Companies can disclose through CDP in response to a formal request to disclose from an authority, or volunteer to disclose without such a request.
View the full corporate questionnaire and reporting guidance for 2024. Static PDF versions are available (English and translated) – see below*.
Learn more about the structure of the full corporate questionnaire, the environmental issues covered, the sectoral approach, and more (PDF).
A summary of connections between the 2024 CDP full questionnaire and the IFRS S2 standard (PDF).
A mapping of changes to CDP’s disclosure framework from 2023 to 2024 datapoints (XLSX file).
A summary of the terms used throughout the full corporate questionnaire (PDF).
Details of revisions made to the CDP corporate questionnaires, reporting guidance and scoring methodologies following its initial publication. This document will be periodically updated if further revisions are made (PDF).
* You can download a static PDF copy of CDP's 2024 full corporate questionnaire and reporting guidance to your device:
Please note, translated versions are temporary, machine translated and produced documents.
View the SME corporate questionnaire and reporting guidance for 2024. Please select 'corporates' on the first screen to view SME guidance. Static PDF versions are available (English and translated) – see below**.
Learn more about the structure of the SME questionnaire, the environmental issues covered, as well as high-level guidance for disclosers to facilitate consistent and accurate reporting (PDF).
A map of CDP's 2024 SME questionnaire against the 2024 full corporate questionnaire and 2023 SME questionnaire, which was available to organizations disclosing through CDP’s Private Markets Program (XLSX file).
** You can download a static PDF copy of CDP's 2024 SME questionnaire and guidance to your device:
Please note, translated versions are temporary, machine translated and produced documents.
An overview of biofuels and their impacts to support disclosure (PDF).
Technical FAQs on the EU Taxonomy for sustainable activities and integration of its criteria into CDP questionnaires and scoring (PDF).
Guidance on the methodologies used to calculate portfolio impact metrics – for banks, asset owners, asset managers and insurers (PDF).
An overview of concepts related to deforestation free and natural ecosystem conversion free (DCF) supply chains (PDF).
Technical FAQs and mapping against the Ellen MacArthur's Foundation's Global Commitment (PDF).
This document signposts the categories of Scope 3 emissions that companies should be measuring and taking action to mitigate (PDF).
Guidance on how organizations disclosing through CDP can demonstrate that they have a credible climate transition plan (PDF).
Guidance on how investors, banks, and insurers can disclose against their net zero commitments and demonstrate that they have credible climate transition plans (PDF).
Note, this is currently being updated to reflect questionnaire changes in 2024.
Guidance on reporting commodity volumes in the disclosure of forests-related data to CDP (PDF).
An outline of the essential criteria applied to companies responding to the 2024 full corporate questionnaire, across environmental issues.
An outline of the scoring categories and their question level mapping that will be applied to companies responding to the full corporate questionnaire – across environmental issues – and SME questionnaire in 2024.
An outline of the weightings that will be applied to the scoring categories for companies responding to the full corporate questionnaire – across environmental issues – and SME questionnaire in 2024
You can find all CDP materials from previous cycles in the CDP Guidance Tool.
You can provide feedback on CDP's questionnaires, guidance, and scoring methodology via the online General Feedback Form.