Change

The United Nations’ 17 SDGs are the Framework for Sustainable Development.

In order to develop a successful CSR strategy and thus contribute to the global challenges, not only is the serious will to achieve sustainable change necessary, but also the commitment of all stakeholders. The measures under the individual icons describe specific starting points for implementing the SDGs in companies.

More socially-oriented SDGs

More environmentally oriented SDGs

More economically oriented SDGs

  • Sustainable, resilient and at the same time innovative and productive agriculture
  • Healthy and nutritionally balanced food
  • Raising awareness of organic products (e.g., organic canteen)
  • Strongly reducing meat consumption
  • Conducting regular employee surveys to measure stress at the workplace
  • Developing awareness of burnout phenomena and dealing with it proactively
  • Promoting a climate of trust and appreciation
  • Providing a holistic occupational health management
  • Offering apprenticeships and internships
  • Supporting lifelong learning for employees and customers
  • Investing in the education of employees
  • Communicating sustainability goals to customers, corporate partners and employees
  • Ensuring compliance with the law
  • Establishing and following governance guidelines
  • Preventing corruption
  • Supporting humanitarian projects
  • Avoiding harmful chemicals
  • Using rainwater for production and sanitary facilities
  • Reducing water consumption and ensuring efficient water use
  • Protecting and restoring water and water-dependent ecosystems
  • Reducing the consumption and using resources responsibly
  • Focusing on energy-efficient and low-emission products, technologies and services
  • Expanding use of renewable energies
  • 100 % renewable electricity
  • Focusing on energy-efficient and low-emission buildings
  • Encouraging employees to use public transport or bicycles for their business commutes, and supporting car sharing initiatives
  • Providing flexible working environments, including the support of remote-work to avoid unnecessary travel
  • Relying on renewable raw materials, and taking the recyclability of products into account at an early design stage
  • Digitalizing to eliminate paper use
  • Minimizing packaging and using eco friendly alternatives
  • Focusing on organic production, fair trade and sustainability-oriented certification
  • Minimizing the carbon footprint
  • Focusing on making significant improvements to transport and logistics
  • Switching to renewable energy sources and climate-friendly travel
  • Modernizing the vehicle fleet and making it climate compatible
  • Avoidance of harmful chemicals
  • Supporting marine cleanup projects
  • Using and producing of as few plastic products as possible
  • Avoiding softeners and other additives in packaging
  • Promoting organic farming and soil fertility
  • Protection of native biodiversity
  • Revegetation of fallow land
  • Supporting reforestation initiatives
  • Supporting climate protection projects
  • Creating and maintaining long-term and stable employment relationships with appropriate remuneration
  • Ensuring social security for all employees to avoid precarious living conditions
  • Supporting social projects
  • Promoting and empowering female employees
  • Offering flexible working times
  • Promoting diversity, inclusion and integration as well as ensuring equal pay
  • Fair business relationships in global supply chain
  • Contributing to a fairer, more productive world for everyone
  • Ensuring the upholding of human rights in all supply chains and in partnership with all suppliers
  • Promoting safe and secure working environments
  • Increasing the future competitiveness of the company
  • Placing an emphasis on innovation, and developing fundamentally new products and technologies to help create a more sustainable future
  • Providing reliable, state-of-the-art infrastructure
  • Innovation through internal idea management
  • Reaching and keeping fair salary structures
  • Ensuring equal opportunities in personnel recruitment and promotion
  • Partnership cooperation in the supply chain
  • Conducting multi-stakeholder dialogues
  • Cooperating with suppliers and manufacturers
  • Supporting the volunteer work of employees
  • Becoming members of sustainable associations and initiatives