Highlights from a busy year at CDP

2023 was a challenging year for the environment, but at CDP we also saw some progress. Amid record-breaking temperatures, a record-breaking 23,000+ companies disclosed their environmental data through CDP.

Three years into the decade of action, there’s still a long way to go, but in 2023, we took some big steps. Here are some highlights from a busy year at CDP.

🚀 CDP in 2023

• We welcomed our new CEO, Sherry Madera, who brought with her a unique mix of experience from business, finance and diplomacy.
• 23,000+ companies (up 24% from 2022), representing two-thirds of global market capitalization, disclosed environmental data through CDP.
• Over 1,100 cities, states and regions also disclosed through CDP-ICLEI Track. 119 cities made the 2023 A List, including cities in Indonesia, Turkey, and for the first time, Vietnam – indicating that climate action is becoming mainstream.
• Our award-nominated Corporate Environmental Action Tracker launched, making more CDP data accessible to all.
• 3,000+ companies disclosed on plastics for the first time, and at INC-3, we put mandatory disclosure in a global plastics treaty on the agenda.
• Our pioneering disclosure of landscape and jurisdictional approaches increased by 900%, helping enable public and private sector collaboration in reducing deforestation.
• We played a prominent role during the UN 2023 Water Conference, holding governments and financial institutions to account on water security.
• We announced new partnerships and alignments with EFRAG, ISSB and TNFD, improving the quality and quantity of corporate disclosure through CDP.

💡 Explore CDP data

In 2023, CDP's coverage expanded across regions, markets, and the key environmental themes of climate change, forests, water security, biodiversity[HF1] , and now, plastics.

For transparency and insight into the evolving landscape of environmental disclosure, we’ve made more of our data accessible and interactive. Here are three data highlights:

📈 CDP 2023 disclosure data factsheet: the state and trends of disclosure in 2023.

🎯 Corporate Environmental Action Tracker: making aggregated data available to track corporate disclosure and action, disclosed by nearly 10,000 companies.

🏙️ Accelerating Climate Finance in Cities: A Global Snapshot of Opportunities and Needs: 636 cities disclosed climate-related projects worth US$146 billion – see where investment is needed to accelerate action.

💡 Get ready for 2024

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