Last week, CDP launched their annual Stories of Change report taking a look at how disclosing companies are taking powerful action to transition to a low-carbon, water-secure and deforestation-free world. In CDP's 2023 Stories of Change, we highlight leading businesses that show what practical environmental action looks like. We also highlight the resources available to help businesses on their climate journeys and the actions necessary to lessen their environmental impact and safeguard the ecosystems that support us all
Companies are indeed displaying their willingness to take environmental action, whether it is through initiatives highlighted in this report or through CDP’s record-breaking disclosure rates. These companies will have undertaken actions such as setting science-based targets, creating a climate transition plan, developing water-related risk assessment strategies, or reporting on deforestation impact for all relevant operations, supply chains and commodities. CDP’s Accredited Solutions Provider program exists to assist your organization as you navigate your way through these stages of environmental action. Thanks to their experience and breadth of sector and industry knowledge, CDP’s Accredited Solutions Providers can assist in designing and implementing the transformational change necessary to establish a genuinely sustainable future for people and planet. As you look to the upcoming disclosure cycle and map your organization’s route to environmental leadership, be sure to include an Accredited Solutions Provider in your plans.
This month, we are excited to announce that the following companies have come on board as Accredited Solutions Providers and are available to support stakeholders with a variety of environmental issues:
- JYG Consulting, a woman-owned silver climate change consultancy solutions provider in Taiwan, China offering customized ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) strategy consulting services and programs that help clients improve ESG disclosure, financial rating performance, and management approach and actions. In addition to carbon disclosure support to complete CDP, they also provide GRI-Certified training and Leadership training to help business leaders sustain and continue to succeed in the future.
- Ramboll, a silver climate change and SBT consultancy in the United States is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company with more than 18,500 experts around the world. They partner with clients in both the private and public sectors to solve their most complex challenges, transform their businesses, and achieve ambitious sustainability goals. Their experts deploy the latest technologies, science, innovation, and digitalization to deliver solutions that are protective of the environment, human health, and society as a whole.
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:
- FigBytes Inc., a minority-owned silver software solutions provider in Canada. The FigBytes ESG Insight Platform captures Environmental, Social, and Governance data from across an organization, its existing systems, and external sources and manages it in one, integrated, cloud-based platform that connects organizational strategy, automates industry reporting, and simplifies stakeholder engagement. The FigBytes platform was purpose-built to address the complex world of ESG, is fully integrated to deliver a unified experience, and is comprehensive, addressing both the ESG challenges of today and the emerging issues of tomorrow.
- Cority, a global gold software solutions provider, provides sustainability, ESG and EHS reporting software solutions that empowers their clients to achieve their sustainability goals and become responsible businesses. Their 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.
- Cozeta, a silver climate change, SBT and now a water 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, and more, 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.
- Persefoni, a silver software solutions provider in the US. Persefoni’s Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP) 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. The company’s software enables users to simplify the calculation of their carbon footprint, identify decarbonization strategies and perform climate trajectory modelling aligned to temperature rise scenarios set forth by the Paris Agreement, and benchmark their impact by region, sector, and/or peer groups.
- Waterscan, a silver water consultancy solutions provider in the UK, has 30 years of independent experience in the water industry and extensive knowledge as a strategic consultant. They are passionate about addressing water scarcity and provide comprehensive water disclosure services, which combine their expertise in data management and water efficiency with intelligent water resilience assessment tools. Their end-to-end sustainable water management solutions range from identifying inefficient water use and developing strategies to reduce consumption, all the way to addressing water-related risks and setting the path to water neutrality.
- JMA, a silver verification solutions provider in Japan. Japan Management Association GHG Certification Center was established in 2006 to be a verification body based on the Kyoto Protocol. Since then, they have conducted validation and verification of domestic and overseas projects. JMA has been accredited by Japan Accreditation Board (JAB) as a greenhouse gas validation and verification body for the criteria ISO14065. As a third party, they contribute to the transparency of various environmental information of the organization and also contribute to the sustainable world as a role of their own.
- First Climate, a silver renewable energy and SBT solutions provider in the DACH region, is a service provider of climate protection solutions and renewable energy. They support private and public sector organizations worldwide, including many RE100 signatories, in achieving their climate objectives. First Climate's core competencies cover products and services relating to carbon neutrality, green energy, green investments, and project development. For public sector clients, they provide consulting for industry best-practice as well as emissions trading services.
- CI3, a silver climate change consultancy solutions provider in Czechia and Slovakia. CI3 is a consulting company offering businesses, public institutions, and other entities tailor-made services related to climate change, mitigation and sustainability reporting. These include, GHG accounting for companies in accordance with GHG Protocol and ISO 14 064; carbon footprint of the products; verifying GHG inventories; ESG strategy and transition to sustainability and CDP reporting.
- Nasdaq Metrio™, a silver software solutions provider in the US is a sustainability reporting platform that is purpose-built for businesses at all stages of their ESG journey. It combines the power of hyper-granular data collection, tracking, management, emissions calculations, and assurance with a robust library of cross referenced, de-duplicated, and demystified metrics from rater and ranker frameworks and regulatory bodies, complete with guidance notes.
To find out more about who CDP’s Accredited Solutions Providers are, or how they might be able to help you, watch our short video.
CDP is committed to building a diverse Accredited Solutions Provider network and we particularly encourage organisations that are women or minority-owned, or those based in emerging economies, such as JYG Consulting and FigBytes Inc., to get in touch. Take a look at this blog to learn more about our Diversity and Equity Initiative and to see where we are two years on from implementing this initiative, check out this blog.
For more information about any of our Accredited Solutions Providers or to request a direct introduction, please contact [email protected].