To help meet the ever-evolving needs of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) or sustainability reporting, Workiva's Sustainability Reporting solution updates frequently, including these new features and enhancements introduced October 2025.
Tip: These release notes are specific to Workiva's Sustainability Reporting features. For updates to other Workiva features or solutions, view Release Notes in Support Center.
Assess readiness for International Financial Reporting Standards Sustainability Disclosure Standards
The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Sustainability Disclosure Standards — issued by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) — helps companies disclose consistent, comparable, and verifiable information about the impact of sustainability-related risks and opportunities (ROs).
To prepare to report using these Standards, you can now supplement your Sustainability Reporting workspace with additional templates and files:
- Assessment templates to help document and collect stakeholder perspectives on the financial impact — or materiality — of ROs
- ISSB gap assessment spreadsheet, to identify gaps in data collection or reporting for material ROs
- Gap assessment results and visualization spreadsheet, to help track the gaps identified at-a-glance
- ISSB datapoint accelerator spreadsheet, to easily create or update metrics in Sustainability Program to resolve gaps identified
- Sample ISSB report document, as inspiration or a starting point
- IFRS - ISSB section within your Factbook spreadsheet
- Supporting queries and reports to connect data across files
Note: Additional cost may apply to deploy these files as an add-on to your Sustainability Reporting workspace. For details, contact your Workiva Customer Success Manager (CSM) or implementation partner.
To learn more, view Prepare International Sustainability Standards Board-ready reporting.
Enhanced Tasks in Home
From Home, you can ease data collection with the redesigned Tasks, which features several enhancements to help focus on priority tasks.
- Quick priority filters, to zero in on your tasks To do, those Due this week, and any Overdue
- Enhanced filtering, to further hone in based on criteria including Due by, Status, and Location
- At-a-glance details, for richer context of tasks' status, due dates, and assignments
- Column management, to reorder, pin, and hide columns to best meet your needs
- Export, for further review, reporting, or offline analysis
To learn more, view View and complete tasks.
Return intent of IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards or SASB content in Query
Queries that use Sustainability Explorer as a source can now include a Kind field to return the intent of content — such as general guidance, mandatory requirement, or additional context — from IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards or Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). To learn more, view Use Sustainability Explorer content in Query.
Programmatically add tags and related Explorer content to Program metrics
The Sustainability Prototype Platform endpoints now support tags and frameworkReferences fields to programmatically add custom tags and related Explorer content — respectively — to metrics in Sustainability Program. To learn more, view the Workiva Developer Hub.