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- 1. www.cdp.net | @CDP CDP Progress & Challenges for Cities 6th ICARB Edinburgh 5th September 2014 Amanda Haworth Wiklund
- 2. Agenda Whatis CDP? Summary of corporate trends on climate change Brief points re work w governments & policy-makers Summary of CDP Cities Key outputs & results from 2014 Questions / discussion
- 3. About CDP Launched in 2000 at 10 Downing Street CDP is an international, not-for-profit organisation providing the only global system for companies and cities to measure, disclose, manage and share vital environmental information. Largest database of corporate climate change, water and forest data in the world Data collected from over 4,500 companies including 81% of Global 500 companies Global focus Mission: To transform the global economic system to prevent dangerous climate change and value our natural resources by putting relevant information at the heart of business, investment and policy decisions. www.cdp.net | @CDP Page 3
- 4. How CDP works Corporations and Suppliers Authority Information Authority Signatory Investors and Supply Chain Members Information
- 5. CDP’s evolution Over14 years ago, Carbon Disclosure Project was started as a project that used carbon disclosure as a means to drive corporations to reduce their carbon emissions. Re-branded in early 2013 we’re now called CDP, and have evolved to cover a wider spectrum of natural capital - water and forests. CDP works with corporations, cities, major procurers, government and policy makers across the globe. www.cdp.net | @CDP
- 6. CDP Signatories &Signatory Assets: 2003 - 2013 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Assets (US$ Trillion) Number of Signatories Climate change signatories Water signatories Forests signatories Carbon Action signatories Climate change assets Water assets Forests assets Carbon Action assets
- 7. CDP response ratesby programme: 2003 - 2013 235 295 355 922 Unique company responses by programme 1449 2204 2456 3050 3715 4057 4514 176 283 352 396 100 138 5000 4500 4000 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Climate Water Forests
- 8. 403 G500 companiestook part in CDP’s climate change programme in 2013. 56 Carbon Performance Leadership Index (CPLI) companies and 60 in our Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI).
- 9. Big emitters arenot doing enough to reduce 1.65% 2013: 2.544 billion tons CO2e 2009: 2.502 billion tons CO2e www.cdp.net | @CDP The 50 largest emitters in 2013 emitted 73% of total scope 1 and 2 emissions; Primarily energy, materials and utilities companies; Their emissions have increased by 1.65% since 2009; and This pattern is true of the five high emitters of each sector.
- 10. There are opportunitiesfor large scale change www.cdp.net | @CDP
- 11. Opportunity to focusemissions efforts www.cdp.net | @CDP 97% of companies disclose scope 1 and 2 emissions from their operations; but Nearly half (47%) of the most carbon intensive activities companies identify are yet to be measured.
- 12. Financial incentives arepowerful tools www.cdp.net | @CDP 85% of companies that provide monetary incentives (linked to energy or emissions reductions) to the board, executive team or all employees, report reductions in the past year vs. 67% of other companies; Energy is the only sector where companies with monetary rewards are not more likely to report decreases in emissions.
- 13. However progress doescontinue to be made www.cdp.net | @CDP
- 14. Company reporting continuesto improve 81% 403 G500 companies reported through CDP in 2013 www.cdp.net | @CDP 71% Responding G500 companies verified their emissions in 2013
- 15. The quality ofinformation continues to improve www.cdp.net | @CDP The minimum score for entering the CDLI has risen to 97%; This compares to 94% in 2012 and 94% in 2011; and The number of performance leaders has increased from 34 to 56
- 16. Corporate action onclimate change yields benefits www.cdp.net | @CDP
- 17. Consumers and reputationpresent opportunities www.cdp.net | @CDP
- 18. Global 500 FinancialPerformance 2013 analysis on G500 leaders Re-baselined each year G500 leaders from each year significantly financially outperform the G500 overall CDLI – 5 year analysis CPLI – 2 year analysis www.cdp.net | @CDP
- 19. Work with governmentsand policy-makers www.cdp.net | @CDP
- 20. Work with governmentsand policy makers CDP is to the future of business what the X-ray was to the then future of medicine— without, we would never have seen the insides of a patient’s health. Christiana Figueres Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change CDP was a force behind landmark UK legislation in 2013 mandating the reporting of greenhouse gas emissions in the annual financial reports of listed UK companies. CDP also engaged strongly to support European legislation proposed in 2014 requiring listed companies to report environmental information to shareholders. Leveraging procurement power National governments are now using CDP to leverage their procurement power to drive change across their supply chains. Climate Disclosure Standards Board CDP provides the secretariat for the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB). CDSB provides a framework to assist companies with the reporting of climate change and other environmental information that is of value to investors in mainstream financial reports. Find out more, including on how governments and stock exchanges can also incorporate this framework, at www.cdsb.net. www.cdp.net | @CDP
- 21. Introduction to theCities programme www.cdp.net | @CDP Page 21
- 22. CDP Cities Why CDP Cities ? What do cities disclose? Who discloses to CDP cities? Key outputs from 2014 Open data Partners and Sponsors www.cdp.net | @CDP
- 23. CDP Cities 201148 cities 2012 73 cities 2013 110 cities 2014 207 cities www.cdp.net | @CDP
- 24. Why CDP Cities?What do cities disclose? Reporting platform for cities around the world to disclose their environmental information City governments to receive the same benefits companies have received from disclosing to CDP Questionnaire: - Governance - Risks and Adaptation - Opportunities - GHG emissions - Renewable Energy - Water www.cdp.net | @CDP
- 25. Who discloses toCDP Cities? 207 cities worldwide disclosed to CDP Cities in 2014 www.cdp.net | @CDP
- 26. Key outputs andresults from 2014 CDP Cities represent a growing slice of the world’s economy: www.cdp.net | @CDP
- 27. Key outputs andresults from 2014 Cities have identified a great number of risks arising from climate change:
- 28. Key outputs andresults from 2014 The majority of those risks are occurring now:
- 29. Key outputs andresults from 2014 Cities are taking many actions to reduce their impact :
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- 31. Key outputs Benchmarkreports 2013 was the first year we offered cities customised, interactive online benchmark reports Private for cities only Includes cities report score against regional average (measuring breadth and depth of city’s response in 5 themes: governance, emissions measurement, emissions management, risk identification, risk management) Benchmarks cities against regional average on a variety of climate change data Track progress against managing emissions
- 32. Open data A large proportion of cities public answers from 2014 are available online for free. http://opendata.cdp.net/ Over 500 organisations downloaded our Open data, including World Bank, WWF, CERES, WBCSD the China Carbon Emissions Association, as well as countless academics and city and national governments around the world. Licensed the data via a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 license, allows users to use, adapt, and re-mix the data, as long as CDP is cited as the source and the use is non-commercial.
