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U.S. Corporate Boards Boosted Sustainability Experience in 2022
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Australia Set To Introduce Mandatory Climate Reporting For Companies In 2024
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Delivering ESG Results
Discover best practices, by industry or across sectors, such as integrating ESG into risk management, financial services, or transition plans for the energy sector. Get ready to provide assurance on ESG reporting for net-zero commitments and beyond.
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Why Workiva is a Leader in the Verdantix Green Quadrant: ESG Reporting and Data Management Software
Learn why Workiva has been named a leader in ESG reporting in the Verdantix Green Quadrant.
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The Race to Bring Financial Reporting, ESG, and GRC Together
Investors, regulators, stakeholders, and competitive pressures are driving financial reporting, ESG (environmental, social, governance), and GRC (governance, risk, compliance) teams closer together. Learn more, and hear how accounting and finance teams will be affected.
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What is ESG? Here's everything you need to know.
New to ESG? Here’s the introductory ESG guide you’ve been looking for. We’re keeping things simple in hopes that by the time you’ve finished reading this, you’ll better understand the basics of the ever-changing ESG landscape.
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5 Tips to Stay Ahead of Risk
Get five tips from KPMG and Workiva on how to build effective program governance and internal controls for ESG, prepare for ESG assurance, increase ICFR program efficiency, and more. Download now.
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Evolving with the Standards: How Iberdrola Keeps their ESG Reporting Ahead of the Game
<p>As environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards build year on year, how does Spanish multinational electric company Iberdrola keep up? </p>
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ESG Reporting 101: What You Need To Know
What is ESG reporting all about? This e-book for finance professionals, corporate social responsibility teams, and sustainability fans walks through what ESG reporting is, why it’s important, and how you can kick-start your organization’s own ESG reporting.
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Unpacking the ‘G’ in ESG: What is the Secret to Good Governance?
Discover how organizations can prioritize governance in their ESG reporting for better value and impact
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Software Sneak Peek: See a Demo of Workiva for ESG Reporting
If you haven’t seen a full demo of how you can use Workiva for ESG reporting, here’s a sneak peek. Watch the video.
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How to Get Ahead of the ESG Reporting Revolution
Environmental, social, and governance reporting has been happening for years (by various names and initiatives), but it's never been more formalized—or important—than now. Join this webinar to discover how to embrace the ESG reporting revolution, choosing a framework, and managing this process in the Workiva platform to create meaningful reports that drive measurable growth.
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Policy Perspectives
Read up on ESG policies, governance practices, rules, and regulations, as well as the latest reporting requirements and frameworks, to stay ahead of the curve.
New ISSB Reporting Standards: How Will Your Business Be Impacted?
The ISSB has issued its inaugural sustainability standards. With a promise to simplify the ESG reporting landscape while integrating sustainability and financial reporting, ESRS S1 and ESRS S2 will have a big impact on businesses. Learn more about the standards and how to prepare.
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Executive Summary: A Snapshot of the SEC’s Climate Disclosure Proposal
Review what’s ahead in ESG reporting requirements. Plus, discover five steps organizations can take now to be ready for it.
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CFO Media Roundtable
Rewatch chief financial officers and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) leaders discuss the evolving ESG mandates facing multinational organizations and the new role CFOs will play in building a sustainable future for all.
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The Great Debate Over ESG Values
A strong ESG strategy puts values front and center—ensuring that a company makes a positive impact to the world around us, all while driving the value of the business. Watch this lively discussion on the pros vs. cons of integrating ESG values with Workiva's own leadership: Marty Vanderploeg, CEO, Mandi McReynolds, Sr. Director of ESG, and Bart van Praag, General Manager EMEA.
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The Fast and the Furiously Changing Future of ESG Frameworks
Gain insights into the merging worlds of ESG and financial reporting, the "building block" approach, and evolving regulations.
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The ESG Leader’s Playbook: Bridging Financial and ESG Workstreams to Be Future-Ready
ESG reporting is already in high demand, and more regulation is likely on the way. This ebook will show you how to bridge financial and ESG workstreams so you can be future-ready. Download your copy.
