Here you will find explanations of terms related to sustainability.
AWARENESS
Awareness is a way to draw attention to safety-relevant incidents, harassment, distress, discrimination, and oppression, and to support people who have experienced violations of the law or boundary-crossing in dealing with them. Beyond concrete and acute measures, awareness requires heightened sensitivity to such situations.
ACCESSIBILITY
Buildings, products, or services are considered accessible when they can be reached and used without restriction by everyone, including people with disabilities.
BIODIVERSITY
Biodiversity describes the diversity of species and organisms, as well as the habitats and ecosystems in which they live.
BIOTOPE
A biotope comprises a delineated living area of a community of animal and plant life that is functionally interconnected. Preserving biological diversity within a biotope is therefore essential to its conservation.
CLIMATE STRIPES
Climate stripes are a simple yet powerful representation of climate change. Each stripe corresponds to a year. From left to right, the graphic shows temperature changes over the years; the warmer the year, the more intense the red tones.
The Bavarian climate stripes use a yearly and color scale to visualize climate warming in Bavaria since 1881 and show, particularly for the past thirty years, a significant increase in climate warming in Bavaria.
CMS (COMPLIANCE-MANAGEMENT-SYSTEM)
A Compliance Management System (CMS) describes the entirety of measures, processes, and rules within a company to ensure compliance, particularly adherence to legal obligations and internal codes of conduct.
CODE OF CONDUCT
The Code of Conduct is a company guideline with rules and principles that provide employees with orientation for legally, ethically, and socially responsible behavior, and reflects the leadership’s expectations in this regard.
CO2e BALANCE / CO2e FOOTPRINT
The CO2e footprint is determined by the CO2e balance. A CO2e balance depicts the greenhouse gas emissions of an organization, product, service, or activity within a defined boundary. It includes all climate-damaging emissions within a system boundary and expresses them as CO2 equivalents (CO2e).
CSRD (CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING DIRECTIVE)
The CSRD is a European directive on corporate sustainability reporting. It requires large companies to publish detailed information on their sustainable business activities, including their impacts on the environment and society on the one hand, and on their own economic activities on the other. Among other aims, it seeks to increase the transparency and comparability of sustainability data and to provide reliable information to investors and other stakeholders.
DIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY
Digital accessibility aims to ensure that people with impairments can find and use IT solutions (software, websites, etc.) without barriers. Under the Accessibility Strengthening Act (BFSG), digital accessibility of IT solutions primarily requires:
• Perceivability: For people with all forms of disability (especially visibility and audibility)
• Operability: Also for people with sensory and motor impairments
• Understandability: Also for people with cognitive impairments
• Robustness: Compatibility with assistive technologies across different devices
EMAS (ECO-MANAGEMENT AND AUDIT SCHEME)
The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is a voluntary environmental management system of the European Union. EMAS supports companies/organizations in continuously improving their environmental performance, operating more sustainably, and documenting their environmental goals transparently. EMAS-registered companies/organizations must regularly publish environmental statements and commit to continuously improving their environmental performance.
E-MOBILITY
The term electromobility covers all electrically powered vehicles and differs from mobility based on internal combustion engines, particularly due to the lower amount of emissions resulting from fuel combustion (e.g., gasoline).
ESG
ESG is the abbreviation derived from English for the three dimensions of sustainability: Environment ("E"), Social ("S"), and Governance ("G").
EUDR (EUROPEAN UNION DEFORESTATION REGULATION)
The EUDR is a regulation of the European Union aimed at minimizing deforestation and forest degradation associated with certain commodities or products derived from them that are imported into or exported from the European Union. It requires companies that import, export, or trade such commodities or products in the EU to demonstrate that their related business activities have not caused deforestation, forest degradation, or other environmental and human rights violations.
FOOTPRINT AND HANDPRINT
By our footprint, we mean the emissions we cause.
By handprint, we mean our efforts to influence our various stakeholders toward climate- and environmentally friendly behavior.
FSC (FOREST STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL)
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is a non-profit organization that works to protect forests worldwide. The FSC issues certificates for wood and paper products that come from responsibly managed forests.
GEMINI PROJECT (GREENING EUROPEAN MOBILITY THROUGH CASCADING INNOVATION INITIATIVES)
The GEMINI project is an EU-funded research and innovation initiative aimed at promoting climate- and environmentally friendly urban mobility through innovative technologies and business models. In a total of eight so-called “Living Labs” across Europe, new sustainable mobility concepts—such as shared mobility services and their integration into public transport—are being developed and practically tested. The project runs from June 2023 to December 2026 and is centrally coordinated by UEMI (United Nations Electric Mobility Initiative).
GHG PROTOCOL (GREENHOUSE GAS PROTOCOL CORPORATE ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING STANDARD)
The GHG Protocol provides the world’s most widely used standards and guidelines for greenhouse gas/emissions accounting. Emissions are divided into so-called scopes to determine whether the company whose greenhouse gas balance is being assessed causes the emissions directly, through purchased energy, or indirectly.
GLOBAL CLIMATE CONTEXT
Through our business activities as a sports club, we consume energy—for example, for heat, electricity, and mobility—or use water to irrigate our pitches, as well as other resources. Over the course of a season, negative impacts on the climate and environment can occur—among other things through CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases and the associated consumption of resources. We cannot stop human-made global warming on our own, but we firmly believe that everyone must do their part. That is why we want to take responsibility at least for our own footprint—and ideally also leave a positive handprint—and inspire and move our fans around the world.
GLOBAL ORGANIC TEXTILE STANDARD (GOTS)
The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) is an international standard for processing textiles made from organic fibers. GOTS sets environmental and social requirements along the entire textile supply chain. Products that meet all criteria and pass the certification process receive GOTS certification.
