Our path to climate neutrality

Companies play a key role in building a sustainable economy and society. We are therefore also obliged to fulfil certain requirements and adhere to laws. As a company headquartered in Germany, we are therefore guided by German and European sustainability policy.

With the amendment to the Climate Protection Act to reduce Germany-wide emissions by 65% (compared to 1990) by 2030 and to be climate-neutral as a country by 2045, we also feel responsible for aligning our sustainability efforts with these targets and developing a long-term sustainability strategy that supports the global 1.5°C target.

Our Team Green

Holistic sustainability strategy

Social standards &
Code of Conduct

Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG)

Sustainability management is teamwork

The topic of sustainability is so multifaceted and influences almost every part of a company. This is why we at the Adam Hall Group have placed this area of responsibility directly in the hands of the management. Our CEO, Alexander Pietschmann, is strongly committed to the sustainable development of our company and is supported in the implementation of various projects by employees from the Corporate Communication, Compliance, HR, Research & Development, Product Management and Logistics departments. Together they form the "Adam Hall Group Team Green".

Sustainability management is teamwork

The topic of sustainability is so multifaceted and influences almost every part of a company. This is why we at the Adam Hall Group have placed this area of responsibility directly in the hands of the management. Our CEO, Alexander Pietschmann, is strongly committed to the sustainable development of our company and is supported in the implementation of various projects by employees from the Corporate Communication, Compliance, HR, Research & Development, Product Management and Logistics departments. Together they form the "Adam Hall Group Team Green".

Our Team Green – an affair of the heart

The issue of sustainability is close to the hearts of many of our colleagues. Whether ecological issues such as species protection, renewable energies, food waste or social aspects such as supporting local companies and associations – there are many reasons for this. They all want to make a contribution to greater sustainability and contribute their diverse ideas to this process.

That's why we founded "Team Green" in 2018, which is made up of colleagues from a wide range of departments. In this way, we ensure that we incorporate as many perspectives as possible on the topic of sustainability in order to develop the most comprehensive sustainability measures possible.

On the way to a holistic sustainability strategy

Since the beginning of 2022, we have been working on developing a holistic sustainability strategy that will be integrated into our corporate strategy in the long term. Our aim is to gradually incorporate the concept of sustainability into all areas of our company and to implement it wherever possible.

In order to be able to present a sound sustainability strategy in 2025, we have been working continuously since 2022 on three major projects in the areas of climate protection, sustainability reporting and sustainability management – carbon balancing, sustainability reporting and EMAS validation of our company.

CO2 accounting beyond the scope of our German site

In collaboration with the US technology company SINAI, we drew up an initial carbon footprint for 2021 back in 2022. Since then, we have been working continuously to improve our database and gain even better access to information on upstream and downstream emissions in order to obtain the most realistic picture possible of our carbon footprint.

Determining our carbon footprint enables us to visualise the largest CO2 emitters within our value chain, consider ways to avoid and reduce them at an early stage and systematically integrate appropriate measures into our day-to-day work in the medium to long term.

If neither avoidance nor reduction is possible, we will look into offsetting CO2 emissions from a certain point in time in order to achieve our goal of complete climate neutrality by 2045. This goes hand in hand with our desire to derive realistic climate targets for the Adam Hall Group based on the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), to submit them to the initiative and ultimately to comply with them.

In addition to professionalising our CO2 accounting, we are already implementing a number of measures for greater climate protection at our German site.

Klimaschutzmaßnahmen

CO2 accounting beyond the scope of our German site

In collaboration with the US technology company SINAI, we drew up an initial carbon footprint for 2021 back in 2022. Since then, we have been working continuously to improve our database and gain even better access to information on upstream and downstream emissions in order to obtain the most realistic picture possible of our carbon footprint.

Determining our carbon footprint enables us to visualise the largest CO2 emitters within our value chain, consider ways to avoid and reduce them at an early stage and systematically integrate appropriate measures into our day-to-day work in the medium to long term.

