Where must I publish my emissions each year under the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), and does a CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) response count?

C25 says you shall publicly report your company-wide inventory and your progress against published targets every year. R12 sets no required place, only that it is publicly available. In my reading, a CDP response can serve only if you submit it as public.

What the criteria say

• C25, frequency: the company shall publicly report its company-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory and progress against published targets on an annual basis.
• R12, where to disclose: no specific requirements, as long as the information is publicly available.
• R12 recommends standardised, comparable disclosure systems such as CDP's annual climate change questionnaire. Annual reports, sustainability reports and the company website are also acceptable.

Shall versus recommended

C25 is a requirement. R12 is a recommendation. So a page on your website that shows your full inventory (Scope 1, 2 and the Scope 3 categories you report) and progress against your targets meets the wording of C25. This is my reading.

Where CDP fits (my reading)

CDP's help page says you review and select your response publicity when you submit, and that a non-public submission can be changed to public. A non-public response is not public, so it would not meet a public-reporting requirement on its own. If you want your CDP response to count, submit it as public.

What a simple yearly page holds

1. Base year and most recent year, Scope 1 and Scope 2, with the method for Scope 2 (location or market).
2. Scope 3 categories you have calculated, and exclusions.
3. Target wording and progress against it.
4. The year, and when you will update it.

Example: a year-on-year line for the website

• Scope 1: 111.09 tonnes (42,000 litres x 2.645 kilograms (kg) per litre).
• Scope 2 location-based: 351.0 tonnes (520,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) x 0.675 kg per kWh).
• Total Scope 1 and 2: 111.09 + 351.0 = 462.09 tonnes.
• Against a base of 397.6 + 111.09 = 508.69 tonnes, the change is 508.69 less 462.09 = 46.6 tonnes.

Figures are an example. The base year uses 0.710 and the later year 0.675, the Central Electricity Authority factors for financial year (FY) 2024-25 and FY 2025-26.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads fuel invoices and electricity bills into monthly records, so the litres, kilowatt hours and months are in one place to copy from. It does not publish anything for you. The monthly records give you the figures to put on your own page.

• Who sees my CDP supply chain response
• What to report after SBTi target validation
• Supplier code: public emissions disclosure
• Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) carbon number

Sources: SBTi Corporate Near-Term Criteria, Version 5.3.1, April 2026, CDP Help Center, Submitting and editing your CDP response as a Discloser (response publicity)

Last reviewed 2026-11-05. SBTi updates its criteria from time to time. Check the version your target will be assessed under before you rely on this answer.