KPMG releases its sixth "Our Impact Plan" report: Anchoring net zero pivotal points with AI empowering sustainable development.

Against the background of increasing ESG regulation worldwide and the comprehensive launch of China's "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" outline, the sustainability report of enterprises is increasingly becoming a touchstone to test the strategic determination, innovation ability, and ecological coordination ability. On June 16, KPMG held the launch event of the 2026 "Our Impact Plan" report (hereinafter referred to as the "Report") at the KAMPUS Digital Intelligence World in Shanghai. "Our Impact Plan" (OIP for short in English) is KPMG's global framework, focusing on governance principles, people-oriented, caring for the earth, and achieving prosperity in four major areas, disclosing KPMG's progress and commitments. This plan integrates and summarizes the enterprise's mission, values, ESG strategy, and commitments at the operational level, forming an open and transparent annual progress report. The updated "Report" covers the relevant work of the previous fiscal year, clearly showing how KPMG creates positive value for employees, customers, social communities, and the global environment. The release event on that day adopted a combination of offline main venue and online live broadcast, with guests from all sides gathering to jointly explore how AI technology empowers sustainable development and jointly explore new paths for corporate social and environmental coordination. Zou Jun, Chairman of KPMG China, pointed out at the event that this year marks the sixth consecutive year that KPMG has released its annual ESG report. Currently, artificial intelligence is quietly integrating into various industries, and new productive forces centered on "artificial intelligence +" are becoming key drivers of high-quality development. In addition, our country is transitioning from "dual control of energy consumption" to "dual control of carbon emissions," constantly promoting the deepening of green and low-carbon development. Faced with complex and ever-changing geopolitical and economic situations, KPMG has always believed in the belief of "doing the most difficult things and planning for the most distant future." Actively responding to national strategies, KPMG integrates ESG concepts into the entire process of organizational operations and takes practical actions to create positive value for employees, customers, and the community. Interpreting responsibility from governance to prosperity in sixteen topics As the core content of this release event, "Our Impact Plan" covers 16 important topics in the four areas of governance principles, people-oriented, caring for the earth, and achieving prosperity, including professional ethics, integrity, and independence, transparency and sense of responsibility; employee health and well-being, inclusive diversity and equality; climate action, natural environment, and biodiversity; technology and innovation, covering artificial intelligence, and socially impactful initiatives. Yang Jie, Partner in Charge of Corporate & Public Affairs at KPMG China, stated that "Our Impact Plan" is not just an annual report, but also a top-level development strategy that runs through KPMG's entire business chain. KPMG has always adhered to long-term thinking and integrated environmental, social, and governance requirements into its daily operations, talent management, and customer services. Internally, KPMG optimizes workplace construction and promotes the diversified development of employees; externally, linking with customers to explore sustainable business value, continuously implementing various public welfare projects to give back to the community, and continuously practicing KPMG's original mission and mission to create long-term social value. Yang Jie emphasized that sustainable development has never been the battle of a single enterprise alone, and cross-sector collaboration can consolidate long-term strength. KPMG will deepen multi-party cooperation in government-enterprise, school-enterprise, and enterprise-community cooperation, continuously expand landing projects such as green transformation, AI for good, rural support, and youth empowerment, and collaborate to create a more inclusive, green, and steady industrial and social future. Zhang Chi, Director of "Our Impact Plan" at KPMG China, introduced from the perspective of governance principles that KPMG's ethical decision-making framework CARE guides all employees to make decisions that conform to KPMG's mission, values, and Code of Conduct to strengthen the ethical culture foundation of KPMG employees and build and enhance trust. "Putting people first" is our core concept, and we actively advocate for equal opportunities and create a corporate culture centered on diversity and inclusiveness. Zhang Chi mentioned that KPMG continues to renovate the offices in Beijing and Hong Kong to create a more inclusive and efficient working environment; through over 1.2 million hours of training, empower employees' career development, especially in AI, providing employees with world-class AI tools and related skills training; at the same time, we have started the third New Generation Committee, encouraging young colleagues to actively participate in strategic issues of the company and contribute innovative ideas. In caring for the earth, KPMG takes scientific carbon goals as a guide and has committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 globally, integrating carbon reduction into operations and decision-making. In the 2025 fiscal year, KPMG's total carbon emissions decreased by 9.5% year-on-year, and through the purchase of China Green Power certificates, continued to fulfill the commitment to purchasing 100% renewable energy. In addition to carbon reduction work, KPMG has also