Our Dialog with Stakeholders
Finding Trends & avoiding Conflicts
An intensive dialog with our stakeholders is indispensable as a means of ensuring successful sustainability management. Only if we understand the expectations and aspirations of all our stakeholders will we be able to identify trends and key issues, avoid conflict situations, and harmonize the factors “economy,” “people,” and “environment” in our social decision-making.
The communication with our stakeholders is open and fair, and is based primarily on personal interviews, surveys, workshops, network meetings, discussion sessions, strategy meetings, and conferences.
Among the key issues in 2008 were climate and human rights protection, as well as ethical aspects of business and finance.
The communication with our stakeholders is open and fair, and is based primarily on personal interviews, surveys, workshops, network meetings, discussion sessions, strategy meetings, and conferences.
Among the key issues in 2008 were climate and human rights protection, as well as ethical aspects of business and finance.
Examples of our 2008/2009 activities:
- A total of 25 SRI investor meetings, held in Switzerland, the U.K., France and the U.S.
- Further participation in the Carbon Disclosure Project
- Creation of the “Banking on Green” Internet platform, which keeps stakeholders informed about our initiatives and product offerings related to sustainability and climate change
- Creation of the “A Passion for the Planet” dialog platform for Deutsche Bank employees
- Participation in the “Weapons out of Control” banking dialog organized by the German environmental organization “Urgewald”
- Participation in Global Compact Network workshops on “Human Rights and Economics”
- Intensive dialogue with politicians and business representatives as part of our membership of the “econsense” initiative
- In May 2009 Deutsche Bank hosted a Stakeholder-Day in Frankfurt with representative from NGOs and SRI rating agencies. The dialog offers transparency for both sides and is held regularly
