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Chemistry is our passion. We set a new direction for ourselves with the introduction of the “Winning Ways” strategy in September 2024: Our ambition is to be the preferred chemical company to enable our customers’ green transformation. We aim to grow profitably and create value for our shareholders with our broad portfolio of chemicals businesses as well as our product and process innovations.
Simultaneously, we are driving the shift toward a performance culture –a decisive factor to successfully implement our “Winning Ways” strategy. We are systematically integrating sustainability topics into our strategy and business as well as into our assessment, steering and compensation systems. This principle remains embedded in our corporate purpose: We create chemistry for a sustainable future.


BASF shares are also attractive for investors looking for chemical companies with a convincing performance in terms of the environment, society and governance (ESG).

There is a growing awareness in the financial market that a company geared towards sustainable development can outperform peers over the long-term while minimizing risks.

By fully integrating sustainability into our strategic decision making, we will be able to generate many new business opportunities.

Gareth Rees
ESG Investors worldwide
Evelyn Ungen
ESG Investors worldwide
BASF ESG Investment Story: A road curves through a green forest landscape

We create chemistry for a sustainable future

BASF ESG Investment Story November 2025
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Sustainable Portfolio Management
Analyzing our products’ contributions to the sustainability needs of our customers’ value chains
Sustainability Ratings and Rankings
In the analyses of leading ESG rating agencies, BASF is often recognized as benchmark within the chemical industry.

Sustainability News

Climate protection is a central component of the BASF strategy. For many years, the company has been continuously reducing its CO2 emissions. For further significant reduction, innovative processes such as methane pyrolysis are developed as part of our Carbon Management R&D Program. In the project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), BASF researchers are working on a new reactor concept in which hydrogen can be produced without CO2 emissions. The first milestone has now been reached. Our test facility at the Verbund site in Ludwigshafen (Germany) has started in experimental mode.
Trade News | November 17, 2025

BASF and ExxonMobil Join Forces to Advance Low- Emission Hydrogen Through Methane Pyrolysis Technology

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, and HOUSTON, USA – November 17, 2025 – BASF and ExxonMobil have formed a strategic collaboration to advance methane pyrolysis technology, a next step toward delivering efficient, cost-competitive low-emission hydrogen solutions for industrial use. The companies have signed a joint development agreement to co-develop methane pyrolysis technology, including plans to construct a demonstration plant aimed at commercial readiness.
Business & Financial News | September 24, 2025

Groundbreaking ceremony at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site: next project phase for one of the most powerful heat pumps for CO2-free steam generation

BASF and its cooperation partner GIG Karasek held a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony today at the Ludwigshafen site for one of the world’s largest industrial heat pumps for CO2-free steam generation. Dr. Peter Menck, Head of the Department for Funding Programs for the Decarbonization of Industry and for Climate Protection Agreements at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, was present as construction officially began on a heat pump system that will contribute to the energy transformation of BASF’s main plant by electrifying steam production.
Sri Venkataramana Higher Primary School, Kulai (Mangalore) promotes the message of water conservation with prominent display boards in and around the neighboring community. 
Print free of charge. Copyright by BASF.

Die Sri Venkataramana Higher Primary School in Kulai (Mangalore) verbreitet die Aufforderung zum Wasser sparen mithilfe von auffälligen Anzeigetafeln in und rund um die Nachbargemeinde.  
Abdruck honorarfrei. Copyright by BASF.
Value to Society
We want to contribute to a world that provides a viable future with enhanced quality of life for everyone. We have anchored this in our corporate purpose “We create chemistry for a sustainable future”. But how do we know that we are working on the right issues? And how do we know whether our current efforts are already sufficiently balancing the three fields of action - economy, society and environment? Our goal is to make value measurable. In this way, the value-to-society approach is a first step towards a transparent future.
Accounting on a tablet computer, close-up
SFDR Index 2023
As a service to investors, we offer an overview of the Principal Adverse Impact indicators in line with the requirements of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). BASF will report according to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and in line with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) in its BASF Report 2024, which will be published in 2025.
Last UpdateNovember 3, 2025