Pledge overview

SAP is committed to plant and protect 25 million trees by 2030 while continuing to drive innovation and reduce its carbon footprint to achieve net-zero in 2030.

For more than a decade, sustainability has been on top of SAP’s agenda. It directly links to SAP’s purpose of helping the world run better and improving people’s lives. Therefore, SAP is committed to take climate action and safeguard nature’s contribution to people. This commitment includes supporting trusted partners and communities to reforest a diversity of trees and enable the protection of existing forests. It acknowledges that economies and societies depend on nature – for food, water, medicine, a stable climate, and sustainable economic growth.

Planting the right trees in the right places and reversing deforestation help to slow climate change. But these actions cannot reverse it on their own. Therefore, SAP is firstly committed to significantly reduce its own carbon footprint and support customers to do the same. As a cloud company and market leader in enterprise application software, SAP is uniquely qualified to help customers manage, optimize, and make decisions based on their sustainability performance and data. SAP also pledges to achieve net-zero emissions along its entire value chain in line with a 1.5°C future in 2030.

SAP finances tree planting and ecosystem restoration mainly through corporate donations, innovation, and investments in high-quality carbon credits. Special attention is paid to responsible reforestation approaches that generate benefits for people, climate, and biodiversity.

Because SAP believes in the power of collaboration to spark systemic change, SAP will continue to team up with customers and partners to restore nature and foster a low-carbon, circular, and more equitable economy. We encourage everyone to join the restoration movement.

Our ecologically and socially responsible approach

SAP will continue to carefully select its planting partners based on their ecological and social implementation methods.

We ensure that carbon credits from reforestation projects are verified by well-known standards, such as the Gold Standard, and reviewed by independent parties. For other projects, SAP has developed internal quality criteria to assess the sustainability of implementation practices.

Our results tracking

Ecological metrics

SAP works with multiple organizations that monitor and report different metrics. Common metrics include for example: number of trees planted, hectares restored, planting density, number of tree species planted, estimated carbon impact, tree survival rate, and more.

Social metrics

SAP works with multiple organizations that monitor and report different metrics. Quantitative metrics include for example: employment days created, men/women ratio of employees, and more.

Our system of accreditation

Progress on SAP’s pledge will be published in SAP’s annual Integrated Report which is externally audited.

Our partners

American Forests, BirdLife International, Ecosia, Eden: People + Planet, Livelihoods Carbon Funds, ReForest Now, The Carbon Community, WeForest, and more.

Our locations

We are working at locations across Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mexico, Nicaragua, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, and United Kingdom (UK).

As a global company, we work with partners and finance projects worldwide. In the past years, we have supported projects in Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Haiti, Madagascar, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Senegal, Rwanda, the UK, and more.