CDP Reporting: Measure and Manage Environmental Impact | ONLINE
Gain the environmental edge in sustainability reporting.
Determining your sustainability strategy, improving your environmental footprint, and disclosing risk are critical in today’s business world. Business as usual is no longer a viable option as we tackle the challenges of climate change. The CDP reporting framework is a practical, comprehensive tool for measuring and improving environmental performance. This workshop enhances your reporting capability, highlights alignment with other frameworks such as the Global Reporting Index (GRI) and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), and familiarizes participants with the background, methodology, and questionnaire.
In this course, you will learn:
- The fundamentals and requirements of the four CDP reporting questionnaires, with primary focus on climate and supply chain.
- Strategies to improve disclosure and performance scores when addressing specific questions.
- The implications of defining organizational boundaries using equity share, financial control, or operational control.
- Guided principles for companies and suppliers considering or planning to report for the first time.
COURSE STRUCTURE
Start and finish on your schedule: Courses take 15-17 hours, including video content and exercises.
Module 1: Introduction and Context
- Outlines relevant context for CDP reporting including regulations, investor movements, and international agreements
Module 2: About CDP and the Questionnaire
- Vision and mission of CDP, and review the structure of the questionnaire and information requested
- Activity: Reflect on your own company’s reporting process and decisions
Module 3: Terminology and Scoring Guidance
- Clarify terminology that you will need to understand in order to report and walk through the new questionnaire scoring process
- Activity: Review select sections from the GHG Protocol and examples of boundary disclosures
Module 4: Programs
- Review each of the 4 CDP programs – Cities, Water, Forests, and Supply Chain
Module 5: Verification
- Define verification as well as what is acceptable by CDP and review CDP’s scoring practices related to the use of verified data
- Activity: Check for comprehension and review select sections of the GHG protocol
Module 6: Sectors
- CDP’s strategic move towards a more sector-focused approach as well as tips for responding to achieve top scores and save time
Module 7: Completing the Information Request: Management
- Guide to specific management questions in the information request
- Activity: Check for comprehension quiz
Module 8: Completing the Information Request: Risk and Opportunities
- Guide to specific risk and opportunities questions in the information request
- Activity: Check for comprehension quiz
Module 9: Completing the Information Request: Emissions
- Guide to specific emissions questions in the information request
- Activity: Check for comprehension quiz
This course is for:
This course is recommended for corporate citizenship, CSR, and sustainability professionals responsible for quantifying, measuring, or reporting on CO2 emissions proactively or in response to an investor or customer request. This course is also helpful for reporters including suppliers considering reporting for the first time.
Professional credentials earned:
- 4 certificate units toward a Certificate in Corporate Citizenship Practice (Elective Course)
- 4 certificate units toward a Certificate in Sustainability Reporting (Required Course)
- Digital Recognition of Course Completion to display on your social media platforms or personal website.
Tuition
- Member: $1350.00
- Non-Member: $1550.00