Tracking progress towards 2030 global goals

As we begin the year marking the halfway point of the decade of action, reflections on company climate and nature goals are of paramount importance to ensure continued momentum towards achieving a sustainable planet for future generations. The increasingly important need to reverse nature loss stands before everyone, however, progress made thus far has not been satisfactory.

According to a recent press release from the United Nations, the world is on track to achieve only 17 per cent of 2030 agenda targets. Similarly, to meet the Paris Agreement targets, global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must be reduced by approximately 43% by 2030 and 60% by 2035 compared to 2019 levels, with the goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. This will require a significant transformation across all sectors, including expanding renewable energy, phasing out unabated fossil fuels, halting deforestation, and applying both supply- and demand-side strategies.

The first global stocktake, concluded at COP28 reveals a concerning assessment of the current state of global climate efforts and emphasizes the urgent need to scale up ambitions and actions to meet the Paris Agreement's objectives.

Corporate climate action has a pivotal role in ensuring that the global climate and nature goals are met. As you develop your sustainability strategies ahead of the 2025 disclosure cycle, be sure to have a look at CDP’s network of Accredited Solutions Providers who are available to support on a range of environmental topics.

This month, we are excited to announce that SOCOTEC, a silver verification provider in Japan, has come on board as an Accredited Solutions Provider for climate change and sustainable finance. SOCOTEC brings over 25 years of experience as an ISO third-party certification body and offers in-depth audits, ranging from third-party assurance of sustainability information to verification of GHG emissions and LCA, utilizing their expertise to enhance ESG performance.

We are also delighted to announce that the following Accredited Solutions Providers have renewed their partnerships with CDP and will continue to support companies on their environmental journeys:

• Triple Win Advisory, a women-owned silver consultancy solutions provider in the United States, is a professional services consultancy working with small- and medium-cap enterprises to progress their sustainability and circularity journeys at every stage. TripleWin supports businesses with customized, hands-on support on a wide array of services including carbon accounting, materiality assessments, sustainability road mapping, climate-risk analysis, net zero scenario planning, circular business modelling, stakeholder engagement and course development in support of publicly facing ESG goals. Their mission is to help businesses pursue profitable data-driven climate action.

• Cority, a global gold software solutions provider, supports clients with sustainability, ESG and EHS reporting software solutions that empower them to achieve their sustainability goals and become responsible businesses. Cority’s Sustainability Performance Management software has a suite of dedicated tools to streamline the CDP reporting process. This includes GHG Protocol aligned data collection covering Scope 1,2 & 3, climate change risks and opportunities, an API to automate the disclosure process and an initiatives savings functionality for analysing savings against targets. 

• EcoVadis, a global gold software solutions provider, delivers business sustainability ratings, intelligence and collaborative performance improvement tools for global supply chains. Backed by a powerful technology platform and a global team of domain experts, their easy-to-use and actionable sustainability scorecards provide detailed insights into environmental, social and ethical risks across 200 purchasing categories and 175+ countries. The EcoVadis sustainability intelligence suite spans the full spectrum of sustainability risk and performance management with broad-scale supply chain risk screening and mapping, reliable scorecards with actionable ratings, and complete audit and improvement management. This includes sustainability ratings, GHG management and risk assessment tools for supplier engagement and supply chain decarbonization. 

• Cozeta, a silver consultancy solutions provider in Taiwan, China provides holistic solutions that tackle environmental sustainability, global standardization, and climate protection. Their services include consultancy, carbon accounting, ESG communication, water stewardship, all geared towards fostering sustainability consciousness within corporations. Cozeta assists clients in policy formulation, data compilation, and the development of science-based targets aligned with climate pathways and nature dependencies.  They also implement water stewardship initiatives to enhance corporate resilience in today's rapidly evolving landscape.  

• Digital Grid, a silver renewable energy solutions provider in Japan, offers innovative solutions to increase renewable energy in Japan with the mission to democratize the energy system. Their key offerings include offsite corporate PPA (Power Purchasing Agreement) for their power consumers and generators. DG provides each partner with a transparent and optimized individual menu ranging from power source to the amount and source of renewable energy or certificates to suit each partner with their roadmap towards decarbonization. Lastly, they provide services to power retailers also.  

• Persefoni, a silver software solutions provider in the US, provides businesses, financial institutions, and governmental agencies the software fabric for managing their organization's climate-related data, disclosures, and performance with the same level of rigor and confidence as their financial reporting systems. Their software enables users to simplify the calculation of their carbon footprint, identify decarbonization strategies, and perform emissions reduction modeling aligned to different scenarios. 

• Ramboll, a silver consultancy in the United States, partners with clients in both the private and public sectors to solve their most complex challenges, transform their businesses, and achieve ambitious sustainability goals. Their team deploys the latest technologies, science, innovation, and digitalization to deliver solutions that are protective of the environment, human health, and society. They work with clients to co-create solutions that prepare them for today’s challenges while proactively addressing those of tomorrow.

• ServiceNow, a silver software provider in the United States, supports organizations with their cloud‑based platform and solutions to help digitize and unify the workflow. ServiceNow ESG Management offers a comprehensive platform to articulate and manage sustainability strategies for impact. It enables a holistic view of an organization's ESG activities, while streamlining the definition, monitoring, collection, and reporting of relevant data from across the enterprise for CDP reporting.

• SLR, a silver consultancy solutions provider in the UK, provides strategic sustainability advice and on-the-ground support to clients through solutions which integrate their strategic, analytical and technical services. This encompasses all aspects of climate strategy and disclosure, including but not limited to GHG accounting, net zero strategy, climate compliance and climate-related risk and opportunity assessments. 

• Wastebox, a silver consultancy solutions provider in Japan, specializes in carbon measurement and management. With more than 10 years of experience in measuring organizational and product carbon footprint, lifecycle assessment (LCA), and carbon offsets, they offer a full range of support to organizations in implementing carbon management strategies. The end-to-end support encompasses measurement of carbon emissions across the three scopes, setting emission reduction targets, tracking progress, offsetting residual emissions and finally providing disclosure support in line with TCFD recommendations.

For more information about any of our Accredited Solutions Providers or to request a direct introduction, please contact partnerships@cdp.net.

CDP is committed to building a diverse Accredited Solutions Provider network and we particularly encourage solutions providers that are women or minority-owned such as Triple Win Advisory or those based in emerging economies to get in touch with us.