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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

amanda.haworth@cdp.net