KPMG Australia’s ‘Our Impact Plan 2022’

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Bringing our collective sustainability commitments and performance under one umbrella — acknowledging achievements in 2022, while also highlighting areas for improvement.

PLANET PEOPLE PROSPERITY GOVERNANCE

Reducing our impact on the environment to build a more sustainable and resilient future.

Launched the KPMG Nature Positive Challenge to encourage innovation in nature and bio-diversity

Implemented an internal carbon price remained carbon neutral and secured 100% renewable energy for our offices

Estimated for each dollar of our revenue the carbon emissions intensity of our client portfolio enabling strategies for future growth aligned with broader decarbonisation trends and targets.

Our impact report covers the activities of KPMG Australia, KPMG Papua New Guinea (PNG) and KPMG Fiji for the financial year to 30 June 2022, unless otherwise stated. It should be read in conjunction with KPMG International’s Our Impact Plan (PDF 1.90MB), launched in January 2021 and updated in 2022.

11 material topics

This year, we refreshed our materiality assessment to identify the ESG topics that matter most to our stakeholders and that we monitor progress on within this report.

We identified 11 material topics, which are organised around four pillars: Planet, People, Prosperity, and Governance. In each area, we outline what we have done to engage and show how our evolving understanding is informing our responses and plans.

PLANET

PEOPLE

PROSPERITY

GOVERNANCE

Chairman and CEO’s message

We’re incredibly proud that, across the firm, we have continued to progress a purpose-led growth strategy. Publishing our second annual impact report is part of our commitment to greater transparency, improved accountability and enhanced performance.

Here, we bring together our collective sustainability commitments and performance under one umbrella. The report serves to acknowledge KPMG’s achievements in the past financial year, while also highlighting areas for improvement.

We have matured our sustainability reporting from last year. Our report contains new metrics - including how fathers are using the new flexible parental leave, and the number of people who completed our Arrilla Digital Indigenous Cultural Awareness training.

It also reports some new measures and initiatives. For example, in a first for professional services in Australia, we estimated that for every dollar of revenue we generate, 0.106kg of carbon emissions are emitted through our client portfolio. We consider this to be a first step. This baseline enhances our understanding of the work we do for our client portfolio and, over time, will enable us to monitor how our work aligns with our own Climate Action Plan and Australia’s climate commitments, as well as how we support our clients to reduce their carbon intensity.

Thank you for taking the time to read our impact report. We look forward to hearing any feedback you may have.

Alison Kitchen
National Chairman

Andrew Yates
CEO