CDP and GRI Release Mapping Tool to Align Climate Reporting Across Frameworks

Climate disclosure platform CDP and Global Reporting Initiative released a GRI-CDP mapping tool enabling companies to connect their climate and energy disclosures across the two frameworks, reducing duplication and improving data consistency. The tool tracks how disclosures under GRI's new Climate Change and Energy standards align with CDP's environmental data requirements.

In 2024, a record 22,700 companies disclosed through CDP, up 8% over the prior year, while GRI standards remain among the most widely adopted sustainability reporting frameworks globally. The new mapping exercise follows GRI's release of its updated Climate Change (GRI 102) and Energy (GRI 103) standards earlier in 2025, and aligns these with CDP's environmental disclosure questionnaire. The tool clarifies where the two frameworks complement and converge, enabling organizations to use the same data across both systems without duplicating data collection and reporting workflows.

Reporting burden is a persistent challenge for companies navigating multiple sustainability disclosure requirements, particularly those subject to overlapping frameworks including CSRD, ISSB, GRI, and CDP. Tools that map cross-framework alignment reduce the staff time and systems investment required to meet multi-framework obligations. For Indian companies that respond to CDP questionnaires as part of customer or investor requirements while also producing GRI-aligned sustainability reports, the mapping tool directly addresses a practical pain point in sustainability reporting management.

The release follows a cooperation agreement between CDP and GRI signed the previous year to boost standards alignment. CDP has also released mapping with the EU's ESRS climate standard alongside EFRAG, and the GRI has aligned its frameworks with IFRS sustainability disclosure standards. The direction of travel toward interoperability among major sustainability disclosure frameworks is a significant development for corporate reporters, ultimately reducing the long-running fragmentation that has made multi-framework disclosure both costly and confusing for issuers and investors alike.

Key figure — 22,700 companies disclosed through CDP in 2024, a record high