How to implement biodiversity in your CDP reporting for 2026

The CDP 2026 questionnaire is now open and, like last year, offers the opportunity to report on biodiversity metrics. It is easy to introduce biodiversity into your reporting with Dunya Analytics. 

Why complete the CDP biodiversity questionnaire?

While the biodiversity questionnaire is not currently mandatory, it is expected to be scored in subsequent years. There are several reasons to get started now:

1. Enables you to familiarize yourself with biodiversity ahead of scoring, putting you in a stronger position for when it’s mandatory.

2. Prepares you to report in line with TNFD, CSRD, and other more expansive nature disclosure guidelines. CDP itself is evolving to TNFD alignment. You can learn more about the mapping here.

3. Impress your customers and investors by being ready when they ask for your nature strategy. Not only can you demonstrate that you are assessing nature risk, this also gives you time to craft a strategy to address risks that you do identify. 

4. Most importantly, you can surface business-critical nature risks that threaten financial performance.

How to respond to CDP’s core biodiversity questions

The CDP biodiversity questionnaire centers on three core questions. The Dunya Analytics platform makes it effortless to respond:

• Are your organization’s activities located near important areas for biodiversity? All the datasets you need are already integrated into the platform, providing results in seconds. Our risk models also contextualize the results, providing value-added insights for risk management and resilience planning.
  

• If there are important biodiversity areas, what types are they? What are their names, designations, and distances from your business location? With just two data points - location and activity type - in two seconds you get a full suite of data needed for reporting. Whether you are assessing 5 sites or 5,000, you get the detailed information you need in seconds.

• Could any of your organization’s activities negatively affect these important areas? An instant assessment of 13 ecosystem pressures identifies potential impacts to important areas to enable reporting. Over time as you conduct detailed on-site assessments and invest in impact reduction, you can calibrate platform results to provide higher resolution results. 

How the Dunya Analytics platform works

Dunya Analytics makes it simple to respond to CDP, and to understand your company’s nature risk more broadly. Here's how the platform works:

1. Upload business locations
   Get started with just location and activity type - individual site or bulk upload
   

2. Get results
   Full site-specific TNFD-aligned risk assessment available in two seconds
   

3. Identify priority impact locations
   Automatic quantification of impact risk to identify which sites face the most business-critical risks
   

4. Report
   Easily export information required for CDP reporting
   

5. Take action
   Share insights and collaborate with key decision-makers to mitigate nature risk

Position yourself now for increased business resilience

The end goal for nature risk assessment isn’t reporting, it’s building a more resilient business in the face of the biodiversity and climate crises. 

Companies that take advantage of biodiversity reporting for CDP now will build the internal data infrastructure and organizational fluency to manage risk and meet customer and investor demands for nature reporting.

Ready to see this in action on the Dunya Analytics platform? Book a demo here.