JCC /JETRO/KPMG Web Seminar Sustainability in doing business ～business opportunity and various regulations on Green Deal～
Dear JCC ordinary member,
We would like to invite you to join the JCC /JETRO/KPMG Web Seminar on Friday, July 9.
It becomes clear that the societal expectations on the level of sustainability in doing business is rapidly changing. Also, the policymakers start to intervene through new legislation to incentive or to force companies to act more sustainable. Within the EU, the Green Deal is the overall concept for a whole series of new rules and regulations on sustainability. Companies inevitable play an important part in making this transition possible. A couple of different type of regulations start to be rolled out.
First, regulations directly impacting companies on emissions, waste and energy for example. Secondly, regulations incentivizing financial institutions to focus on financing only sustainable business, for which the EU Taxonomy is the basic piece of regulation. Lastly, various type of disclosure regulation which drives more transparent reporting on the extent of sustainable business through new sets of KPI’s. The SFDR (sustainable finance disclosure regulation) and the CSDR (corporate sustainable disclosure regulation directive) are examples of these.
In this seminar KPMG will explain more in detail how the EU Green Deal has been set-up, which opportunities it provides and what type of business changes are visible in the market. Furthermore, KPMG will explain the disclosure regulations and how these could also be applied to make business more sustainable and therefore more robust for the future.
ESG also plays an important part in tax policies and requires companies to be in compliance with various transparency regulations put in place. Governments take up measurements to stimulate companies to contribute to meeting the ESG goals. KPMG will introduce the landscape that ESG has introduced in the tax area. This will be followed by an outline on the various environmental taxes that have been introduced in recent years in the Netherlands and the EU. As a final topic, KPMG will describe the various transparency requirements that have been put in place under ESG requirements and how companies can meet these requirements.
- Date: 9 July 2021 (Fri)
- Time: 9:30 – 11:00
- Tool: Microsoft Teams
- Admission: Free of Charge
- Registration: Members only page
- Language: English (with Japanese summary)
Seminar Program
| 9:30 – 9:35 (5 min) | Opening Remarks by Yoshitoku Takahashi, Vice Chairman of JCC / Executive Director of JETRO Amsterdam |
| 9:35 – 9:55 (20 min) | (Section 1) “What is EU Green Deal? Which opportunities it provides and what type of business changes are visible in the market” by Arnoud Walrecht, KPMG Netherlands |
| 9:55 – 10:00 (5 min) | Japanese summary |
| 10:00 – 10:20 (20 min) | (Section 2) “New disclosure regulations and how these could also be applied to make business more sustainable and more robust for the future” by Marco Frikkee, Head of sustainability risk advisory at KPMG Netherlands |
| 10:20 – 10:25 (5 min) | Japanese summary |
| 10:25 – 10:45 (20 min) | (Section 3) “TAX sustainability”
· Introduction – by Loek Helderman, Tax Partner, Global Tax Lead for KPMG Impact · Environmental taxes – by Merijn Betjes, Tax Director · ESG and Tax Governance – by Vinod Kalloe, Head of International Tax Policy |
| 10:50 – 10:55 (5 min) | Japanese summary |
| 10:55 – 11:00 (5 min) | Closing Remarks by Cees van der Helm – Partner – KPMG Netherlands |