RWE is aware of its responsibility to the environment and to society. Sustainable development is both the underpinning and the goal of everything we do. We want to win back through transparency and through our own involvement whatever confidence we have lost. By 2015 at the very latest, we want to rank among the drivers of sus-tainable development in Europe.

“Reconciling free-market principles and society’s expectations is a key challenge for us,᾿ says Alwin Fitting, the member of the RWE Execu-tive Board responsible for CR. “Because if, in the long run, we are unable to strike a balance between these diverse interests, then we will ultimately be putting at risk the basis for sustainable economic success.᾿

Our CR strategy and CR management both focus on the key chal-lenges now facing the RWE Group. We want to live up to our stake-holders’ expectations and to contribute to the long-term development of the Group.