Case Study: CDP transforms sustainability reporting with Watershed

How CDP transformed its own sustainability reporting with Watershed

CDP, the global nonprofit behind the world’s independent environmental disclosure system, needed a more complete and consolidated way to measure and publicly report its own emissions across three legal entities and 10 offices worldwide. As its scope expanded, CDP faced complexity from decentralized finance, travel, electricity, and other operational data, and turned to Watershed’s platform to support its internal sustainability reporting.

Watershed helped CDP centralize data, apply audited methodologies and extensive emissions-factor coverage, and complete its first public CDP report in just six weeks. The result was a more detailed and actionable footprint, including the insight that scope 3 purchased goods and services made up 50% of total emissions, which informed procurement, travel, and renewable energy policy changes and enabled stronger leadership decision-making.

CDP

Daniel Turner

Director of Reporting & Operations