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mANAGEmENT rEPOrT
This focus helps us work toward our vision of achieving CO2-free
rail transport by 2050 on the basis of renewable energy. The
intermediate goal for 2020 is to increase the proportion of renew-
able energy sources in the traction current mix to at least 30 %.
CO 2 -free travel and transport with
Environment Plus and Eco Plus
Our range of CO2-free rail travel and transport offerings was
increasingly popular during the year under review. In the area
of passenger transport, our bahn.corporate Environment Plus
program – which allows corporate customers to travel on a CO2free
basis – is used by several companies, the Federal Government
and its subordinate departments, and by the State of rhineland-
Palatinate. The first customers also began using the Eco Plus
program for CO2-free freight transport. If we also consider our
employees’ CO2-free business travel via rail, the environmental
balance sheets for participating companies were credited a total
of 42,000 t of CO2 during the year under review.
Further reductions in energy usage and
CO2 emissions for rail transport
We have reduced our specific CO2 emissions for rail transport in
Germany by 43 % since 1990. This represents a further contribution
by rail transport towards protecting our climate, and marks a
further increase in rail transport’s environmental lead.
Absolute emissions of soot particles and nitrogen oxide
also decreased slightly in rail transport during the year under
review.
SoCiaL CoMMitMent
For us, “moving the future” is not only the guiding principle
behind our economic development, this idea also mirrors the
social responsibilities the Group undertakes. As one of Germany’s
biggest employers and occupational trainers, we bear a special
responsibility – to our customers, employees, the environment,
and society as a whole. Providing support for children and young
people is especially important to us. Our activities in this area
focus on education and sports.
In society, we support numerous cultural, social and athletic
establishments, initiatives and activities. Our major focus here
is also on children and young people. In the knowledge society
of today and tomorrow, education is the greatest asset. Providing
education is the task of society as a whole, and we play an active
role in this. Since 1996, we have been working as a partner and
member of the Stiftung Lesen (the reading Foundation) to
strengthen Germany’s reading and read-aloud culture.
The social integration of children and young people in need
is the aim of the nationally active Off road Kids Foundation. We
have supported this organization since 1994 by enabling the
Foundation’s street outreach workers to travel throughout
Germany.
Promoting sports is also a high priority for us, since it
provides joy in movement and promotes values like motivation
and team spirit, fair play and social integration; it also provides
role models for children and young people. This particularly
applies to “Jugend trainiert für Olympia” (Youth Training for the
Olympics). As a long-standing official mobility partner of this
school sports event, the largest such event in the world, we
organize low-cost transport for participants to and from the site
as well as their accommodations. Since 2002 we have also been
setting benchmarks in how we value sports through our close
partnership with the Deutscher Behindertensportverband (the
German National Paralympic Committee). This partnership
includes both our new involvement in “Jugend trainiert für
Paralympics” (Youth Training for the Paralympics), through
which we support school athletics and the social integration
through sports of children with disabilities, and DB Schenker’s
transport of sporting goods and equipment for the 2010
Paralympics in Vancouver, Canada.
In addition to supporting elite sporting events, among other
things as a partner for multiple national soccer leagues and as
a national sponsor of the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Germany
in 2011, our involvement also addresses the basis and thereby
the future of the younger generation. By granting the DB Young
Talent Award (DB-Nachwuchs-Förderpreis), we acknowledge
the dedication of the many people who work with children and
young people in the field of soccer. This experience of inte gration
is just as important for the future of society as it is for creating
a spirit of initiative and the sense of community that young
people encounter in the DB soccer camps. It is important to us
to promote tolerance, team spirit, cultural skills and educational
perspectives, and to make a contribution to our society. For
our company, long-term commitment and involvement are
synonymous with investing in young people.
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