Anthesis is pleased to announce it has joined leading international NGO, CDP as a US Silver Consultancy Partner for 2014.  Building upon its staff members’ experience in supporting the CDP reporting process, the partnership will enable Anthesis to offer its clients an inside track to the upcoming CDP reporting season, including in-depth understanding of the questionnaire development, methodology changes and scoring to help companies improve their response, strategy and performance around climate change issues. As a CDP Consultancy Partner, Anthesis will be available to support any responding company and will also work with CDP member companies through the Response Check program. Please be on the lookout for an invitation to join us and CDP this winter for a detailed webinar.

“We are pleased to welcome Anthesis Group to the consultancy partnership program in the USA,” says Paul Robins, Head of Corporate Partnerships at CDP.  “Anthesis Group has a high level of expertise and we are confident Anthesis’ services will be a valuable resource to corporate customers responding to CDP and managing their climate change data.”

Chris Jones, President & Managing Partner at Anthesis notes, “We are excited to be working with CDP to support corporate disclosure and performance on climate change and water issues. We expect the insight to CDP’s reporting process that we will gain from this new partnership will result in direct and tangible benefits for our clients, helping them to improve their climate change disclosures. This in turn should translate into stronger programs, improved performance and business benefit.”

Anthesis has world-class capability in supporting companies on all aspects of climate change and water performance and disclosure. This includes measurement and reporting of impacts, developing strategies and goals, implementing performance improvement programs and communicating commitments and progress.

Anthesis’ US team members have been supporting corporations with their CDP reporting for a decade. Many of the companies Anthesis’ team members have supported have achieved and maintained listings on CDP’s Climate Disclosure and Climate Performance Leadership Indices for multiple years. In addition to helping companies navigate the nuances of scoring and disclosure associated with the management and strategy oriented sections, Anthesis’ global team has nearly 20 years of expertise in developing corporate greenhouse gas emissions and water inventories.

About CDP

CDP is an international, not-for-profit organization providing the only global system for companies and cities to measure, disclose, manage and share vital environmental information.  CDP works with market forces, including 722 institutional investors with assets of US$87 trillion, to motivate companies to disclose their impacts on the environment and natural resources and take action to reduce them.  CDP now holds the largest collection globally of primary climate change, water and forest risk commodities information and puts these insights at the heart of strategic business, investment and policy decisions.  Please visit www.cdp.net or follow us @CDP to find out more.