CDP Disclosure Support for First-Time Responders: Strong First-Year Results and a Clear Path Forward
Challenge
When one of PipingRock’s key customers requested environmental disclosures through CDP, the company was faced with a binary choice: begin reporting across climate, forest, and water metrics for the first time or risk losing a valuable business relationship by declining to respond.
The process was unfamiliar, the language was dense, and internal environmental data was limited. PipingRock needed to meet a complex disclosure request without overburdening internal teams—and they needed to get it right the first time. To navigate this challenge, they partnered with TripleWin.
Solutions Delivered
TripleWin provided full-service disclosure support, helping PipingRock interpret the CDP questionnaire, identify applicable modules, and translate the requirements into clear, achievable tasks.
TripleWin first helped determine which sections of the CDP questionnaire applied to PipingRock, then supported the company in answering questions across governance, strategy, environmental performance, forests and water.
Working in close coordination with internal stakeholders, TripleWin wrote responses designed to meet CDP’s scoring criteria: accurate, transparent, consistent across modules, and as data-driven as possible given the available information. Throughout the process, TripleWin helped guide internal review and finalized the submission in time for the score reporting deadline.
Project Learnings
CDP’s integrated disclosure presents challenges even for experienced reporters—let alone first-time responders. For PipingRock, the process clarified where additional data would be needed to strengthen future submissions and how environmental disclosures are interpreted by customers and stakeholders.
The project made clear that a carbon inventory would be essential for strengthening future disclosures—especially to meet customer expectations that PipingRock commit to setting science-based targets.
Client Outcomes
Despite limited internal data, PipingRock earned a CDP score one level higher than anticipated, an outcome directly tied to the quality and structure of the responses. CDP rewards transparency, consistency and depth, and TripleWin’s guidance helped PipingRock meet those standards even in a first-time effort.
Encouraged by the result, PipingRock has returned to TripleWin for help with its 2025 disclosures. Moving forward, the company is looking to conduct its first carbon inventory—an essential step toward improving future scores and meeting evolving customer requirements.
TripleWin is now helping to present the business case for carbon accounting, not just as a compliance measure, but as a strategic tool for identifying operational efficiencies and guiding long-term sustainability efforts.
Experts
TripleWin Advisory is a boutique corporate consultancy focused on circularity solutions for industry. TripleWin offers a suite of tools to support clients in charting a practical, circular and sustainable course for their business. These tools include:
- Carbon inventories and setting science-based and Net Zero carbon goals
- Materiality assessments and sustainability roadmaps
- Building circular business models supported by financial analysis
- Risk scenario models using the TCFD framework
- Workshops and courses to build employee agency and corporate competency
We work with leaders in the following industries: apparel, footwear & textiles; information technology; metals; beauty; food & beverage; healthcare; building construction; human resource management; and retail.
TripleWin Advisory is an approved CDP climate change consultancy Accredited Service Provider (ASP). We are woman-founded, owned and led; a public benefit company.
PipingRock is a manufacturer and distributor of health supplements and personal care products. The company provides a wide range of vitamins, essential oils, and nutritional products to customers across global markets. Known for its vertically integrated operations, PipingRock oversees everything from manufacturing and testing to packaging and distribution.
Headquarters:Health and wellness manufacturing
Industry:
Health and wellness manufacturing
Main Product:
Vitamins, dietary supplements, and essential oils
In their words
“TripleWin coached our team on what data we would need to collect and provided shared templates for logging our values as we progressed. They further provided live guidance to me as I completed the carbon-related questions through CDP to ensure I accurately reported our carbon inventory. The TripleWin team is very knowledgeable and a delight to work with.”