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 |
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.
Target | 2022 status | More on | |
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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% |
1 We will update the safety targets and report according to a new system in 2023.
1 We regularly calculate the employee engagement level. The most recent survey was conducted in 2022.
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