Embedding sustainability
To live up to our standard of sustainability, it is imperative that we strategically embed this principle in our core business. We ensure this with our Sustainability Board and its committees, by adjusting the relevant business and decision-making processes and by specifically discussing this issue with our staff members. The goal is for every one of them to recognise the significance of sustainability for themselves and for their work environment, and to be guided accordingly in their individual behaviour. After all, the issue may be pushed from the top, but it must be carried by everyone.
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EMBEDDING SUSTAINABILITY WITHIN THE COMPANY |
METRO GROUP is systematically making sustainability part of its work. |
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In a first step, sustainability was integrated into all the key business processes by 2016 by identifying the key processes and their link to the topic on the basis of a materiality analysis. |
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Enhancing employees’ awareness of sustainable behaviour.
Inclusion of a dedicated question on sustainability in the annual employee opinion survey, METRO Voice. The survey is conducted at METRO Cash & Carry and in the service companies. |
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Sustainability has been and will continue to be included as a topic in existing training programmes. |
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Our company has various measures and tools available for advancing the sustainability embedding process:
- Approaches to responsible company management and acting with integrity, including our sustainability approach and our corporate governance and compliance structures
- Principles, commitments and positions which offer guidance for people’s actions and ensure both compliance with laws and adherence to standards that exceed these guidelines
- Guidelines such as the ten principles of the United Nations Global Compact and the Sustainable Development Goals
- Linking the remuneration paid to the Management Board and the global senior management with the assessment of the sustainability performance of METRO GROUP in the rating of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI)
- Definition of group-wide sustainability-related targets within our areas of responsibility
- METRO Sustainable Leadership Programme for management development
- Memberships in associations and initiatives as well as committee work; the most important memberships are listed here
- Collaboration and dialogue with decision-makers in politics and society