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From strategy to action

KAEFER is committed to sustainability through its services, as well as internal operations: By delivering insulation, access, surface protection and passive fire protection solutions, we enable clean energy projects, energy efficiency improvements and extended life cycles of industrial assets. This helps our clients to reduce emissions and optimise resources.

At the same time, we actively work to enhance our own positive environmental, social contributions and our commitment to ethical business practices while minimising our ecological footprint and  risks. This creates additional value for our stakeholders and long-term resilience for our business.

KAEFER’s comprehensive ESG strategy defines our sustainability vision, sets out KPIs and targets, and drives initiatives which make a difference. Ensuring that sustainability is part of management as well as operational processes, an ESG-based approach makes it possible for us to exceed applicable standards, achieve commercial success, and pursue meaningful environmental, social and ethical improvements.

Cover of the ESG Report 2024

KAEFER ESG Report 2024

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Standards, targets and achievements

Our commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), international recognised frameworks and science-based targets to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions reflects our ambition to create lasting value for all stakeholders.

By embedding sustainability across our operations, supply chain, and service delivery, we are making measurable progress in key areas such as emissions reduction, circular resource use, health and safety, diversity, and ethical business practices which has been confirmed by external initiatives.

Our focus: Prioritising material topics

As an industrial service provider headquartered in Europe, KAEFER will be within the scope of the European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) in future. As sustainability is a wide-reaching topic that covers many aspects, narrowing it down to what matters the most for KAEFER as a company is key: A double-materiality analysis forms the basis of this reporting framework to determine what are the most material topics KAEFER should focus on – taking the company’s impact on environment and society as well as the financial implications of sustainability issues that might affect KAEFER into consideration. This profound assessment resulted in the following topics:

As an international service provider that is supporting clients all over the world to improve the efficiency of their industrial facilities and assets, KAEFER supports the Paris Climate Agreement and has set itself ambitious targets to reduce our own impact on GHG emissions in line with our SBTi targets.

As a people business, our success relies on their expertise, dedication and experience and we can only succeed if we provide a professional, safe and healthy working environment, ensuring social dialogue, work-related rights, equal treatment and career development.

To perform our day-to-day operations, we are dependent on reliable partnerships with our suppliers. We manage our suppliers closely and expect them to meet the same standards as we do.

Good governance and sound business conduct are the foundation for a healthy, thriving company, and a necessity for achieving our ESG ambitions.

See how we put ESG into practice

Our annual Group ESG/Sustainability Reporting in line with international standards such as CSRD/ESRS and GRI summarises our achievements in environmental sustainability, people-related aspects, social impact, as well as ethical and governance practices.

Further information on how we manage Health & Safety, Environment, Quality and Compliance topics in our day-to-day business are anchored in our KAEFER Group Policies which also cover KAEFER’s Code of Business Conduct and Supplier Code of Conduct.