Climate and sustainability insights
Protect value and unlock growth through sustainability
In today’s rapidly changing world, executives face complex business challenges—from surging energy demand to supply-chain volatility, leveraging tax incentives to building resilience, and allocating capital to unlocking value from data. These aren’t just pressures—they’re decision points. And with challenge comes opportunity.
Finding that opportunity means understanding how sustainability enables strategic business decisions.
Whether it’s strategic capital allocation, designing sustainable operations, harnessing sustainability data for business decisions, accessing credits and incentives, or modernising infrastructure—embedding sustainability into your business strategy can help you protect value and unlock growth.
Business-led strategies for sustainability
Business leaders are facing a complex landscape—shifting regulations, evolving tax and tariff policies, rising energy costs, and climate-impacted supply chains. We help you embed sustainability into your business strategy to tackle these challenges confidently, unlocking value creation opportunities and building resilience for long-term success.
Protect value at risk
We work with you to reconfigure your strategy—navigating the risks and opportunities of the climate transition. Enabling long-term resilience and investability, transforming your supply chain, and decarbonising your future-ready business. We help you understand the tax implications of climate-related shifts and factor sustainability related risks into your deals strategy.
Our dedicated, knowledgeable professionals bring the expertise to guide you through these complexities with clarity and confidence so you can adapt, embrace new opportunities, and focus on protecting future value with confidence.
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Power your energy strategy
We’re here to guide your energy transition solutions, boosting efficiency to cut demand and costs––whilst reducing your carbon footprint by shifting energy sources and lowering emissions. Together, we fast-track progress in capital projects and infrastructure, including nuclear power. We also help shape your energy strategy for data centres and AI. Our capabilities in corporate finance, credits, and incentives empower you to refine capital allocation and craft compelling investment cases.
Together, we rethink the rise in energy demand—unlocking sustainable, cost-effective opportunities for your business.
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Build resilient supply chains
Build sustainability into your supply chain to increase resilience, transparency, and traceability, and to reduce the risk of disruption from climate impact. We’re here to help you rethink how you use resources and explore how a circular economy approach can cut supply needs. And by modernising your infrastructure, you can embrace change and seize opportunities faster. Together, we’ll redefine your supply chain, creating value from evolving regulations, tax changes, and transparency demand.
Guided by our dedicated, knowledgeable professionals, we’ll enhance your supply chain’s resilience and transparency, so you can anticipate changes, tackle challenges, and stay ahead.
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Unlock value from credits and incentives
Unlock value by strategically managing tax credits and incentives throughout the investment cycle. Reduce the capital expenditure needed and propel your progress in capital projects, infrastructure, and clean innovations.
With a deep understanding of today’s credits and incentives landscape and a forward-looking perspective on what’s ahead, we’re here to help you take action. We bring together the right resources at the right time, forming a unique combination of skills and knowledge that help you make smart funding choices so you can shape the future—accelerating results whilst reducing expenses.
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Navigate regulatory and data complexity
Let’s evolve your strategy by making the most of your data whilst managing regulatory changes. We work with you to implement the tech you need to unlock business opportunities whilst meeting compliance requirements. By harnessing your data, we can help you design sustainable supply chains, rethink resource use, and navigate tax and legal compliance.
Embrace opportunities, avoid disruption and pave the way for growth. We’re here to help you make sense of complexity and seize potential—today, and into the future.
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Why us?
We help you focus on the actions that will deliver real impact.
- We align sustainability with core business objectives to help you mitigate risks, build resilient operations and seize new opportunities.
- We help you build a robust reporting strategy and look beyond compliance to see the bigger picture, through a tech-powered approach.
- We have a proven track record of collaborating with clients to optimise energy use. Our work achieves tangible results: cost savings, new revenue streams and risk mitigation.
- We've built a global network of over 11,500 sustainability-focused specialists and upskilled over 198,000 PwC employees across every function. Whether it's tax, tech, deals, supply chain or risk—bringing together the coordinated thinking required to solve complex challenges.
Sustainability MT: Alexander Spek, Claudia Buysing Damste, Paul Nillesen, Wendy van Tol
We help you focus on actions that deliver real impact. Whether it’s tax, technology, deals, supply chain, or risk, we bring together the right expertise and coordinated thinking to address your toughest challenges. By aligning sustainability with your business goals, we empower you to lead with confidence and clarity toward a more sustainable and profitable future.
“The future of successful entrepreneurship lies not in choosing between sustainability and profitability, but in redefining what performance really means. Companies that take climate challenges seriously and communicate openly and honestly with their stakeholders not only build trust, but also take the lead in a changing world."
Case studies
Real stories. Real results.
VDL
VDL Group must comply with the CSRD directive. The family business has chosen to approach this obligation as an opportunity to create sustainable value. PwC supports this process.
ProRail
ProRail is setting ambitious goals when it comes to reporting on sustainability. This is striking in the public sector, where reporting on sustainability is not yet an obligation. ProRail’s Bas Ringnalda and PwC’s Denise Kors talk about the rail operator's intrinsic motivation for reporting on sustainability, the challenges facing the sector and the importance of well-informed stakeholders.
Major bank
Within the financial sector, the focus on sustainability is increasing by the day. A major Dutch bank also noticed an increase in the number of questions around ESG in daily practice, both on the customer side as well as internally. The bank took an important step towards sustainable progress and, together with PwC, developed an ESG refresher program for all employees.
Eneco
As stricter sustainability regulations and geopolitical tensions increase pressure on value chains, Eneco demonstrates how an early and integrated approach to Human Rights & Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD) goes beyond compliance and contributes to resilience and value creation. By embedding HREDD in risk management, cost control, and commercial processes, due diligence becomes a strategic instrument and a source of competitive advantage.
Insights
Smart insights
The Netherlands’ journey towards a sustainable future
PwC-research highlights how our country simultaneously embraced economic growth and decarbonisation, challenging common beliefs that pursuing a green future always comes with loss of prosperity.
‘Embrace ESG Omnibus as a strategic opportunity for sustainable growth’
Eight practical steps to integrate sustainability into your business strategy.
The right balance between sustainability and profit margins
Margin growth paradox forces companies to rethink their pricing strategies.
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Energy - Utilities - Resources Industry Leader, PwC Netherlands
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