According to Reuters, the investors who manage over 130 trillion in assets demand pieces of information regarding climate change, biodiversity and water security in order to evaluate the company's performance and limit the amount of human driven global warming.

More companies want to reach net-zero carbon emissions by the half of this century in order to protect vulnerable ecosystems around the world, but others have refused to supply CDP with the necessary information.

More than 680 financial institutions demanded information regarding climate change from companies this year, including Amundi, Europe's biggest asset manager.

Over 3.300 companies will get the letter requesting the information for the first time, whereas more than 4.000 will get the request again after they failed to respond last year.

Paul Simpson, CEO at CDP said that "while many companies are disclosing, setting targets and taking action across their own business operations and value chains, there is a surprisingly large part of the market still to take the vital first step of disclosure."

"These companies are becoming increasingly out of touch with reality, investor and public opinion", he added.

Jean-Jacques Barbéris, head of Institutional and Corporate Clients Coverage & ESG Supervisor at Amundi mentioned that "we need this comparable, consistent and clear data for our investment decision making, our research, our product development, our corporate engagement and our regulatory compliance."

"It is also vital for us to meet our own climate goals", Jean-Jacques Barbéris concluded.

The first request for providing climate change, biodiversity and water security was sent back in 2002.