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.
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Driving growth with ESG trends
- Confederation of Indian Industry Mumbai International Summit
- CII CFO Roundtable
- Sustainable skies
- Decoding taxation and ESG
- Government to greenlight incentives to drive green steel output
- Digital mining: Transforming the mining value chain
- How AI is becoming the backbone of ESG compliance
- Sustainable development
- Climate risk
Mumbai powering the future of India - Energy transition, data centers & cleantech revolution:
Mumbai has the ambition and capital to power India's digital transformation but the scale is often underestimated - adding 1 GW of data-centre capacity alone can raise peak demand by up to 25%, even before accounting for growth in other sectors. Turning ambition into outcomes will require coordinated programmes with clear ROI, policy certainty, and a strong innovation backbone.
- Sumit Kapoor
- Ummehaani
Businesses today face rapid, unpredictable changes: new products, regulatory shifts, talent competition, ESG, and tech transformation. The pace of “unknown unknowns” or “Black Swan events” is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. Naturally, traditional risk models find it difficult to keep up with that pace as they assume stability and predictability in businesses and operating landscape. AI is emerging as a new risk nervous system helping with fraud detection, cyber defence, supply chain resilience and more. Future operating model of risk management must consider the four-dimensional lens of probability, severity, interconnectedness, and velocity; which helps with real-time intelligence and simulation of multiple futures.
At KPMG we continue to assist our clients stay ahead of the curve through our AI led risk management capabilities – converting noise to signals and doubts to trust.
Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) has traditionally been fragmented and siloed across departments, sometimes reduced to check-in-the-box compliance. As supply chains are more interconnected and interdependent today, by integrating ESG, regulatory, reputational, cyber and financial risk parameters into a unified framework, organisations can move from reactive to predictive risk management. However, challenges remain: data quality and availability, integration with legacy systems, regulatory compliance and explainability, and change management. Overcoming these hurdles with Artificial Intelligence makes it possible to connect the dots across all risk types, so companies can stop playing catch-up and start leading with confidence, trust, and adaptability.
- Vivek Rahi
- Jodhbir Sachdeva
India’s SAF journey will be built on the intelligent use of our abundant feedstock base - from agricultural residues and municipal solid waste to press-mud and used cooking oil. With technology pathways such as HEFA, alcohol-to-jet and FT moving towards scale, it is important that we develop multiple pathways in parallel, as no single route can meet our long-term needs. The key will be establishing viable supply chains and long-term offtake frameworks involving airlines, OMCs, and technology providers.
India's aviation sector is at a defining moment, balancing rapid growth with climate responsibility. Even as airlines induct new fuel-efficient aircraft, overall fuel use continues to rise with expanding capacity. Sustainable Aviation Fuel offers the most scalable path towards decarbonisation and presents India with a strategic opportunity to lead this transition.
The Indian automotive Industry has a massive opportunity in harnessing sustainability-led growth. The Indian automtive This can open new markets and increase export penetration in others. A low-carbon manufacturing push can drive huge growth and acceleration.
Secondary steel producers contribute more than 50% of the domestic steel production, and because of the scale, relevance and contribution without decarbonising this sector, India can’t achieve its net zero goals.
These producers use electric arc furnaces and induction furnaces; the latter tend to be more rudimentary operationally, with potential to address operational efficiencies and utilise greater renewables & scrap.
Advancing towards sustainability: The emergence of green mining technologies and practices
The Indian mining industry has been embracing greenmining technologies and practices – from electrification and automation to regenerative and water-efficient solutions – to drive sustainablity across operations and supply chains. The star rating system instituted by the Ministry of Mines, Govt of India (MoM) through Indian Bureau (IBM) for implementation of Sustainable Development Framework (SDF) has been working as an excellent impetus in this regard.
A more concerted effort to resolve challenges around efficient resource utilisation by:
- promoting beneficiation of low-grade ore,
- adoption of renewable/hybrid energy sources,
- mine closures as per approved plan through policy guidelines, and
- adoption of global best practices
can drive this mission towards sustainability even more strongly, reinforcing the need for collaborative innovation and ESG integration in mining.
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.
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.
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.
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