In our annual
Sustainability Review we describe how we meet our responsibility along the
entire value chain. We report to our stakeholders on our company’s performance
in the aspects of Product, Planet and People as well as on the successes and
challenges of the reporting year.
Our Sustainability
Review is oriented towards the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines.
The GRI is a non-profit, network-based organization that supports
sustainability reporting and sees this as an opportunity to embed the topic
more deeply in companies and organizations, thus contributing to a more
sustainable global economy. In 2018 we applied the GRI Standards for the
first time and produced our Review – as in previous years – in accordance with
the “core” option.
To make sure we
include all those topics that our stakeholders and we ourselves see as
material, we regularly review the alignment of our sustainability-focused
activities and reporting by carrying out a materiality
analysis.
For the 2018
reporting year we are also including the UN Sustainable Development Goals for
the first time, as we feel a particular commitment to these as a global
company.
Since 2014, we
have used our sustainability management software “susy”
to gather, collate and evaluate relevant sustainability key indicators
centrally. This makes “susy” a key tool in providing ourselves and our
stakeholders with the most accurate picture possible of our sustainability
activities’ current status.