Beneficial Company

Drees & Sommer: on the way to becoming a Beneficial Company

As a Beneficial Company, we give more back to the environment than we consume from it through our business activities.

Requirements for Beneficial Companies include:

Planting trees
Saving CO₂
Orientation towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Application of future-oriented concepts such as Cradle to Cradle or Blue City

STEPS TOWARD BECOMING A BENEFICIAL COMPANY

AVOID/REDUCE

Business travel (flights)
Single-use products

COMPENSATE

Offsetting CO₂ emissions with certificates

CARBON POSITIVE AND CLIMATE POSITIVE

Purchase of green electricity
Using cradle-to-cradle products
Encouraging biodiversity
Planting trees

INVOLVED IN SOCIAL PROJECTS

Sports and health programmes for employees
Support for aid organisations and social institutions

As part of our sustainability strategy, we analyse the CO₂ emissions resulting from the energy supply at our locations and the volume of operational traffic. Annual CO₂ emissions amount to around 2.29 tonnes per employee. At over 80 percent, business travel and the vehicle fleet account for the largest share. The remaining emissions are attributable to the energy-related operation of the office buildings.

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