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If your company responds to the CDP questionnaire, here are some dates to keep in mind for the 2026 disclosure cycle:

• April — At the end of April, CDP published the 2026 questionnaire in the CDP Portal, along with their scoring methodology and reporting guidance — including overviews, glossaries, and technical notes. 
• Week of June 15 — The response window opens for submissions through the CDP Portal.
• Week of September 14 — The deadline for scored responses; CDP won't score new responses or edits submitted after this point.
• Week of October 26 — The final deadline for unscored responses; at this point, CDP will no longer accept any submissions.
• Week of November 30 — CDP plans to publish their scores in the Portal and on their website. 

Looking for more insight? Workiva has Industry Principals dedicated to gathering and sharing Sustainability & Carbon knowledge and expertise! For more insight, follow them — Alyssa Zucker for Carbon, Esther Toth for EMEA & APAC, and Mark Mellen for North America & APAC — on LinkedIn.

What's new & next

For CDP

If your Sustainability Explorer includes CDP, you will soon be able to explore the content of the 2026 questionnaires — for both Corporate and Small- & medium-enterprise (SME) organizations! 

To help emphasize decision-useful data and better align with global reporting standards — such as the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Sustainability Disclosure Standards, and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol — 2026 CDP introduces:

• New Ocean questions, to enable the disclosure of impacts, risks, and dependencies on marine ecosystems; these responses will not be scored in for the 2026 disclosure cycle.
• Expanded Forests scope, with cocoa, coffee, and rubber joining timber, palm oil, cattle, and soy as scored commodities within a single, unified Forests score.
• Focus on adaptation and resilience, with adjusted scoring and expanded questions to demonstrate concrete, business-integrated actions toward physical climate adaptation.
• Updated Energy & Land sector, including minor adjustments to energy reporting, to help ensure stricter alignment with RE 100 and the GHG Protocol.
• SME "A List" eligibility, which enable SME organizations to officially achieve a Leadership-level "A" score.

Have Program metrics aligned with 2025 CDP? Workiva will be able to help update their Related Explorer content for 2026 CDP. To learn more, view Roll forward metrics' related Sustainability Explorer content based on new versions.

Note that only the content of 2026 CDP will be available at this time; CDP Questionnaire in Sustainability Explorer will update for 2026 disclosures in a later release, when the response window officially opens. With this update, you'll also be able to:

• Discuss questions and responses with collaborators as Comments within the Questionnaire
• Set statuses for responses to help track their progress in both the Questionnaire and CDP Portal

In the meantime... To help prepare CDP Questionnaire for 2026 submissions, add Workiva as your software provider in the CDP Portal. To learn more, view Set up CDP questionnaire for Sustainability Reporting workspace.

For Carbon

If you use Carbon, here's what's new:

• New Wbase extension calculator for Buildings activity data — If you work with a large, global dataset that requires consistency, audit-ability, and scalable processing, contact your Workiva Carbon point-of-contact to request the Workiva Building Activity Data Standardization & Estimation (Wbase) extension calculator. With this new Spreadsheet-based calculator, you can standardize, gap-fill, and estimate building activity before you import it into Carbon. To learn more, view Workiva Building Activity Data Standardization & Estimation (Wbase) extension calculator.
• Control unmapped spend for Purchases — To help ensure accurate total emissions for purchased goods and services, you can now control how Carbon manages unmapped spend — in short, transactions not yet assigned to a specific commodity, supplier, or emissions override. To learn more, view Measure purchases.

Want to stay current? Follow What's new in Sustainability Reporting and What's New in Carbon!

On the calendar

In addition to the aforementioned CDP timeline, here are some other upcoming events to consider:

• May 14, join the pilot Workiva Community Roundtable — focused on Sustainability Reporting — to connect with peers facing shared challenges and share real-world use cases and tips with an interactive, Community member-led discussion. Come prepared to engage in valuable peer-to-peer conversation and both ask and answer questions with other participants!
• May 19, join your peers and partner in sustainability — as well as those in finance and risk — for Accelerate New York City 2026. This engaging in-person event will tackle all your pressing questions and challenges in sustainability reporting — including responsible AI, data modernization, and integrated governance.

Share your thoughts

In addition to its aforementioned Roundtable event, the Workiva Community provides opportunities to engage with and learn from subject-matter experts (SMEs), advisory partners, and other sustainability reporters. Join the conversation in these threads:

• Community Connect: Sustainability, to learn from industry professionals and peers as you collaborate and share insights, challenges, and solutions.
• Sustainability Management, to discuss best practices and experiences with sustainability reporting, in general and within the Workiva Platform
• What's new in Sustainability, to learn the latest enhancements of Sustainability Reporting features like Sustainability Program and Sustainability Explorer
• Sustainability Feedback, to share and support ideas on how to improve Sustainability Management features
• Beverage Breaks, to learn directly from SMEs, partners, and other experienced sustainability reporters

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