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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 on these topics:
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.
The DNK has offered a standard for sustainability reporting for many years. Since February 2024 we have been developing the DNK further. Now we provide a wide range of services to comprehensively support companies with their sustainability reports.
We have worked closely with a variety of companies. Together we have developed the following new services:
We are in regular contact with sustainability representatives from various companies. This way, we are very familiar with the specific needs, especially of small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany.
The DNK has a lot of experience in sustainability reporting. Its solutions are good, pragmatic and flexible. They can easily be modified and extended, for example for other countries.
Technically, too, the structure of the new DNK Platform means that it can be quickly and easily adapted.
The DNK team is small, but highly motivated. Our office is in Berlin at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ).
We have approximately 12 team members, plus trainees, in 4 areas:
The Sustainability Code (DNK) was developed by the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE). The DNK has helped companies with their sustainability reporting since 2011. Since 2024, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) has financed the ongoing development of the DNK. This is implemented by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). The RNE advises on the DNK’s further development.
| 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 |