Dr. Dieter Zetsche about the sustainability efforts of Daimler

Daimler is a versatile provider of mobility services around the globe. The Group’s broad range of car and commercial vehicle models is supplemented by innovative mobility concepts. The most prominent around the world is car2go.

Our view of sustainability

Dr. Dieter Zetsche

Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG,
Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars

We want to enhance the value of our company over the long term. We therefore view value creation in a holistic manner, which means that for us economic, environmental, and social responsibility go hand in hand.

Dr. Wolfgang Bernhard

Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG,
Head of Daimler Trucks

We focus on achieving the greatest possible customer utility throughout the entire life cycle of our vehicles. For example, we assume responsibility for our products by making sure that they meet the highest safety standards and set benchmarks for environmental and climate protection.

Andreas Renschler

Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG,
Manufacturing and Procurement
Mercedes-Benz Cars & Mercedes-Benz Vans

Sustainability is a top priority at Mercedes-Benz, and our efforts here take into account the entire production process. Our measures focus on climate protection, air pollution control, and the responsible utilization of raw materials and resources. It goes without saying that our high sustainability standards also apply to our suppliers.

Hubertus Troska

Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG,
Greater China

Daimler is so deeply rooted in China, it is only natural that we have also integrated our business targets with the principles of sustainability and responsibility. Our aim is to serve as a good corporate citizen and thus show our full and long-term commitment to this country — economically and sustainably. We keep track of our activities in our detailed Daimler China Sustainability Report.

Dr. Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt

Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG,
Integrity and Legal Affairs

We are aware of our responsibility to society as a globally operating company with a more than 125-year tradition of automobile manufacturing. That's why we want to ensure that our business operations are sustainable. For us, business success is inseparable from business ethics.

Wilfried Porth

Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG,
Human Resources and Director of Labor Relations

Our employees contribute to value creation at the company with their skills and talents, their wealth of ideas, and their motivation. We know that a fair and trusting relationship with our employees is the key to retaining their continuing commitment. Maintaining this relationship over the long term is a core aim of our human resources policy.

Bodo Uebber

Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG,
Finance & Controlling/Daimler Financial Services

Our financial activities are also conducted in accordance with the principles of sustainability. Our work ensures healthy and responsible financial operations with a longterm horizon. This, in turn, establishes confidence in our company and ensures that we can make the investments, which are so critical to our future success. This approach benefits employees, customers, and shareholders alike.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Weber

Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG,
Group Research & Mercedes-Benz Cars Development,
Chairman of the Daimler Sustainability Board

We want to make the future of mobility as safe and environmentally friendly as possible. As the inventor of the automobile, we have been setting the pace for many decades when it comes to the development of vehicle safety systems and clean and efficient drive systems. We utilize our innovations to consistently pursue our target of accident-free and emission-free mobility, which extends all the way to self-driving vehicles.

Important progress in 2012

Advisory Board for Integrity and Corporate Responsibility

On September 25, 2012, Daimler established a new Adivisory Board for Integrity and Corporate Responsibility. The board assesses the handling of integrity-related issues at the company from a critical and constructive external perspective.

Standardized management remuneration

Daimler has implemented a globally standardized, variable, and transparent remuneration system consisting of medium to long-term performancebased components.

Euro VI/Euro 6

Although the Euro VI emission standard will not go into effect until January 2014, one-third of all Mercedes-Benz truck customers in 2012 nevertheless opted to purchase vehicles certified as Euro VI-compliant. The gasoline engines in the new Mercedes-Benz A- and B-Class models also already meet the requirements of the Euro 6 emission standard that won't go into effect until September 2015.

117 projects

Within the framework of the Group's ProCent program for supporting social welfare projects, Daimler employees and the company donated approximately €745,000 to fund a total of 117 projects in 2012.

Key targets

Incentive systems

Expansion of the remuneration para meters for Daimler Board of Management members through the addition of the non-financial themes “Integrity and the UN Global Compact.”

Generation management

Establishment of demographic issues as a field of action in the corporate culture and the management process. Continued rollout of HR Resource Management at six additional German locations; implementation of further work packages based on identified fields of action.

car2go

Tenfold increase by 2015 in the number of trips taken and the number of active users, as compared to 2011.

10 networks

Activities to establish and operate ten additional national UN Global Compact networks by 2013.

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