Thank you for attending our event, where we looked at the ESG journey in 2025 and discovered what lies ahead in the ever-evolving world of ESG. We hope you gained a clear view of the intricate web of ESG regulations and gained valuable insights into the evolving ESG landscape. As an accelerator to help you move forward in the ESG journey, this event aimed to provide you with market insights and practical guidance, so you can set up your organization for success on ESG.
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During the first part of the event, our experts took you further along on the ESG journey, explored the web of ESG regulations and provided information on how to align and integrate ESG in your strategy and reporting.
To provide you with in-depth knowledge, you were able to attend three deep-dive sessions, 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 discussed 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.
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
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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?
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.
Contact
If you have any questions you can contact Jeppe Peeters via events@kpmg.nl.