Our Targets
We carry out our corporate purpose, “We create chemistry for a sustainable future,” by pursuing ambitious goals along our entire value chain. In this way, we aim to achieve profitable growth and take on social and environmental responsibility. This also helps to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).1 We are focusing on issues where we as a company can make a significant contribution, such as sustainable consumption and production, climate action or fighting hunger.
The new targets will apply from 2019 onward and will replace our previous goals. In this way, we want to steer our business into a sustainable future and, at the same time, contribute to the implementation of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
1 Return on capital employed (ROCE) is a measure of the profitability of our operations. We calculate this indicator as the EBIT generated by the segments as a percentage of the average cost of capital basis.
1 Accelerator products are products that make a substantial sustainability contribution in the value chain.
2 We understand relevant spend as procurement volumes with suppliers defined as relevant.
3Adaptation 2020.