- 33. Partners and sponsors To ensure all of those 200+ cities report we work very closely with - a group of cities (originally 40) leading in climate change We also work in collaboration with some partners namely: Report analysis writer
- 34. What people sayabout CDP “One of the most successful investor engagement programmes of recent years”. The Financial Times “Participating in CDP helps drive performance for Diageo. The process ensures the business focus on environmental management is maintained. It is an invaluable tool in demonstrating progress against our targets and gaining the support of senior leadership. It enables us to accelerate the speed with which strategic change can be implemented”. Diageo Sustainability experts polled by SustainAbility deem CDP’s sustainability ratings as the most credible in the world in its Rate the Raters survey.
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Editor's Notes
- #2 Thank you for inviting me to speak. Last August Arendalsuka ref local gov’t discomfort w fossil fuel oil wealth, comp w anti-Nazi Germans during Hitler’s time.
- #3 Inception brilliant formula to present corporations w fiduciary resp. To maintain share value by measuring carbon emissions “What gets measured gets managed” so then able to adapt and/or mitigate.
- #7 On behalf of 767 investors with US$92 trillion
- #8 Figures for 2014 not yet publicly available but show a 13% overall increase in company responses, of which 18% represents an increase in climate change responses, 188% in CDP Water.
- #9 Brief explanation of difference between CPLI & CDLI Companies achieving a position in CDP’s Climate Performance Leadership Index are those who demonstrate the strongest strategies, commitments and actions to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate the risks of climate change.
- #10 Scope 1 and 2 emissions reported by the Global 500 companies have declined since 2009 but this is in part due to the changing composition of the sample and the declining proportion of companies from high emitting sectors. Companies from energy, utilities and materials sectors now represent 23% of the sample, versus 26% in 2009, and they are responsible for 87% of the scope 1 and 2 emissions this year. Our key message is that the companies responsible for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions are not doing enough. We conducted analysis on 50 companies with high emissions and data going back to 2009. These 50 are responsible for 73% of this year’s scope 1 and 2 emissions, they are mainly from high emitting sectors and their emissions have risen by an average of 1.65% since 2009. This pattern is also true when we looked at the high emitters in each sector. (Note that the analysis was looking at 5 year trends so some high emitters were not included if we did not have emissions every year since 2009. This means that we can not say we identified the 50 biggest emitters of 2013 or the 5 biggest emitters per sector of 2013)
- #11 (3rd key message followed by proof points)
- #12 While the high emitters clearly present significant opportunity for change, all companies could re-examine where they focus their emissions reductions efforts. (Refer to stats in bullet points on slide) (Note that companies this year were asked whether scope 3 categories were relevant and then whether they were calculated, the 47% refers to categories identified as relevant but not calculated) Graph shows in particular that companies often focus on relatively insignificant opportunities for reductions: Use of sold products (in centre) is reported by 25% of companies and accounts for 76% of reported scope 3; and Business travel (on left) is reported by 72% of companies and accounts for 0.2% of scope 3.
- #13 Businesses can use monetary incentives to support action: companies are 18% more likely to achieve absolute emissions reductions when staff are given financial incentives. (Refer to stats in first bullet point on slide noting the specific combination of monetary incentives which are linked to energy or emissions reductions and are applicable to the board, the exec team or to all staff) This trend is true for every sector except Energy.
- #14 (4th key message with proof points)
- #15 On a positive note, we are making progress: 81% of the Global 500 uses CDP to manage and disclose their climate change impacts and 71% of those responding companies now disclose verified emissions.
- #16 And the overall quality and completeness of company responses continues to improve. The score required to achieve a position in the Climate Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI) is now 97% and the number of companies achieving performance leadership on the CPLI has increased from 34 to 56.
- #17 (5th key message with proof points)
- #18 There are commercial benefits if companies lead on climate performance: changing consumer behaviour and / or reputation are reported as presenting the greatest climate change-related opportunities for nearly every sector.
- #20 (5th key message with proof points)
- #26 91 small cities 59 medium cities 57 large cities The 207 total covers a worldwide population of 394,360,000