1. COMMUNICATIONS & ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSTREAM - Details

A joint letter from the IIGCC and UNEP Finance Initiatives (http://unepfi.net/) was sent to the 26 European companies (see list below) that had failed to respond to the Carbon Disclosure Project May 2002 request for information in May 2003. See below to download a copy of the letter.

CDP wrote to the 500 largest companies in the world by market capitalisation in May 2002 asking for the disclosure of investment-relevant information concerning their greenhouse gas emissions. The responses and a report based on them are available from their web site at www.cdproject.net.

IIGCC feel that it is important to encourage corporate disclosure of carbon emissions and management programmes in order for the financial community to better understand how companies are managing the risks and opportunities presented by climate change as we move to more carbon constrained world. For these reasons, IIGCC wrote to the European companies who had failed to respond to the questionnaire to highlight our concern about the omission of their data.

We have been informed by CDP and several companies that several responses have since been submitted.

Joint IIGCC/ UNEO FI letter sent to:

View the CDP Letter (PDF Format)