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It's that time of year again, when organizations — known as raters and rankers — evaluate companies' sustainability practices and provide scores to help investors and other stakeholders gauge and compare performance. If your company responds to CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) or S&P Global's Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA), keep these dates in mind:

• CDP's submission window for 2025 opens June 18, with a deadline the week of September 15 for scored responses, or the week of November 17 for unscored responses or any amendments. To learn more, view the CDP Disclosure Cycle 2025.
• CSA for 2025 opened April 1, with two-month windows available — starting at the beginning and middle of each month through November — and scores published 7-14 weeks after submission. To learn more, view the CSA Participation Cycle 2025.

What's new

To help support respondents to these questionnaires, Sustainability Explorer now includes 2025 content for both CDP and S&P Global CSA.

To enable CSA, your company may need to first agree to Workiva's Third Party Terms of Use for material licensed from S&P Global Inc. For details, contact your Workiva Customer Success Manager (CSM).

With this content, you can:

• Review all questions possible for 2025 — for CDP, this includes both the Full and Small/Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Corporate questionnaires.
• Bookmark and comment on material questions, guidance, and other content.
• Align questions with metrics that collect related values in Sustainability Program, to help inform responses.

What's next: To help respond to CDP 2025, you'll also be able to craft responses to questions — in collaboration with other workspace members — from a new form-based experience, coming soon!

Want to stay current? Follow What's new in Sustainability Reporting in Support Center!

On the calendar

On June 24, join McKenna King, Senior Sustainability Manager at Allstate, as she discusses how they use Workiva to get ahead of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) S2 and California Climate disclosure legislation — even amid regulatory uncertainty — and why they view sustainability as a strategic business advantage. To join the conversation and learn first-hand insights from a leader in sustainability strategy, simply register to reserve your spot!

Also on June 24, join Pro Groups panelists as they unpack current and upcoming regulatory changes, explore how jurisdictional differences influence standards, examine how organizations look to sustainability to optimize business opportunity, and provide actionable strategies to help your team stay compliant and competitive. Then, continue the conversation on June 26 with peer-to-peer discussions at a virtual Pro Groups roundtable on these same topics.

On July 16, join speakers from Workiva and CDP as they discuss how responding to the CDP questionnaire provides a consistent framework to disclose environmental impacts, risks, opportunities, and actions and best position your company to meet evolving regulatory disclosure requirements like the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), California Climate, and regional adoptions of IFRS S1/S. Register to join the conversation (and earn a complimentary CPE credit, if applicable). 

Share your thoughts

To engage with and learn from other companies and subject-matter experts, join the Sustainability Management conversations in the Workiva Community. There, you can discuss:

• Current developments in the ever-evolving sustainability reporting landscape
• How others use features across the Workiva Platform to ease reporting disclosures
• Tips on to get the most of Sustainability Program and Sustainability Explorer — and ideas of how to make them better!

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