Focus On?
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ranking systems, which assess a company’s sustainability performance, are becoming increasingly valued as key decision-making indicators by consumers, investors, and other stakeholders.
CDP 2019 Spring Workshop: Improving Approaches to Risk Strategy
CDP’s 2019 North America Spring Workshop brought together participants from a host of CDP-reporting companies and other stakeholders to discuss the latest trends in environmental disclosure. In his opening remarks, CDP North America President Bruno Sarda made clear the urgency around climate change: “There is no Plan B. We have to figure this out”.
Better Data Management for Smarter Decision Making
Decision making is driven by data. Quality data gives a company the knowledge required to make smart decisions and to back up those decisions with meaningful supporting evidence.
Reaching and Exceeding CDP Management Level
Looking for ways to improve your CDP performance? Check out the latest tips from the ADEC Innovations team.
Improve Your CDP Response
You have started responding to CDP’s disclosure questionnaire but have consistently received a Disclosure (D-/D) or Awareness (C-/C). You have aspirations to improve your reporting practices and to become more transparent in your disclosure environmental impact. You are working to take firmer action towards reducing emissions, and to achieve Management (B-/B) level or above from CDP in recognition of these improvements.
CDP China Launch: Green Development Through Environmental Disclosure
In March, representatives from ADEC ESG Solutions attended CDP’s 2018 China Report Launch, “Facilitating Green Development Through Environmental Disclosure.”
Reporting to CDP This Year? You Need These Tips
CDP’s 2019 Questionnaire has now been released, along with a host of guides and tools. To help you get the best results you can, we’ve prepared a rundown of those tools, a list of best practices and a forensic look at the questions you found most challenging in 2018.
