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 May 2026.
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.
Explore 2026 CDP questionnaire content
To help prepare disclosures to CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project), you can now include the content of 2026 CDP Corporate and Small/Medium Enterprise (SME) questionnaires — all questions, their response options, and scoring criteria — in Sustainability Explorer. To include this content, select 2026 CDP or All frameworks from the Properties panel.
Note: Sustainability Explorer currently provides the content of 2026 CDP questionnaires; the CDP Questionnaire will support 2026 responses in a future release, when CDP opens their submission window.
Use this content to help prepare for the 2026 disclosure cycle:
- Browse the questionnaires, and bookmark questions for easy reference throughout the workspace.
- Discuss questions, their responses, and scoring criteria with other workspace members as Comments.
- Align questions with metrics in Sustainability Program that collect related values to help inform responses.
To learn more, view Explore CDP questionnaire for sustainability reporting.
Prompt Workiva AI with Simplified ESRS Intelligence
To have Workiva AI help clarify the complexities of the simplified European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), you can add the new Simplified ESRS Intelligence knowledge base. With this knowledge base, you can prompt Workiva AI to summarize and explain the draft simplified Standards and their disclosure requirements, as published by the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) in December 2025.
Tip: You can continue add the ESRS Intelligence knowledge base to help clarify the ESRS Delegated Act and corrigendum published to the Official Journal in 2024 or help compare and contrast the different versions' requirements.
If your Sustainability Explorer includes the ESRS, you can also view the source content used by Workiva AI to develop its response.
To learn more, view Use Workiva AI with European Sustainability Reporting Standards.