
Supporting Global Goals
Our Approach
The ALDI SOUTH Group believes that the best impacts can be created via collaboration. We support partnerships and collaborate to improve the livelihoods and working conditions along our supply chains.
Sustainable Development Goals
Commitments to the 17 UN Goals
The ALDI SOUTH Group is aware of our responsibility as one of the world‘s most successful retailers. Our international structure, our market position, our decades of experience, and the daily commitment shown by our employees provide us with the potential to make important contributions in increasing sustainability across our markets and within our supply chains.
We consider the UN Sustainable Development Goals within the scope of defining our goals and have incorporated them within our selection of sustainability-related topics. We promote the achievement of these global goals by participating in initiatives and implementing a range of sustainability policies.
About the Sustainable Development Goals
On 1 January 2016, the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) came into force. These goals include the elimination of poverty and hunger, the achievement of gender equality and empowerment of women and girls to lead self-determined lives, the creation of peaceful, fair, and just societies, and the promotion of environmental protection and the sustainable use of natural resources. All member states of the United Nations have committed to achieving these and other goals by 2030.
ALDI's support of the SDGs
SDG 1: No poverty
SDG 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
SDG 2: Zero hunger
SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
SDG 3: Good health and well-being
SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
SDG 4: Quality education
SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
SDG 5: Gender equality
SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
SDG 6: Clean water and sanitation
SDG 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
SDG 7: Affordable and clean energy
SDG 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth
SDG 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
SDG 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
SDG 10: Reduced inequalities
SDG 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities
SDG 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production
SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
SDG 13: Climate action
SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
SDG 14: Life below water
SDG 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
SDG 15: Life on land
SDG 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
SDG 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals
SDG 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
United Nations Global Compact
Commitment to the Ten Universal Principles
In August 2017, the ALDI SOUTH Group was the first discount food retailer to join the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). By joining this initiative, we have committed to implementing the UN Global Compact's ten principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption as part of our corporate strategy and within the scope of our daily business operations.

“We are pleased to confirm that the ALDI SOUTH Group is committed to continuing its support of the ten UNGC principles and has continued to make progress in 2019. The ‘UN Global Compact Communication on Progress 2019’ not only highlights how we have successfully advanced projects and initiatives in cooperation with our partners, it is also part of our ongoing commitment to be more transparent concerning actions relating to our sustainability activities.”
Anke Ehlers, Managing Director Corporate Responsibility International (CRI) on behalf of the national organisations of the ALDI SOUTH Group
About the UN Global Compact
The United Nations Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption and to take action in support of UN goals and issues embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals. Launched in 2000, it is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world, with more than 9,500 companies and 3,000 non-business signatories based in over 160 countries, and more than 70 Local Networks.
ALDI's support of the UNGC
Human Rights
Principle 1
Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights.
- AFA Project
- Cocoa
- Coffee
- Company profile
- Cotton
- CR Principles
- Deforestation
- Detox
- Fish and seafood
- Goals & performance
- Memberships & partnerships
- Nuts
- Palm oil
- Respecting human rights
- Responsible sourcing
- Supply chain
- Textiles
- Tropical fruit
Principle 2
Businesses should make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.
- AFA Project
- Cocoa
- Coffee
- Company profile
- Cotton
- CR Principles
- Deforestation
- Detox
- Fish and seafood
- Goals & performance
- Nuts
- Palm oil
- Respecting human rights
- Responsible sourcing
- Supply chain
- Textiles
- Tropical fruit
Labour
Principle 3
Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.
- Cocoa
- Coffee
- Company profile
- Cotton
- CR Principles
- Deforestation
- Fish and seafood
- Goals & performance
- Memberships & partnerships
- Palm oil
- Respecting human rights
- Responsible sourcing
- Supply chain
- Textiles
- Tropical fruit
Principle 4
Businesses should uphold the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour.
- Cocoa
- Coffee
- Company profile
- Cotton
- CR Principles
- Deforestation
- Detox
- Fish and seafood
- Goals & performance
- Memberships & partnerships
- Nuts
- Palm oil
- Respecting human rights
- Responsible sourcing
- Supply chain
- Textiles
- Tropical fruit
Principle 5
Businesses should uphold the effective abolition of child labour.
- AFA Project
- Cocoa
- Coffee
- Company profile
- Cotton
- Deforestation
- Fish and seafood
- Goals & performance
- Memberships & partnerships
- Nuts
- Palm oil
- Respecting human rights
- Responsible sourcing
- Supply chain
- Textiles
- Tropical fruit
Principle 6
Businesses should uphold the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.
- AFA Project
- Cocoa
- Coffee
- Company profile
- Cotton
- CR Principles
- Deforestation
- Fish and seafood
- Goals & performance
- Memberships & partnerships
- Nuts
- Palm oil
- Respecting human rights
- Responsible sourcing
- Supply chain
- Textiles
- Tropical fruit
Environment
Principle 7
Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges.
- Climate protection
- Cocoa
- Company profile
- Cotton
- CR Principles
- Deforestation
- Detox
- Fish and seafood
- Goals & performance
- Nuts
- Packaging
- Palm oil
- Protecting the environment
- Responsible sourcing
- Supply chain
- Textiles
- Tropical fruit
Principle 8
Businesses should undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility.
- Climate protection
- Cocoa
- Company profile
- Cotton
- CR Principles
- Deforestation
- Detox
- Fish and seafood
- Goals & performance
- Memberships & partnerships
- Nuts
- Packaging
- Palm oil
- Protecting the environment
- Responsible sourcing
- Supply chain
- Textiles
- Tropical fruit
Principle 9
Business should encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.
- Climate protection
- Company profile
- CR Principles
- Deforestation
- Detox
- Goals & performance
- Packaging
- Palm oil
- Protecting the environment
- Responsible sourcing
Anti-Corruption
Principle 10
Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery.
- Company profile
- CR Principles
- Memberships & partnerships
- Respecting human rights
- Responsible sourcing
- Supply chain
- Textiles