Responsibility toward the environment

Responsible treatment of natural resources is a fixed component in our corporate responsibility efforts across the value chain.

Conscientious use of natural resources
Any company that prints and publishes books and magazines, ships CDs and DVDs, or offers a wide range of different services, inevitably enters into a complex interrelationship with the environment. Though the media sector has less impact on the environment than other branches of industry, we at Bertelsmann take this responsibility very seriously. Treating natural resources responsibly at every stage of our supply chain is an elementary part of our idea of corporate citizenship.

Decentralized responsibility
Our efforts for the environment are as diverse as Bertelsmann’s businesses. Here, too, we operate on the principle that everyone should concentrate on what they do and understand best. So our commitment to the environment is practiced in a decentralized manner. For instance, it is a matter of course that companies which use paper as a basic material in the production of books and magazines focus their environmental management on this resource.