Simplify CDP Reporting With CNaught's Downloadable Compliance Report

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Reporting to CDP can be one of the most detailed and resource-intensive parts of a sustainability program, requiring companies to disclose their carbon credit purchases with in-depth information about each project they’ve retired (or “canceled”).

With the CDP deadline approaching, we’ve made the process easier with a downloadable CDP Compliance Report, available directly in your CNaught dashboard.

This report gives you everything you need to confidently complete section 7.79.1 (Carbon credits retired in the reporting year), without the extra digging.

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Where carbon credits show up in your CDP score

In CDP's updated scoring methodology, it scores your answer at all four levels:

• Disclosure: Did you fill it out completely?
  Worth up to 4 points, awarded in proportion to how many rows you complete. Half-finished rows get partial credit.
• Awareness: Do you know the quality of what you bought?
  3 disclosure categories, worth 0.25 points each: how the crediting program tested whether the project was additional, what it requires the project to do about reversal risk, and what sources of leakage it made the project assess.
• Management: Can you report the vintage?
  Worth 1 point to report the vintage of the credits you retired.
• Leadership: Where did the credits come from?
  Worth 1 point if CDP recognizes the issuing program: ACR, Climate Action Reserve, Gold Standard, Verra/VCS, TREES, Equitable Earth, Isometric, Global Carbon Council, Puro.earth, or Riverse.

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CNaught's CDP Compliance Report

Our CDP Compliance Report makes it easy to receive the maximum available points for this section by providing all the above details for each project in your portfolio, formatted to align with CDP’s latest requirements. You can instantly download these thorough responses through the Reporting section of your dashboard.

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What You’ll Find: 

For every project in your portfolio, you’ll receive custom, detailed responses to CDP’s questions about:

• Additionality: The method the program uses to assess additionality for the project
• Reversal Risk: Approaches the program requires to address reversal risk
• Leakage: Potential sources of leakage the program requires this project to have assessed
• Other Issues: Comprehensive details about the additional considerations the program requires projects to address based on project and registry documentation and your purchase and retirement data

‍By compiling this information for you, we hope to eliminate the time-consuming research and uncertainty that often comes with disclosure reporting.

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Access your CDP Compliance Report here.

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At CNaught, we’re always looking for ways to simplify your sustainability journey. Talk to the team to see how we can help you achieve your climate goals.