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Our Sustainability Goals

We have set voluntary longterm global goals in the areas of economy, environment, safety, employees and society. Through these goals, sustainable development at BASF is transparent and verifiable.

  Target 2022 status More on
Achieve a return on capital employed (ROCE) considerably above the cost of capital percentage every year

> 9%

10.0%

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Grow sales volumes faster than global chemical production every year > 2.2% –7.0% More...
Increase EBITDA before special items by 3%–5% per year 3–5% –5.2% More...
Increase the dividend per share every year based on a strong free cash flow > €3.40
€3.401 More...

1 Dividend proposed by the Board of Executive Directors

  Target 2018 status 2022 status More on
Reduce our absolute CO2 emissions1 by 25% by 2030 (baseline: 2018)

≤16.4 MMT

21.9 MMT

18.4 MMT

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1 Scope 1 and Scope 2 (excluding the sale of energy to third parties, including offsetting). The target includes greenhouse gases according to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, which are converted into CO2 equivalents (CO2e). The baseline year is 2018.

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Cover 90% of our relevant spend with sustainability evaluations by 2025 90%

85%

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Have 80% of our suppliers improve their sustainability performance upon re-evaluation 80% 76% More...

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Reduce worldwide process safety incidents per 200,000 working hours to ≤0.1 by 20251

≤0.1

0.3

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Reduce the worldwide lost-time injury rate per 200,000 working hours to ≤0.1 by 20251

≤0.1

0.3

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Introduce sustainable water management at our production sites in water stress areas and at our Verbund sites by 2030

100%

61.6%

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1 We will update the safety targets and report according to a new system in 2023.

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Increase the proportion of women in leadership positions with disciplinary responsibility to 30% by 2030

30%

27.2%

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More than 80% of our employees feel that at BASF, they can thrive and perform at their best >80% 81%1 More...

We regularly calculate the employee engagement level. The most recent survey was conducted in 2022.

Last Update February 24, 2023