By Tony Cates, Head of Audit at KPMG in the UK

As KPMG’s sponsoring partner for our firm’s carbon footprint – and as Head of Audit where many clients are increasingly prioritising carbon and sustainability as a business issue – I followed events at the recent Doha climate summit with great interest.

By Vincent Neate, head of climate change and sustainability at KPMG in the UK

I have many fortunes in my role and the most recent was to be invited into the audience at Unilever’s update on their progress with their Sustainable Living Plan on Tuesday 24 April. The Sustainable Living Plan is Unilever’s commitment to being a different sort of company – one that shifts the global economy onto a more socially and environmentally responsible footing.

By Vincent Neate, Head of Sustainability at KPMG in the UK

We were delighted to welcome Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to KPMG’s offices yesterday where he launched his ‘green growth’ initiative.  There were several really interesting aspects to the speech that caught my attention.

By Mike Kelly, Head of CSR at KPMG

It’s great to see a strong and diverse range of companies on Business in the Community’s Corporate Responsibility Index, out today. The Index has been going for over ten years now and there is no doubt that it has done a lot of good.  It has helped raise awareness of corporate responsibility and has created a benchmark that companies aspire to.  It holds them to account each year and challenges them to do more.

By Vincent Neate, KPMG’s UK head of Climate Change & Sustainability

KPMG and SAM (Sustainability Asset Management) recently published their 2012 Sustainability Yearbook, which recognizes the companies around the globe that are sustainability leaders.

By Yvo de Boer, Special Global Advisor, Climate Change & Sustainability

Over the past two decades, we have recognized that the way we do business has serious impacts on the world around us. It is now apparent that the state of the world affects the way we do business. The central challenge of our age – maintaining human progress while minimizing resource use and environmental decline – can simultaneously be one of the biggest sources of future success for business.

By Adam Bates, Global Head of Innovation, KPMG

Last year the United Nations estimated that the world’s population had passed the seven billion mark. The excellent BBC website tells me that I when I was born I was the 3,019,907,734th person alive on the planet and the 76,654,641,382nd person to have lived since history began. If ever I thought I was in any way remotely important, then that news certainly put me in my place!

By Vincent Neate, KPMG’s UK head of Climate Change & Sustainability

A delegation from KPMG’s climate change & sustainability practices around the globe joined many from the world’s climate change community in Durban this month for the latest United Nations Climate Conference (COP17).

By Vincent Neate, head of KPMG’s UK Climate Change & Sustainability practice

In an article about the government’s first carbon reduction commitment (CRC) league table, published last week, businessgreen.com questioned whether organisations would be able to “resist the lure of the CRC league table”.