KPMG is a Strategic Partner to the World Economic Forum, working with them to help shape initiatives, projects and task forces and to give intellectual guidance through the participation of senior executives. KPMG has a strong presence at Davos every year and our regional leadership also participate in the Regional Summits that take place throughout the year.
KPMG’s Climate Change and Sustainability professionals from member firms around the globe were on the ground in Cancun in December 2010 as global leaders met for the annual international climate change conference. Joined by KPMG Special Advisor Yvo de Boer, a former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the KPMG team built relationships with business and governmental leaders, speaking on the issues at various local events, and networking with non-governmental organizations. KPMG professionals provided regular updates via a blog at kpmg.com and a live twitter feed.
KPMG is proud to be a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact, a principles-based initiative that aims to influence the creation of a more sustainable and inclusive global economy. It is the world’s largest global Corporate Citizenship initiative and its purpose is to demonstrate and build the social legitimacy of business and markets. Participation in the Global Compact is a way of demonstrating our commitment to advancing the business agenda as an active corporate citizen. KPMG’s purpose is to turn knowledge into value for the benefits of our clients, people and the capital markets. By behaving responsibly we can create another kind of value – trust and social capital – and contribute to broad based development and the creation of sustainable markets.
The Global Compact’s ten principles resonate highly with the KPMG Values, which define our member firms’ culture and our commitment to the highest standards of personal and professional conduct. There are four core areas that the Compact focuses on, which KPMG responds to in different ways.
| To see how KPMG is addressing the two objectives of the Compact, namely the enactment of the 10 principles and support of broader UN goals including the UN Millennium Development Goals, see our Communication on Progress Report.
The KPMG Global Code of Conduct provides a basic understanding of the standards of ethical conduct that KPMG requires around the world. It outlines the ‘KPMG Way’.
The quality and integrity of our people and our work is paramount to everything we do at KPMG. Audit committees, management, regulators, governments, clients, and investors deserve a clear articulation of the steps that KPMG member firms take to uphold our professional obligations and responsibilities. These steps were first articulated in KPMG International’s Transparency Report in 2005, which was the first produced by any of the global accounting networks. |