Focus on Sustainability: Six Strategic Areas at Mercedes-Benz.

Embedded in corporate practice

Our Strategic Areas.

November 20, 2024 – Sustainability is a guiding principle of the Mercedes-Benz strategy. To drive our sustainable transformation, we have set the following strategic focus areas: Environment & Climate, Resources & Circularity, Human Rights, Traffic Safety, Digital Trust, and People.

With these focus areas, we have concretized our sustainable business strategy in the fields of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) and further embedded sustainability aspects into our daily business practices.

Our goal is to create long-term value for various stakeholder groups – our customers, employees, investors, business partners, and society as a whole. In this respect, we understand sustainability to be the interplay of ecological, social and economic factors.

Multi-stage strategy and analysis process

Our strategic priorities are the result of a multi-phase strategy and analysis process, during which we worked intensively with internal and external stakeholders. The strategy process is based on comprehensive internal and external analyses and workshops, as well as a materiality analysis in accordance with the requirements of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).

In each of these areas, we have set specific targets and included sustainability indicators in a company-wide scorecard. The system is being continuously reviewed, and key indicators will be part of our annual sustainability reporting.
Mercedes-Benz Sustainability Dialogue 2022.

Sustainability – an overview.

Here you can find an overview with more details of our focus areas and strategy, as well as news and insights on the entire sustainability topic.

Sustainability Overview