Founded in 2000 and headquartered in the UK, CDP is dedicated to encouraging enterprises and governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect water and forest resources. Each year, CDP requests large enterprises worldwide to disclose their carbon emissions information and details of the measures they are taking to address climate change. CDP has become the classic standard for carbon emissions disclosure methodology and corporate processes.

CDP represents investors and purchasers, collecting environmental information from enterprises and cities to understand their impact on and dependency on the world's natural resources and their related management strategies. Investors and purchasers can make better decisions based on the data disclosed by enterprises, while CDP disclosure can also drive enterprises to improve their own practices.