This article is for:
- CDP Questionnaire Owners
As you craft responses to your CDP questionnaire, a Questionnaire Owner can update the questions within your CDP submission directly from your Sustainability Reporting workspace. You can then finalize your submission as necessary directly through the CDP portal, such as to upload attachments or respond to requesting members.
Tip: To help enable a holistic review before you update your submission, ask Workiva Support to export your CDP Questionnaire's responses to a Document.
Update CDP submission with questionnaire responses
From your CDP questionnaire, a Questionnaire Owner can update your CDP submission to overwrite responses in the CDP portal with the corresponding responses saved in the questionnaire.
Note: As you enter responses in the questionnaire, other responses may no longer apply and display a lock ; these responses may not appear in your CDP submission.
- From the questionnaire, open Overview, then click Update CDP submission.
- Choose the responses to update in your submission.
- To update all questions that have a response in your questionnaire, select All responses.
- To update only specific responses, select their module or question.
- Click Update.
Upload attachments and respond to requesting members
Some questions within your questionnaire may require attachments or responses for requesting members. Respond to these questions — as applicable to your questionnaire — directly through the CDP portal, not your Sustainability Reporting workspace.
These questions request attachments — such as company policies or public statements — as supporting material. To provide these attachments, upload them through the CDP portal, as applicable to your questionnaire.
| Module | Question | Attachment |
|---|---|---|
| Identification, assessment, and management of dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities | 2.3 Have you identified priority locations across your value chain? | List and/or spatial map of priority locations |
| Governance | 4.1 Does your organization have a board of directors or an equivalent governing body? | Board diversity and inclusion policy (optional) |
| 4.6.1 Provide details of your environmental policies. | Environmental policy | |
| 4.7.1 Provide details of the policies which include environmental requirements that clients/investees need to meet. | Relevant policies | |
| 4.11 In the reporting year, did your organization engage in activities that could directly or indirectly influence policy, law, or regulation that may (positively or negatively) impact the environment? | Public commitment or position statement to conduct engagement activities in line with global environment treaties or policy goals | |
| 4.12.1 Provide details on the information published about your organization's response to environmental issues for this reporting year in places other than your CDP response. | Relevant publications | |
| Business strategy | 5.2 Does your organization's strategy include a climate transition plan? | Relevant documents which detail your climate transition plan (optional) |
| 5.4.2 Quantify the percentage share of your spending/revenue that was associated with eligible and aligned activities under the sustainable finance taxonomy in the reporting year. | Any supporting evidence | |
| 5.11.3 Provide details of your environmental engagement strategy with your clients. | Engagement strategy | |
| 5.11.4 Provide details of your environmental engagement strategy with your investees. | Engagement strategy | |
| Environmental performance - Climate change | 7.9.1 Provide further details of the verification/assurance undertaken for your Scope 1 emissions, and attach the relevant statements. | Relevant statements |
| 7.9.2 Provide further details of the verification/assurance undertaken for your Scope 2 emissions, and attach the relevant statements. | Relevant statements | |
| 7.9.3 Provide further details of the verification/assurance undertaken for your Scope 3 emissions, and attach the relevant statements. | Relevant statements | |
| 7.53.1 Provide details of your absolute emissions targets and progress made toward those targets. | Science-based Targets initiative official validation letter | |
| 7.53.2 Provide details of your emissions intensity targets and progress made toward those targets. | Science-based Targets initiative official validation letter | |
| 7.54.1 Provide details of your targets to increase or maintain low-carbon energy consumption or production. | Science-based Targets initiative official validation letter | |
| 7.54.2 Provide details of any other climate-related targets, including methane reduction target. | Science-based Targets initiative official validation letter | |
| 7.54.3 Provide details of your net-zero target(s). | Science-based Targets initiative official validation letter | |
| 7.56 Describe any planned climate-related projects within your public authority for which you hope to attract financing. | Project proposal, if applicable | |
| Environmental performance - Forests | 8.3 Provide details on the land you own, manage and/or control that is used to produce your disclosed commodities. | List of production facility names and locations (optional) |
| Provide details on the origins of your sourced volume. | List of supplier production and primary processing sites: names and locations (optional) | |
| 8.9.1 Provide details of third-party certification schemes used to determine the deforestation-free (DF) or deforestation- and conversion-free (DCF) status of the disclosure volume, since specified cutoff date. | Certification documentation | |
| 8.9.2 Provide details of third-party certification schemes not providing full DF/DCF assurance. | Certification documentation | |
| 8.9.3 Provide details of production unit monitoring used to determine DF/DCF status of volumes since specified cutoff date. | Verification (optional) | |
| 8.9.4 Provide details of the sourcing area monitoring used to determine DF/DCF status of volumes since specified cutoff date. | Verification, and risk classification for each sourcing area (optional) | |
| 8.15.2 Provide details of your engagement with landscape/jurisdictional initiatives to sustainable land use during the reporting year. | Public information about the initiative (optional) | |
| Further information & sign-off | 13.1.1 Which data points within your CDP response are verified and/or assured by a third party, and which standards are used? | Verification/assurance evidence/report (optional) |
| 13.2 Use this field to provide any additional information or context that you feel is relevant to your organization's response. | Additional information or context (optional) | |
| SME Business strategy | 18.2 Does your organization's strategy include a climate transition plan? | Relevant documents which detail your climate transition plan (optional) |
| SME Environmental performance - Climate change | 20.8 Indicate the verification/assurance status that applies to your reported emissions. | Verification evidence/report (optional) |
| 20.16.1 Provide details of your absolute emissions targets and progress made toward those targets. | Science-based Targets initiative official validation letter | |
| 20.16.2 Provide details of your emissions intensity targets and progress made toward those targets. | Science-based Targets initiative official validation letter | |
| SME Sign off | 21.1.1 Which data points within your CDP response are verified and/or assured by a third party, and which standards were used? | Verification/assurance evidence/report (optional) |
Organizations — such as customers of your goods or services, or other stakeholders — may request your company's environmental data for their own CDP submissions. In the CDP portal, your company can accept and manage these requests from the Requests list.
