Hi Sustainability Community! 👋 We are thrilled that our 2026 CDP Questionnaire experience is officially live! We built this year’s updates to make collaborating and tracking progress smoother than ever. But now that it’s out in the wild, the most ...
As we continue to expand our use of the Workiva platform, ensuring our teams feel confident and equipped is a top priority. To streamline the onboarding process for anyone joining our Sustainability workspaces, we are excited to announce the laun...
As announced elsewhere, you can now create a CDP Questionnaire in Sustainability Explorer to craft responses for 2026 CDP disclosures and update the corresponding questions in your CDP Portal submission — directly from your Sustainability Reportin...
Hey Workiva Sustainability Community! 👋 Sustainability teams spend enormous amounts of time collecting data. The next challenge is turning that data into insights, identifying risks, and communicating results to stakeholders. Use these prompts wit...
Hi Community! 👋 Posting today on behalf of my customer, who is focused on an exciting goal: expanding their in-house design and formatting capabilities within Workiva for their upcoming Sustainability Report. They want to get the most out of Worki...
Let’s be honest—gathering accurate Scope 3 data often feels like chasing a moving target. If you’re tired of chasing down suppliers or relying on generic industry averages for your Purchased Goods and Services (PGS) calculations, you are definitel...
Ready to own your Sustainability Program roll forward with total confidence? We know that rolling forward your Sustainability Program and Carbon data means managing a lot of moving parts at once. To help keep things organized and ensure nothing ge...
Hi everyone! I manage my company's sustainability program, so I’m constantly trying to keep a pulse on where all of our data collection efforts stand. I need to be able to quickly answer questions like: What’s overdue? Where are things stuck? Who...
Query regarding: Connect source Workiva files to Sustainability Program valuesWhen we reset the task will it go to Data Preparer or last reviewer?
As mentioned in this month's Sustainability Insider, CDP — formerly Carbon Disclosure Project — recently published their 2026 questionnaire, along with their scoring methodology and reporting guidance. Workiva — a Gold Accredited Solution Provider...
Due to our complex entity structure we need to have the possibility to rename entity codes (dimensions), e.g. in the Sustainability Program. Creating a new entity and archiving the old one in case of changes is not sufficient for us. Thank you!
Ready to own your Sustainability Program Roll Forward? We’ve created a Step-by-Step Roll Forward Guide designed to give you total independence. This video goes beyond the basics, walking you through the full process so you can confidently launch y...
If your Sustainability Explorer includes the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), it now includes the draft version of the simplified Standards from the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG). While the simplified ESRS...
Hi, we came across the restriction beeing able to only add one Data Provider per metric in our ESG Program. This is quite a hindrance and is not reflecting real life processes. The accurate collection of KPIs must not be dependent on one single pe...
Hi, We are using Data Collection files to gather metric values and would like to automatically lock cells once a task has been approved. Is there a built-in feature or workflow automation that supports this functionality? Thank you, Andreia
As previously discussed, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) is drafting updated European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) based on feedback and a drive for simplification from the European Commission (EC); EFRAG is ex...
Is there a way to bulk connect metrics to source files? I need to link approximately 700 metrics, and each source file contains the metric ID, dimension, and program year. Given that this information is already available, is it possible to automat...
When you add a new reporting year in Sustainability Program, you can choose what to copy over from the Program's metrics for the new year — including collected values, data collection tasks, and connected source files. To help simplify Program rol...
Hi Team, I would like to propose an enhancement that would greatly benefit our clients who rely on Workiva for managing their ESG programs. Currently, there is no built-in functionality to track who made specific updates to the ESG program and whe...
Hi Workiva Team, We have recently received a client request regarding due dates in the Sustainability Program. The client has fixed monthly due dates for data submission and data approval. They expect that if a due date falls on a Saturday or Sund...
Hello - we are new to using the Sustainability Program, and we have many data owners and data approvers who will need to take action on a metric, either to enter a metric value, or review/approve/return a metric value. We thought we could use Work...
As you likely heard, California enacted climate disclosure laws that impact companies doing business in the state. On August 21, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) hosted their second public workshop for stakeholders, the reporting requirem...
Hello and welcome to our second episode of CPX Leadership Insights for the 2025 season. We're changing it up this time around. This time I'm lucky enough to snag two guests, Danielle Middlebrook, VP of and Danny Smith, And instead of Workiva HQ,...
As part of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) Omnibus, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) published Exposure Drafts of the simplified European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), along with addition...
We're reaching out because we encountered something unexpected during our Workiva setup, and we wanted to check whether this is something that Workiva is currently addressing or planning to address in the near future. One of the key reasons we c...
Workiva's Sustainability Management features — like Sustainability Program, Sustainability Explorer, and Carbon — help simplify the ever-evolving requirements of mandatory sustainability disclosures from California Climate legislation, US Securiti...
To help ease data collection in Sustainability Program, you now have more control and management over metric values and their tasks, with respective views for both. Values From a metric, you can now set up the values it collects, based on collect...
Debuting this month, Workiva's new Sustainability Insider newsletter provides a regular dose of tl;dr insight to help navigate the ever-evolving landscape of sustainability reporting. Succinct and to-the-point, this newsletter includes the general...
Seeking to update Sustainability Explorer with Mexico NIS A-1 and B-1 framework for program development and metric alignment.
My team is looking to understand how to best use Workiva to record data restatements and maintain original submissions. We restate select metrics each year due to data availability at the time of disclosure publication, and we need to update tasks...
