At KPMG, we believe that sustainability makes companies more resilient, more efficient and fit for growth. Our sustainability lens not only offers a novel framework for proactive resilience, compliance, risk management, innovation, and overall operational efficiency, it also helps drive financial value – across the enterprise and/or within a deal.
Strong sustainability performance provides access to lower cost of capital and will become a fundamental “right to compete” as credit providers increasingly include it in their credit assessment criteria over time.
Sustainability drives investments
Private equity and other asset managers are bound by their funds’ investment goals while consumer demand for sustainable products remains high and will continue to increase over time.
Sustainability drives bottom-line potential
Proactive sustainability measures can help avoid fines, streamline and accelerate the supply chain, increase energy efficiency and reduce employee turnover.
Sustainability impacts business resilience
Environmental, social and economic challenges are real and acknowledged by most relevant stakeholders – businesses must build resilience to adapt and recover from unexpected events or disruptions.
Circularity is a strategic response to resource challenges
As geopolitical tensions increase and many countries are short on key raw materials, transforming towards a more circular economy is of highest strategic importance.
ESG regulation remains significant
Despite the relaxation of some regulatory requirements and timelines, particularly through the EU Omnibus, companies still need to ensure compliance (or get ready to comply) and will naturally cascade requirements to their value chain partners.
Transparency brings value
Corporates already significantly invested in ESG management will look to avoid sunk costs and positively leverage their enhanced transparency to drive performance and productivity, maintain and draw customers, and/or attract investors or buyers.
KPMG’s dedicated sustainability subject matter experts and sectoral specialists help clients prioritize sustainability value-creation opportunities to uncover constructive activities across the business and operating model. From access to capital, to climate risk assessments, to product design and price-differentiation potential, to supply chain optimization, to structured maturity assessments to increase program effectiveness, to ESG due diligence from the buy and sell sides, our whole-of-business approach with the ESG lens can help you create and develop current business worth, maximize deal value, conserve income and reinvest savings for even greater efficiencies.
