Sustainability
Taking responsibility together – Eintracht Frankfurt’s ESG strategy
Sustainability is a key concept in social and economic change. Global challenges such as climate change, resource scarcity, and social inequality also affect professional sports and Eintracht Frankfurt.
As one of Germany's largest clubs, Eintracht has a special social responsibility and role model function. In order to anchor sustainability even more firmly in its self-image, a holistic sustainability strategy has been developed. Specifically, there is a need for action in the three dimensions of environment, social, and governance, or ESG for short.
ESG provides a structured framework for identifying and assessing the environmental, social and governance aspects of business activities. This is precisely the approach adopted by Eintracht Frankfurt. To this end, a data-driven ESG tool and rating system has been developed, which continuously identifies strengths and weaknesses, progress and areas requiring action.
What does ESG mean?
Environment
Climate change mitigation and environmental protection have many facets. Alongside small changes in everyday behaviour, companies in particular can help drive change by making targeted adjustments to their operations and processes.
Eintracht Frankfurt is working to reduce emissions and energy consumption while using natural resources responsibly.
Social
Responsible behaviour is also reflected in the way we treat each other. The social area includes aspects such as anti-discrimination and inclusion, the education and support of children and young people, as well as gender equality and workplace standards.
Eintracht Frankfurt's actions are based on an unmistakable and unalterable understanding of values. We take responsibility – not only on the pitch, but also through our long-standing social commitment.
Governance
Governance deals with responsible corporate management. Key to this are the definition of own corporate standards, the application of internal and external control mechanisms as well as compliance with laws.
Eintracht Frankfurt aims to establish a framework that will embed sustainability within the organisation over the long term.
With the development of our ESG strategy, the creation of a rating system and the establishment of a Sustainability Advisory Board, we have laid an important foundation. Now it is a matter of pursuing this topic with the utmost consistency, implementing concrete measures to improve our ESG performance and continuously developing them further.
CEO Axel Hellmann
