As the COP29 sessions continue in Baku, the 2024 CDP corporate reporting data has been released. With contributions from over 24,800 companies representing two-thirds of the global market value, a record has been set for corporate reporting this year.
COP16 began on October 21, 2024, in Cali, Colombia, and will continue until November 1.
As a follow-up to the "Corporate Sustainability Practices and Leaders of Tomorrow Panel" event organized in May with the financial support of the Australian Embassy by the Sabancı University Corporate Governance Forum, which also hosts CDP Türkiye, a workshop titled "The Future of Susta
CDP, launched to collect and share information to enable companies, investors, and governments to take action against the threat of climate change, allows around 23,000 companies to voluntarily disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate change strategies to the public and investors..
CDP believes that the private sector must take responsibility for water issues, and to encourage them to fulfill this responsibility, it provides a platform where companies can transparently disclose their water usage and its impact on water resources, calling on them to take action in water conservation.
The most significant known causes of deforestation include livestock and mining activities, as well as the production of palm oil, rubber, soy, timber, cocoa, and coffee. Between ten to fifteen percent of greenhouse gas emissions are partly driven by supply and demand dynamics that carry the risk of deforestation.
The increasing production of plastics each year poses serious threats to global ecosystems, economies, and societies. Enhancing transparency around plastic footprints is crucial for enabling companies to develop strategies to reduce plastic usage. Strong corporate disclosures are seen as a fundamental step in addressing plastic pollution.
Sabanci University Corporate Governance Forum is the partner of CDP in Türkiye since 2010. CDP works to transform the way the world does business to prevent dangerous climate change and protect natural resources. CDP holds the largest collection of globally self-reported corporate climate change, water and forest-risk data. CDP uses the power of measurement and information disclosure to improve the management of environmental risk.
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