Memberships

The UN Global Compact

Member since 2002

The Global Compact is a worldwide initiative launched by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. This pact, concluded between companies and the United Nations, aims at making globalization socially and environmentally compatible. It obligates the participating companies to adhere to Human Rights, social and ecological minimum standards as well as combating corruption. These are defined in ten principles. Lufthansa is the first airline worldwide to have joined this initiative.
www.globalcompact.com

ICC Deutschland

Member since 1999

Transparency International is a non-profit, non-partisan anti-corruption organization. By signing a declaration of adherence, corporate members commit themselves to applying ethical standards in business relationships. They also declare that they reject all forms of corruption, that they neither tolerate nor use corruption in their own spheres of influence, that they train and sensitize their employees with regard to corruption issues, and that they actively fight corruption through pressure groups.
www.icc-deutschland.de

Transparency International

Member since 1999
Transparency International is a non-profit, non-partisan anti-corruption organization. By signing a declaration of adherence, corporate members commit themselves to applying ethical standards in business relationships. They also declare that they reject all forms of corruption, that they neither tolerate nor use corruption in their own spheres of influence, that they train and sensitize their employees with regard to corruption issues, and that they actively fight corruption through pressure groups.
www.transparency.de

Econsense

Member since 2000

Econsense is a cross-industry network of leading, globally active German companies and organizations that have integrated the guiding principles of sustainable development into their corporate strategies. By maintaining an open dialogue with political, business and non-government organizations, Econsense aims at jointly shaping the future of sustainable development and social corporate responsibility.
www.econsense.de

DNWE

Deutsches Netzwerk Wirtschaftsethik
Member since 1998

The German Network for Business Ethics is a non-profit organization with currently about 450 members from business, politics, religion and science. The Network’s goal is to promote the exchange of thoughts and ideas concerning ethical issues related to business and to give business activities an ethical orientation. For this purpose, the DNWE supports and promotes all efforts aimed at implementing moral principles and demands on a practical level of business issues.
www.dnwe.de

Partner for Innovations

Member since 2005

The initiative Partners for Innovation counts about 200 member companies, associations and institutions. By combining the members’ scientific and strategic know-how, it aims at supporting concrete realizations of innovation to ensure the affluence and social security of current and future generations.www.innovationen-fuer-deutschland.de

B.A.U.M.

Bundesdeutscher Arbeitskreis für Umweltbewusstes Management e. V. Member since 1997

B.A.U.M. is Europe’s largest non-partisan environmental initiative in business. B.A.U.M. supports its members in all issues of corporate environmental protection and sustainable development. All members of B.A.U.M. adhere to a code of honour comprising ten guidelines for environmentally aware management.
www.baumev.de

Initiative Pro Recyclingpapier

Member since 2000The initiative Pro Recyclingpapier unites member companies from various industries and aims at improving the acceptance of recycling paper and promoting the exchange of information between members.
www.papiernetz.de

BDI initiative „Business for climate protection“

Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V.Member since 2007
The BDI is the German association of the German industry. To underline the special responsibility of the German industry for climate protection, industrial leaders joined together under the roof of the BDI forming the initiative “Business for climate protection”. The German companies need above all a long lasting, reliable and fair framework to enable them to contribute to an efficient climate protection. The BDI initiative “Business for climate protection” wants to support politics in this demanding task.
www.bdi.eu

3C initiative

Combat Climate ChangeMember since 2007
The 3C initiative consists of global acting companies, which are engaged in climate protection issues. The initiative’s target is to find ways for global solutions of a global problem. The initiative aims at forming a global opinion group consisting of companies showing leadership by demanding an integration of climate issues into the world of markets and trade facilitated by means of a global framework.
www.combatclimatechange.org