Our sustainability reports

Commerzbank's business success is also influenced by non-financial factors. In accordance with a European directive, we are required to include these corporate social responsibility issues in Group management and reporting. Since 2017, we annually publish this information in our non-financial report for Commerzbank AG and the Group within the annual report.

Commerzbank has been publishing an annual Corporate Responsibility Report since 2005, in which we outline significant news and progress made. In this process, we are guided by the internationally established standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The GRI report is our most detailed sustainability report. It comprehensively covers environmental issues such as carbon footprint and biodiversity, social issues such as diversity and equal opportunities, and corporate governance issues such as the prevention of corruption.

Commerzbank was one of the first signatories of the Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) in 2019. The six principles were developed by the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) together with 30 banks. By signing the PRB, we commit ourselves to formulating targets for all key business areas and to publishing their development annually.

Our PRB progress report is integrated into our nonfinancial report and summarised as a tabular index at the end of the report (starting with page 82).