CDP Climate Reporting Consultancy

CDP is an independent environmental disclosure system that allows companies and public institutions to share their environmental data with investors, customers, and other data users. The corporate questionnaire may cover climate change, water security, forests, and other nature topics according to your organisation's profile.

The 2026 corporate questionnaire is conducted under a single integrated structure. In addition to Climate Change, Water Security, Forests, Biodiversity, and Plastics, Ocean has been included in the questionnaire for the first time in 2026. Visible questions are tailored according to organisation type, environmental topic, sector, size, and revenue information.

According to CDP's 2026 Terms of Disclosure, the standard deadline for scoring is 16 September 2026, and the Questionnaire Closure Date is 28 October 2026. If CDP makes changes to these dates, the Portal and official notifications should be referenced.

Organisation access is managed via the CDP Portal. The Submission Lead role is verified, the administration fee process (if any) is completed, the questionnaire setup is performed, responses and attachments are checked, and the final response is submitted by the Submission Lead.

CDP 2026 includes a Full Corporate Questionnaire and a shorter, simplified SME Questionnaire. Eligibility for the SME Questionnaire is determined during questionnaire setup based on the organisation's total number of employees and annual revenue for the reporting year. For eligible organisations with fewer than 500 employees and less than US$50 million in annual revenue, the SME path is suggested, and a switch to the Full Corporate option is possible. Some organisations with fewer than 1,000 employees and less than US$250 million in revenue may continue to be eligible for SME, but Full Corporate may be recommended. Organisations with more than 1,000 employees or over US$250 million in annual revenue are not eligible for the SME Questionnaire and use Full Corporate. Questionnaire setup, requester context, and the organisation's disclosure objectives may also influence which path is more appropriate.

Climate Change questions are the primary corporate disclosure topic for companies. For companies using the Full Corporate Questionnaire, supplementary questions for biodiversity are included; plastics and Ocean data points, added for the first time in 2026, may be shown depending on the questionnaire pathway and setup. The scope of Water Security and Forests can be shaped by requester demands, CDP-ACS, organisation profile, and related opt-in or intent-to-submit selections. Therefore, not all environmental topics are entirely optional; which additional data points are shown is determined by the organisation's questionnaire setup and disclosure path.

CDP corporate scoring is assessed at four maturity levels: Disclosure (D/D-), Awareness (C/C-), Management (B/B-), and Leadership (A/A-). Question-based scoring, category weights, and relevant Essential Criteria together influence the final score.

Essential Criteria are absolute conditions that must be met to reach a certain score level. Even if the score threshold is exceeded, if the relevant Essential Criteria are not met, the organisation may not be able to advance to a higher score level. For 2026, up-to-date topic-based Essential Criteria documents are published by CDP.

The 2026 disclosure cycle is ongoing as of July 2026; the 2026 A List has not yet been finalised. For an A/A- and A List target, the relevant scoring methodology, category scores, and Essential Criteria should be considered together; it should be remembered that the final score is given by CDP.

No. According to CDP 2026 Terms of Disclosure, if corporate responses are to be scored, they must be submitted in English, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, or Spanish. Corporate responses submitted in Turkish or other languages are not scored.

The final date for public announcement of CDP 2026 scores is announced separately by CDP. Your organisation's current score and privacy status should be monitored via the CDP Portal; for organisations receiving an A score, CDP's A List application also applies.

Companies in Turkey can respond to CDP due to investor demand, customer or Supply Chain demand, or as part of a voluntary disclosure. Especially for exporters and companies connected to multinational supply chains, CDP can help manage environmental data requests in a standard structure.

Water Security scope may include data such as water withdrawal, discharge, consumption, site-specific water risks, governance, targets, and responses to risks. The exact questionnaire varies according to the organisation's profile and questionnaire setup.

The Forests scope is not solely about deforestation declarations; forest-related dependencies, impacts, risks, opportunities, commodity traceability, and conversion risks can also be addressed. In the 2026 integrated questionnaire, other nature topics such as biodiversity, plastics, and ocean can also be opened depending on the organisation's profile.

Within Climate Change, numerous data points may be found, including governance, strategy, risks and opportunities, Scope 1-2-3 emissions, targets, transition plans, mitigation practices, and financial impacts. The sector and organisation profile influence which questions are opened.

Relevant Scope 3 categories are evaluated; activity data used, emission factors, methodology, assumptions, and data quality are explained. Which categories are material depends on the company's value chain and operating model.

CDP Supply Chain is a program where large buyers request environmental data from their suppliers via CDP. According to CDP's 2025 data, approximately 45,000 suppliers were asked to disclose under the Supply Chain program.

In 2026, companies, including SMEs, must complete the CDP administration fee process before submitting their responses; different practices may apply in certain request types or exemption situations. Current fee and exemption conditions should be checked on the CDP Portal and official pricing pages.

A Capital Markets request is when an environmental disclosure is requested from an organisation on behalf of CDP Capital Markets Signatories. In 2026, over 540 financial institutions, representing over US$110 trillion in assets, are requesting data from more than 43,000 organisations via CDP.

Organisation information, access roles, and permissions are managed via the CDP Portal. Submission authority is linked to the Submission Lead role; user access and organisation information should be checked before the response process.

No. The necessity for verification varies by topic, question, and scoring criteria. Independent verification may contribute to scoring or meeting Essential Criteria for certain data points; however, it does not alone guarantee a high score.

CDP is an environmental disclosure and scoring system. IFRS S2 is a climate-related financial disclosure standard; GRI are impact-focused sustainability reporting standards; SASB offers sector-specific investor-focused metrics. TCFD recommendations have formed an important basis for the development of IFRS S2 and other climate disclosure approaches.