If neither avoidance nor reduction is possible, we will look into offsetting CO2 emissions from a certain point in time in order to achieve our goal of complete climate neutrality by 2045. This goes hand in hand with our desire to derive realistic climate targets for the Adam Hall Group based on the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), to submit them to the initiative and ultimately to comply with them.

In addition to professionalising our CO2 accounting, we are already implementing a number of measures for greater climate protection at our German site.

Klimaschutzmaßnahmen

Transparent sustainability reporting

European legislation requires us as a company to prepare a sustainability report from 2026 due to our company size and total turnover. It shall describe our approach and the measures we have implemented and targets we have set for the ecological, social and economic dimensions of sustainability and make them publicly available.

We work with the German ESG reporting software company WeShyft to ensure that our reporting is in line with the requirements of German law and, in the long term, with European regulations. In collaboration with WeShyft, we are gradually developing a reporting process that is feasible for us for the reporting standards that will be mandatory from 2026 as well as the actual sustainability report for our company.

European legislation requires us as a company to prepare a sustainability report from 2026 due to our company size and total turnover. It shall describe our approach and the measures we have implemented and targets we have set for the ecological, social and economic dimensions of sustainability and make them publicly available.

We work with the German ESG reporting software company WeShyft to ensure that our reporting is in line with the requirements of German law and, in the long term, with European regulations. In collaboration with WeShyft, we are gradually developing a reporting process that is feasible for us for the reporting standards that will be mandatory from 2026 as well as the actual sustainability report for our company.

EMAS validation as a process for systematic corporate management

To ensure that our sustainability efforts, some of which are very diverse, contribute to our overarching goal of being completely climate-neutral by 2045 and all other sustainability goals in the long term, we need an overarching system that everyone in the company follows.

In the spring of 2023, we therefore began the EMAS (European Management And Audit Scheme) validation process, which will ultimately result in an externally validated environmental management system tailored to our company in 2024 that will serve as a guideline on our path to achieving our sustainability goals. With the EMAS validation, our company also receives certification in accordance with the ISO 14001 standard.

EMAS validation as a process for systematic corporate management

To ensure that our sustainability efforts, some of which are very diverse, contribute to our overarching goal of being completely climate-neutral by 2045 and all other sustainability goals in the long term, we need an overarching system that everyone in the company follows.

In the spring of 2023, we therefore began the EMAS (European Management And Audit Scheme) validation process, which will ultimately result in an externally validated environmental management system tailored to our company in 2024 that will serve as a guideline on our path to achieving our sustainability goals. With the EMAS validation, our company also receives certification in accordance with the ISO 14001 standard.

As an internationally active and quality-conscious company, we organise our business activities on the basis of fundamental social and ethical values. Across all levels, we act according to a holistic understanding of all business processes that is in line with internationally applicable legal and human rights regulations. Our actions are therefore characterised by values such as fairness, respect, reliability and transparency, which are reflected both in our dealings with employees and in our dealings with business partners, customers and suppliers. This means that all business processes can be tracked and evaluated in a standardised manner.

Code of Conduct

As an internationally active and quality-conscious company, we organise our business activities on the basis of fundamental social and ethical values. Across all levels, we act according to a holistic understanding of all business processes that is in line with internationally applicable legal and human rights regulations. Our actions are therefore characterised by values such as fairness, respect, reliability and transparency, which are reflected both in our dealings with employees and in our dealings with business partners, customers and suppliers. This means that all business processes can be tracked and evaluated in a standardised manner.

Code of Conduct

Implementation of the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG)

A close and long-term relationship with our suppliers is very important to us. In addition to our self-imposed Code of Conduct, we have therefore concerned ourselves closely with the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG) since mid-2022 in order to be able to fulfil our corporate due diligence obligations in terms of human rights even before we are legally obliged to do so.

To this end, we work together with VDE Prüf- und Zertifizierungsinstitut GmbH, an external independent auditor that regularly carries out audits at our suppliers' premises in accordance with the LkSG. The data collected on quality management, social standards/human rights and environmental aspects is then incorporated into our in-house supplier and risk assessment and, in addition to compliance with the LkSG, should also help to improve the quality of our products in the long term and reduce the amount of quality-related waste.

More information about our suppliers can be found here.