Continental Sustainability Ambition
Sustainability is at the heart of our business and in the hearts of our people. With our businesses, our products
and services, along our value chains and with our worldwide activities, we drive the ongoing transformationof the economy towards a healthy ecosystem for sustainable mobility and industries. We shape this sustainable
future with our products, services and operations and reduce adverse impacts along the value chain. Therefore,
we strengthen and evolve existing business fields, foster innovation and phase-in new business while transforming
or phasing out non-viable businesses. Our business activities thereby create economic, social and ecologicalvalue for all our stakeholders and society.
Our sustainable business practice is based on our company values, codes of conducts, respective rules andpolicies as well as international frameworks incl. the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), theUnited Nations Global Compact, the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises (MNE’s) and the United Nations
Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights with specific reference to the ILO Core Labour Conventions.
We actively manage and continuously improve our performance in our four sustainability focus areas as wellas our eight sustainability essentials.

Four Sustainability Focus Areas
For our four sustainability focus areas we commit to visionary and bold ambitions –latest by 2050 and together with our value chain partners:

Carbon Neutrality

Circular Economy

We strive for 100 % carbon neutrality along ourentire value chain (products, operations, supply).

We strive for 100 % closed resourceand product cycles.

Emission-free Mobility and Industries

Responsible Value Chain

We strive for 100 % emission-free mobility
and industries.1

We strive for 100 % responsible sourcing
and business partnerships.

Eight Sustainability Essentials
Our eight sustainability Essentials represent the backbone of our sustainability management:

Good Working Conditions

Safe Mobility

We provide inspiring, healthy and fair working
conditions.

We strive for maximum safety in mobility withtechnological solutions envisioning zero roadaccidents and fatalities.

Green and Safe Factories

Long-term Value Creation

We operate our business in a safe and responsible
manner based on systematic management andprotecting people and the environment.

We focus on sustainable short-, medium- andlong-term value creation for our stakeholders anda responsible distribution of the value created.

Innovations and Digitalization

Sustainable Management Practice

We continuously push innovations, new businessmodels and a responsible digital transformation.

We implement effective management processes,
fair business practices and responsible corporate
governance with a balanced view of differentperspectives.

Benchmark in Quality

Corporate Citizenship

We are recognized by our customers and the society
as being a Benchmark in Quality by ensuring safe
and sustainable products.

As an active member of the communities we liveand operate in, we are committed to make a positive
impact on society beyond our business activities.

This Sustainability Ambition outlines the sustainability framework for the Continental AG and all its subsidiaries,including minority holdings where we exercise management control. It is subject to regular review by theExecutive Board. Based on a transparent stakeholder dialogue, we continuously advance our sustainability
efforts, our Sustainability policy and our reporting on progress.
The Executive Board | September 2020
1”Emission-free“ refers to zero emissions like greenhouse gases or NOx but does not include harmless emissions like water vapor emissions,non-toxic biodegradable particulate emissions or a minimum of noise emissions.