How to Disclose

The CDP Portal contains key information about your organization’s disclosure, such as which people in your organization have access to the Portal and who has requested your organization to disclose. You can also view and update your organization’s details including your name, logo and organization description. Learn more about navigating the Portal. 

Existing CDP users will receive an email with instructions to sign into the Portal. Once you are signed in, you can also add colleagues as new users to your organization and edit users’ details.  

New users will need to complete the Register to Disclose form (available from June 18) to gain access to the Portal and disclose. 

This process is essential to ensure you are linked to the right organization.     

Companies who’ve not received a request to disclose but wish to do so (ie Self-Selected Companies) should complete the Register to Disclose form too.

More articles: 

• CDP Portal access troubleshooting for all users – find out what to do if you’re having problems accessing the Portal.

• Parent-Subsidiary policy and process for disclosers – learn more about when disclosing subsidiary companies or parents disclosing on their behalf should respond.

If you intend to disclose, you will need to complete the following onboarding steps once you’ve signed in.

A) Choose and pay the admin fee (if applicable). You will need to do this before you submit your response. 

B) Confirm Submission Lead (ie the key contact point within your organization for CDP and the person who will submit your organization’s final response to the questionnaire). Your organization must confirm this to begin responding to the questionnaire and disclose.  

C) Confirm your participation to disclose, to inform your Requester(s) of your intention to disclose during this cycle. 

D) Set up your questionnaire by answering a series of questions to determine the correct questionnaire, modules and questions applicable to you.  Learn more about these onboarding steps.

More articles: 

• When to resubmit the questionnaire set-up for disclosing companies – learn more about the specific instances where re-submission of the questionnaire set-up is required (eg if there are changes to your requests).

At this point, you can begin answering the questionnaire as part of your CDP disclosure.

You can edit your response after submitting this. The deadline for all amendments is the week of November 17. 

View our questionnaire and reporting guidance, as well as further disclosure materials.