The database includes all published DNK statements from over 1000 organisations. Create your own statement, read and compare reports or search by topic.
The database includes all published DNK statements from over 1000 organisations. Create your own statement, read and compare reports or search by topic.
Companies compile and publish a Code declaration of conformity in which they report on their sustainability performance in keeping with the Code standard.
In order to help structure the CSR reporting, we have integrated policy frameworks that directly relate to sustainability into the German Sustainability Code.
The database is at the heart of the Sustainability Code and is where you can find every declaration published to date from more than 1,000 user companies.
The CSRD requires more than 15,000 companies in Germany to report their sustainability performance transparently in accordance with a uniform EU reporting standard.
The Sustainability Code provides a framework for organisations and companies of any size or legal structure to report on their non-financial performance.
New in 2025: Free support for CSRD-compliant sustainability reporting
The EU CSRD guideline poses major challenges for many companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Our goal: Significantly reduce the time and effort required for CSRD reporting. To achieve this, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) has been funding the further development of the German Sustainability Code (DNK) since February 2024. Instead of the previous reporting standard, the DNK will offer comprehensive support for CSRD reporting from the beginning of 2025 – initially for companies with reporting requirements. After publication of the final European SME standards, the offer will also be available to voluntarily reporting SMEs.
Your key benefits:
Free of charge: Create your report digitally on a user-friendly web platform with helpful application tools.
Easy to understand: Benefit from our translation of the complex ESRS reporting requirements into clearer language and structure.
Service-oriented: Our helpdesk is there to support you with a wide range of information and training services.
Tailored to your needs: Our many years of experience and close exchange with stakeholders have enabled us to develop a tool that is specifically tailored to the needs of SMEs.
Making a successful transition from the previous DNK reporting standard to the new support program for your CSRD reporting
For companies with reporting requirements, we want to make the switch from the old DNK database to our new web platform for CSRD-compliant reporting as smooth as possible. Likewise, we aim to simplify the transition for SMEs from the previous DNK reporting standard to VSME and LSME. To that end, we have compiled answers to the most frequently asked questions about the transition:
We are already offering you comprehensive support before the launch of the new Sustainability Code web platform at the beginning of 2025: For example, on our website you will find a quick guide to the materiality analysis in accordance with ESRS as well as information on impacts, risks and opportunities (IROs).
In November, we launched two new, free webinar series - one on materiality analysis and one on the assurance process. You can join either webinar at any time, even without attending the first sessions.
As part of our ongoing development, we would like to simplify the process of contacting us. We now have new e-mail addresses to ensure that your inquiries reach the responsible people directly. E-mails to our previous e-mail address will be forwarded automatically.
Video explanation: The new DNK offers starting in 2025 summarized in two minutes
In this short video, we introduce you to the new, free DNK services with which we support companies in implementing the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). These include our new web platform, which you can use to digitally create your CSRD report in the future - supported by numerous application aids.
Olaf Scholz|Federal Chancellor
To mark the 1,000th user company on 12 April 2023
I am delighted we now have 1,000 companies signed up to the German Sustainability Code. This plays a key role in building a sustainable economy here in Germany and around the globe. We need all hands on deck for the sustainable transition to succeed – including and especially the private sector. It is a huge success that firms large and small alike are voluntarily and transparently reporting on their activities based on the criteria set out in the German Sustainability Code. These companies are ‘pioneers of change’; they show how it can be done.
Who reports in line with the Code?
Over 1,000 companies are now making their sustainability performance transparent
