Carbon Disclosure Project Partnership

Source 44 is honored to have been selected by Carbon Disclosure Project as one of only five CDP-accredited consultancy partners in the United States. Source 44 is committed to our partnership with CDP, the world’s leading climate change organization service.  The CDP-Source 44 alliance helps encourage high-quality disclosure of climate change-related data from global corporations. 

Brief on CDP

CDP was launched in 2000 and is the global leader for carbon disclosure methodology and process, providing relevant information at the heart of business, policy and investment decisions. The organization furthers this mission by harnessing the collective power of corporations, investors and political leaders to accelerate unified action on climate change. More than 3,000 companies in over 60 countries now measure and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate change strategies through CDP – including 82% of the Global 500 companies – allowing them to set reduction targets and make performance improvements.

CDP Response Check

The Carbon Disclosure Project Investor Survey now offers a Response Check program to support the thousands of companies that report their climate change data through CDP. 

Response Check is a high-level quality assurance service for CDP-responding companies that have completed their 2011 CDP response. Prior to final submission to CDP, an external quality check can now be performed by CDP-accredited consultancy partners to ensure the response is as complete as possible.

While the service does not guarantee a responding company a better disclosure or performance score, according to CDP, it does provide an additional set of “expert eyes” reviewing a response before final submission, with an emphasis on completeness rather than the quality of the content.

After receiving proprietary training from the organization on the methodology and process of Response Check, Source 44 is one of only five CDP-accredited consultancy partners in the U.S. who will be delivering the Response Check.

Joanna Lee, Chief Partnerships Officer at CDP, explained: “This new service is aimed at ensuring the data submitted to CDP is as accurate and complete as possible, and we hope that this will prove a useful additional check for some of the thousands of companies that report through CDP. Sometimes seemingly minor mistakes can let a response down and this new service aims to provide an additional safety net.”

For more information contact: cdp@source-44.com

About Carbon Disclosure Project

CDP is an independent not-for-profit organization holding the largest database of primary corporate climate change information in the world.Thousands of organizations from across the world’s major economies measure and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate change strategies through CDP. The organization represents some 534 institutional investors, ranging from pension funds like APG Investments and CalSTRS to insurance companies like Allianz, Axa and Swiss Re to mainstream blue chip asset managers such as Barclays, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Mitsubishi UFJ and Morgan Stanley, with combined assets under management in excess of $64 trillion. CDP also works with some 60 purchasing organizations such as Walmart, Cadbury, Dell and PepsiCo and with local and national governments to facilitate the collection of climate change data from their supply chains. CDP’s work has has been applauded by Bill Clinton (former US President), Al Gore (former US Vice President), Jeff Immelt (CEO, General Electric), Rupert Murdoch (Chairman, News Corporation), Angela Merkel (German Chancellor) and Tony Blair (former UK Prime Minister).