ESG: Environmental, Social and Governance

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

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. Our deep multidisciplinary expertise across critical issues—including green strategies, climate resilience, energy transition, reporting, sustainable finance, and social impact can help create the right blueprint for integrating ESG into all verticals of your organisation. We go beyond strategy, working with you at each step of your ESG transformation to unlock new value as you build a sustainable future.

Environmental

Focuses on an organisation’s net-zero strategy, stewardship of the natural environment, recycling practices, emission control, and conservation of resources.
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Social

Inspects an organisation’s management of relationships with its employees, suppliers, customer, stakeholders, and the community at large.

Governance

Considers the organisation’s management structure, executive compensation, internal controls, and stakeholder rights.

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ESG Conclave and Awards 2024

Reflect | Adapt | Evolve

“India is a key growth area for KPMG and ESG is a watermark for our organisation. It transcends departments and service lines. It defines who we are and how we do business. For the clients we serve, ESG is a driver for business strategy and growth.”

Yezdi Nagporewalla

Chief Executive Officer, KPMG in India

“A crucial component of sustainable growth needs to be the India stack for sustainability. A technology-first and sustainability-ready digital infrastructure that helps manage ecosystems, energy needs, waste, and water resources. India can use its strengths in technology and an intrinsic understanding of digital innovation and circularity to show what a sustainability-first economy really looks like. Artificial intelligence and different tenets of sustainability can both be harnessed for a greener and yet more prosperous India.”

Namrata Rana

Head of ESG, KPMG in India

KPMG in action

The impact we promised and delivered

Excellence in social

Transformational impact for early childhood care centers in India.

KPMG in India is helping impart best-in-class curriculum through smart TVs, hygienic hot-cooked meals, and customized skill training for front line workers (mainly women).

Excellence in strategy, transformation, and Implementation

Accelerating smart power and renewable energy in India

KPMG in India working with global financial institutions is helping shape policy, mobilize investments and build clean energy capacity.

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Excellence in decarbonization, climate and nature

Eco-Industrial park framework preparation

KPMG in India is helping frame guidelines for new industrial zone development to promote sustainable industrialization at national and regional levels.

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ESG solutions and services

Driving strategic alignment and transformative solutions for sustainable growth

Enhancing transparency with robust ESG data management and reporting frameworks

Identifying and mitigating climate risks through advanced analytics and strategic planning

Unlocking capital and financial mechanisms for sustainable development

Building resilient and sustainable supply chain ecosystems

Advancing circularity through innovative waste reduction and resource optimization

Empowering communities through inclusive and sustainable economic initiatives

Strengthening ESG governance and boardroom accountability

Safeguarding digital assets while ensuring compliance and data privacy

Optimizing tax strategies to align with ESG priorities and incentives

Driving growth with ESG trends

Sustainable development
Climate risk
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.

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Climate change in the power and electrical equipment industry

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India Insights

Our insights is your gateway to thought leadership and in-depth reports. Explore our curated collection of valuable content, where we delve into complex business challenges, share industry trends, and provide actionable 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

CEOs in India and across the world are taking a long-term view on ESG investments, with many expecting significant returns within five to ten years

Embracing AI-enhanced climate projects may be the most crucial intervention needed to unlock the full potential of global climate finance flows

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

How banks can profit from sustainable growth

As the global shift towards a circular economy accelerates, now is the time for businesses to unlock new opportunities for a more sustainable and prosperous future

Nifty 250 companies undertake CSR project impact reporting for statutory purpose. The study analyses these reports to ascertain the state of impact reporting in India

A Compendium of Central and State Government incentives

Understand what is greenwashing, its key regulations and strategies for an authentic engagement with sustainability

Future of blue economy in India hinges on innovative practices, effective policies and development, ensuring prosperous and sustainable ocean economy.

Green economy has become more relevant in recent years, driven by the need to address environmental challenges and need for sustainable consumption

A stronger focus towards ESG compliance would ensure long-term profitability, enhance consumer trust and sustainability for organisations.

As India strives to achieve its climate goals, empowering the workforce will lead the transformation for green and inclusive growth

The future is not going to be more of the past. Multiple futures are possible, depending upon the choices we make.

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Podcast series for ESG leaders

Short podcasts addressing the opportunities and challenges of ESG.

Making every day awesome at KPMG

ESG is motivating and inspirational. It’s a lived value at KPMG - which is why it is a watermark to our business.

Namrata Rana

Global insights

Recent regulatory assessments have revealed gaps in firms’ governance and validation frameworks, particularly in how they manage financial and operational risks linked to climate change.

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Your essential guide to reporting sustainability-related financial information under ISSB Standards

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Business nature-positive strategies can help unlock finance, subsidies, and investment to support wider conservation and restore ocean ecosystems.

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At KPMG, we believe that the time for empowering a step-change in our global food system is now.

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What’s new and what’s next for ESG risk management? With physical and transition risks growing, both the EBA and the ECB are stepping up their focus on ESG risks.

Electricity as the new driver of global competitiveness

Taking a strategic approach towards corporate governance, board-level responsibility and reporting

KPMG in the UK's latest Regulatory Barometer finds that regulation relating to ESG and sustainable finance continues to have a material impact on firms across all areas of financial services.

Media

Sustainable development: The rise of green MSMEs

FinMin note on climate finance to enable channeling funds to India's green ecosystem, say experts

Extraordinary growth accompanied by service level challenges

KPMG Impact Plan

We believe that sustainable growth is the only way to build a successful business and have a lasting positive impact on our environment and society. That’s why we’ve published our ESG commitments in Our Impact Plan.