Environment

As a global business operating in more than 55 countries, the adidas Group has a responsibility to look after the natural environment, both for people today and in the future. Environmental impacts occur in various forms at all stages of the lifecycle, from product design to disposal.

The adidas Group adopts a systems-based approach to managing environmental impacts in its own production facilities and in the supply chain. Production has been largely outsourced, so the greatest environmental impacts occur at our suppliers' sites, where more than 95% of adidas Group products are manufactured. Using the environmental performance of its own production sites as examples of best practice, the adidas Group develops appropriate guidelines and training programmes for its suppliers to reduce their own environmental impacts.
 
Please read more details about our environmental programme in our online report 2007: Striving to improve performance.