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Get decisive data that is consistent, comparable and comprehensive across public and private markets.
The CDP Private Markets Program facilitates engagement, disclosures and data insights on private companies. Financial Institutions’ can leverage CDP disclosure for a comprehensive baseline and subsequent monitoring of private portfolios through relevant benchmarking.
Asset owners can engage with asset managers on portfolio company level and fund level disclosures as relevant.
As financial institutions assess and address their financed emissions, the lack of standardized disclosures and insights on environmental impacts presents a clear risk to their portfolios and broader climate transition strategies. While climate reporting among publicly traded companies has become increasingly mainstream, standardized disclosures are lagging for private companies.
Benefits for investors
- Meet requirements for reporting standardization and benchmarkable data in private markets.
- Streamline environmental responses from portfolio companies.
- Gain insights on environmental practices and impacts of portfolio companies.
- Get ahead of regulation and future policy mandates.
- Facilitate disclosures from portfolio companies, establish transparency and manage environmental performance.
Program features
TCFD-aligned disclosures
CDP questionnaires are aligned with TCFD recommendations, ISSB S2 recommendations with ongoing alignment with the ESRS and TNFD. Companies can disclose through the 2024 full corporate questionnaire or new SME corporate questionnaire (as applicable).
Engagement & capacity building
Portfolio companies get capacity-building support through webinars, tailored guidance documents and a dedicated helpdesk.
Data outputs and insights
All members receive standardized datasets on reported disclosures, emissions estimates (as relevant), portfolio and company benchmarking based on private company responses (12,000+ companies) through CDP.
Scores will be available to the requesting authorities in 2024, but they will not be available publicly.
Request disclosure as an investor
Please contact us to learn about CDP’s Private Markets program.
Respond to a request as a company
These are the key steps to disclose as a company:
- Visit the Guidance for Companies page to learn more about CDP questionnaires and reporting guidance for companies.
- Learn more about the 2024 disclosure cycle. The deadline to complete this is 2 October 2024.
Important: In 2024, companies disclosing through the Private Markets’ Program can complete the CDP full corporate questionnaire or the SME questionnaire (note, to view the SME questionnaire and guidance, please select 'corporates' on the first screen). Please note that the underlying questions/metrics remain consistent with the Private Markets Questionnaire from 2021 and 2022.
All companies disclosing through CDP must have a DUNS number. Find out more about the DUNS number including how to register for one.
News and case studies
Press release
CDP launched the first-ever standardized environmental disclosure platform for private markets in 2021, allowing investors with US$2.3 trillion of assets to demand standardized environmental data from private companies.
Case study
In May 2022, CDP collaborated with Bain & Company on a study that shows the public-private environmental transparency gap.
Case study
Nordic private companies are leading EU peers in environmental reporting, but are lagging amid regulation.