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AND THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
Simply put, greenhouse gases are trace gases (for example, CO2) that impede the escape of heat in the atmosphere and thus contribute to the so-called greenhouse effect and global warming. The releases into the atmosphere caused by greenhouse gases are referred to as “greenhouse gas emissions.”
Scientifically, three categories are distinguished in which companies (or sports clubs, sports associations) emit greenhouse gases and thus are responsible. These categories are divided into three “scopes” according to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
HEAT PUMPS
Heat pumps extract heat from the environment (e.g., from the ground) to provide heating or hot water.
INCLUSION
For FC Bayern, inclusion means that all people are welcome. Regardless of nationality, religion, gender, social background, age, sexual identity, or a disability, all members, fans, employees, partners, and friends are part of the FC Bayern family.
LkSG (GERMAN SUPPLY CHAIN DUE DILIGENCE ACT)
The LkSG is a German law that obliges companies to strive to minimize the risks of human rights and environmental violations in their supply chains. It requires companies to identify risks in their supply chains, take measures to prevent risks, and report transparently on their due diligence. The aim is to hold companies more accountable for the social and environmental conditions in their global supply chains.
MITNAND
Bavarian for “together”: Together we are strong; together we achieve our goals; only together do we have a future—socially and with a view to our climate. Together stands for coming together, teamwork, being together—you define yourself by what is shared: Together, one can be a role model—each person individually and as part of a community. Our sustainability strategy is called “MITNAND.”
NET-ZERO EMISSIONS
“Net zero” describes a climate balance that is arithmetically balanced through reduction and offsetting. This means that residual emissions that cannot be prevented despite reduction measures should be offset through compensation measures (for example, investments in projects that counteract CO2 in the atmosphere or proprietary projects).
OBACHT
“OBACHT” is FC Bayern’s awareness concept, and the Bavarian term “OBACHT” stands for looking out for one another, supporting each other—and ensuring that help is available if visitors to our venues and locations need it.
PARIS CLIMATE PACT
The Paris Climate Pact was agreed in December 2015 in Paris and entered into force in November 2016. All states that signed this agreement committed to limiting global warming to ideally 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
PHOTOVOLTAICS
Photovoltaics is the direct conversion of solar energy into direct current electricity.
PLAIN LANGUAGE
When using plain language, the comprehensibility of texts is paramount. Texts in plain language avoid, among other things, complicated sentence structures, foreign words, or acronyms. Plain language relies on clear and precise wording, making it easier to absorb and pass on information.
PROTECTIVE AND COMPENSATION MEASURES
Protective and compensation measures are intervention regulations under nature conservation law (Sections 13 et seq., BNatSchG). These measures must be taken after interventions in nature (e.g., due to a construction project); they are intended to compensate for the impaired performance of nature and protect the natural environment.
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Renewable energy refers to energy sources that naturally replenish in the short term or whose use does not deplete the source. These include, among others, solar energy, hydropower, wind power, geothermal energy, and energy from biomass.
SAFER SPACE
A safer space is a physical or digital environment in which people can seek and receive protection from discrimination, violence, exclusion, and intimidation.
SCOPES (IN THE CO2 FOOTPRINT)
Scope 1 includes the direct release of greenhouse gas emissions from sources that FC Bayern owns directly and immediately.
Scope 2 includes the indirect release of greenhouse gas emissions from purchased energy—for example, purchased electricity and other energy use such as heat in the Allianz Arena.
Scope 3 includes the indirect release of greenhouse gas emissions associated with all developments, actions, and processes that do not belong directly and immediately to FC Bayern but are connected to it. This includes various mobility and travel activities, such as employee business trips as well as fan travel to the Allianz Arena or the BMW Park.
SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)
In 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to improve people’s living conditions worldwide. Part of this agenda is the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which were originally aimed at states but can also serve as a reference framework for companies, sports clubs, and sports associations. The SDGs encompass all dimensions of sustainability (economy, ecology, and social); they are preceded by five guiding principles: people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnership.
SELF-DETERMINED PARTICIPATION
When all people, including people with disabilities, are included in political, economic, cultural, and social life, this is referred to as self-determined participation. Co-shaping and co-determining all life situations play an important role in this.
SUSTAINABILITY
From a systems perspective, the three dimensions of sustainability are considered in their relationship and interdependence: Only in a healthy environment (ecology) do we find the conditions to establish a just society (social). Without society, there can be no thriving economy (economy).
SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
A sustainability report documents a company’s performance across the three dimensions of environment, social, and governance. In Germany and the EU, whether the report structure can be freely designed (aligned with voluntary reporting standards) or whether mandatory reporting standards such as those under the CSRD apply depends in particular on the size of the respective company.
STANDARD 100 by OEKO-TEX
STANDARD 100 by OEKO-TEX is an international label for textiles tested for harmful substances. It guarantees that a textile has been tested for over 1,000 harmful substances and is harmless to health.
STATIONARY COMBUSTION
Stationary combustion refers to emissions resulting from the burning of fuels in installations—for example, the use of oil in a heating system.
UEFA Accessibility Guidelines
The UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) Accessibility Guidelines contain guidance and evaluation criteria to enable fans with disabilities to enjoy a better and more inclusive matchday experience. They cover areas such as stadium infrastructure, matchday operations, and staff training.
UEMI (United Nations Electric Mobility Initiative)
The United Nations Electric Mobility Initiative (UEMI) was founded in 2014 by UN-Habitat. This global initiative aims to make cities more sustainable and livable by promoting the use of innovative transport solutions. To advance this vision, UEMI brings together cities, countries, and industry.
UNGP (United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights)
The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) are a soft-law framework for responsible action on human rights. They require states and companies to protect or respect human rights in their respective activities, including by identifying relevant risks and implementing complaint mechanisms for those affected by human rights violations.