Our goal is transparency—where we are today, what we are aligning across our firms and how we’re laying the groundwork for the future.
In 2025, Grant Thornton UAE joined the multinational, multidisciplinary platform formed by Grant Thornton Advisors LLC within the Grant Thornton International Limited (GTIL) network. Bringing together firms across more than 20 countries and territories.
Advanced efforts to reduce our environmental impact through emissions reduction activities, optimising resource use, and supporting nature and biodiversity.
Empowered our people through the rollout of a multinational inclusion strategy, expanded learning and development programs and a continued focus on health and well-being, and supported our communities by volunteering our time and skills to important causes.
Strengthened accountability through reinforced ethical standards, quality control processes, cybersecurity and data privacy practices, while expanding the use of advanced technology and AI, including the use of Microsoft 365 Copilot.
2025 marked a pivotal phase for Grant Thornton and our ESG commitments.
As we continue building, our focus is clear: we’re strengthening how we work, supporting our people with the structure and clarity to deliver consistent, cross-border service and advancing our ESG priorities through the ways we operate every day.
Featuring insights from Anand Balasubramanian, Partner – Head of Risk and Compliance Advisory, Grant Thornton UAE. In a featured article for Gulf Business Anand Balasubramanian explores how the UAE’s new Climate Change Law marks a shift in the region’s approach to emissions reporting—moving it from a voluntary ESG exercise to a regulatory and governance imperative for organisations operating in the UAE.
Sustainability is a team sport, but more and more companies in face of increasing regulatory compliance and stakeholder expectations are looking for someone to be the captain. While passion for the subject is often a common attribute of people in these roles, more traditional skills are equally if not more important for successful integration of sustainability into business as usual. Here we take a look at a selection of the components that can help make this role a success.
What’s become increasingly clear from Grant Thornton’s latest International Business Report (IBR) research is that these businesses view sustainability as a path to growth, not an obstacle – and certainly not a compliance box to be ticked. They value the commercial opportunities sustainability can bring and are putting significant resource behind it. We see that firms in all regions remain committed to sustainability, largely because of the long-term benefits they perceive it brings to profit, revenue and international expansion. As such, their drive to build sustainability within their businesses is unwavering. It is a drive from which I believe we will all benefit.
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