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Climate protection strategies from Bayer

22/11/2006

The Bayer Group has been focusing on climate protection and is continuing its activities to improve its greenhouse gas performance. The company has welcomed the goal of current government negotiations in Nairobi to achieve a successful global climate protection policy once the commitment period defined in the Kyoto Protocol has ended in 2012. By reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions since the beginning of the 1990s by around 70%, it has already exceeded the targets of the Kyoto Protocol and the German Bundestag (which were to reduce emissions by 25% to 2005 and 50% to 2020).

One example of process innovations in the Group is an energy-saving process already introduced in Germany and China to manufacture chlorine for plastics production. This is based on the oxygen depolarised cathode method and brings energy savings of 30%. The company sees the use of sustainable raw materials and biomass as offering possibilities for future markets that will reflect the challenges of climate change. And the key forward-looking technologies of biotechnology and nanotechnology can be used to utilise renewable energy sources more effectively.

Bayer has received several awards from independent bodies for its climate-related performance. Last year, The Climate Group conferred its first Low Carbon Leaders Award on the company, which was one of only five enterprises in the world and the only German company to win this accolade. And in 2006 Bayer was once again included in the first global climate protection index, the Climate Leadership Index, which was set up in 2004 by investors of the Carbon Disclosure Project. In this index Bayer was honoured as ‘best in class’ and as best company in the chemical sector.


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