This article is for all Disclosers and outlines how to submit your CDP questionnaire response in the CDP Portal. It also outlines CDP's amendments policy for the 2026 disclosure cycle and how to edit your response after you have submitted it.
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Submission deadline
The deadline to submit a response to be eligible for CDP scoring is the week of September 14. However, Disclosers can continue to submit and edit their responses until the final disclosure deadline the week of October 26. For further information, please see this year's disclosure timeline.
A limited number of extensions to the scoring deadline may be available and must be requested by September 29. For more information, including fees (if applicable), please see the Annex of the respective Scoring introduction documents for the Full, SME, and Cities, States and Regions questionnaires.
Pre-requisite steps (Submission Lead & admin fee)
Before submitting, ensure that:
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The Discloser Submission Lead role is confirmed; only the user with this role can submit your organization's response. Please see our article onDiscloser roles for further guidance.
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The response is in a scored language and the corresponding selection has been made in the questionnaire, if you intend to receive a score. Only Corporate responses submitted in English, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish will be eligible for scoring, provided all other scoring criteria are met. For Cities, States, and Regions, all languages will be scored, provided all other scoring criteria are met.
For Corporates: The administrative fee has been paid and/or an invoice has been raised. The Submission Lead must either pay the admin fee or raise an invoice in the Portal before being able to submit the questionnaire. If your organization is exempt from the admin fee, the Submission Lead will need to select the 'No fee payable' option before being able to submit. For further guidance, please see our article on how to pay the CDP admin fee.
Submitting your response (Submission Lead only)
Only the Submission Lead can submit the questionnaire response. To do this:
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Log into the CDP Portal.
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Navigate to the 'Questionnaire' page in the left navigation panel or by selecting the 'Continue questionnaire' button on the Questionnaire KPI tile on the homepage.
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Select 'Submit questionnaire' at the top right of the questionnaire.
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Review the percentage completion and the status of each question within the 'Section overview' page. Once complete select 'Continue'.
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Depending on your question statuses, you may be presented with none, some, or all of the following prompts:
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You still have mandatory questions to answer: If all mandatory questions have not been answered, you will not be able to proceed to the next step. Please see the Mandatory questions section at the end of this article for a list of mandatory questions.
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You questionnaire is not completed: If your questionnaire is not complete, you will be presented with a list of incomplete sections with their respective percentage of unanswered and skipped questions. If you intend to leave those sections incomplete, select 'Submit anyway'. Otherwise, select 'Cancel' and continue completing your questionnaire.
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Note: Not all questions need to be complete to submit your questionnaire. Please note there may be scoring implications for leaving questions incomplete or blank.
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Review your request(s) and select 'Continue'.
Note: You will be submitting one integrated response to all of your Requesters. To learn more about the requests that you have received, please see our article on understanding and managing your requests.
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Review and select your response publicity.
Note: You will be presented with links to our Terms of Disclosure. For details how your response data will be shared according to your selected response privacy, please see our article on understanding response and score privacy. Please note that response privacy is separate from score privacy.
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Submit your response by selecting 'Continue' to proceed to the final stage of submission, and finally 'Submit Questionnaire'.
Important: Please note the submission screen above will act as the initial confirmation of your questionnaire submission. By the Friday following your submission date, the Discloser Submission Lead will also receive a confirmation email.
If no confirmation email is received by the Friday following your submission, please raise a case in the Help Center with the User type 'I am a discloser', category 'Questionnaire Support' and subcategory 'Questionnaire Submission Query' to confirm your submission.
Amending your response
All Disclosers can make amendments to their submitted response in the CDP Portal until the final disclosure deadline the week of October 26. However, amendments must be re-submitted before the scoring deadline, the week of September 14, to be considered for scoring. Any amendments submitted after the scoring deadline will not be scored.
Disclosers can amend:
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Questionnaire response content.
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Requests via accepting or declining. Please see our article on managing requests for more information.
Disclosers can't amend:
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Response publicity status.
Only Submission Leads can initiate amendments and re-submit the questionnaire response. To do this:
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Log into theCDP Portal.
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Select 'Yes, edit submission' on the Questionnaire page to make changes to your submitted questionnaire.
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Edit your response.
To make edits to the content of your questionnaire, select the relevant sections of your questionnaire response. Please note that all team members can contribute to edits.
To accept late requests, please follow the instructions outlined in our article on managing requests. Note: You will need to resubmit your questionnaire set up to ensure the correct Requesters, environmental issues and questionnaire content are displayed after accepting a late request.
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After completing edits, select 'Submit edits' on the Questionnaire page when you are ready to resubmit.
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Complete all submission steps and select 'Submit Questionnaire'.
Note: If a response is reopened for amendments but is not re-submitted, the previously submitted response will be scored and the amended response will be saved in amended status.
For further details, please refer to Steps 3-7 in the Submitting your response section above.
Note: If your initial response status was public, your amended submission will also be public. If your initial submission was non-public, you will have the option for it to remain non-public or change it to public. If you choose public, your amended response and your initial response will both become public upon resubmission.
Mandatory questions for submission
Full Corporate questionnaire
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All: 1.1, 1.2, 1.4
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Financial Services: 1.10
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Requested by CDP Supply Chain Member(s): 7.26 (Column 1)
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Additional questions that may be shown based on conditional logic: 5.13.1 (Column 1), 7.73.2 (Column 1), 7.73.3 (Column 1), 7.73.6 (Column 1), 8.12.1 (Column 1), 9.4.1 (Column 3)
SME questionnaire
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All: 14.1, 14.2, 14.4
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Requested by CDP Supply Chain Member(s): 20.12 (Column 1)
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Additional questions that may be shown based on conditional logic: 18.5.1 (Column 1), 21.7.1 (Column 3), 22.5.1 (Column 3)
Cities, States and Regions questionnaires
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All: 1.1, 10.1 (Columns 2 and 3)
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Cities: 1.2 (Column 10)
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Additional questions that may be shown based on conditional logic: 3.1.1 (Column 3), 4.1.1 (Column 3), 7.1.1 (Column 2), 9.1.1 (Column 4)
Note: There are also some questions that are mandatory for certain initiatives, such as the Global Covenant of Mayors and Race to Resilience. For a full list of these, please consult our Frameworks, Porjects and Initiatives mapping article.
Troubleshooting: Unable to submit and/or complete prerequisite steps for submission
If you cannot complete the prerequisite steps and are unable to submit your response, we advise you to log out of the Portal, log back in and try again. This includes if you are unable to submit your response after raising an invoice or making a payment, or cannot see payment options in the 'Admin fee' tile after becoming the Submission Lead.
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