KPMG ESG

We know the power of ESG to transform your business. Our ESG solutions will help you harness it.

Unlock ESG opportunities to enhance trust, mitigate risk and create new value, starting now.

We know the power of ESG to transform your business. With KPMG ESG, we’ll show you how to enhance trust, mitigate risk and unlock new value as you build a sustainable future.

KPMG ESG solutions are both holistic and practical. With capabilities that span the enterprise, we’ll guide your teams to drive sustainable innovation across your business and help you gain a competitive edge. With deep multidiscipline expertise across critical issues—including decarbonization, reporting, sustainable finance, and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion)—we’ll help you create the right blueprint for integrating ESG. A blueprint that simplifies your strategy, guides its full implementation, and lets you take the lead on ESG.

Providing the benefits of a multidiscipline approach, we go beyond strategy, working with you side-by-side at each step of your ESG transformation. With our industry-leading experience, data-driven technology, and global partnerships, you can turn insight into opportunity for your business, your people and our planet. Because how you grow matters. 

 

 

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KPMG ESG solutions

With strategic insights into top ESG issues and a flexible framework, we’ll take a tailored, integrated approach to your ESG transformation. From strategy through implementation, we’ll help you create opportunities that drive sustainable growth and innovation, and build a resilient enterprise. 

 

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ESG framework: Transform with the power of ESG

Assess and design your ESG strategy

Your business is unique. Your ESG strategy should be too. We’ll help tailor your strategy to the risks and ambitions of your business. With deep insight into your stakeholders, we’ll help you align your ESG and business strategies, and open up opportunities for innovation and new value creation.

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Embed ESG across your operations

We’ll show you how to integrate ESG into your operating model, so you can drive measurable growth, starting today. With industry-leading experience and data-driven technology, we’ll help you activate—and accelerate—your ESG strategy across your workforce, supply chain, operations and infrastructure.

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Measure progress and tell your ESG story

We’ll help you navigate ESG standards, metrics and ratings frameworks to deliver accurate disclosures. Effective measurement and reporting can drive operational progress, increase ROI on your ESG initiatives and unlock opportunity across your value chain.

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Make future steps transformational

Every deal and transaction has ESG implications. We’ll help you understand them, so you can create opportunities for sustainable growth. Whether it’s a merger or acquisition, funding or partnership development, we’ll work with you to gain clear insights, so you can lead with purpose—and agility—across each transaction lifecycle.

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Explore key ESG insights

Topical ESG perspectives

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Regulatory insights

Industry viewpoints

ESG blogs

ESG podcasts

ESG in the news

  • KPMG Wins 2022 Microsoft Prestige Award

    KPMG recently received a 2022 Microsoft Prestige Award – Response & Representation – for our efforts to build greater diversity and inclusion over time, and our ability to outpace industry averages in representation.

    Read on the Microsoft website

  • KPMG named an honoree of The Civic 50 for the seventh consecutive year

    KPMG has been selected by Points of Light as a Civic 50 honoree for the seventh consecutive year. Despite the ongoing impacts of the pandemic, the firm and its people gave over $47 million in charitable donations and logged close to 82,000 hours of service in FY21.

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  • SEC Targets Greenwashing with New ESG Fund Disclosure Rules

    KPMG’s Principal and National Practice Lead for Asset and Wealth Management, Regulatory Risk and Compliance, Larry Godin reacts to the SEC’s proposed ESG fund disclosure rules in ESG Today.

    Read on the ESG Today website

  • Climate, ESG disclosure rules may require “heavy lifting” from companies: KPMG

    KPMG auditors discuss the implications of the US SEC's proposed climate risk and ESG disclosure rules.

    Read on the IHS Markit website

  • Can business travel get onto a more sustainable flight-path post-Covid?

    Gavin Geminder shares insights on how KPMG is thinking about sustainability in business travel.

