You are invited to our event, where we continue the ESG journey in 2025 and discover what lies ahead in the ever-evolving world of ESG. You will get a clear view of the intricate web of ESG regulations and gain valuable insights into the evolving ESG landscape. As an accelerator to help you move forward in the ESG journey, this event aims to provide you with market insights and practical guidance, so you can set up your organization for success on ESG.

Please note that this event is specifically designed for organizations that have already embarked on the journey and possess a good understanding of ESG, as it aims to broaden your knowledge and offer advanced insights.

Subject

During the first part of the event, our experts will take you further along on the ESG journey and explore the web of ESG regulations and will provide information on how to align and integrate ESG in your strategy and reporting.

To provide you with in-depth knowledge, you can attend three deep-dive sessions of your choice, selecting from a range of ESG topics, to explore what challenges lie ahead. Learn from market insights and success stories and bridge the gaps on ESG successfully. More information on the topics of the deep-dive sessions can be found at the bottom of this page.

Lastly, we will discuss how you can set up your organization for success on ESG reporting, sustainable business and data & technology transformations. Taking along the key messages from the event, defining the path forward and accelerating your journey. 

Program

12.45 – 13.15 Walk-in
13.15 – 13.30 Welcome
13.15 – 14.15 ESG Regulations, Strategy & Insights
14.15 – 16.15 Breakout sessions 
16.15 - 16.30 Break
16.30 – 17.30 Accelerate your ESG journey
17.30 - 17.45 Closing
17.45 - 19.00 Drinks

Speakers

Kiruna Boll-van Schip
Senior Manager Sustainability Reporting & Assurance, KPMG

Emily Condack
Director Sustainability Reporting & Assurance, KPMG

Vera Moll
Director Sustainability Reporting & Assurance, KPMG

Jerwin Tholen
Partner Sustainability Advisory, KPMG

Peter Boterman
Corporate Director Global Sustainability Strategy, FrieslandCampina

Location

KPMG Amstelveen
Laan van Langerhuize 1
1186 DS

If you come by car, you can park in the parking garage under the building, there are plenty of charging stations available. The building is also easily accessible by bicycle, the bicycle shed is located next to the entrance to the parking garage on the right. 

The building can be reached by public transport with Connexxion bus line 356, which runs from Amsterdam Bijlmer Arena to Haarlem. You can get off the bus at stop Langerhuize, which is in front of the KPMG building. 

Other information

Participation in this event is free of charge.

KPMG colleagues wishing to attend, please reach out to Jeppe Peeters.

Deep-dive sessions

Organizations are expected to evaluate the appropriateness of their Risk Management Framework, with a view to incorporating ESG risks as drivers of established risk categories. In this session, we provide guidance on how to enhance your risk management and internal controls to achieve holistic risk oversight and overcome common challenges.

As many organizations become exposed to the impact of climate change, challenges are arising on how to strategize, prepare for the risks and leverage on the opportunities. This session delves into how using climate scenarios can improve risk and strategic planning and equip businesses in embedding considerations into short- medium- and long-term operations.

Navigating the CSDDD: key insights, best practices and practical ways to get started while leveraging insights from the CSRD.

Governments are creating funding mechanisms to support green investments. In this session, we will guide you through relevant credits, grants and incentives, national and supranational. What are the actual themes and trigger events, and how to approach?

In March 2022, 175 countries adopted a historic United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) resolution to develop an international, legally binding agreement on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment. In this session, we will provide insights on the implications for businesses.

This session will provide valuable insights into both internal and external assurance procedures, highlighting how companies can prepare for the CSRD. Attendees will learn about the role of internal audit in readying organizations for external assurance, as well as gain a clear understanding of what external assurance providers expect from companies during the CSRD assurance process.

In this session, we discuss the key challenges to set strong Net-Zero targets and define robust transition plans to decarbonize business operations and supply chains.

Organizations struggle in finding and implementing the right tools to disclose their ESG reporting requirements and to ensure the data is of the right quality. We will deep dive into a number of key challenges along the CSRD reporting journey and demonstrate comprehensive and integrated solutions supporting the reporting process, and the required technological capabilities.

Circular economy is a strategic lens to transform the way businesses produce and consume. The overall aim is to reduce resources, carbon emissions and remove wasteful practices out of the economy. Both from a regulatory and a value-driven business perspective, we will share the latest trends and developments, provide insight in good practices and offer room to deep dive into specific questions related to either disclosures and reporting or circular business models and product transformation.

In this session, we will focus on the sustainable business transformation and discuss tools and frameworks to structure, assess and quantify the business implications and select ESG opportunities to increase resilience, topline and bottom-line.

In this session, we will share the status and expected milestones of further implementation of CSRD and ISSB, and provide insight on key implementation challenges and solutions, based on learnings of first-years preparers.

There has been a shift in the global tax landscape, which has resulted in public and political pressure to tackle perceived harmful tax practices. This session will provide insights to enhance tax transparency under the existing requirements (e.g., Country-by-Country-Reporting, the Global Reporting Initiative and the Tax Governance Code).

This session provides practical insights on how to prepare for EUDR compliance. What are the key requirements and how to assess your readiness?

The ‘G’ in ESG refers to the governance factors that are needed to deliver on an organization’s ESG ambition in the long term. In this session, we discuss the key governance principles and provide practical insights to drive transparency and accountability on ESG.

This session addresses how you can use the EU Taxonomy requirements to set the direction for your transformation towards becoming a more sustainable business, and provides insights on what we currently see happening in financial markets.

The number of environmental taxes is increasing, not only in relation to carbon but also regarding energy, water and packaging. Remain in control over the latest ESG Tax regulations and get insights from our global ESG Regulatory Database during this session.

The EU is attempting to bring some law and order to the green claims landscape. EU member states have two years to introduce national regulations under the Green Claims Directive, and we expect it to be law by early 2026. In this session, we explain what brands can and should be doing to be ready to comply.

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