This article is for all cities, states and regions responding to the 2024 CDP Cities or States and Regions Questionnaires and outlines the steps needed to submit your organization’s response via the CDP Portal.
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Once you have set up and completed your questionnaire, the final step is to submit your response.
The deadline to submit your response to be eligible for CDP scoring for cities, states and regions is 9th October. However, cities, states, and regions can continue to submit their responses until the platform closure date of 2nd December.
In 2024, responses submitted in any language will be eligible for scoring, provided all other scoring criteria are met.
In order to proceed with your response submission, one person from your organization will need to have the role of Submission Lead. To find out more about allocating a Submission Lead, consult this article.
Sign in and navigate to questionnaire
Follow the steps below to submit your questionnaire response. Please note, only the Submission Lead can submit the organization’s response.
Sign in to your account on the CDP Portal and go to the questionnaire section. Navigate to and click the Submit questionnaire button at the top of the questionnaire.
Review your questionnaire response by viewing the percentage completion and the status of each question.
To review the section breakdown: Review Sections breakdown and click Continue. You may then see the following:
Incomplete questionnaire – Your questionnaire is not completed
If your questionnaire is not completed, this step will show the active sections and their respective percentage of unanswered questions.
If you have finished the questionnaire, this step will list all the sections similarly and indicate the percentage of questions answered. To submit, click on Submit anyway.
Confirm Skipped Questions
Once you have reviewed the section breakdown, you will need to confirm whether all mandatory questions have been answered. If all mandatory questions have not been filled, you will not be able to proceed to the next step.
To confirm skipped questions:
Review the status and non-mandatory questions that are missing responses > Click Submit anyway to proceed or
Review status and mandatory questions that are missing responses > Click Cancel and fill out mandatory questions before submission
Please make sure you answer all mandatory questions, and the first rows of these questions are not blank. You will need to move answers up to the first row if they are. These mandatory questions are:
1.1 What language are you submitting your response in?
2.1.1 column 3 'Confirm attachment/link provided to assessment’
3.1.1 column 3 ‘Status of main community-wide inventory attachment and/or direct link’
3.1.1 column 7/8 ‘Primary protocol/framework to compile main inventory’
6.1.1 column 2 ‘Target type’
8.1.1 column 4 ‘Confirm attachment/link provided to plan’
Please 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 the Help Center article here.
Review submission type: Response privacy
The next step in submitting the questionnaire is to choose the response publicity for the answers provided. * You will also be presented with links to our terms of disclosure and information regarding scoring.
You can select for your response to either be Public or Non-Public option as displayed in the image below:
*Please note that States and Regions are not eligible to submit non-publicly and will not see this as an option. Additionally, cities, states and regions are not able to change their response after submission.
Submit your response
After choosing the appropriate option for your submission type, the final step is to submit your response. Click Continue to proceed to the final stage of the submission. Once you have submitted your response, you will see a confirmation screen as below.
You must submit your response by 9th October in order to be eligible for scoring. The latest date to submit your 2024 response to CDP-ICLEI Track (cities) or the States and Regions questionnaire is 2nd December.
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