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The report 360 DEGREES — Facts on Sustainability 2009 (Facts 2009) provides an overview of Daimler’s activities with respect to sustainability. The period under review is the financial year 2008.
Facts 2009 takes its lead from the guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), which Daimler joined in 2006 as an organizational stakeholder. In accordance with the GRI guidelines Version 3.0 (G3), the information and data contained in this report were compiled in line with the principles of balance, comparability, accuracy, timeliness, reliability, and clarity. Facts 2009 has been classified as a Level A+ report in line with the G3 definition, as assessed and confirmed by the GRI.
A comprehensive version of the Daimler GRI Index can be found online here. This website contains a list of all the GRI indicators, as well as detailed information and explanations of all indicators. The website also contains a GRI Global Compact Index, which cross-references the “communication on progress” as specified by the Global Compact with G3 reporting.
Scope of reporting and data acquisition methods
Economy. The information on economic interrelationships presented in Facts 2009 is essentially based on data from the 2008 Daimler Annual Report. The Management Report and Notes sections, from which we have quoted in this report, were audited and confirmed without reservation by the financial auditing firm KPMG Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft AG. Further information: Annual Report 2008.
Ecology. Daimler has been systematically compiling key environmental data from its German plants since 1992. In 1997 and 1998 its data acquisition was gradually extended to include production plants outside Germany. Since 2002, the acquisition and analysis of the data has been handled with the aid of a database. The data in this report reflect the structure of the Group in financial year 2008 and include all relevant production plants and the German sales locations. To ensure comparability with data for previous years as far as possible, the data for the entire period covered do not include those parts of the company in which Daimler is no longer the majority shareholder. For this reason, the timelines may differ from those of previously published data. New parts of the company have been included from the time at which they became part of Daimler. The environmental data for 2008 refer to a total of 63 entire or partial business locations.
Employees. The facts and figures related to the Employees section are based on the 2008 Daimler Annual Report. The reporting on human resources data is primarily conducted by means of the “HR ePARS” electronic human resources planning and reporting tool, which employs data from all consolidated companies within the Daimler Group. This information is complemented by data acquired with the aid of the “ePeople” electronic human resources management system. In the texts and diagrams in this section, it is indicated whether the data relate to the entire Group or only to parts thereof.
Liability disclaimer. The compilation of the data in this report has been carried out by Daimler with extreme care. Nevertheless, errors cannot be entirely excluded. Insofar as Facts 2009 contains forward-looking statements, these are based on data currently available and on assumptions founded on current forecasts. Although such projections are drawn up with the greatest care, a great variety of unforeseeable factors may lead to deviations. The content of the report was examined and released by the responsible professional staff. There was no examination by a financial auditing firm.
Daimler published the last sustainability report in July 2008 under the title Facts on Sustainability 2008.
Editorial deadline for this report: March 2, 2009
