Sustainability meets return on investment
OUR RESPONSIBILITY
Our association with the cooperative tradition represents not only our mission to contribute in the best interests of society, but also to specifically address global problems – such as climate change and resource scarcity, poverty and demographic change, spatial development, deforestation and the threat to biodiversity.
DZ BANK Group: „Eminently sustainable“
Oekom Research, one of the world‘s leading rating agencies in the sustainable investment market, has repeatedly awarded the DZ BANK Group a “C +” rating. It therefore continues to be listed with „Prime Status“ for especially sustainable companies. Its current rating makes the DZ BANK Group one of the top-ranked German banks. (As of February 2018)
Live sustainability
Like DZ PRIVATBANK, we have been committed to integrating facets of sustainability into the company since 2012 as part of the sustainability market initiative that was initiated by the DZ BANK Group.
Since then, we have drawn up joint guidelines for our suppliers and service providers in order to also assess them on social and ecological issues. A common code of conduct provides the basis for employees of the DZ BANK Group. In future, too, we will jointly strive to further extend sustainability-related activities. For our business partners, this specifically means expansion or further development of services offered.
Through environmental management that realizes energy-efficient solutions in building technology, we are pursuing a common climate target with an aim and minimum requirement: starting from the base year 2009, companies in the DZ BANK Group will reduce their respective CO2 emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050.
