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Sustainability
Sustainable business practices are a key part of our corporate strategy and help to ensure
our long-term success. Our approach to sustainability focuses on the following factors: the
environment, people, society and the success of our business. It inuences our system of
corporate governance as well as our Group’s ethics guidelines.
Our separate Sustainability Report highlights exactly what we do in order to live up to our
environmental and social responsibilities. is report will be published for the rst time
in the rst half of 2006 and will combine our environmental, human resources and social
reporting. Extensive information about these topics is also available on our website
under “Sustainability”.
Best German company in the Good Company Ranking
Deutsche Post World Net has received an award for the way in which it fullls its social
responsibilities. In the September 2005 Good Company Ranking drawn up by Manager
Magazin, a German business publication, we were the highest-ranked German company
and took third place overall. e journal ranked 80 European companies on the basis of
sta support, social commitment, environmental protection, nancial performance and
transparency – the rst time that this has been done.
Attractive for investors with an eye on sustainability
On September 20, 2005, Deutsche Post was again included in the FTSE4Good Europe
sustainability index, one of the best-known indices of its kind. is indicates that we have
satised certain criteria to which environmentally and socially conscious investors pay
considerable attention when making investment decisions.
Strategic partnership with the United Nations
On December 15, 2005, we signed a far-reaching partnership agreement with the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Oce for the Coor-
dination of Humanitarian Aairs (OCHA). One of the goals of the planned partnership
between the UN bodies and Deutsche Post World Net is the swi organization of logistic
support when disaster strikes.
One of the ideal areas for cooperation is the coordination of emergency aid logistics at air-
ports in the aected areas. Our rst step is to set up a global network of highly trained Di-
saster Response Teams, which can be deployed quickly to any location worldwide, where
their job might be to optimize the management of incoming relief supplies at airports.
In the course of 2005, we were able to demonstrate our professional capability to handle
logistics bottlenecks at airports on many occasions: a team of DHL logistics experts was
deployed in response to major natural disasters, including the tsunami in South-East Asia,
the hurricanes that battered the southeast coast of the United States and the earthquake in
the Kashmir region of Pakistan.
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