The official survey will be available starting April 13th, 2021. This guide will review CDP’s Climate Change 2021 Reporting Guidance of the survey, including the CDP 2021 timeline, changes to the survey, and the addition of the Real Estate (RE) sector questions.
*Note that these updates are subject to change.
TIMELINE
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January 2021 - Preview of 2021 questionnaires and a preliminary version of reporting guidance released
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April 12, 2021 - Online Response System (ORS) opens in the week commencing 13 April 2020
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July 16th, 2021 - Measurabl deadline to complete the CDP survey
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July 28th, 2021- Deadline for companies to submit their responses to investors and/or customers using ORS to be eligible for scoring and inclusion in reports
You may access the full CDP Climate Change 2021 Questionnaire Timeline here. We’ll release the survey in Measurabl shortly after CDP opens the assessment portal (April 13th).
We recommend that individuals reporting still review these changes themselves prior to reporting. The full list of changes can be found here, this includes all of the sector questions. Feel free to reach out or comment below if you have any questions regarding the changes to the CDP Climate Change 2020 Questionnaire.
Please see here for the CDP 2021 Reporting Guidance.
Measurabl’s CDP Survey Module
As the world’s leading ESG data management software for commercial real estate, Measurabl facilitates your CDP filing by efficiently disclosing your sustainability and carbon data to CDP's climate change questionnaire.
Measurabl currently supports the Climate Change questionnaire as well as the Real Estate specific sector questions (new in 2020). With our adaptive survey, helpful in-app guidance references, and example open text responses, you will have an intuitive and constructive experience while filing your CDP response!
High-level Changes
Overall, the CDP 2021 Climate Change survey will see minor changes to questions such as, merging of last year's questions, changes to verbiage, addition of columns in tables, or modification to scoring methodology/guidance. These changes were made to help streamline the filing process. Keep in mind that this will be discussed in greater detail within documents linked throughout this article. Here is a summary table of the changes from 2020 > 2021:
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Refresher of the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire
The 2020 Climate Change Questionnaire including the Real Estate Sector questions is made up of 14 modules that essentially partition the quantitative and qualitative portions of the survey:
- C0 - Introduction
- C1 - Governance
- C2 - Risks & Opportunities
- C3 - Business Strategy
- C4 - Targets and performance
- C5 - Emissions methodology
- C6 - Emissions data
- C7 - Emission Breakdown
- C8 - Energy
- C9 - Additional metrics
- C10 - Verification
- C11 - Carbon pricing
- C12 - Engagement
- C15 - Signoff
NOTE: Measurabl supports only ‘All Other Sectors AND Real Estate’ for the CDP Climate Change Survey. We do not include Supply Chain questions OR the minimum version of the survey. To learn more on how Measurabl will support you with your CDP filing, please check this support article out!