How to submit your questionnaire response

This article is for all Disclosers and outlines the steps needed to submit your final response via the CDP Portal.

Important: you can explore, complete and review the questionnaire from disclosure launch. However, you will only be able to submit your response from the week commencing July 14. You will not be able to submit your questionnaire until that date.


Contents 

• Introduction
• Submission Lead & admin fee pre-requisite steps
• How to submit your response (Submission Lead only)

• Sign in and navigate to your questionnaire
• Review questionnaire
• Review requests
• Review submission type
• Submit

• Once the questionnaire has been submitted

• Editing your response after has been submitted
• Additional requests after submission

Introduction  

Once you have set up and completed your questionnaire response and either paid your admin fee or requested an invoice (if applicable), the final step is to submit your response. The submission will be combined for all your Requesters. This means that you will only be able to submit to all or none of your requests.  

Note: if you have been requested to respond to a Capital Markets request and do not disclose, you may be eligible for an ‘F score’ which will be shared publicly.

The deadline for submitting your response to be eligible for scoring for companies, cities, states and regions is September 17. However, Disclosers can still submit or amend their response until the platform closure date 19 November. You will only be scored on the latest response submitted before the scoring deadline, not later amendments.
 
For further information, please see our article outlining this year's timeline for disclosure.

Only responses submitted in English, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish will be eligible for scoring, provided all other scoring criteria are met.  


Submission Lead & admin fee pre-requisite steps

To proceed with your response submission, your organization will need to have a current Submission Lead and to have paid the admin fee (if applicable). Please see our article on managing roles as a Discloser for further guidance.

If your organization is required to pay the disclosure admin fee, the Submission Lead will need to select the fee and payment type before being able to submit the questionnaire.
Note: You will not be able to submit a response if the admin fee step has not been completed or if you have not raised an invoice. 

For further guidance, please see our article on how to pay the CDP admin fee as a Discloser.


How to submit your response (Submission Lead only) 

Sign in and navigate to your questionnaire

Follow the steps below to submit your questionnaire response. Please note, only the Submission Lead can submit the organization’s final response.

1. Sign in to your account on the CDP Portal.
    
2. Navigate to the questionnaire page.
    
3. Here, navigate to and click the ‘Submit questionnaire’ button at the top right of the questionnaire.

Review questionnaire

To review your questionnaire response, view the percentage completion and the status of each questionnaire section and questions.

We recommend reviewing your questionnaire responses against the version control table to see all updates to questions in the corporate questionnaire and ensure you answered all questions accurately.

Note: the questionnaire does not need to be 100% complete for it to be submitted.

Within the ‘Section overview’ page you will be able to review the different section breakdown. Once you have done this, click ‘Continue’. You may then see the following:

Important: 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 sessions 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’.

Important: The next step will be to confirm ‘Skipped Questions’. Once you have reviewed the section breakdown, you will need to confirm whether all mandatory questions have been answered.

Mandatory questions for the full corporate questionnaire are:

• 1.1 In which language are you submitting your response?
• 1.4 State the end date of the year for which you are reporting data. For emissions data, indicate whether you will be providing emissions data for past reporting years.
• 1.10 (FS-Only) Which activities does your organization undertake, and which industry sectors does your organization lend to, invest in, and/or insure?

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.

Review requests

Once the review of the questionnaire process is complete, continue with the review of your requests. Please note, the submission will be combined for all your Requesters. This means you will only be able to submit to all or none of your requests. For more information about particular requests you have received, please contact CDP or the Requester directly. 

Please click ‘Continue’ to proceed with submitting the questionnaire.

Review submission type

The next step in submitting the questionnaire is to choose the response privacy/ 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 as displayed in the image below:

Please note that states and regions are not eligible to submit non-publicly and therefore will not see this as option.

Submit

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 in the ‘Done’ tab, as below. You must submit your response by September 17 in order to be eligible for scoring. The latest date to submit your response is November 19.

Once the questionnaire has been submitted

Editing your response after submission

Once you have submitted your questionnaire, you can continue to make edits to your response until  November 19. Please note, in order for your response to be scored, edited or not, it will need to be resubmitted by  September 17. If you do not resubmit your response by then, your edits will not be scored, but your initial response will be.

You can edit your response by clicking on the ‘Edit submission’ button. This will re-open the questionnaire response and allow you to make edits to your answers. We encourage users to resubmit their response as soon as they have completed their edits.

For further guidance, please see our article on how to edit your response as a Discloser.

Additional requests following submission

Once you have submitted your response you may choose to edit your questionnaire response following any late requests. You may choose to:

• Edit your submission: you can edit your questionnaire for amendments and resubmit the questionnaire set up to update the environmental theme(s) or Requester changes to questionnaire. You can then respond to the additional theme(s) questions, or Supply Chain specific questions from your new Requester(s).
• Not edit your submission: you can accept the late request(s) without editing your response. This means your latest submission will be shared with the additional Requester(s).

For further guidance on managing late requests, please see our article on how to edit your response as a Discloser.

Answers to questions you have answered will be prepopulated, and you do not have to make any changes. Making changes to your questionnaire setup may impact the questions you see in your response; we recommend that you review your response and any unsubmitted questions after resubmitting the questionnaire setup. Your previous responses will not be lost.

You may also find the following articles helpful:

• CDP Portal onboarding steps for disclosing companies
• Access the CDP Portal as a Discloser
• Navigate CDP's Portal and questionnaire as a Discloser
• Manage your requests as a disclosing company