BASF’s Value-to-Society: Changes from 2013-2014
Due to a sales volume growth BASF’s Value-to-Society (full supply chain, BASF operations and customer industries) increased by 2%.
BASF’s Value-to-Society: changes from 2014-2015
Due to a decrease in volume, BASF’s Value-to-Society (full supply chain, BASF operations and customer industries) decreased by 9%.
Compared to 2015, our net Value-to-Society 2016 decreased as expected by 28%. The main driver is our reduced sales volume by 13 billion €. The major share of the sales decrease is caused by the divestment of our gas trading and storage business to Gazprom, which contributed 10.1 billion € to our total sales in the previous year.
Im Vergleich zu 2016 ist unser Value-to-Society im Jahr 2017 netto um 9% gewachsen. Diese Entwicklung geht auf gestiegene ökonomische und soziale Wertbeiträge für die Gesellschaft zurück, die den Anstieg der ökologischen Kosten deutlich übersteigen.
Insgesamt werden die Auswirkungen unseres Handelns auf die Gesellschaft durch den Anstieg unseres Umsatzes um 7 Milliarden € (+12%) verursacht. Im Vergleich zu 2016 führt dies zu einem positiven ökonomischen (+15) und sozialen (+9%) Wertzuwachs in der Gesellschaft. Im Vergleich zu 2016 sind die negativen Auswirkungen um 24% angestiegen. Wesentlich hierfür sind überarbeitete Koeffizienten zur monetären Bewertung der Auswirkungen unseres Handelns auf Umwelt, Gesundheit und Sicherheit. Zusätzlich führt unser Umsatzwachstum zu höheren Kosten für die Gesellschaft wie durch Ressourcennutzung, Emissionen oder Vorfälle im Bereich Gesundheit und Sicherheit.
Compared to 2017, our net Value-to-Society has been stable. The analysis demonstrates a decreased economic contribution but improved social benefits and slightly higher environmental costs to society.
The overall impact to society is driven by changes in our portfolio and the decrease in operational profits (-20,5%). However, in general the overall economic, social and environmental impact was rather stable. The total economic contribution was 3% lower, the total social benefits increased by 2%, the environmental costs grew by 2%.
Compared to 2018, BASF’s Value-to-Society contribution shows a 2.7% decrease mainly due to reduced contributions from supply chain and customer industries.
The total economic contribution of the value chain has remained stable from 2018 to 2019 (+0.3%). Total social benefits declined slightly by 1.3%. The environmental impact has increased by 5%. This is primarily due to a significant increase in the downstream land use, which is related to increased sales into the agricultural industry. The total 14% reduction in the GHG impact associated with the lower procurement volumes and in BASF’s operations had a positive effect but could not compensate.