Environmental Performance
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
SAP Steps Up to Fight Climate Change
For over a decade now, climate action has been at the top of SAP’s corporate sustainability agenda. We aim to take climate action through our dual approach as enabler and exemplar to help pave the way toward a low-carbon future for our customers, partners, and SAP, and create impact within planetary boundaries.
Transition Plan for Climate Change
Mitigation
Our net-zero commitment is the cornerstone of our climate change mitigation. Under this commitment, we aim to reduce our gross greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 90% across the relevant value chain by 2030. The net-zero target has been validated and approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), which also verified that our target is compatible with limiting global warming to 1.5°C as advocated by the Paris Agreement. Our ambitious climate change mitigation commitment has also been recognized by the investment market, as demonstrated by our inclusion in the EU Paris-aligned benchmarks. Our decarbonization and transformation plan tackles four main areas; cloud transformation, upstream supply chain, own operations, and carbon removals.
Our Net Zero 2030 target is dependent on the following elements which are outside of SAP’s direct control:
Progress and success of the decarbonization efforts of our suppliers;
Changes in regulation such as the revision of the SBTi standards, expected to be finalized in 2026;
Due to the rapid development in the AI and general cloud infrastructure area and the resulting high energy needs it is unclear if this demand can be fully covered with renewable energy.
Due to these uncertainties, we are monitoring our progress in achieving the net zero target by 2030 and are continuously evaluating whether adjustments might be necessary.
Net Zero As a Target for the SAP Executive Board
To reflect the importance the Company attaches to achieving net zero, we made this target part of the Executive Board’s long-term incentive (LTI). Once a year, the Supervisory Board assesses and approves the targets for the next tranche of the LTI.
Still Moving Beyond Our Own Operations: Net Zero by 2030
Our ambition:
Since 2023, we have been working to achieve net zero across our value chain and in line with a 1.5°C future by 2030—20 years earlier than originally planned.
To track progress on our accelerated science-based target, we measure the gross emissions along our value chain. The results from 2023 mark the baseline for reducing our emissions by 90% by 2030 in line with the SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard.
Please note that due to rounding, numbers in the graph above may not add up precisely.
Energy Consumption
Reducing Energy Consumption Reduces Our Environmental Impact
We aim to increase the share of renewable energy in our upstream and downstream value chain by working together with our suppliers, especially our hyperscale providers and our customers and by constantly improving the quality of the data we use for our carbon calculations.
Waste Management
Our Commitment to Continue Working Toward Mutual Sustainability Targets
SAP aims to support the transition to a low-carbon, circular economy by managing electronic equipment and e-waste from a life-cycle perspective. SAP is committed to diverting at least 90% of the electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) generated annually by its own operations from incineration and landfill. We met his target again in 2025, for the third consecutive year. In collaboration with IT asset disposition partners and other suppliers, SAP continuously improves the management and end-of-life treatment of electronic equipment in alignment with the waste hierarchy, and embeds circularity principles in its hardware management practices.
| 2025 | |||
| in metric tons | Total | Hazardous | Non-hazardous |
| Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE, e-waste) | 797 | 266 | 531 |
| Total amount diverted from disposal | 764 | 255 | 509 |
| Preparation of reuse | 362 | 163 | 199 |
| Recycling | 402 | 92 | 310 |
| Other recovery operations | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total amount directed to disposal | 33 | 11 | 22 |
| Incineration | 25 | 10 | 15 |
| Landfill | 8 | 1 | 6 |
| Other disposal operation | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total Non-recycled waste | 33 | 11 | 22 |
| Percentage of non-recycled waste | 4% | 4% | 4% |
Please note that due to rounding, numbers in the table above may not add up precisely.
Further Content
Key Performance Indicators
This page shows the main sustainability KPIs, which we disclose in the Integrated Report. For the additional KPIs that we monitor, such as water consumption, please refer to the Report Data Hub.