CDP Establishes Advisory Board to Integrate Environmental Data into Economic Models

On June 22, 2026, the international non-profit organization CDP established the "CDP Earth-Positive Economics Advisory Board" with the aim of integrating corporate sustainability and resilience data into mainstream economic models and investment decisions. In 2025, CDP collected environmental impact data from more than 22,100 companies and over 1,000 cities, states, and regions. Its latest analysis reveals that in seven out of thirteen studied sectors, climate leaders showed market growth rates higher than or equivalent to those at the lowest performance level, unlocking a total of US$218 billion in environmental opportunities over the past 12 months. The newly established Board aims to develop empirical frameworks to demonstrate how environmental measures lead to corporate growth and value creation—moving beyond simple correlation toward the identification of clear cause-and-effect relationships based on proven economic laws—thereby providing corporate decision-makers with practical evidence to support their economic choices.