First of all, hats off to CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) for what they’ve achieved — it truly is impressive. However, we felt there was a need for something slightly different in the market. Here’s the main difference between us and them:

• We don’t charge companies to disclose their emissions.

• We only collect carbon emissions data, which significantly speeds up the disclosure process.

• Our data is fully open-access, whereas CDP restricts IP addresses when users attempt to access more than a handful of disclosures per day.

• We actively search for emissions data that companies have already disclosed, meaning we can cover more companies than CDP. As a business user, when you sign up, we may have already found your emissions data for you.

• Finally, we take all of the emissions data we find and use it to benchmark and score companies. This is extremely important, because a carbon footprint doesn't mean much until you understand how it performs compared to peers.

  CDP offers a climate score, but we believe there are serious flaws — for example, some large oil and gas companies are scoring a ‘B’ on their A–F system. That doesn’t align with genuine carbon reduction goals.