Landscape Initiative Maturity Framework: A Joint Set of Sub-Criteria Supporting the Assessment of Landscape Initiative Maturity

This guidance document presents the initial list of sub-criteria to key elements under CDP’s Landscape Maturity Matrix. The key elements presented are scale, multi-stakeholder process or platforms, collective goals and actions, and collective monitoring framework, that are needed for landscape and jurisdictional initiatives. These preliminary sub-criteria and their details intend to better clarify these key elements.

CDP developed the Landscape Maturity Matrix, where the concept of maturity is used to understand whether an initiative contains the elements necessary for lasting positive impact and resilience over time. CDP’s Landscape Maturity Matrix provides a valuable framework for assessing the quality of disclosure data and enabling organizations implementing or supporting landscape initiatives to gain a better understanding of the minimal elements of what constitutes a credible disclosure of corporate engagements in landscape initiatives. This understanding is essential to determine the credibility and quality of the way that a corporate is engaging in a landscape initiative.

ISEAL, CDP and Science-based Targets Network (SBTN), which has included landscape engagement as one of its land targets, contributed to the publication.