As a company, we have a responsibility to all our employees to ensure decent working conditions. We are therefore committed to providing secure and fair employment (target 8.5) and ensuring the long-term health of our employees through occupational health and safety and by minimising risks (target 8.8). We also see sustainability as an opportunity for innovative business developments and want to supplement our core business with new products and services with a clear sustainability focus, so we can be successful for the long term (target 8.2).

As a company, we have a huge platform from which we can fight inequality. We are working towards ensuring equal opportunities for our employees regardless of age, gender, disability, ethnicity, background, religion or other status. Protecting against discrimination and promoting an open, diverse corporate culture are extremely important to us (target 10.3). The five selected SDGs match our focus projects and help us to concentrate our commitment to sustainability.

As part of the construction industry, we see it as our responsibility to make urbanisation more sustainable (sub-target 11.3) and to reduce the per capita environmental impact of cities (sub-target 11.6). We make a central contribution to this in our core business by reviewing and constantly optimising our products and services in terms of their contribution to sustainable new builds and renovations. Specifically, our system solutions increase the energy efficiency of buildings and support a method of construction that conserves resources.

In the coming decades, the global consumption of finite resources will lead to the progressive scarcity of resources and will result in major challenges for the economy. Schüco is therefore making an active contribution to the efficient use of resources (sub-target 12.2) and the development of a circular economy (target 12.5). This is evidenced by our growing portfolio of circular Cradle to Cradle products and the development and expansion of the recycling division RE:CORE, with the aim of processing construction materials after the usage phase and feeding them back into the respective material cycle. Through our involvement with industry initiatives, we are also encouraging other companies to introduce sustainable processes and products and to include sustainability matters in their reporting (target 12.6).

Climate protection is one of the most important tasks of the global community and is firmly entrenched in our sustainability strategy with SDG 13. We want to implement effective measures to reduce our carbon emissions to net zero by 2040. The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has verified that the absolute CO₂e savings intended to be achieved by this target are in line with the 1.5 degree aim of the Paris Agreement. By continually optimising the use of energy during the manufacturing and usage phase, our products contribute towards the achievement of global climate protection targets. They also improve the ability to adapt to climate-related changes (target 13.1). Furthermore, we promote awareness of the consequences of climate change by supporting initiatives with a focus on sustainability (target 13.3).