CDP continuously evolves its requirements – making it increasingly challenging for organisations to demonstrate their climate commitment through a strong CDP score. Interpreting the guidance effectively, formulating precise responses, and consolidating data from across departments all require clear roles, defined interfaces, and a realistic timeline. Without these structures, strong scoring is systematically at risk.
At the same time, a compelling CDP submission offers real opportunities: it strengthens the confidence of investors and stakeholders and highlights your organisation's leadership role in climate management. Our structured, experienced support streamlines the process and unlocks scoring potential – both in the current reporting year and across future cycles.
We combine hands-on support with the questionnaire with strategic advice on advancing your ESG performance. Drawing on long-standing CDP expertise – including experience as a former scoring partner – and having supported over 190 organisations, we follow three clear steps: define ambition, identify scoring potential, predict score.
We begin with a structured analysis of your last CDP submission. We review the previous year's questionnaire, assess the consistency of responses, and map content against current requirements. This quickly reveals where short-term scoring potential lies and which topics require longer-term development. The result is a clear, prioritised checklist for the current reporting phase.
In the kick-off, we establish a shared understanding of CDP, relevant changes, and current requirements. We clarify roles, responsibilities, and data interfaces, and set a realistic timeline. Your project team gains a solid understanding of how CDP works – including the typical pitfalls and key considerations to keep in mind during submission.
We support you hands-on in completing the CDP questionnaire: from structuring content to coordinating data collection. On request, we bring clarity to source management, responsibilities, and version control, and facilitate efficient alignment across relevant departments. Our experts' subject-matter knowledge across individual categories is integrated into the process from the outset – ensuring your responses are precise, consistent, and compellingly formulated along the CDP logic.
In qualitative responses, the quality of argumentation is decisive. We support the preparation and drafting of robust written answers – formulated in line with CDP requirements, clearly reasoned, and score-oriented. A central element is the assessment of scoring potential: we benchmark your drafts against the CDP logic and make transparent which optimisations are still achievable in the current reporting year and which adjustments will have the greatest impact in future cycles. Long-term development topics – such as building a climate risk analysis, a verified Scope 1–3 emissions inventory, or advancing science-based climate targets (SBTi) – are translated into concrete, prioritised action areas.
Before submission, we conduct a final review of your questionnaire. We identify short-term scoring opportunities, inconsistencies, and typical scoring traps, and provide concrete, actionable feedback. This raises the quality of your submission and reduces the risk of strong content not being credited due to formal or methodological gaps.
CDP is often just one part of a broader set of external ESG assessments. We therefore derive a roadmap from the results that connects CDP with other ESG ratings and reporting requirements – such as ISS ESG – and makes synergies actionable. Rather than investing repeatedly in similar data collection efforts, you build a consistent, long-term reporting and assessment structure.
With structured support, you improve your CDP score not just once, but sustainably. Scoring potential is systematically unlocked, submission quality improves from cycle to cycle – and your score evolves into a credible demonstration of your climate commitment.
The CDP assessment makes structural gaps in your climate management visible – and provides the foundation to address them in a targeted way. Over time, this creates an internal management system that makes climate targets measurable and strengthens your strategic resilience.
By connecting CDP with other ratings and reporting requirements – such as ISS ESG or the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) – you build a scalable foundation that serves multiple requirements simultaneously. The effort per reporting cycle decreases, while the quality and consistency of your ESG communication grows sustainably.
