Our responsibility
Responsibility with impact
We aim to practice what we preach.
Strategically anchored. Entrepreneurially lived.
That's why we have firmly integrated sustainability into our own strategy and structures: via company-wide sustainability management within the SYZYGY Group – and with a central steering committee at diffferent.
The responsibility lies with our Managing Director Paul End. Together with our steering committee for corporate sustainability, he drives forward the strategic embedding of sustainability at diffferent. In close coordination with our experts from the sustainability strategy team, he sets targets, defines the content – and ensures that sustainability is taken into account in all business decisions.
The sustainability strategy team meets regularly, combines operational and consulting perspectives and is in continuous conversations with management and central divisions such as Finance and HR. This way, we anchor sustainability where it belongs: at the heart of our entrepreneurial decisions.
Materiality analysis: the compass for our actions
Our sustainability strategy is not a static concept, but is reviewed and fine-tuned every year – taking into account current developments and new requirements. The basis for this is the group-wide materiality process, which we use to identify: which topics are particularly relevant for diffferent? And which for our stakeholders?
In 2024, we aligned our analysis with the new European reporting standard ESRS (European Sustainability Reporting Standard) for the first time. We evaluated our business practices in two dimensions:
Firstly, what social and environmental impact our actions have (impact materiality). And secondly, what significance these issues have for us as a company (financial materiality).
In the financial perspective, we analyze which opportunities and risks are associated with which probabilities of occurrence and impacts. We assess the impact on the environment and society along the entire value chain – from the scope and degree of the effect, to the question of whether and how the consequences can be reversed.
The results are incorporated into our materiality matrix – and form the strategic foundation for our further commitment to sustainability.
Our sustainability report
We report together with all operating units of the SYZYGY Group at group level –transparent and comparable. You can find the full report with all key figures and details here.
Connected for new growth
diffferent is a member of the German Sustainable Economy Association (BNW e.V.) – a network of progressive companies that are committed to sustainable business practices.
