CDP secures Walmart Foundation grant to drive nature-positive landscape solutions

The Walmart Foundation has awarded CDP – the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system – a two-year grant of over $1 million USD to expand the adoption of Landscape and Jurisdictional Approaches.

A Landscape or Jurisdictional Approach is a multi-stakeholder collaborative strategy that advances shared sustainability goals by bringing together governments, business and communities to build resilience at landscape scale. Since 2020, CDP has integrated these strategies into its corporate disclosure, building the world’s largest dataset on landscape and jurisdictional approaches to enhance transparency and accelerate action.

Funding from the Walmart Foundation will allow CDP to capture and analyze new, decision-critical data on corporate and government engagement with landscape initiatives, identify opportunities for driving investment, and broaden understanding of how Landscape and Jurisdictional Approaches can accelerate tangible environmental progress while protecting biodiversity-rich ecosystems. Companies disclosing through CDP already identify more than $6 trillion in climate and nature-related risks, revealing it is less costly for them to manage their risks than bear the potential financial impact.

The pace of climate and biodiversity action is insufficient to prevent significant nature-related risks to both people and the planet. In 2023, 6.37 million hectares of forest were permanently lost globally, including 1.4 million hectares within Key Biodiversity Areas. This contributed to 3.8 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in gross emissions from deforestation alone. Deforestation and the overuse of resources pose serious threats to ecosystems, livelihoods, and the planet’s ability to regulate the climate.

Over the next two years, new CDP data and insights will highlight key areas where corporate interests and landscapes overlap, clarifying how the most impactful stakeholders can take swift action.

Kari Stoever, Chief Growth Officer, CDP said: “This grant enables CDP to drive greater transparency, scale corporate action, and strengthen the case for Landscape and Jurisdictional Approaches as a key solution for nature and climate goals. With the Walmart Foundation’s support, we can accelerate adoption, enhance reporting, and empower businesses, investors, and governments to take meaningful, large-scale action to combat deforestation, restore ecosystems, and build a nature-positive future.”

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CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system. As the founder of environmental reporting, we believe in transparency and the power of data to drive change. Partnering with leaders in enterprise, capital, policy and science, we surface the information needed to enable Earth-positive decisions. We helped more than 24,800 companies and 1,100 cities, states and regions disclose their environmental impacts in 2024. Financial institutions with more than a quarter of the world’s institutional assets use CDP data to help inform investment and lending decisions. Aligned with the ISSB’s climate standard, IFRS S2, as its foundational baseline, CDP integrates best-practice reporting standards and frameworks in one place. Our team is truly global, united by our shared desire to build a world where people, planet and profit are truly balanced.