    Read on the Reuters Events website

  • SEC Stays Busy Cranking Out Proposed ESG Investment Fund Rules

    In this CPA Practice Advisor article, KPMG's Sean McKee, Liz Ming, and Amy Matsuo share their thinking on the recent proposed SEC rules on ESG funds from their recent LinkedIn Live conversation.

    Read on the CPA Practice Advisory website

  • KPMG joins CDP as an Accredited Solutions Provider

    KPMG LLP has earned accreditation by CDP and will be joining the silver climate change consultancy partner network in the U.S.

    Read on the PR Newswire website

  • ESG Reporting Just Got Much More Important

    New SEC guidelines for corporate climate disclosures are coming—don’t get caught with your data in disarray.

    Read on the Forbes website

  • ESG Insider: A podcast from S&P Global: Unpacking implications of the SEC's proposed climate disclosure rule

    In this episode of ESG Insider, we explore the potentially wide-reaching implications for investors, companies and for climate disclosure globally.

    Listen on the Apple podcasts site

  • New SEC Climate Disclosure Rules Offer ESG Strategy Gut Check for Boards

    Why now is the time to raise the bar on your ESG commitment.

    Read on the Directors & Boards website

  • Climate change: What the SEC proposal means for companies, auditors

    A long-awaited draft proposal from the SEC could bring new standardization to the way companies report on climate-related risks and their own carbon emissions.

    Read on the Journal of Accountancy website

  • How will your organisation’s ESG strategy deliver the greatest long-term value?

    Explore the different ways companies can unlock long-term value by implementing ESG strategies.

    Read on The Economist website

  • Protecting Corporate Data on Mobile Devices for All Companies

    With today's hybrid workforce, protecting corporate data on mobile devices is essential for companies.

    Read on the Business Insider website

  • KPMG ranks #36 in Sustainability Magazine's recent Top 100 Companies in Sustainability

    This list features companies that have successfully outlined their ESG targets for the future, and are already contributing to a range of ESG issues.

    Read on the Sustainability Magazine website

  • Global risks ahead in 2022: Part 1

    CFOs need to have a wide range of emerging risks on their radar that include labour and health and safety risks, supply chain disruption, and inflation.

    Read on the Financial Management website

  • Global risks ahead in 2022: Part 2

    CFOs need to have a wide range of emerging risks on their radar including those arising from regulatory change and geopolitical threats.

    Read on the Financial Management website

  • CEOs are ‘IN’ for the Disability Equality Index

    By signing the ‘CEO Letter on Disability Inclusion,’ CEOs commit to benchmarking their disability inclusion journey with the Disability Equality Index

    Read on the Disability:IN website

  • The Business Case for ESG Reporting

    With social and regulatory momentum building behind environmental, social, and governance reporting, business leaders and their advisors should make meaningful ESG practices an immediate priority.

    Read on the Illinois CPA Society website

  • BLOOMBERG TAX: ESG Disclosure Rules To Be ‘Transformational'

    KPMG LLP’s audit leader urged companies to prepare for expanded ESG reporting rules in the U.S., comparing the potential disruption to the Enron-era Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

    Read on the Bloomberg website

  • Select Your Board With Intention To Reach True Diversification

    Five tips from KPMG for getting real diversity in your boardroom before the absence of it begins to affect your bottom line.

    Read on the Corporate Board Member website

  • Companies Turn to Auditors to Verify Sustainability Data

    Auditors are expected to play a bigger role in sustainability metrics as new regulations and reporting standards loom.

    Read on the Wall Street Journal website

  • Addressing climate change financial risks will reduce costs for federal agencies

    Corinne Dougherty, partner for federal audit at KPMG, said implementing the order is a monumental but doable task and will save money for the federal government in the long term.

    Watch the video on the Government Matters website

  • Where is the T in ESG?

    Eric Janowak of KPMG looks at how institutional investors are driving responsible tax policy in investee companies.

    Read on the International Tax Review website

  • Why Having an ESG Strategy Isn’t Enough

    More business leaders than ever are weaving environmental, social, and governance issues into their strategies. But now they need to talk about it, too.

