CDP collects self-reported environmental data from cities, states/regions, and companies through voluntary questionnaires. Their 2014 cities questionnaire had over 200 city respondents. CDP also piloted collecting data from states/regions in 2014, with 12 participants from several countries. CDP makes the data available through online analytics to help participants compare performance, identify risks, and showcase leadership. Participants report benefits such as assessing progress, accessing an international network, and informing policies. CDP aims to expand state/region participation in 2015 through a new Compact initiative with regional networks.

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CDP's cities program
4thDecember 2014
Pauline Martin

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Agenda
CDP’s work
Questionnaire
Reporting process
Key outputs
How are cities using the data we make available?
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CDP’s history and work
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Climate change
Forest program
Water program
Supply chain
Cities and states & regions
Investors
Companies
CDP
Companies
Cities and states & regions

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CDP’s work
Our vision is a global economic system that operates within sustainable environmental
boundaries and prevents dangerous climate change.
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In 2014 CDP achieved…
Over 5000 companies responding
Over 200 cities responding
Pilot with over 10 states and regions
CDP: largest database for self reported sustainability data by companies and government entities
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Growth of the Cities program
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Why do cities report ?
Self assessment tool
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Hanoi, Vietnam
“The various indicators designed for the questionnaires help us to find out about what we have done, what we should do in the future. It's really a big challenge but a precious experience.”

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Why do cities report ?
Show leadership nationally and internationally
Opportunity to showcase innovation
Access to network of international cities leading on climate change
You can’t manage what you don’t measure
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Reporting process
No minimum amount of information to respond
No methodology prescribed
Qualitative and quantitative questions
Public or private disclosure
Free and voluntary
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Questionnaire –Overall
Questionnaire structure
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Governance
Emissions reduction actions
Risks and Adaptation
Renewable energy
Economic Opportunities
Water
Emissions inventory

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CDPmakes headlines
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2014 Findings
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Cities are exposed to a variety of risks, with different severity and timescales

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2014 Findings
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A portion of cities are able to calculate their emissions

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2014 Findings
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But cities are acting,implementing mitigation and adaptation actions

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How are cities using our data?
Means for cities to compare themselves to their peers in an intuitive online platform across the different sections of the questionnaire.
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Cities analytics

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Kaohsiung -Taiwan
CitiesAnalytics provided a variety of climate change data which helped us draw comparisons with other cities and re- check our GHG Emissions Reduction Strategies.”
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How are cities using our data? Page 17
Inform and contextualize their policies
Climate Action Report 2011 –
City of Austin

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Other data users
National governments
IPCC 5thAssessment Report
US EPA
World Bank
Academics
Companies
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Download our data!
data.cdp.net
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CDP’sstates and regions
program
Chris Thorpe

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CDP’s states and regions program
Pilot premise
The states and regions pilot
CDP analytics
The state of play report –results preview
Plans for 2015 –The Compact of States and Regions
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Pilot premise
States and regions can lead in combating climate change
Action is taking place right across the globe, which needs increased visibility.
For leaders to help catalyse further action, a standardised, established platform for disclosure is paramount.
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UNDP, Territorial Approach to Climate Change
Report, 2011
Most investments to reduce GHG emissions and adapt to climate change –50 to 80 percent for mitigation and up to 100 percent for adaptation –take place at the subnational and local levels.
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Johannes Remmel
Minister for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Conservation and Consumer Affairs
North Rhine-Westphalia
There is strong interest in sharing best practice at this level of government, which demonstrates that climate action must and can be from the bottom up. In many countries more ambition is demonstrated in this regard by state and regional governments than at the national government level.
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CDP’s states and regions pilot
Partnership with The Climate Group
Funding from ZennstromPhilanthropies
State and regional level of sub-national government tiers
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Geographic spread of participants
List of participants
Cornwall Council, GBR -Private
The Region of the Basque Country, ESP
The Province of Kwazulu-Natal, ZAF
The Province of Quebec, CAN -Private
The North Denmark Region, DNK
The Region of Catalonia, ESP
The State of Jalisco, MEX
The State of North Rhine-Westphalia, DEU
The State ofRio de Janeiro, BRA
The State of São Paulo, BRA
The State of Tasmania, AUS -Private
The State of Vermont, USA
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CDP’s states and regions pilot
Recruitment –May and June 2014
Disclosure period –July and August 2014
Data cleaning –September and October 2014
Analytics
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CDP analytics
Individual login given to each participating government
Example shown using the login credentials for the North Denmark Region
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A preview of the results
The state of play –Tues, 9 Dec 2014
75% responded publicly
75% of responding governments reported region-wide emissions reduction targets
92% of responding governments have a region-wide emissions reduction inventory
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Joining CDP's states and regions program
How to join for 2015
Fill out our questionnaire
Fully or partially
Online or offline
Privately or publicly
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The benefits of reporting
Bespoke analytics reports
Benchmarking with peers
Sharing of best practice
Recognition of action

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Plans for 2015
The Compact of States and Regions
Commitment to catalyse climate change action
Initiative between CDP and 3 leading regional networks (The Climate Group, R20 and nrg4SD)
Observer level and signatory level
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DiolchI chi am wrando
Pauline Martin, pauline.martin@cdp.net
+44 (0) 20 3818 3943
Chris Thorpe, chris.thorpe@cdp.net
+44 (0) 20 3818 3918
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