We have a wonderful vision: we want to help shape a future worth living. For us, this means doing business for the common good: with our consulting services, we want to meet customer needs and at the same time make the best possible contribution to the 17 global sustainability goals of the United Nations (UN), the SDGs. We are also focusing on climate protection.
In the past, we had already reported intrinsically motivated according to DNK and GRI . We have now decided to present our impact in accordance with the Economy for the Common Good and prepare a balance sheet. The special thing about the common good balance sheet is that it provides us with a tool with which we can recognize our impact and manage it in a more targeted manner.
We have now made our contribution to ethical business visible in our first Common Good Report and the associated Common Good Balance Sheet. We feel honored about the 338 points we have already achieved with our first report as sustainable consultants in the real estate industry! We received our certificate last week at the Conference of Good Business (#KDGW24). You can see our detailed results here.
This is why we took a close look at our company from the perspective of the Economy for the Common Good last year. Specifically, we analyzed the impact of our business activities on our stakeholder groups, suppliers, customers, employees, financial partners and society. As a result, we have comprehensively documented our baseline in our Common Good Report and have gained new food for thought for our further development. The translation of our impact into SDG value contributions, which were automatically calculated by the accounting tool based on the documented indicators, is exciting. We are particularly proud of our appreciative corporate culture with active participation and transparency, which we implement in our management structures. We develop and live our corporate spirit together. This is also reflected in our innovative model of coaching leadership, which allows our consultants to freely choose their manager, regardless of professional affiliation and without rigid departmental structures. Instead, the opportunity for individual development of personal and professional skills is key.
As climate protection is essential, we have created an efficient internal environmental management system in recent years. Between 2016 and 2022, we managed to reduce our Scope 1 to 3 CO2e emissions by 65% per full-time equivalent. As a result, we significantly reduced the footprint of our business activities and achieved only around 2 tons of CO2e emissions per full-time equivalent in 2022. Based on SBTi, we are pursuing further ambitious reduction targets and want to save an additional 40% CO2e emissions by 2030 (click here for the corresponding blog post).
In our pursuit of the common good, we take great pleasure in our long-standing, trust-based partnerships with our valued customers, suppliers and cooperation partners. These stable relationships are not only the cornerstone of our entrepreneurial success, but also an expression of our commitment to shaping the future together. It is also for this reason that our heart beats most for our positive sustainable impact in our consulting services, for our handprint. While the footprint describes the resources consumed by our business activities, the handprint expresses the positive effects. As pioneers for a future worth living, we support our clients in real estate management and optimize buildings and portfolios over their entire life cycle.
We are currently conducting a series of internal sustainability workshops with our experts from the consulting business in order to identify and strengthen our impact.
We always have our vision in mind!
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