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Stakeholder Value & Materiality
Unlock business value by exploring ESG materiality metrics and how to engage all stakeholders, including investors, customers, and employees, on progress toward ESG goals.
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2023 Global ESG Practitioner Survey
Review the results of a global online survey of ESG practitioners conducted by Ascend2 and Workiva.
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Why Workiva is a Leader in the Verdantix Green Quadrant: ESG Reporting and Data Management Software
Learn why Workiva has been named a leader in ESG reporting in the Verdantix Green Quadrant.
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An ESG Community with Financial Reporting Folks and More
Financial reporting folks with environmental, social, and governance questions are joining a new ESG community. Hear all about it.
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5 ESG Trends in Energy: From Transition to Transformation
Explore agile auditing, and how its being used to enhance collaboration, deal with complexity & drive growth in audit processes.
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ESG: Unlocking Growth
Embedding ESG goals into your organization’s mission or overall strategy can pay off. Explore how.
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2022 Global ESG Survey: Top Opportunities and Challenges of ESG Reporting
We surveyed 1,300 respondents across industries on their organizations’ current processes, collaboration and confidence in the data reported. Discover the results!
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Gaining Trust in Your ESG Data Is a Material Issue
Shareholders want data beyond financial statements. Learn how Workiva helps earn shareholder trust and remains agile with shifting ESG expectations.
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Interactive ESG Guide: Materiality Assessment
Before tracking your organization's performance on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, use this guide as a customizable template for engaging with stakeholders and assessing (or updating) which ESG topics are material to them and your organization.
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The High Stakes (and Critical Stakeholders) of ESG E-book
Disclosing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data is manual, time-consuming, error-prone, and complex. But here are some ways to untangle the intricacies of ESG reporting.
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It’s Proxy Season, and All Eyes Are on ESG Reporting
Hear how CEOs are tackling ESG complexities, meeting shareholder demands, and driving business value through ESG reporting. Watch video now.
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Tech & Transformation
Bring ESG into the digital age by transforming your business with connected reporting to uncover insights for decision-making. Adopt next-gen technology for collaboration, automation, data analytics, iXBRL™ reporting, and benchmarking.
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Gogoro’s SEC Reporting Team Cuts Costs and Achieves Rapid Filing Speed With Workiva
Manual SEC reporting work was weighing down this company’s mobility toward creating a more sustainable future. See how it lightened the load.
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Why Workiva is a Leader in the Verdantix Green Quadrant: ESG Reporting and Data Management Software
Learn why Workiva has been named a leader in ESG reporting in the Verdantix Green Quadrant.
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Smart Innovators: ESG Reporting And Data Management Software
Workiva scored highest in the voluntary frameworks, regulated & mandated frameworks, workflows & auditability, and data acquisition & tagging categories
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Evolving with the Standards: How Iberdrola Keeps their ESG Reporting Ahead of the Game
<p>As environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards build year on year, how does Spanish multinational electric company Iberdrola keep up? </p>
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Where to Start with ESG? Technology. Here's Why
Discover how ESG reporting technology simplifies strategy, saves time, boosts data confidence, and prepares for future changes.
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How to Jump-Start Your ESG Reporting Journey
Most leaders feel their organizations aren't prepared to meet mandates for ESG reporting.Heres how to navigate it with the Workiva platform.
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ESG Frameworks, All in One Place: Introducing ESG Explorer
You need flexibility. You also need easy access to information about each framework and standard so you can make the best decisions to benefit your organisation. So we created ESG Explorer to help out.
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Bringing the Rigor of Financial Reporting to ESG Reports
Cognizant is on a mission to make its ESG reporting process just as meticulous as its financial reporting. Read about their journey.
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Baker Hughes Blends Simplification, Investor-Grade Data, and Automation to Meet Today’s ESG Demands
Sustainability is critical to Baker Hughes, a leading energy technology company. It stays ahead of the game through investor-grade data, simplification, and automation.
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