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Paul Dickinson

Executive Chairman, CDP

Biography

Paul founded CDP in 2000 with an ambition of creating a global economic system that operates within sustainable environmental boundaries and prevents dangerous climate change. CDP hold the largest collection globally of self-reported climate change, water and forest-risk data. CDP uses the authority of 822 investors with $95 trillion in assets (more than the GDP of the world) to persuade over 5,000 companies to report annually on key metrics of sustainability. In 2014 over 200 cities with 400 million inhabitants also reported through CDP. Because CDP is a not for profit the data is made publicly available. Paul previously founded Rufus Leonard Corporate Communications and EyeNetwork, the largest videoconference service in Europe. He served as a member of the Environmental Research Group of the UK Faculty and Institute of Actuaries. Paul has authored various publications, including Beautiful Corporations.