Locate the 2018 Sustainability Information report for Siemens AG, the German manufacturing conglomerate, at https://www.siemens.com/investor/pool/en/investor_relations/siemens_sustainability_ information2018.pdf.

Required:

1. What are the main areas for which Siemens reports information?

2. What principles and guidelines does Siemens follow when preparing its sustainability disclosures?

3. Has Siemens increased or decreased its output of carbon over the past few years?

4. Why do you think that Siemens prepares a sustainability report?