KHS GmbH has restructured its voluntary reporting process. The systems provider for the filling and packaging industry has now brought its sustainability report further into line with the EU reporting standard and is disclosing additional non-financial KPIs. Protection of the climate remains a key element of the company’s strategic core measures.
“We’ve come a good step further in 2024. This is mainly thanks to the successful validation of our goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi)”, says Nicole Pohl, senior ESG manager and human rights officer at KHS. KHS has drawn up an extensive catalog of measures based on its SBTi validation. “The sustainability report presents our ambitious targets defined together with the Group in a transparent and comprehensible manner.”
Moreover, KHS has considerably increased the number of non-financial KPIs published within the context of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and together with the Salzgitter Group’s obligation to report. In taking these key figures into consideration, KHS also wishes to gradually harmonize its procedure with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).
SBTi confirms effectiveness of climate protection measures
One central topic is the protection of climate. The shared climate goals of Salzgitter AG and KHS were successfully validated by the SBTi in 2024: here, by 2028 the KHS Group is intent on reducing its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 36% and those for Scope 3 by 20%. Its net zero target is to be reached by 2045 for Scopes 1 and 2 and by 2050 for Scope 3. On this basis, KHS has devised an ambitious decarbonization path and already begun implementing this.
