Bridget Beals, KPMG UK’s Co-Head of Climate Risk and Decarbonisation Strategy, shared her expertise on driving a leading ESG strategy during a recent visit.
Bridget has a proven track record in transforming the world’s largest companies, helping to solve the complex challenges for a net zero future, helping them to develop and deploy their strategies for a climate changed world, and articulating solutions to a range of senior stakeholders. She is also a New Zealander having worked with Westpac for a number of years before heading to London.
In an inspiring, wide-ranging conversation with KPMG New Zealand’s Nicola Raynes-Pene, Partner, National Industry Lead, Financial Services and Alec Tang, Partner, IMPACT Climate, Sustainability and ESG Co-lead you can find out what this means from a New Zealand context - topics covered include:
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- Setting the scene: Understanding the current landscape of ESG strategies.
- Challenges and opportunities: Valuable insights into the unique challenges and opportunities that ESG presents for businesses operating in Aotearoa.
- International perspectives: What international stakeholders and organisations are saying about New Zealand's ESG efforts on the global stage.
- New Zealand’s second Emissions Reduction Plan: Bridget discusses the ‘no regrets’ initiatives she’d like to see.
- Collaboration: The power of collaboration in achieving sustainable goals and how working together across industry and with government can foster meaningful change.
- Data repositories and data insights: The importance of climate data repositories and how data insights are shaping ESG strategies.
- Taxonomy for sustainable finance: The significance of the EU taxonomy and how it’s informing what’s happening in Aotearoa.
- Tipping points: The critical tipping points that businesses should be aware of when formulating their ESG strategies.
- Climate and nature: Bridget’s thoughts on the role businesses will play in the nature-positive transition and the importance of Te Ao Māori in this journey.
- Guiding light for businesses: Bridget’s view on the one thing that New Zealand businesses should focus on to ensure their ESG strategy adds value to their business, their customers, and to the planet.