These questions ask for responses based on these organizations, as Requesting members. Since your Requests list may change throughout the submission window, respond to these requesting member questions — as applicable to your questionnaire — directly through the CDP portal.
| Module | Question |
|---|---|
| Business strategy | 5.12: Indicate any mutually beneficial environmental initiatives you could collaborate on with specific CDP Supply Chain members. |
| 5.13.1: Specify the CDP Supply Chain members that have prompted your implementation of mutually beneficial environmental initiatives and provide information on the initiatives. | |
| Environmental performance - Climate change | 7.26: Allocate your emissions to your customers listed below according to the goods or services you have sold them in this reporting period. |
| 7.73.2: Complete the following table for the goods/services for which you want to provide data. | |
| 7.73.3: Complete the following table with data for lifecycle changes for your goods and/or services. | |
| 7.73.6: Explain which initiatives have been driven by requesting members. | |
| Environmental performance - Forests | 8.12.1: Provide details of the certified volumes sold to each requesting CDP Supply Chain member. |
| Environmental performance - Water security | 9.4.1: Indicate which of the facilities referenced in 9.3.1 could impact a requesting CDP Supply Chain member. |
| SME Business strategy | 18.4: Indicate any mutually beneficial environmental initiatives you could collaborate on with specific CDP Supply Chain members. |
| 18.5.1: Specify the CDP Supply Chain members that have prompted your implementation of mutually beneficial environmental initiatives and provide information on the initiatives. | |
| SME Environmental performance - Climate change | 20.12: Allocate your emissions to your customers listed below according to the goods or services you have sold them in this reporting period. |
Use responses from Workiva Carbon
If you also use Workiva Carbon, it automatically prepares responses for questions within CDP's Environmental performance modules. To update your submission with these responses, either:
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Update their questions in the CDP portal directly from Carbon, to help streamline responses.
Note: If you update your CDP questions from Carbon, you may need to supplement some responses within the CDP portal before you complete your submission.
- Download the responses from Carbon, then copy and paste them into their questions of your questionnaire, for a unified source of truth.
| Module | Question | Response |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental performance - Climate change | 7.5 Provide your base year and base year emissions. | Base year end and emissions for Scope 1, Scope 2 (location- and market-based), and each Scope 3 category |
| 7.6 What were your organization's gross global Scope 1 emissions in metric tons CO2e? | Scope 1 emissions and end dates for reporting year and past years | |
| 7.7 What were your organization's gross global Scope 2 emissions in metric tons CO2e? | Scope 2 emissions and end dates for reporting year and past years | |
| 7.8 Account for your organization's gross global Scope 3 emissions, disclosing and explaining any exclusions. | Evaluation status, emissions, and calculation methodology by Scope 3 category, in the reporting year and past years | |
| 7.10 How do your gross global emissions (Scope 1 and 2 combined) for the reporting year compare to those of the previous reporting year? | How emissions compare to the previous year | |
| 7.12 Are carbon dioxide emissions from biogenic carbon relevant to your organization? | Yes or No | |
| 7.15 Does your organization break down its Scope 1 emissions by greenhouse gas type? | Yes or No | |
| 7.15.1 Break down your total gross global Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by greenhouse gas type and provide the source of each used global warming potential (GWP). | Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by greenhouse gas type and GWP source | |
| 7.16 Break down your total gross global Scope 1 and 2 emissions by country/area. | Scope 1 and 2 emissions for each country/area | |
| 7.17 Indicate which gross global Scope 1 emissions breakdowns you are able to provide. | Scope 1 emissions by facility | |
| 7.20 Indicate which gross global Scope 2 emissions breakdowns you are able to provide. | Scope 2 emissions by facility | |
| 7.30: Select which energy-related activities your organization has undertaken. | Whether your organization consumed fuel (excluding feedstocks); or consumed or generated electricity, heat, steam, or cooling | |
| 7.30.1 Report your organization’s energy consumption totals (excluding feedstocks) in MWh. | Energy consumption by activity | |
| 7.30.7 State how much fuel in MWh your organization has consumed (excluding feedstocks) by fuel type. | Biomass, fuel (renewable and not), coal, oil, or gas consumed | |
| 7.30.16 Provide a breakdown by country/area of your electricity/heat/steam/cooling consumption in the reporting year. | Electricity, heat, steam, and cooling consumed by country/area | |
| 7.45 Describe your gross global combined Scope 1 and 2 emissions for the reporting year in metric tons CO2e per unit currency total revenue and provide any additional intensity metrics that are appropriate to your business operations. | % change from previous year | |
| 7.53.1 Provide details of your absolute emissions targets and progress made against those targets. | Details about each target, including its reference number, ambition, date set, greenhouse gases covered, whether it's science-based, and base year emissions covered (by scope and in total) | |
| 7.54.3 Provide details of your net-zero target(s). | Details about each target, including its reference number, date set, end date, scopes and greenhouse gases covered, whether it's science-based, and base year emissions covered (by scope and in total) | |
| Environmental performance - Water security | 9.2.2 What are the total volumes of water withdrawn, discharged, and consumed across all your operations, how do they compare to the previous reporting year, and how are they forecasted to change? | Total withdrawals, discharges, and consumption; and how they compare to the previous year |