Siemens is making significant progress toward its 2030 sustainability goals.
In fiscal year 2025, Siemens once again achieved strong results in implementing its sustainability strategy. The company's sustainability framework, DEGREE, is built on three impact areas: decarbonization and energy efficiency, resource efficiency and circularity, and people and society, all underpinned by ethical principles and good corporate governance practices.
Decarbonization and energy efficiency
Siemens is accelerating the decarbonization of products, operations, and supply chains: with its solutions, it supports the integration of renewables, energy efficiency, and electrification. The combination of artificial intelligence (AI), data, and expertise is key to ensuring greater efficiency. Industrial AI, for example, can achieve energy savings of up to 30% on infrastructure platforms and a 24% reduction in CO₂ emissions in manufacturing.
The solutions sold by Siemens over the past three fiscal years will enable the avoidance of 694 million tons of emissions over their lifetime—equivalent to Germany's total emissions in 2024. For the second consecutive year, Siemens customers are avoiding more emissions than the company's entire value chain generated. Since 2019, Siemens has also significantly reduced the carbon footprint of its own operations: measured in CO₂ equivalent, it has decreased by 66% (excluding carbon credits), taking another step toward its target of reducing Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 90% by 2030.
Resource efficiency and circularity
Achieving a circular economy fundamentally requires decoupling growth from resource consumption. Siemens' Robust Eco Design (RED) approach plays a central role in this. In 2025, 67% of Siemens' relevant portfolio was already designed according to RED principles, thereby reducing environmental impact across hardware, software, and services.
In the area of biodiversity protection, Siemens made significant progress through its nature conservation programs. In line with its "zero waste to landfill" approach, the company exceeded its interim 2025 DEGREE target by reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill by more than 50% compared to the 2021 baseline.
People and society
In a rapidly changing world, people need new skills to drive progress and innovation. Siemens continues to support its employees: in 2025, employees received an average of 36.6 hours of training, representing an increase of 2.4 hours.
Within its ecosystem, Siemens supported more than one million people through sustainability and digitalization training, marking a significant step toward its target of reaching three million people by 2030.
Ethics and corporate governance
The foundation of Siemens' sustainability performance is ethical conduct, transparent governance, and regulatory compliance. Cybersecurity and data security play a key role in digital transformation: Siemens' Zero Trust principles currently cover 62% of relevant applications, representing further progress compared to 16% in the previous year.
More than half of the company's revenue complies with the European Union Taxonomy's strict climate protection and circularity criteria.
The Siemens Sustainability Statement, prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), forms an audited part of the company's Annual Report. The report provides a comprehensive overview of how sustainability is embedded in the company's day-to-day operations. A summary of the report is available here.