Supply Chain

As a sustainable and innovative infrastructure partner, long-term business success and socially and environmentally responsible activities go hand in hand at EnBW. Exercising our environmental and human rights due diligence is one of EnBW’s core values and is firmly enshrined in our corporate strategy. The following guidelines have been published for this purpose.

Our aim at EnBW is to properly comply with our responsibilities for human rights and environmental due diligence. To this end, we remain in ongoing dialog with our stakeholder groups from the worlds of politics, industry and civil society to identify who can, should and must take on what level of responsibility in order to best protect people and the environment. This process seeks to find a fair division of labor between government, companies, unions, employees, customers and other actors within civil society.

States are responsible for protecting and promoting human rights. In this context, the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights of the United Nations emphasizes that next to the state, companies have the duty to respect human rights. The German government has introduced binding rules for how companies should exercise due diligence in the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz, LkSG).

EnBW has been striving to fulfill its responsibilities with respect to human rights due diligence in its business activities for many years. We have gradually improved our processes over the years and will continue doing so in future, while always scrutinizing the potential and limitations of our actions.

We are fully aware that we need to reconcile the requirements placed on companies by the LkSG on the one hand with the far-reaching expectations of affected parties and civil society on the other. It is for this reason that we participate in initiatives such as econsense, the Energy Sector Dialog and the Responsible Commodities Sourcing Initiative (RECOSI) to help us maintain and refine.