    Read on the Atlantic Re:think website

  • As big companies take liberties with customer data, mistrust abounds

    In a KPMG study, almost a third of executives admit their company “sometimes uses unethical data-collection methods.”

    Read on the Fast Company website

  • Governance flaws are starting to hurt banks’ credit ratings

    Shortcomings in risk controls, which often stem from governance problems at the top of banks, have “significantly contributed” to a recent string of negative ratings actions.

    Read on the American Banker website

  • KPMG U.S. Appoints Rob Fisher to Lead ESG Solutions Team KPMG IMPACT

    The announcement follows the global launch earlier this year of KPMG’s own impact plan, consolidating its ESG commitments and initiatives, and classifying the firm’s sustainability programs and goals into four key categories, including Planet, People, Prosperity, and Governance.

    Read on the ESG Today website

  • Opportunity For Value In Private Equity (Radio)

    Glenn Mincey, National Sector Leader for Private Equity at KPMG, discusses ESG investing and the Private Equity market.

    Listen to the podcast on the Bloomberg website

  • SEC Examinations Risk Alert: Compliance Issues in ESG investing

    Firms that engage in ESG investing should review their current compliance controls in light of the compliance weaknesses outlined by the SEC, with particular focus on the accuracy of ESG-related disclosures and marketing materials and their alignment with actual ESG investing practices.

    Read on the Harvard Law School website

  • KPMG expands ESG services

    The team will help clients improve their ESG performance while also carrying out KPMG’s own ESG commitments.

    Read on the Accounting Today website

  • The Board Imperative: Fmr. SEC Chair Roel Campos and KPMG’s Tandra Jackson at CNBC Inclusion Forum

    How companies should approach their search and what makes a successful diverse board.

    Watch the video on the CNBC website

ESG terminology

ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) The overall umbrella term for corporate ethical responsibility practices, particularly as it pertains to investor relations and expectations
Decarbonization The goal of decoupling an organization’s business model from carbon emissions and carbon-dependent energy
Renewable Energy An energy source which can be replenished naturally
Net Zero A state of operations achieved when the global warming impact (i.e. net emissions of greenhouse gases) across all scopes of an entity is zero
Carbon Credit A purchasable unit that represents the offsetting of 1 metric ton of CO2 equivalent
Carbon Incentives Carbon pricing and taxes are major policy instruments which leverage a “polluter pays” principle on emitters to internalize the social cost of carbon emissions
Disclosure Reporting In the US, ESG disclosures are voluntary, but have quickly become a baseline expectation of investors. This is primarily driven by institutional push from Blackrock, Bloomberg, Fidelity, Vanguard, and others, as well as the growing momentum of voluntary carbon markets.
GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) Internationally recognized and broad framework of standards for reporting on sustainability; contains requirements, recommendations, and guidance on more than 900 sustainability topics
SASB (Sustainable Accounting Standards Board) A major sustainability framework used by 50 SASB alliance companies, with greater focus on industry-specific reporting standards and financially material issues
TCFD (Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures) A set of recommendations to assist companies to better understand their carbon footprint and account for climate-related risks in their financial and mainstream disclosures
GHGP (Greenhouse Gas Protocol) An internationally credible methodology for calculating Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions which can be used in mandatory and voluntary reporting frameworks
CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) A major sustainability framework and scorecard for reporting emissions from 3 primary categories: climate change, water security, and forests
SBTI (Science-based Targets Initiative) An initiative that asks companies to set a "carbon neutrality" goal with a framework around the Paris Agreement, the science supporting 1.5 degree of global warming; there are limitations on of the kind of carbon offsets that can be used

 

Contact us

Rob Fisher

Rob Fisher

ESG Leader, KPMG US

+1 804-782-4226
Katherine Blue

Katherine Blue

ESG Advisory Leader, KPMG US

+1 404-222-7606
Maura Hodge

Maura Hodge

ESG Audit Leader, KPMG US

+1 803-606-8370
Brett Weaver

Brett Weaver

ESG Tax Leader, KPMG US

+1 206-913-6697
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