United Nations Global Compact

Participation in the United Nations Global Compact – the world’s largest corporate responsibility initiative – helps METRO anchor sustainability in its corporate strategy. It also provides the appropriate framework for our long-standing commitment to responsible and ethically correct business operations.

With this Communication on Progress, METRO fulfills its commitment to demonstrate which guidelines and measures it is taking to improve its performance within the areas of human rights, labor standards, environmental protection and anti-corruption, and to ensure that the 10 basic principles of the Global Compact are respected not only today, but also in the future, in strategic decisions as well as in daily work.

Düsseldorf, December 2021

United Nations Global Compact Communication on progress 2020/21

In the following tables, we list examples of commitments and management systems that serve to ensure compliance with the 10 Principles, measures we have taken, and results we were able to achieve in the 2020/21 reporting period.

• Human rights and labour standards
• Environmental protection
• Anti-corruption measures