The deadline for submitting your CDP Report is quickly coming up. As an accredited CDP Climate Change Partner, EcoAct can provide CDP’s Response Check service to ensure the quality of your CDP Report submission.

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Getting your CDP response checked

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Overview
• The CDP disclosure process
• Drivers for developing Response Check
• How Response Check works and its value
• Arranging your check
• Top tips
• Q&A
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The CDP disclosure process
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The CDP Disclosure Process
 Response deadline:
30 June 2016 (Investor-led programs)
28 July 2016 (Supply Chain program)
 There are a number of resources available free of charge to help you respond to CDP – available at
https://www.cdproject.net/en-US/Pages/Guidance.aspx
 Queries can be sent to respond@cdp.net
 Response Check is an additional service offered to disclosing companies
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Drivers for developing Response Check
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Drivers for Response Check
 Helping companies
Companies believe that this service is useful
 Improving data quality
To improve the quality of the data disclosed to CDP, which advances the CDP mission:
“to accelerate solutions to climate change by putting relevant information
at the heart of business, policy and investment decisions”
 Additional ways in which CDP is advancing data quality:
•Providing guidance
•Automating disclosure via the ORS
•Introducing validation rules in the ORS
•Leading on verification/ assurance
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“The work of the Carbon
Disclosure Project is crucial to
the success of global business
in the 21st century. No other
organization is gathering this
type of corporate climate
change data and providing it to
the marketplace.”
Ban Ki Moon
Secretary General of United
Nations

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How Response Check works and its value
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What is Response Check?
 A service designed to help responding companies review their response before submitting it
 Delivered by CDP’s accredited consultancy partners especially trained by CDP’s technical team
 Follow-up with written feedback which can easily be incorporated into your response
 Follow-up with a feedback call from the consultant
 Includes a check of the core modules in the 2016 CDP investor and supply chain questionnaires (Question
groups 1-15)
 The price is set globally at USD $1,000
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Completing the CDP information request
 Response Check is designed to assist companies at the final stage of this process
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How does Response Check work?
 Arrange your check with CDP
 Liaise with the allocated consultant to your timeline
 Extract your response to Word and send it to the consultant
 Consultants will review your response against a detailed checklist and feed back to you via email and phone
 You will incorporate the feedback into your response and submit via the ORS
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What is included in the feedback?
Included:
 Data-points that should be addressed in qualitative responses
 An indication of priority areas that are weighed highly in the scoring methodology
 Highlighting where information has not been provided in the appropriate place
 If you have clearly misunderstood a question, this will be addressed in a feedback session
Not included:
 An evaluation of the quality of your response
 An evaluation of the accuracy of provided figures
 An evaluation of the content of attachments
 An evaluation of your expected scores
Note: Response Check is not verification or assurance
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Sample of written feedback from consultant
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Note: the Response Check covers all questions in your Climate Change response and not just the example questions shown here.

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The value of Response Check
 An expert pair of eyes at an affordable price
 Delivered by consultants trained by CDP to quickly identify and highlight areas of priority
 Helps you avoid making mistakes that can hinder the completeness of your response
 Enables you to easily prioritise the feedback provided by the consultants
 Helpful for new and experienced responders
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Arranging your Response Check
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Arranging your check today
 You are encouraged to view participating consultancy partners listed on the
CDP website
 Submit your top three preferred consultancies at responsecheck@cdp.net
 We will connect you with a consultant
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Top-tips
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Top tips - Formulating your response
 Formulate your response using the 2016 Guidance document and the Scoring Methodology, and provide all the points required
 Review responses from companies in CDP’s A-List to see examples of high quality responses
 Avoid leaving qualitative questions blank, and for quantitative questions enter a figure if you have one
 Avoid using jargon
 Cross references to other questions are not scored, nor are links to external websites
 Use the main text fields provided for your responses and NOT the “Further Information‟ field
 Be aware of character limits in free text fields in the ORS
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Getting the most out of your Response Check
 If you would like to arrange a Response Check but are concerned about timelines, speak
to CDP
 Do not wait until the last minute to get your response checked and leave time to
incorporate the feedback into the ORS
 If you do run out of time, focus on the priority items highlighted in the feedback form
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To arrange your Response Check email:
responsecheck@cdp.net
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