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 reportAddress:
Geschäftsstelle c/o GIZ
Potsdamer Platz 10
10785 Berlin
Germany
Telephone: +49 (0)30 338424-888
Please contact one of the email addresses below, depending on your request:
DNK Helpdesk (initial advice on reporting with the DNK – conducted by our partner Grubengold)
support@deutscher-nachhaltigkeitskodex.de
Cooperation or lecture requests
info@deutscher-nachhaltigkeitskodex.de
Press and media requests
presse@deutscher-nachhaltigkeitskodex.de
Questions about the review of the submitted reports
pruefung@deutscher-nachhaltigkeitskodex.de
| 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 |