IMS Consulting has been selected as a consultancy partner for the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the world’s largest environmental information reporting organisation.

The independent not-for-profit CDP provides a global system for companies and cities to measure, disclose, manage and share climate change and water information. Founded in 2000, the organisation has grown rapidly as investor and corporate awareness of the risks and opportunities of climate change has developed.

IMS Consulting is a specialist advisor to companies, both national and international, on sustainability. With carbon management and reporting becoming increasingly critical business drivers, IMS Consulting helps organisations to understand their position and report it openly and transparently - including working with clients on their CDP submissions, enabling companies to improve their carbon disclosure performance.

Paul Robins, Head of Corporate Partnerships at CDP, commented:

“CDP is pleased to welcome IMS Consulting to the Consultancy Partnership Programme in the UK. IMS Consulting works with clients to help them understand and implement sustainability into their organisations, moving them towards effective sustainability practice. We hope IMS Consulting will be a valuable resource to our responding companies.”

The consultancy is one of a small number of UK companies recognised by CDP as Accredited Providers. The partnership, which also extends to the Water Disclosure Project, will further strengthen IMS’s portfolio of services, including stakeholder engagement, sustainability reporting – with the inclusion of GRI indexing – and strategy development.

IMS Consulting’s managing director Graham Sprigg added:

“Carbon management, measurement and reporting are very much on the business agenda. The Government’s recent announcement about mandatory greenhouse gas reporting confirms that. I am confident that our work with companies, NGOs and business organisations across Europe will benefit from our closer relationship with CDP.”

Over 3700 organisations around the world now measure and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate change strategies through CDP, in order to set reduction targets and make performance improvements. The data is made available to all, including institutional investors, companies, policymakers, public sector organisations, government bodies, academics and the public.

In November 2010 the CDP Water Disclosure project launched its first report on the impact of water constraints on the worlds’s largest corporations. The response rate from 315 selected companies from the Global 500 to the CDP’s second annual questionnaire increased from 50% in 2010 to 60% in 2011. The majority of the 190 companies who responded identified water as a substantial risk to their business.