The NZDPU’s mission is to provide a trusted, central source of company-level climate data that is transparent and openly accessible to all.
In June 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron and the United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Ambition and Solutions Michael R. Bloomberg founded the Climate Data Steering Committee (CDSC). The CDSC aims to support the climate objectives of the UN and accelerate climate action by driving forward global momentum for the private sector to report and disclose key climate data critical to delivering a net-zero economy.
In November 2022, the CDSC published recommendations for the development of a unified, global, open climate data repository: the Net-Zero Data Public Utility (NZDPU). The NZDPU is designed to be integrated with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Global Climate Action Portal.
The CDSC and its advisors oversee the NZDPU’s ongoing and iterative development and will consider further recommendations for enhancements going forward.