KPMG ESG Conclave and Awards: Powered by The Economic Times KPMG ESG Conclave and Awards: Powered by The Economic Times KPMG ESG Conclave and Awards: Powered by The Economic Times

“As the pace of ESG accelerates the world over, it is time to move from the headlines to developing a roadmap for change across each of the sub-dimensions within Environment, Social and Governance. Through this Conclave, we, at KPMG in India have planned to get some of the best minds together to contribute to India’s ESG journey. The awards aim to recognise organisations who are committed to this agenda and partner with stakeholders across the ESG ecosystem to effect real change.”

Yezdi Nagporewalla
CEO
KPMG in India

“Many companies have approached ESG through reporting, while others approach ESG with a strategy and transformation lens. Through better governance, companies should bring greater convergence in strategy and reporting, and also take an integrated view to corporate reporting, rather than the current siloed financial reporting and ESG reporting, while also gearing up for mandatory assurance”

Sai Venkateshwaran
Partner
KPMG in India

“Some of the big wins in the past few years have been the dropping of renewable energy costs, increasing green finance – about $3.5 trillion of green social sustainable bonds and the opportunity narrative and the transition flowing out of these three wins.”

Sean Kidney
Co-Founder and CEO
Climate Bonds Initiative

“The downstream aspect in relation to Scope III is very important in your product design not just in its ability to reduce the carbon impact directly but how much of it is easily repairable and replaceable so that they have long-term lives, pointed out”

Nawshir Mirza
Independent Director

“The biggest challenge lies in Scope 3, which is also where the large MSMEs and the bunch of Agri sector resides. They require support in terms of technology and finance – large corporates along with the government can support them to help them achieve their net zero in Scope 3.”

Shivananda Shetty
Partner and Head, ESG Advisory
KPMG in India

"With tax transparency reporting coming in within the ESG framework, we will have a better and a stronger view of how the tax behaviour of a company whether it is transparently done, whether the approach is right, whether the tax litigation strategy is right and who is taking the call on the final tax strategy, will become very clear.”

JB Mohapatra
Former Chairman,
CBDT

"Few companies have voluntarily embraced Tax Transparency Reporting. This is an opportunity for them to publish in the public domain their tax policy, their tax governance framework, and how they engage with a regulator when they do not agree with certain taxes. This is also an opportunity for corporates to layout the tax contributions they make to the government and effectively to the society.”

Manoj Pardasani
Chartered Accountant

"We can’t think of ESG as CSR. You can put CSR for $100-200 but you can’t put $10 trillion for CSR. That is the code that needs to change. Today, proving renewables being subgrid and saving money is a core value of why it will grow and that’s where you need policy intervention, budget support, and economic analysis.”

Tanya Singhal
Founder
Mynzo Carbon

"This award is a great opportunity whereby we can encourage companies, regulators, and governments to see that this is not just technology and capital flow through investors which are important but equally important is life because businesses exist for life”

Aditi Halder
Director of South Asia
Global Reporting Initiative