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 June 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.
Prepare responses for 2026 CDP Questionnaire
From Sustainability Explorer, you can now create a CDP Questionnaire tailored to your 2026 submission with CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project). From the Questionnaire, you can collaborate with other members of your workspace to prepare responses for 2026 CDP disclosures.
- Review CDP's guidance for each question, including response options and scoring criteria.
- Identify related metrics in Sustainability Program and access values collected for responses.
- Discuss questions' responses and guidance with collaborators as comments.
- Set status of questions to track progress or indicate intentional omissions.
- Set permissions to the Questionnaire and its modules to ensure appropriate collaborator access.
When questions are ready, Questionnaire Owners can update the corresponding responses and statuses in the CDP Portal, directly from your workspace's CDP Questionnaire.
To get started, set up your 2026 submission in the CDP Portal, then click Create questionnaire in Sustainability Explorer; the Questionnaire automatically includes your submission's 2026 questions and responses from the CDP Portal.
Note: If this is your company's first year using the CDP Questionnaire in Sustainability Explorer, first add Workiva as your software provider in the CDP Portal to generate the ID needed to create your company's Questionnaire. To learn more, view Set up CDP questionnaire for Sustainability Reporting workspace.
To learn more, view Craft responses to CDP questionnaire for sustainability reporting.
Draft Workiva AI-assisted disclosures for ESRS and IFRS SDS with Sustainability Disclosure Agent
To help ensure compliant disclosures for the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) or International Financial Reporting Standards Sustainability Disclosure Standards (IFRS SDS), you can now use the Sustainability Disclosure Agent.
With this agent, you can prompt Workiva AI with a draft disclosure and the specific requirements it should address; in response, Workiva AI provides:
- Compliance scorecard, to help identify gaps in the draft disclosure based on the provided requirements
- Action items, with guidance on how resolve any gaps identified
- Disclosure narrative, with a compliance-ready response based on provided content and requirements
To use the Sustainability Disclosure Agent, highlight the draft disclosure within a Document — such as your sustainability report — then select Draft disclosure from Workiva AI's Quick edits.
To learn more, view Use Workiva AI for sustainability reporting.