Sustainability

Climate Protection

As an energy-intensive company, we are committed to the efficient use of energy and global climate protection and support the Paris Climate Agreement. We pursue the goal of climate neutrality and promote low-emission chemistry to enable the green transformation of our customers. Our business activities generate greenhouse gas emissions from production, energy procurement and the upstream and downstream value chain, which have an impact on the climate. We are working to reduce these emissions along the entire value chain. This also creates business opportunities: Our climate neutrality strategy enables us to offer our customers products with a reduced product carbon footprint (PCF).

We support the objective of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Above all, we want to combat climate change through our skills in applying innovative solutions to address new challenges.

BASF is committed to economically efficient and ecologically effective global climate protection and supports the UN Sustainable Development Goal "Climate Action". This can only be successfully achieved together, in dialogue with policy and society, as well as in strong partnerships for climate protection.

Renewable Energy

BASF wants to achieve net-zero CO₂ emissions by 2050 - a major goal. We want to reduce our CO₂ emissions by 25 percent by 2030 compared to 2018. This means that our demand for renewable energy will increase massively in the coming years. You can find more information on the BASF Renewable Energy GmbH website.