CDP has been undertaking work to produce a dataset of companies’ greenhouse gas emissions data and has been contacting companies about this over the past 2 months. 

CDP is facilitating analysis around the exposure of companies and investor portfolios to carbon risk through strengthening the accuracy and completeness of the GHG emissions data available to investors. In collaboration with Enviance Inc. and two professors from Carnegie Mellon University, CDP has today launcheda new methodology and supporting models to assess the accuracy of self-reported corporate emissions data and estimate Scopes 1, 2 and 3 emissions for companies that do not disclose them. This will help inform discussions on areas such as carbon footprinting and give investors access to high quality emissions data for use in portfolio analysis. The inclusion of Scope 3 emissions signals investors’ changing perception of corporate GHG emissions from purely operational to value chain based.

The methodology has been applied to the Carbon Action sample and covers 6 years of Scope 1 and Scope 2 data, since 2009, as well as relevant up-/downstream Scope 3 Categories from the most recent reporting period. The full set of clean and complete data is available free for CDP’s investor signatories on the CDP Portal. A subset of the historical data is available to everyone on CDP’s Open Data Platform.