Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

KPMG in India can help turn your ESG aspirations into action. Our ESG solutions are both holistic and practical. With capabilities that span the enterprise, we can help instill sustainable innovations across your business and help you gain a competitive edge. With deep multidiscipline expertise across critical issues—including decarbonisation, climate resilience, energy transition, reporting, sustainable finance, and social—we’ll help you create the right blueprint for integrating ESG. We go beyond strategy, working with you at each step of your ESG transformation to unlock new value as you build a sustainable future.

Latest insights

Exploring the challenges and resilience in food production and the collaboration needed across various sectors to enhance food security

By harnessing its unique strengths India can create a leadership position in developing financial models and structures that creates long term value

India’s green transition is building on the foundation that makes sustainability not just an environmental imperative, but a developmental multiplier

By adapting to changing market trends, the textile sector can secure its future success in an increasingly competitive global market

India can give the world something that we excel at - sustainable, contemporary yet crafted in tradition

The move to mandatory reporting: Survey of Sustainability Reporting 2024

Companies worldwide are preparing for the advent of mandatory reporting on sustainability, according to the 2024 edition of KPMG’s Survey of Sustainability Reporting

Podcast series for ESG leaders

Short podcasts addressing the opportunities and challenges of ESG.

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Download KPMG in India point of view on the Union Budget 2024-25 - Aerospace and Defence

KPMG in India point of view 2025 - ESG

Budget 2025 addresses sustainability, social equity, and efficient governance, it aims to create a more resilient and prosperous economy

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On the ESG committee agenda 2025

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Driving growth with ESG trends

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How AI is becoming the backbone of ESG compliance

Namrata Rana

Partner and National Head for ESG

KPMG in India

Regulators and policymakers can support the transition for MSME into sustainablity by establishing digital public infrastructure for ESG reporting and certification, providing tax benefits and accessible financing for MSMEs and enabling learning at scale for greenskills programmes.

Namrata Rana

Partner and National Head for ESG

KPMG in India

Central banks across the world are looking at embedding climate risk guidelines into financial frameworks. RBI came up with the draft guidelines for India last year. This has been followed up by the climate finance taxonomy, greenwashing guidelines, and carbon credit scheme. It's a realisation that there are massive risks are ahead of us unless we act with speed and at scale.

Namrata Rana

Partner and National Head for ESG

KPMG in India

The global economic paradigm is changing as companies are under tremendous pressure from people across the world to account for the social impact of their businesses. Moreover, endless growth with profit as the sole metric is no longer sustainable. The consequences of social and environmental imbalance are mostly seen in the long term. If allowed to go unchecked, the disruption caused may cause a significant dip in growth and corporate valuations.