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 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. We have applied the GRI Standards since 2018 and
produce our Review 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.
Our engagement also comprises the United Nations
(UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and we have included these in our
Sustainability Review since 2018. Beiersdorf has been a member of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) since 2019. Signatories to the Global Compact commit to
upholding Ten Principles based on the universally recognized UN standards in
the areas of human rights, labor standards, environmental protection and
anti-corruption. We report on our progress in these topic areas in this
Sustainability Review and an assignation of the statements in the Review
relevant to the Ten Principles is provided in the GRI Index.
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.