Click here to access the DNK platform, where you can create your report free of charge in accordance with CSRD and VSME requirements (currently only available in German).
Create CSRD/VSME-compliant reportYou can access the previous Sustainability Code Database here. It will be available to you until November 2026 for the creation of reports.
Create a Sustainability Code reportHere you will find information about options for advice. We offer two forms of advice:
The first page is written in plain language. This is so that more people can understand the content better. The subsequent pages are not written in plain language.
Through our Helpdesk, we offer you free initial advice by phone or email. You can ask any questions about the DNK. We help companies to better understand and implement the legal requirements.
DNK guides are sustainability professionals who work independently of the DNK. They advise companies on sustainability reporting as needed. For example, through:
To find out about their specific services, please contact the guides directly. You will find a list of guides on this page. And if you are interested, you can become a guide yourself!
| Audit |
| Biodiversity analysis |
| Commonwealth |
| Conduct that complies with the law |
| Consistency |
| Corporate citizenship |
| Corruption |
| CR-Kompass |
| Diversity |
| Due diligence |
| Eco-efficiency analysis |
| Ecological footprint |
| Economy for the common good |
| Ecosystem services |
| EFFAS |
| EMAS |
| Employability |
| Employee engagement |
| Employees’ rights |
| Equal opportunities |
| EU Directive on Disclosure of Non-Financial Information |
| German Sustainable Development Strategy |
| Greenhouse Gas Protocol |
| GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) |
| Human rights |
| ILO (International Labour Organization) |
| Incentives |
| Innovations |
| ISO 14001 |
| ISO 26000 |
| ISO 50001 |
| ISO 9000 group of standards |
| Life cycle approach |
| Lobby lists |
| Management systems relating to aspects of sustainability |
| Materiality |
| Materiality analysis and materiality matrix |
| National Action Plan for Business and Human Rights |
| Objectives |
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) |
| Operationalising |
| Performance indicator |
| Policies |
| Political influence |
| Process |
| Product life cycle |
| Reliability |
| Resources |
| Resource efficiency |
| Risks |
| Rules and processes |
| SA 8000 |
| Scope of reporting |
| Stakeholders |
| Stakeholder dialogues |
| Standard |
| Supplier management systems |
| Supply chain |
| Sustainability aspects |
| Sustainability Code |
| Sustainability process |
| Sustainability strategy |
| Sustainable Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) |
| Sustainable Development Goals |
| Sustainable value |
| Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) |
| UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights |
| United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) |
| Value chain |
| VfU environmental performance indicators |