ESG & Sustainability

With a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape and increased market expectations, integrating sustainability into your strategy, operations and investment decisions is no longer optional – it is a strategic imperative.

We make sustainability reporting simple and effective, ensuring you both meet your internal sustainability goals and comply with international, European and national reporting frameworks.

We offer tailored approaches and solutions to identify and implement the most relevant ESG measures for your business, thus helping you reduce your impact on the environment, build resilience against climate and nature risks, and create value through sustainability initiatives.

Together, we can drive positive change and ensure that sustainability gives you a competitive advantage, now and in the future.

Transitioning to a circular economy means ensuring that products and materials retain a high value and are used for longer. Circular business models are essential to alleviate pressures on the environment, achieve climate objectives and reduce dependencies on raw materials. Furthermore, companies stand to gain cost savings and higher earnings from transitioning to a circular economy.

We support you throughout your entire journey to more circular business models, including readiness assessments, measuring circularity, prioritizing circular initiatives, bringing stakeholders together and developing business cases. We also help you develop circular targets, roadmaps and action plans as well as with the implementation of initiatives such as take-back schemes, product-as-a-service, or digital product passports. 

Addressing climate-related risks and opportunities is not only a sustainability imperative but also a key driver of long-term business value. By proactively managing these factors, your organization can strengthen operational and financial resilience, adapt to evolving regulatory landscapes, and build trust with stakeholders and investors.

KPMG offers a comprehensive suite of decarbonization and climate risk services including measuring climate impact to establish a robust GHG emissions baseline, supporting the setting of credible climate targets against framework such as the SBTi, and developing tailored climate transition plans. Our industry experts can also help you identify decarbonization levers to reduce emissions across your operations and value chain. In parallel, we can support you in assessing and preparing for climate-related risks and opportunities through scenario analysis. Together, these services enable your business to navigate uncertainty, seize opportunities in the low-carbon economy, and future-proof its operations.

Implementing tailored ESG technology and data solutions is necessary in order to unlock the full potential of your sustainability efforts. We can support you in simplifying, automating and improving accuracy and transparency in sustainability reporting by implementing an end-to-end ESG platform covering data collection, integrations, internal controls, analysis and internal and external reporting capabilities. Besides the large platform players, KPMG also has partnerships with several niche solutions for specific ESG topics covering carbon footprint and climate and supply chain risk assessments, among other topics. Finally, we can help you develop a governance framework and supporting technology for proper data management which will assist you in collecting, storing and transforming high volumes of ESG data effectively and safely.  

Today, integrating ESG and sustainability into the deals process enables deals teams to understand and leverage the benefits of sustainability and contribute to a sustainable future. Consideration of ESG at the acquisition evaluation stage, in IPO preparation, and in preparation for exit on deals allows the understanding of ESG performance, maturity, opportunities and risks to be identified. ESG due diligence is also increasingly critical in IPOs, where investors and regulators expected transparency and robust ESG disclosures. Our services support you in making informed investment decisions through assessing and mitigating down-side risks, evaluation of value creation opportunities, maturity and benchmark assessments and prioritization and implementation of ESG initiatives. We offer end-to-end execution services across the entire investment and transaction lifecycle, to support value preservation and value creation for our clients.

The European Union and its Member States are increasingly using economic incentives to accelerate the climate transition and support the competitiveness and resilience of their strategic industries. Within the framework of the recent Clean Industrial Deal, the foreseen actions include promoting strategic industrial projects, accelerating authorisation procedures and state aid approval for renewable energy and decarbonisation initiatives, revising public procurement rules, launching dedicated grants to stim
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