partnered with public welfare partners to carry out multiple nature and biodiversity conservation projects. In the area of achieving prosperity, KPMG closely follows the national strategy of "AI +", establishing an AI Transformation Office to effectively empower internal and external cooperation and innovation. Adhering to the value of "benefiting society, building the future", KPMG has cumulatively invested over 20 million RMB in public welfare resources to the community, including over 17,000 hours of volunteer service, benefiting over 110,000 people. Faced with sudden disasters, KPMG responded rapidly, donating over 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars to assist residents affected by the disaster in Fuh Yuen Court, Tai Po, Hong Kong. With the commitment of "10by30 (By 2030, empowering 10 million young people in need globally to improve their economic strength through education, employment, and entrepreneurship)", KPMG incorporates social responsibility into its long-term development strategy, supporting youth in the AI era with projects such as future-oriented skills training and employment support. At the same time, empowering grassroots organizations and digital construction with professional services, assisting in sustainable rural development. AI empowers carbon reduction actions and ESG value implementation: Returning to the human-centered practice path The roundtable dialogue session at the event, with guest speakers decoding cases and looking ahead to trends, was truly exciting. The dialogues revolved around the themes of "Exploring how to prepare for a sustainable future from the perspective of AI empowering employees, customers, and communities" and "Connecting a sustainable future - a new path of ecological synergy between enterprises, society, and the environment", inviting multiple guests from KPMG, the business community, and non-profit organizations to share cases and in-depth discussions on how to prepare for a sustainable future. In the first roundtable dialogue, the guests discussed AI sustainable top-level strategies, AI empowering employees - internal practices, AI empowering customers - business practices, AI empowering communities, and other topics. Liu Xiaoguang, Managing Partner of the Artificial Intelligence Transformation Office (AITO) at KPMG China, participating in the roundtable dialogue, stated that the AITO at KPMG is responsible for coordinating KPMG's AI strategy and capability building, promoting the deep application and empowerment of AI technology. Liu Xiaoguang believes that AI is not just an efficiency tool but also an important driver to achieve ESG goals. Enterprises and institutions can promote effective application of AI in various business lines by closely cooperating with functional departments and management teams to empower business and operational transformation. He also highlighted the internal AI tool platform "Xuanyuan Ki Chat" at KPMG - the platform has obtained the national "Information Security Technology - Network Security Level Protection" level three record and evaluation, providing employees with a secure and reliable AI tool environment. The other roundtable discussion that focused on "Connecting a sustainable future - a new path of ecological coordination between enterprises, society, and the environment" focused on sustainable development eco-cooperation, specifically on how to achieve ESG value implementation, such as emission reduction, and circular economy, and conducted in-depth discussions with overseas practice cases. Regarding ecological cooperation, the participating guests believe that to achieve ESG goals on a larger scale, the interaction between enterprises and social organizations is indispensable. Hu Yinghua, Partner of Environmental, Social, and Governance Services at KPMG China, moderated this roundtable forum, stating that in the context of the accelerating integration of climate risks and sustainable development, KPMG is committed to helping enterprises transform risks into resilience, driving long-term value creation with resilience. Relying on professional capabilities and leading ESG solutions, we are helping companies seize green development opportunities and move towards a low-carbon, resilient, and sustainable future together. KPMG has deeply integrated the concept of moving towards goodness into its own operations and customer service, and continues to participate in initiatives related to nature and biodiversity conservation, using practical actions to promote harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. The two roundtable discussions not only brought about a depth of views but also condensed industry development consensus, providing multidimensional thinking perspectives for the guests on-site: from AI empowering low-carbon transformation to landing, to the empowerment for internal employees, and to jointly building friendly communities, fully demonstrating the practice path that centers on serving people, driving social development, and practicing sustainable development. In the era of AI, the implementation of carbon reduction and ESG goals cannot solely rely on innovative applications of technological tools. Regardless of how the computing power ascends exponentially or the algorithms iterate to what height, what truly determines how far green development can go is always people's expectations for beauty, social responsibility on their shoulders, and empathy and goodwill between people. We need to think about how to deeply cooperate with enterprises and various sectors of society, use the power of technology to nourish people, connect people, and achieve people, to realize the dual advancement of business quality and social symbiosis; jointly create a green future with responsible AI, promote deep green transformation, this is the true significance of empowering sustainable development.