While the world’s climate negotiators craft plans for a post-Kyoto climate regime to be hammered out in Copenhagen next year, the global financial community has been getting big business to assess their readiness to operate in a climate constrained future reports

An annual survey challenging the world’s largest companies to quantify their greenhouse gas emissions, assess their risks and opportunities due to climate change and outline their strategies for operating in a post-carbon world, has been run by the UK-based Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) since 2000. The logic is simple: A meaningful response to the climate change challenge is dependent upon effective dialogue between shareholders and corporations, and between businesses, government and NGOs, supported by high quality information. The CDP’s mission is to facilitate such dialogue and contribute to providing quality information from which a feasible and effective response to climate change can emerge.