ESG is part of our DNA

We make a positive contribution to climate change, do business with and for people, are a trusted partner and conduct our business in a transparent and accountable manner.

OUR ESG STRATEGY

Sustainable operations: full service with 360-degree expertise

Our business model is built around our management platform. ESG has become an essential and integral part of our corporate strategy, our management approach and our business activities. Combining it with our digital and IT strategy represents an important foundation.

Match

Matching properties, users, investors
Investment strategy determines the ESG criteria
Develop

Developing, maintaining and optimising the property portfolio we manage
Initiating and implementing ESG measures in accordance with our investment strategy
Transact

Initiating and structuring transactions to achieve growth and realise the added value created
ESG due diligence in the acquisition process incl. preparation of ESG action plans based on the investment strategy
Operate

Comprehensively operating properties based on an active and sustainable management approach
Managing, controlling and reporting ESG in line with our investment strategy

ESG is part of our DNA and our sustainability strategy – sustainable with clearly defined milestones and comprehensibly transparent.

We positively mitigate climate change.

We have set measurable climate targets based on current knowledge of the environmental parameters available globally and our own market knowledge.

Furthermore, we want to contribute actively to decarbonising the European Building sector. Reducing CO₂ emissions and decreasing environmental damage are a top priority for us.
We shape our business with and for the people.

As an employer, we are responsible for ensuring a positive corporate culture as well as a safe, social and healthy working environment.

Collaboration at DIC is based on motivation, diversity, an entrepreneurial mind-set and behaviour, independence, flexibility and expertise.
We are a reliable partner, and conduct our business activities in a transparent and accountable manner.

We attach great importance to corporate governance in the sense ofmanaging our company sustainably.

We commit ourselves to observing the principles of ethical conduct and integrity, any and all applicable legal provisions as well as our internal corporate values.
3+1: We use digitisation for ESG purposes as yet another building block.

Digitisation has become a regular component of our day-to-day business. Synergies from the standardisation and automation of operational and administrative processes act as basis for the digital services we provide to our investors and tenants: They help us to keep stepping up the pace.

Yet we derive much more from it:

Higher quality. Smarter use of resources. Better service.

SUSTAINBILITY REPORT 2023

Leading the way in shaping sustainability

Efficient. Successful. Genuine.

Sustainability is a wide-ranging and much-quoted term these days. At times, it seems as though it is compulsory to use it to justify every possible development and decision. Yet as usual, Branicks is following a different path. We published our first report on sustainable developments within our business more than ten years ago. Even back then, something that has since become crystal clear was already true: you can only report authentically on what you have seen – and lived through – yourself. With this in mind, we use this report to tell the outside world about what we have already achieved “on the inside”.

We thank the readers of our Sustainability Report 2023 for their interest in the sustainable development of our company and hope that they will continue to accompany us on our journey.

Sonja Wärntges
CEO