World Food Programme
We continued our support for the United Nations World Food Programme’s (WFP) “Food for Education” initiative through various programs. For example, SAP has set up the interactive Web site www.sapfeedingknowledge.com; on this site, we inform about our cooperation with WFP with the help of blogs, videos, and podcasts by WFP, and at the same time we encourage a discussion about how SAP could get engaged with WFP or other causes in general. We also ran a campaign on that site to reward employees’ voluntary engagement and to inspire employees and our communities to contribute to the site: For every employee who volunteered inside or outside SAP, we gave €10 to WFP. Additionally, at SAP TechEd in Bangalore, SAP announced a new recognition scheme for contribution of the SAP Developer Network (SDN) and Business Process Expert communities. Beginning January 1, 2008, community member participation will be rewarded with a donation to the WFP’s Food for Education.
Environmental Issues
What SAP’s public stakeholders are most interested in is what SAP product and innovation can do to help society respond to the challenge of climate change. Recognizing this, SAP has developed a portfolio of innovative enterprise management, supply chain, and compliance solutions that are helping companies optimize their global operations and reduce their “carbon footprint.” SAP’s commitment to helping organizations effectively reduce their carbon footprint was also our motivation to join the Combat Climate Change (3C) initiative and to sign the UN Global Compact Statement “Caring for Climate”. With regards to our own impact on the environment it is relatively low as a leading software company. Nevertheless, there is a strong internal commitment on reducing our low impact on the environment further with several measures on different sites (this includes for example waste, water, energy, and emissions).
“SAP has a unique opportunity to apply software products and services toward solving the complex social and environmental sustainability problems facing the world, and we welcome SAP’s active involvement in doing so.”
Cody Sisco, Manager, Advisory Services at Business
for Social Responsibility
Recognition
Again, SAP’s CSR performance has been recognized by the FTSE4Good and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, where SAP now ranks best in the software industry. SAP is one of G100 most sustainable companies. The G100, initiated by Corporate Knights Inc., with research provider Innovest includes companies from 16 countries in different sectors that were evaluated according to how effectively they manage environmental, social, and governance risks and opportunities, relative to their industry peers. SAP is also one of only 50 companies included in the oekom Global Challenges Index because of our special commitment to fighting global corruption. The Global Challenges Index encompasses 50 corporations who take active responsibility for the future global development by making substantial and trendsetting contributions to the handling of these global challenges.
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