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CDP Progress
& Challenges for Cities
6th ICARB Edinburgh
5th September 2014
Amanda Haworth Wiklund
Agenda
What is CDP?
Summary of corporate trends on climate change
Brief points re work w governments & policy-makers
Summary of CDP Cities
Key outputs & results from 2014
Questions / discussion
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About CDP
Launched in 2000 at 10 Downing Street
CDP is an international, not-for-profit organisation providing the only global system for
companies and cities to measure, disclose, manage and share vital environmental
information.
Largest database of corporate climate change, water and forest data in the world
Data collected from over 4,500 companies including 81% of Global 500 companies
Global focus
Mission: To transform the global economic system to prevent dangerous climate
change and value our natural resources by putting relevant information at the heart of
business, investment and policy decisions.
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How CDP works
Corporations and Suppliers
AuthorityInformation
Authority
Signatory Investors and Supply Chain Members
Information
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Over 14 years ago, Carbon Disclosure Project was started as a project that used carbon disclosure as a means to drive corporations to reduce their carbon emissions.
Re-branded in early 2013 we’re now called CDP, and have evolved to cover a wider spectrum of natural capital - water and forests.
CDP works with corporations, cities, major procurers, government and policy makers across the globe.
CDP’s evolution
CDP Signatories & Signatory Assets: 2003 - 2013
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Unique company responses by programme
Climate Water Forests
403 G500 companies took part in CDP’s climate change programme in 2013.56 Carbon Performance Leadership Index (CPLI) companies and 60 in our Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI).
81%
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Big emitters are not doing enough to reduce
1.65%
2013: 2.544 billion tons CO2e
2009: 2.502 billion tons
CO2e
The 50 largest emitters in
2013 emitted 73% of total scope
1 and 2 emissions;
Primarily energy, materials
and utilities companies;
Their emissions have
increased by 1.65% since 2009;
and
This pattern is true of the five
high emitters of each sector.
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There are opportunities for large scale change
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Opportunity to focus emissions efforts
97% of companies
disclose scope 1 and 2
emissions from their
operations; but
Nearly half (47%) of the
most carbon intensive
activities companies identify
are yet to be measured.
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Financial incentives are powerful tools
85% of companies that provide monetary
incentives (linked to energy or emissions reductions)
to the board, executive team or all employees,
report reductions in the past year vs. 67% of other
companies;
Energy is the only sector where companies with
monetary rewards are not more likely to report
decreases in emissions.
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However progress does continue to be made
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Company reporting continues to improve
81%403 G500 companies reported
through CDP in 2013
71%Responding G500 companies
verified their emissions in 2013
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The quality of information continues to improve
The minimum score for
entering the CDLI has risen to
97%;
This compares to 94% in 2012
and 94% in 2011; and
The number of performance
leaders has increased from 34 to
56
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Corporate action on climate change yields benefits
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Consumers and reputation present opportunities
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Global 500 Financial Performance
2013 analysis on G500 leaders
Re-baselined each year
G500 leaders from each year significantly
financially outperform the G500 overall
CDLI – 5 year analysis
CPLI – 2 year analysis
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Work with governments and policy-makers
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Work with governments and policy makers
CDP is to the future of business what the X-ray was to the then future of medicine— without, we would never have seen the insides of a patient’s health. Christiana Figueres Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
CDP was a force behind landmark UK legislation in 2013 mandating the reporting of greenhouse gas emissions in the annual financial reports of listed UK companies. CDP also engaged strongly to support European legislation proposed in 2014 requiring listed companies to report environmental information to shareholders.
Leveraging procurement power National governments are now using CDP to leverage their procurement power to drive change across their supply chains.
Climate Disclosure Standards Board CDP provides the secretariat for the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB). CDSB provides a framework to assist companies with the reporting of climate change and other environmental information that is of value to investors in mainstream financial reports. Find out more, including on how governments and stock exchanges can also incorporate this framework, at www.cdsb.net.
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Introduction to the Cities programme
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CDP Cities
Why CDP Cities ? What do cities disclose?
Who discloses to CDP cities?
Key outputs from 2014
Open data
Partners and Sponsors
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CDP Cities
2011 48 cities
2012 73 cities
2013 110 cities
2014 207 cities
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Why CDP Cities? What do cities disclose?
Reporting platform for cities around the world to disclose theirenvironmental information
City governments to receive the same benefits companies have received from disclosing to CDP
Questionnaire: - Governance- Risks and Adaptation- Opportunities- GHG emissions- Renewable Energy- Water
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Who discloses to CDP Cities?
207 cities worldwide disclosed to CDP Cities in 2014
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Key outputs and results from 2014
CDP Cities represent a growing slice of the world’s economy:
Key outputs and results from 2014
Cities have identified a great number of risks arising from climate change:
Key outputs and results from 2014
The majority of those risks are occurring now:
Key outputs and results from 2014
Cities are taking many actions to reduce their impact :
Key outputs
Key outputs
Benchmark reports 2013 was the first year we offered cities
customised, interactive online benchmark
reports
Private for cities only
Includes cities report score against
regional average (measuring breadth and
depth of city’s response in 5 themes:
governance, emissions measurement,
emissions management, risk identification,
risk management)
Benchmarks cities against regional
average on a variety of climate change data
Track progress against managing
emissions
A large proportion of cities public
answers from 2014 are available online
for free. http://opendata.cdp.net/
Over 500 organisations downloaded our
Open data, including World Bank, WWF,
CERES, WBCSD the China Carbon
Emissions Association, as well as
countless academics and city and
national governments around the world.
Open data
Licensed the data via a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 license
, allows users to use, adapt, and re-mix the data, as long as CDP is cited as the
source and the use is non-commercial.
Partners and sponsors
To ensure all of those 200+ cities report we work very closely with
- a group of cities (originally 40) leading in climate
change
We also work in collaboration with some partners namely:
Report analysis writer
What people say about CDP
“One of the most successful investor engagement programmes of recent years”.
The Financial Times
“Participating in CDP helps drive performance for Diageo. The process ensures the
business focus on environmental management is maintained. It is an invaluable tool in
demonstrating progress against our targets and gaining the support of senior
leadership. It enables us to accelerate the speed with which strategic change can be
implemented”. Diageo
Sustainability experts polled by SustainAbility deem CDP’s sustainability ratings as
the most credible in the world in its Rate the Raters survey.
Thank you