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Climate Change and Sustainability Services 

Climate Change and Sustainability Services
Today, climate change and sustainability issues are rising to the top of corporate agendas. Organisations are engaged; global trends and stakeholder demands have seen to that. Energy pricing and security, natural resource pressures, population growth, lifestyle changes, and consumer preferences are compelling action.  As a result, executives are increasingly leveraging sustainability as a strategic lens on business operations - to enhance processes, grow revenue, manage risk, strengthen reporting, optimise costs, and spur innovation.

KPMG in the UK's Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CC&S) practice is part of a global network of professionals that has been providing sustainability and climate change services that deliver value to our clients for more than 20 years.

KPMG's view is three dimensional; blending commercial, sustainable and responsible business.  After all, people won't want to work for,  or with an unsustainable, irresponsible or commercially unviable, organisation.

KPMG has helped many clients to link corporate responsibility activity to strategy and organisational control functions across their organisations. We provide assessments of the risks and opportunities associated with climate change, including societal and regulatory trend analysis and competitor benchmarking.  We advise on regulatory compliance and provide assurance over non-financial sustainability information for both private and public domain purposes.

 

Climate change and sustainability are very important issues in the public sector. We work extensively across central and local government, health education and housing on sustainability issues and sustainable development. We apply our services across these sectors, drawing on our extensive understanding and experience of each. In the current financial  environment our services are focussed on applying business rigour to challenges such as minimising cost and risk from the CRC energy efficiency scheme, and helping develop the options for funding and delivery vehicles for energy efficiency and renewable infrastructure.

 

Organisations operate today in the face of a multiplicity of stakeholders. In this environment KPMG competencies come to the fore - strategic insight, operational understanding and quality decision making.

 

The Climate Change & Sustainability Services practice structures its offering via three core areas:

 

Contact Us

Contact Us

Vincent Neate

Partner
KPMG in the UK

020 7694 3256

vincent.neate@kpmg.co.uk
 
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Simplification proposals recently announced by DECC should reduce the administrative burden around the CRC without significant losses of CO2 emissions covered by the scheme.
 

KPMG Blog - What Durban means for business

By Vincent Neate, KPMG’s UK head of Climate Change & Sustainability

 

A delegation from KPMG’s climate change & sustainability practices around the globe joined many from the world’s climate change community in Durban this month for the latest United Nations Climate Conference (COP17).

Natural Capital

A new collaborative report explores the preparedness of the accounting profession to respond to declining natural capital.

 

Corporate responsibility reporting reaches all-time high

Nearly every Global Fortune 250 (G250) company now reports its corporate responsibility activity, with the UK topping the global ranking according to the KPMG International Survey of Corporate Responsibility Reporting 2011.

The government's first CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme league table, published 8th November 2011 provides several useful indications.

  

KPMG International announced today it achieved a 29 percent reduction in net emissions per full-time equivalent employee over the three-year period from its 2007 baseline of 25 percent.