Our funders
CDP welcomes philanthropic donations from Corporate entities, Governments, Trusts & Foundations to enable us to act urgently to prevent dangerous climate change and environmental damage.
By 2030 we need to halve emissions, end deforestation and reverse nature loss or the consequences will be catastrophic. At CDP, we are accelerating the rate of change through disclosure. By driving transparency and accountability, we are challenging corporates and governments to build a thriving economy that works for people and the planet. In 2022, more companies than ever before measured and acted on their impact, but we are not stopping there. We are expanding our scope to cover more stakeholders and nature, providing the world’s only standardised disclosure system for emitters. The climate and nature crises are here. Be part of the solution.
For information on how to fund us, please contact us at [email protected].
About CDP disclosure
The work of CDP is crucial to the success of global business in the 21st century… No other organisation is gathering this type of corporate climate change data and providing it to the market.Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary General, United Nations
The Pew Charitable Trusts is partnering with CDP, and others, to expand the reach and transparency of rigorous plastics reporting. Our goal is to build a plastics disclosure and reporting initiative that is comparable to CDP’S work on carbon. This will inform companies of their plastics footprint, so, where possible, they can make informed decisions to reduce plastics consumption and create a circular economy for plastics. Only by making plastics reporting data extensive and accessible can we help solve the world’s ever-increasing plastic pollution problem.Simon Reddy, director, international environment, The Pew Charitable Trusts
We are grateful to the following donors who helped make CDP's programs in the previous year possible.
The funders below supported work for CDP Worldwide and CDP Europe during the 2021/22 financial year. Additional funders for CDP North America are listed separately.
You can read more about how we are funded and supported.
Funding above £1,000,000
AKO Foundation
Strategic funding to support CDP in accelerating the rate of change, as we respond to a global need for access to data, and growth in disclosure and accountability. The work supported includes but is not limited to: a focus on momentum and need across the sector; the effective mapping of standards and regulation to identify and align with ever evolving best practice; adapting the questionnaire; and scoring to 1.5°C aligned transition plans. As well as CDP continuing to work with, and be advisor to, all key actors in the global sector.
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Cities and other grants: funding for CDP's Cities program which provides the leading global disclosure platform for cities: CDP-ICLEI Track. Disclosure through CDP-ICLEI Track supports cities to measure, monitor and manage their environmental impacts and risks by collecting key data covering both climate mitigation and adaptation, informing city climate action priorities and efforts. CDP cities data is widely used by policy makers and the scientific community to inform research and decision making, most notably in IPCC reports and the UN’s Global Climate Action Portal. CDP-ICLEI Track is an official platform for the Global Covenant of Mayors, the world's largest coalition of city leaders addressing climate change. CDP has strong relationships with and provides the reporting mechanism for C40 Cities, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, and WWF’s One Planet Cities Challenge among many others.
Children's Investment Fund Foundation
Core funding to support CDP’s efforts to widen and deepen global environmental disclosure by non-state actors and enable a transformation of CDP’s disclosure platform. Further funding is also being provided to support the setup of a new MEL function; kick-start the development of transition plan disclosure efforts; and continue to support CDP’s organisational development.
We Mean Business
Funded ten different CDP projects during this financial year, including core funding. The basis of this work was catalysing business action on their environmental impact and driving ambitious policy to halve emissions by 2030 to accelerate an inclusive transition to a net-zero economy by 2050. This support financed: capacity-building at scale to hundreds of cities worldwide; leveraging a systems-based approach to address the demand and supply sides of the market to institutionalise SBT adoption; mobilising the Procurement function of the private sector at scale to implement 1.5°C-aligned business transformation; supporting SME’s journey into environmental reporting; targeted engagement with regional supply chains in China and India.
Funding above £250,000
Bank of America
Bezos Earth Fund
MacArthur Foundation
Netherlands Enterprise Agency
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Funding above £25,000
Instituto Clima e Sociedade
Norges Bank Investment Management
Oak Foundation
Wellcome Trust
Other
Breakthrough Energy Catalyst Foundation
ClimateWorks Foundation
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Laudes Foundation
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Walmart Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
World Health Organisation
World Wide Fund for Nature
Contact our philanthropic funding team at [email protected].
We are headquartered in London (UK Charity Registration No. 1122330) and have further operations in Brazil, China, Hong Kong, China, India and Japan. We also operate through local partners in Colombia, Ireland, Peru, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, China and Turkey.
North America is served through a legally separate independent 501c3 entity based in New York (CDP North America, Inc EIN 36-4709977) and Europe through a legally separate charity based in Brussels (CDP Europe AISBL, charity number HRB119156 B).
CDP also has a presence in South Africa and Taiwan through operational partners National Business Initiative and BCSD Taiwan.
