Environment
In 2008 KPMG announced a three-tiered global approach to help address the challenges of climate change. The principal ambition of KPMG's Global Green Initiative (GGI) will be to reduce our member firms’ combined carbon footprint by 25 per cent by the year 2010 from a 2007 baseline, through emission reduction schemes and the use of renewable energy in our member firms. In addition, we will provide our employees with the information and tools that they need to improve their own climate impacts, both in the workplace and at home. KPMG in Hungary, which also joined the initiative, has won third place in the "Green Office competition" organised by KÖVET in 2008.
KPMG’s Global Green Initiative is centred on three commitments: first, measuring, reducing and reporting KPMG’s carbon footprint; second, supporting environmental projects to help address the challenges of climate change within the firm’s wider commitment to their communities; and third, working together with their employees, suppliers and clients to help them improve their climate change impacts.
KPMG in Hungary has also implemented numerous green initiatives in recent years: in order to create an environmentally friendly working environment, the firm introduced selective waste collection, uses ecologically friendly paper, chemicals and office equipment, set up video and telephone conference call facilities to reduce travelling, placed several plants in the office areas, eliminated plastic cups at vending machines, and programmed every computer in our facility to automatically turn off at midnight, among others.